Instructions for jury members

The KUBIKUM FOUNDATION, with the support of CENTRAL ART REGISTER, announces the international year of the art competition for selected students in the final year of secondary schools with an artistic focus, under the name START21ART.
The aim of the competition is to support and promote the work of young artists at the start of their professional career, to prepare them for artistic practice and the profession, to help them gain experience and authorial skills, and to present themselves to the wider public online.

Competition timetable:

21. 9. 2026	announcement of the START21ART competition,
21. 9. 2026 – 30. 9. 2026	school registration via the online form at www.start21art.cz, www.start21art.pl, www.start21art.hu or www.start21art.sk (according to the country in which the school is based),
1. 10. 2026 – 21. 11. 2026	registration of the student and the competition work via the online form at www.start21art.cz, www.start21art.pl, www.start21art.hu or www.start21art.sk (according to the country in which the school is based),
1. 10. 2026 – 21. 11. 2026	juror registration via the online form at www.start21art.cz, www.start21art.pl, www.start21art.hu or www.start21art.sk (according to the country in which the school is based),
1. 12. 2026 – 12. 1. 2027	evaluation of the works by the jury,
21. 1. 2027	publication of the results of level I of the competition,
1. 2. 2027 – 21. 2. 2027	evaluation of the final works by the jury at www.start21art.eu,
23. 2. 2027	publication of the final results at www.start21art.eu,
26. 2. 2027 – 28. 2. 2027	Online Star voting,
1. 3. 2027 – 21. 3. 2027	auction of all competition works at www.kubikum.com,
by 24. 4. 2027	presentation of the prizes.

Instructions for jury members:

Instructions for level I:

• The juror registers for the competition via the online form on www.start21art.cz, www.start21art.pl, www.start21art.hu or www.start21art.sk (according to the country in which the school is based, or the country designated by the organiser) no later than 21. 11. 2026, using the code provided by the sending school or the organiser.
• At level I, evaluation takes place separately for the Czech Republic, the Republic of Poland, Hungary and the Slovak Republic.
• The works will be evaluated online on the basis of their digitised form, at the time set in the competition timetable.
• The jury selects, at its discretion, the 21 best works from all competition works and awards them points from 1 to 21. The best work receives 21 points, the second best 20 points, and so on. Each point value may be awarded only once: two works cannot receive the same number of points from one juror.
• Jurors are bound to keep confidential their evaluation of the competition works and the points awarded while the evaluation is in progress.

Instructions for the final:

• In the final, the competition works are evaluated by a joint jury for all four countries.
• All winning works from level I advance to the final, that is 21 works from each participating country.
• The works will be evaluated online on the basis of their digitised form, at the time set in the competition timetable.
• The jury selects, at its discretion, the 21 best works from all competition works and awards them points from 1 to 21. The best work receives 21 points, the second best 20 points, and so on. Each point value may be awarded only once: two works cannot receive the same number of points from one juror.
• Jurors are bound to keep confidential their evaluation of the competition works and the points awarded while the evaluation is in progress.

Final provisions:

By registering for the competition, participants agree to the conditions set out in the competition statute. The organiser reserves the right to adjust the rules and conditions of the competition. Any change to the statute will be made in the same way as the competition was announced. The statute, with the detailed conditions, and further information are at www.start21art.eu.