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National Historical Museum of Albania |
IWS Albania, under the auspices of the Albanian Ministry of Culture and in collaboration with the Klik Ekspo Group (leader of the exhibition and trade fare industry in Albania), proudly invites all to their 1st International Watercolor Festival to be held in Tirana, Albania. The festival will run from November 21 - 25, 2015.
There will be organized workshops, parallel exhibitions at the National Historical Museum in Tirana and a unique exhibition at the International Trade Fair at the Palace of Congress in Tirana.
The exhibition will be open for 5 days and will feature artworks of 50 local and international artists. For five days, all the works of the selected artists will be exposed to a large public of almost 30,000 visitors.
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Helidon Haliti, Head of IWS Albania |
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Members of the Jurying Commission for the " International Watercolor Festival " |
Final List of Participating Artists

August 10, 2015. The selected list of artists was announced under media coverage from the National Historical Museum of Albania.
Congratulations to all the artists: (Country listed in alphabetical order)
ARGENTINA
88. Bea Strugo
AZERBAIJAN
135. Khasay Mirzoyev,
BAHAMAS
134. KAterina Kovatceva
BELARUS
107. Ekaterina Ziuzina
142. Nadezeya Repina
BULGARIA
119. Deyan Mihailov
120. Ivan Dodov
121. Kiril Bozhkov
122. Selma Todorova
CANADA
111. Emily Read
112. Lianne Todd
CHINA
131. Liu Yi,
132. Rui Zhou
DUBAI
117. Husain AL Salwan, Emireate e Bashkuara Arabe
ECUADOR
141. MAuri Virtanen
EGYPT
18. Ahmet Saber
19. Asmma Samy
20. Dian Bashour
21. Hala Mokhat,
22. Mostafa Sleem,
23. Soha Khalil
FRANCE
97. Joel Tenzin
98. Damien Barbier
99. Jean -Luc Mossion
GHANA
124. J. Kwegyir Aggrey
GEORGIA
74. Angelina Damenia
GERMANY
102. Ewa Ludwiczak
103. Dieter Wystemp
104. Elke Memmler
105. Gabriele Koenigs
GREECE
115. George Politis
HONG KONG
137. Li Xianchang
138. Li Wai Ming
139. Ze Ze Lai
140. Rainboe Tse
INDIA
5. Amit Kapoor,
6. Rajatsubhra Bandopadhyay,
7. Abdul Quadir
8. Aniket Mahale
9. Ashok Kumar Dey
10. Magha Kapoor
11. Prafull Swant
12. Somnath Mukherjee,
13. Ram Viranjan, India,
INDONESIA
80. Asri Utami
IRAN
81. Bahareh Jefar
82. Fatemeh Zahab
83. Imane Kazemi
84. Javit Tabatabaii
85. Shirin Mohebeian
86. Soheil Sepehri
87. Kourosh Aslani
ISRAEL
89. Beni Gassenbauer
ITALY
53. Igor Sava moldova
54. Claudio castilione
55. Anna Massinissa
56. Anna Nicodemo
57. Lorena Massa
58. Olga Polichtchouk
59. Rosella Passeri
60. Judith Offord
61. Roberto andreoli
62. Jetmira Kraja
63. Alfred Mirashi
JAPAN
123. Iwasaki Nagi
JORDANIA
118. Islam Allboun
KARNATAKA
136. Kudallayya M. HHiremath
KOSOVO
75. Arsim Kajtazi
76. Zymer Mulliqi
LATVIA
125. Janis Spalvins
LITHUANIA
106. Egle Lipeikaite
157. Sergiy Lysyy
158. Tatjana Simanaitiene
MACEDONIA
77. Selam Abdiu
78. Ljubnika Gligorova
79. Simonida filipova
MALTA
73. Andrew Smith
MAURITIUS
155. Riaz Auladin
MEXICO
147. Patricia Guzman
148. Ramon Larrauri Torroella
149. Rosa Elena Flores
150. Javier Gomesoto
MOLDAVIA
113. Eugen Chisnicean
NEPAL
145. NB Guru
159. Suresh Syangtan
PAKISTAN
14. Ali Abaz Syed
15. Rabia Qureshi
PERU
126. Rogger oncoy
127. Javier Luque Rodrigues
128. Jorge Fernandez Villaba, TARMENO
PHILIPPINES
100/153. Danny Casttillon Doce
101. Divine Correa
154. Raul M. Saria
QATAR
116. Hari Kumar
ROMANIA
108. Elena Cioclu
152. Radu Dumitrescu
RUSSIA
64. Olga Litvinenko
65. Anna Ivanova
66. Elena Manoli
67. Julia Dubova
68. Nuwka Ivanova
69. Olga Kharchenko
70. Olga Peshkova
71. Ekaterina Gubina
72. Galina Gomzina (Shapovalova)
SERBIA
109. Janko Laco
110. Endre Penovac
SINGAPORE
146. Ong Kim Seng
SLOVAKIA
143. Natalia Studenkova
144. Daniel Novotny
SLOVENIA
114. Franc Golob
SOUTH KOREA
129. You Mee park,
SPAIN
34. Angela Barbi
35. Antonio Rodriguez Gil
36. Aurora Charlo
37. Blanca Alvarez Sanchez
38. Camilo Huescar
39. Ces Farre
40. Isabel Alosete
41. Jose Javier Abadia
42. Jose Miguel Collantes Depaz
43. Jose Sanchez
44. Juan Valdivia
45. Juankar Cardesin
46. Luis Camara Lopez
47. Manolo Jimenez
48. Maria Pilar Fernandez
49. Miguel Linares Rios
50. Pablo Ruben Lopez Sanz
51. Santiago Villares Castillo
52. Tarsila Jimenez
SRI LANKA
156. Sanjeewee Senevirathna
SYRIA
16. Alaa Sharabi
17. Juhayba Albitar
TAIWAN
130. Jhang Tong -Cing,
133. Kai -Ming Chueh
THAILAND
90. Bancha Ma
91. Boonkwang noncharoen
92. Bhira Phokthavi
93. Direk Kingnok
94. Kitipong Maksin
95. Watena Kreetong
TURKEY
1. Atanaur Dogan,
2. Rukie Garip,
3. Ozay Mlkaya,
4. Koray dagci,
UKRAINE
24. Aleksander Bobryshev
25. Dimitry Morozov
26. Igor Yurchenko
27. Maksym Kisilov
28. Oksan Kjyzhniak
29. Olga Barabanova
30. Victoria Grigorieva
31. Vsevolod Sharko
32. Jana Proka,
33. Ludmila yaschuk
URUGUAY
151. Pablo Ferrari
U.S.A.
96. Coralee Burch
VIETNAM
160. Van Le
161. Ho Hung
The 1st International Watercolor Festival of IWS Albania promises to be a great event and is eagerly awaited by the public and art enthusiasts alike. We hope to see you there.