MANIAC 2026 is starting!

The registration for this year’s edition of MANIAC – MICROSCOPIC ART NON-LIMITED INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL CONTEST starts NOW! You can find the registration form here and all the rules and regulations can be found in the Documents tab.

The call for works is open until May 8, 2026. The exhibitions of selected works will take place from May 22 to June 15, 2026 at Wrocław Main Square and from May 25 to June 12, 2026 at Wrocław Tech.

This edition of the contest is financed by the ORLEN Foundation.

What are you still waiting for? Go through your microscopic photos and find beauty in them! Or book a session to take them before the deadline comes!

Happy New Year 2026!

The members of PhoBiA wish everyone a joyous year 2026. Using this occasion, we would also like to share a few photos from our Christams meeting. It was a time full of laughs and smiles and we were able to get to know each other better – outside of our university life. Everyone prepared their favourite regional dish, meaning that our table was filled with delicious food – from Christmas classics such as barszcz z uszkami and krokiety, through Greater Poland makiełki and Lemko fuczki, to Indian curry and Turkish mercimek köftesi.

Last chance to see the winning art of MANIAC 2025!

We are concluding this years’ edition of MANIAC with an exhibition at Wrocław Tech. You can see the Top 3 works, as well as 32 other pieces of microscopic art chosen for the exhibition by our members at SKS (Strefa Kultury Studenckiej, C-18) on the ground floor. The works will be displayed there until December 8.

MANIAC 2025 results

The results of the 2025 edition of MANIAC are here!

It has been an incredible contest with outstanding turnout. We have received a staggering 113 artworks from 42 authors! From this artful cornucopia our association’s members selected 19 gems to be exhibited in Świdnicka street next to the Market Square. The exhibition pleased the eyes of Wrocław residents for a whole week in September, while the remaining pieces will adorn the campus of Wrocław University of Science and Technology. The date and place of the exhibition will be revealed later.

The top 3 works in this year’s contest are:

1st place Sherlock Holmes on the Nano Trail by Nandhini Ravindran, University of Vienna
2nd placeCerebral Maniac by Priya Sagar, Wrocław University of Science and Technology
3rd placeFrozen Lattice by Michał Ozga, Wrocław University of Science and Technology

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all participants. You can see the rest of the works here.

MANIAC 2025

It may well be the middle of summer, but scientists and artists alike, know no rest! Our creative energy explodes like a summer lightning storm and it may only be appeased by a soothing prospect of fame, glory and… prizes 😉

We hereby open the registration for this year’s edition of our
MICROSCOPIC ART NON-LIMITED INTERNATIONAL ANNUAL CONTEST!

You can find the registration form under the link below.

REGISTRATION FORM

All the necessary documents are linked inside the form as well as in the MANIAC 2025 tab above.

We are waiting for your microscopy photos untill 31.08.2025!

Need some inspiration? Check out the photos from previous editions under the MANIAC tabs above!

Dofinansowano ze środków Gminy Wrocław w ramach programu Fundusz Aktywności Studenckiej (FAST), organizowanego przez Wrocławskie Centrum Akademickie.

Co-financed by the city of Wrocław as part of the Student Activity Fund (FAST), organised by the Wrocław Academic Centre.