The Bodypainting Trophy took place on 15th October 2017 as a part of the BEAUTY CONTEST EXPO.

The Beauty Contest EXPO is an international exhibition dedicated to beauty, aesthetics and cosmetics. The Swiss Bodypainting Awards patronized by WBA was organized already the 3rd time. All participants showed their talents in the Open Category under the theme "Science Fiction Movies". It was a wonderful weekend with talanted artists and models and their stunning artworks. 

Jury:

This year 3 extraordinary artists evaluated amazing partisipants' works:

• Matteo Arfanotti (World Champion in Facepainting and Brush/ Sponge Bodypainting 2013, Silber awarded artist 2014 category World Award UV Bodypainting)
  • Leonardo Giacomo Borghese (Bronze awarded artist at the World Bodypainting Festival – World Award Airbrush 2017 as well as Winner of the Category Special Effects Make-up 2016)
  • Benedetta Carugati (Bronze awarded artist at the World Bodypainting Festival – Category World Award Special Effects Bodypainting 2014, 2015 & 2017).

The main awards went to the following artists:

I Place: Alex Hansen (Brazil),

II Place: Lucia Postacchini (Italy),

III Place: Flavio Bosco (Italy).

We thank every participant and jury for a magnificent job!

BODYPAINTING Results 

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Review from the WBA Contest in Russia, the traditional festival of beauty in St. Petersburg.

23rd September 2017

The Nevskie Berega in St. Petersburg, Russia is one of the most important competitions for professionals of the beauty industry. More than two thousand five hundred people from all over the world attended the competition. The participants made a stunning work under the themes
“The Comic Book World” and “The World through Children's Eyes”.

The winners in the following categories are:

“The Comic Book World”
1. Daniela Danilova (The Republic of Moldova);
2. Ekaterina Solodkova (Russia);
3. Evgeniya Kuleshova (Russia).

“The World through Children's Eyes”
1. Lors Tulchinski (Israel);
2. Anna Egorova (Russia);
3. Taisia Rebrova (Russia).

We thank all the participants and congratulate the winners!

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Nevskie Berega

20 YEARS WORLD BODYPAINTING FESTIVAL AND A SUCCESSFUL PREMIERE IN KLAGENFURT

The Festival has been part of the local festival scene for 20 years now and is the biggest art and music festival of Carinthia, the southernmost federal state of Austria. 2017 was the first year in our new location – Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. The regional capital with its historical city center, theatre, and galleries is just the perfect location for the festival and its visitors, to enjoy an exciting festival week with a colourful potpourri of captivating bodypainting art and the delicious delicacies of the Street Food Market beside multiple musical top acts.

The heart of the festival was the world championship on the 3 main days (Friday 28th – Sunday 30th) with almost 300 competing artists teams from over 54 nations in various categories, trying to impress the festival visitors and the jury with their unique and outstandingly creative designs. On Sunday - shortly before midnight - the new world champions of the WBF 2017 were announced and celebrated in a spectacular awarding ceremony.

The category Brush & Sponge had very strong artworks this year. The world champion title was awarded to Sanatan Dinda (India) - winning the much desired title the second year in a row. Vice world champion champion got Marzia Bedeschi (Italy) followed by Cheryl Ann Lipstreu (USA).
In the category Airbrush, the title did go to Benoit Bottala, bringing the world champion title to Guadeloupe for the first time. Alex Hansen (Brasil) and Leonardo Giacomo Borgese (Italy) completed the winner's picture.
In the category of Special Effects the Austrian artist Ludwig Decarli was awarded World Champion of 2017, he already won the vice world champion title in the same category a few years back. Beside him, Olga Popova (Russia) and Benedetta Carugatti (Italy) were happy about their prices.
Besides the 3 main categories, 10 other titles were awarded.

ALL WINNERS

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The Beauty Forum Bodypainting Trophy in Leipzig highlighted last weekend, 22nd of April 2017.
The artists successfully implemented their understanding of the topic "Circle of Life". Their creations impressed visitors and the jury.

In the name of the trade show and the WBA we would like to congratulate the winners:

1 place: Marian Folga (Poland)
2 place: Nadja Hluchovsky (Austria)
3 place: Katrin Hanschke (Germany)

We thank all artists and their models who have done an amazing job!
As well a big thanks to our judges Petra & Peter Tronser and Peter Richter.

BODYPAINTING RESULTS AS PDF 

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