Instructions for Jury Members

KUBIKUM FOUNDATION with the support of CENTRAL ART REGISTER announces another Czech-Slovak year of the art competition intended for selected fourth-year students of secondary schools with an art 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 careers. To prepare them for artistic practice and profession, to help them gain experience, authorial skills and to present themselves to the general public through the online space.

Competition schedule:

22. 9. 2025	announcement of the START21ART,
22. 9. 2025 – 30. 9. 2025	school registration on the website www.start21art.sk or www.start21art.cz (depending on the country in which the school is located) via the online form,
1. 10. 2025 – 21. 11. 2025	registration of the student and his/her competition work on the website www.start21art.sk or www.start21art.cz (depending on the country in which the school is located) via an online form,
1. 10. 2025 – 21. 11. 2025	juror registration on the website www.start21art.sk or www.start21art.cz (depending on the country where the school is located) via the online form,
2. 12. 2025 – 12. 1. 2026	evaluation of works by the jury,
21. 1. 2026	publication of the results of the 1st level of the competition,
2. 2. 2026 - 21. 2. 2026	evaluation of the final works by the jury on www.start21art.eu,
23. 2. 2026	publication of the results of the final competition on www.start21art.eu,
25. 2. 2026 – 27. 2. 2026	Online Star competition,
28. 3. 2026 – 18. 4. 2026	auction of all competitive works on www.kubikum.com,
to 18. 4. 2026	awarding of prizes.

Instructions for jury members:

Level I instructions:

• The jury shall register for the competition via the online form on the website www.start21art.sk or www.start21art.cz (depending on the country in which the school is located or the country designated by the organizer) no later than 21. 11. 2025 via the code provided by the sending school or organizer.
• In the I. level, the evaluation is carried out separately for the Slovak Republic and separately for the Czech Republic.
• The works will be evaluated online based on their digitized form in a timely manner specified in the competition schedule.
• The jury will select the 21 best works from all the competition works at its discretion and assign them points from 1 to 21, with the best work receiving 21 points, the second best 20 points etc. Each point value can only be assigned once, i.e. two works cannot receive the same number of points from one judge.
• The judges are bound by confidentiality regarding their evaluation of the competition works and the points assigned during the ongoing evaluation of the works.

Final Instructions:

• The competition works are evaluated in the final of the competition by a joint jury for the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic.
• The registration of jurors registered through the websites www.start21art.sk and www.start21art.cz will be automatically valid on the website www.start21art.eu, which is intended for the finals of the competition.
• All winning works from level I, i.e. 21 works from the Slovak Republic and 21 works from the Czech Republic, will advance to the finals.
• The works will be evaluated online based on their digitized form in a timely manner specified in the competition schedule.
• The jury will select the 21 best works from all the competition works at its discretion and assign them points from 1 to 21, with the best work receiving 21 points, the second best 20 points, etc. Each point value can only be assigned once, i.e. two works cannot receive the same number of points from one judge.
• The judges are bound by confidentiality regarding their evaluation of the competition works and the points assigned during the ongoing evaluation of the works.

Final provisions:

By registering for the competition, participants express their agreement with the terms and conditions set out in the competition statute. The competition organizer reserves the right to modify the rules and conditions of the competition. Any change or modification of the competition statute will be carried out in the same manner as the competition was announced. The competition statute with detailed conditions and further information can be found at www.start21art.sk.