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PROGRAMME2022-06-08T22:10:47+02:00
Konkurs Tatuazu Tattoofest Convention Festiwal 2018 Krakow

So far, more than 10,000 models have been presented on the festival stage. Competitions at our event are the quintessence of a tattooist meeting, and for the public the opportunity to see works at the highest level.

CATEGORIES:

Old school/Traditional

Tattoo must be based on traditional American style of tattooing featuring bold black outlines and a limited color palette. This limited color palette might include yellow, red, green, black and purple/brown. Slight shading in grey and black is acceptable.

Neotraditional

Tattoos defined as neo-traditional draw on the main elements of the traditional style, although the design, theme and composition are more elaborate and contain more details. The outline remains clear but can vary in thickness. The colour palette is expanded from the traditional tattoo with tonal transitions and colour blends. Tattoo may contain more realistic elements.

Newschool

This is a category for newschool, cartoon and comic tattoos. This style originates directly from oldschool and neotraditional but is much more experimental and open to combining different techniques and blending styles. It is characterized using thick contours, vivid, intense, and bright colours and often caricatured representations of an object or subject. Tattoos refer to the old school, but thematically they are mainly influenced by video games, comics, TV shows, cartoons, anime, graffiti, or elements of pop culture.

Ethnic tattoo (tribal, blackwork, geometry, classical Japanese tattoo)

Tattoo directly referring to tribal and primitive tattoos or those connected with a particular cultural circle. Here also geometric tattoos of simple and clear forms will be assessed.

The main criterion for assessment will be the composition and technique.

Realistic tattoo or with realistic elements of realism / b&g

A tattoo reflecting reality or reproduced from a photograph. More elaborate and abstract or surreal forms combined with realism are allowed. The use of one additional colour is permitted.

Realistic tattoo or with realistic elements of realism / color

A tattoo reflecting reality or reproduced from a photograph. More elaborate and abstract or surreal forms combined with realism are allowed. A full colour palette is allowed.

Graphic tattoo (lineworks, fineline, trashpolka, watercolor)

In this category, tattoos, and compositions with abstract forms and/or referring to printmaking and painting techniques will be evaluated.

Fusion tattoo

In this category are judged tattoos made in different styles, two-day and one-day, the condition is that it is made by a minimum of 2 artists.

THE JURY

Robert Borbas Tofi Davee

General rules of competitions and qualification of works:

– categories 1-7 will be held separately for fresh and healed tattoos

– category 8 will be held on Sunday at the end of the day

– healed tattoos = open category, i.e., you don’t have to have a booth

– fresh tattoos = tattoos done during the festival, for booths holders

– now of registration to a given category you must show the tattoo or its photo for preliminary verification. The registrant has the right to refuse the entry of a given tattoo into a given or any category. In this way tattoos of too low level or not fitting to the category will be verified

– tattoos will be evaluated in terms of compliance with the style and technical level

– each tattoo can be submitted only to one category

Among all the works we’ll award the most unique tattoo.

During this year’s Tattoofest, apart from a small revolution in the way of evaluating separately fresh and healed tattoos made styles, we decided to invite expert judges. Apart from the basic jury, tattoos will be additionally judged by:

OLD SCHOOL/TRADITIONAL

Leszek/Crazy Lessi

REALISTIC TATTOO OR WITH REALISTIC ELEMENTS OF REALISM / COLOR

Joanna Fąferko

REALISTIC TATTOO OR WITH REALISTIC ELEMENTS OF REALISM / B&G

Radek Nikson Rozek

GRAPHIC TATTOO (LINEWORKS, FINELINE, TRASHPOLKA, WATERCOLOR)

Fabian Staniec

NEOTRADITIONAL

Bartosz Panas

NEWSCHOOL

Janusz Więckowski

ETHNIC TATTOO (TRIBAL, BLACKWORK, GEOMETRY, CLASSICAL JAPANESE TATTOO)

Karolina Czaja

Let’s meet 15. Tattoofest Convention z Banana-Ink!

Since 2010 he participates in conventions, where at a prepared stand you can try your hand at tattooing with professional machines on a banana peel. Banana peel has similar properties of human skin, on which you can perform contouring, shading, filling. Saski explains step by step how the machine works, how to use it, hygiene rules.

GAMMING ZONE

1 of 2 GAMING ZONES at the 15th Tattoofest Convention is with games from the 70s, 80s, 90s and the beginning of the 21st century. You will find there more than 20 stands with oldschool equipment such as Commodore 64, Amiga 500, NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, Pegasus, Vectrex, Atari 2600, PONG and many, many more. You will have the opportunity to play the best games from the end of the 20th century.

INKTANK

InkTank is a project set up to help tattoo artists find their way in the business world – whether as entrepreneurs, self-employed or employees. You will be able to talk about interesting and creative solutions to improve the running of the studio on both days of the convention in the InkTank business zone in the main hall. Two meetings will be held in English.
Saturday:
16:00-16:20 Benjamin Kaczmarski: Art of start – how to build a company wisely
16:20-17:00 Debate
Sunday:
12:00-12:20 Benjamin Kaczmarski: How to be a good lider
12:20-13:00 Debate
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Benjamin Kaczmarski: IT Architect, advisor and business consultant cooperating e.g. with T-Mobile. Co-founder of InkTank, and an entrepreneur with many years of experience.

KIDS ZONE

Tattoofest has been a family event for years, so we never forget about the youngest. With them in mind we always carefully prepare a large Kids Zone in the middle of the hall and in the outdoor area, where parents can leave their children under the professional care of animators.

Chillout with SUPERSKLEP

This year SUPERSKLEP is responsible for your relaxation at the festival. SUPERSKLEP. On their behalf we would like to invite you to the outdoor chillout zone, where with a drink or a coffee in your hand you can listen to graceful tunes by DJ Maślak. In the SUPERSKLEP zone we will also be painting boards, which will go out into the world to adorn the walls of the best skate shops and tattoo studios.

GRAFFITI ZONE

WORKSHOP ZONE

For those eager for knowledge and new skills we created WORKSHOP zone for the first time this year. You will meet there, among others, Alicja and her Lalesie.
Thanks to dozens of hours of handicraft work, a combination of painting, sculpting and sewing techniques a mass-produced toy is transformed into an artistic, one-of-a-kind creature – Lalesia.
During the festival Alicja will conduct workshops on creating original LALESI heads. The workshop will consist in painting and decorating the head, attaching hair, and decorating a dedicated badge. There will be no shortage of ribbons, beads, glitter, pollen and Lalesi talc!
Workshops will be held on Saturday 14-17 and Sunday 11-14. Places are limited, so first come, first served! The WORKSHOP area can be found in the Lobby.
You will also be able to see Alicja’s finished dolls at a separate exhibition in the ART zone.

In the WORKSHOP zone you will also meet Krysia, who has recently been studying the art of creating linocut, a graphic technique, the effect of which is very close to the oldest relief printing technique. The classes will consist in carving a pattern in linoleum, which you will later print on special paper. So it’s chisels and paint-dipped rollers at work! According to the workshop leader, you don’t need super drawing skills to create cool things using this technique, just good tools and a bit of manual dexterity.
The workshop will take place on Saturday 11:00-14:00 and Sunday 14:00-17:00. Places are limited, so first come, first served! The WORKSHOP area can be found in the Lobby.

EXHIBITION AND SALE OF LINOCUTS

Diana (ttoo_diaz)i Alex ( but_tattooer) unfortunately cannot be with us during this year’s Tattoofest. There is a war going on in their country at the moment…

However, they managed to provide us with their original linocuts. These images are full of Ukrainian symbols, a sense of injustice and sadness, but also full of hope.
You can not only see them, but also buy them in our ART zone.
30% of the proceeds from the sale of the works will be donated to help the needy in Ukraine ❤️

OUR HOSTS Karolina Duszkiewicz & Maciek Heczko

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Karolina, a native of Krakow, has been involved with the pop punk band CF98 for over 12 years. Her music career took her all the way to the final of the 4th edition of X Factor. She is a fan of whisky and silly jokes, colourful tattoos and cats, to which she is allergic. You can’t get bored with her.
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Maciek also comes from a Cracovian background and is a daily manager of Studio Kult Tattoo Jubilat. His texts and interviews can be found in Tattoofest magazine and the skateboarding magazine Barrier. Maciek’s event portfolio includes over a hundred events, such as the Etnies European Open, stops at the Polish Skateboard Championships and Jibb Jams. One thing is certain: the boy talks!

Saturday:

10:30 – Opening for visitors

12:00-13:00 – Tattoo contests/main stage:

NEWSCHOOL healed

NEOTRADITIONAL healed

14:00-15:00 – Tattoo contests/main stage:

REALISTIC TATTOO OR TATTOO WITH SHADED REALISM ELEMENTS healed

17:00-18:00 – Tattoo contests/main stage:

OLD SCHOOL/TRADITIONAL fresh

GRAPHIC TATTOO (LINEWORK, FINELINE, TRASHPOLKA, WATERCOLOR) fresh

18:00-19:00 – Tattoo contests/main stage:

ETHNIC TATTOO (TRIBAL, BLACKWORK, GEOMETRY, CLASSICAL JAPANESE TATTOO) fresh

TATTOO IN COLOUR OR WITH ELEMENTS OF REALISM fresh

Handing out of awards in all categories on the first day

19:30- End of the first day

 

 

Sunday:

10:30 – Opening for visitors

12:00-13:00 – Tattoo contests/main stage:

GRAPHIC TATTOO (LINEWORK, FINELINE, TRASHPOLKA, WATERCOLOR) healed

TATTOO IN COLOUR OR WITH ELEMENTS OF REALISM healed

 14:00-15:00 – Tattoo contests/main stage:

OLD SCHOOL/TRADITIONAL healed

ETHNIC TATTOO (TRIBAL, BLACKWORK, GEOMETRY, CLASSICAL JAPANESE TATTOO) heald

16:00 -18:30 – Tattoo contests/main stage:

NEWSCHOOL fresh

NEOTRADITIONAL fresh

REALISTIC TATTOO OR TATTOO WITH SHADED REALISM ELEMENTS fresh

FUSION TATTOO

Announcement of the most unique tattoo

Handing out of awards in all categories on the second day

18:30- End of the convention

More info soon.

In 2006 we hosted less than 30 artists,

now we have an honor of hosting almost 400!

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