International Festival of Paintings for Pediatric Patients (IFPPP)

Organized by Health and Art (HEART) Group

The Health and Art (HEART) group, is behind all this. The HEART is a charity group with only one goal: “to maintain and improve the mental health of sick kids, all over the world”. HEART relies on nothing but fundraising ceremonies, charity events, and local support to be able to organize the IFPPP and a variety of other successful events to “Bringing Smile to A Beating Heart”. Besides the IFPPP, HEART is busy throughout the year with the Football Mini World Cup, Book and Toys Sharing Campaigns, and Charity Exhibitions

You Are Invited
To The Next IFPPP!

Now, we would like to invite all children and adolescents with the age of fewer than 18 years old, who were admitted to a hospital during their life, to the 9th festival.

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This year, we organized the 8th IFPPP in the beautiful city of Muscat, Oman. The host proudly exhibited the top 40 best paintings and collaborated with more than 40 cities worldwide. At the same time, the 12 young winners of the IFPPP were invited to attend the Awarding Ceremony.

What Happened In The Previous Festivals?

Top young artists in IFPPP 2023:

Group A (3-6 years old)
  1. Ashkhen Ghazaryan, 6 years old, Armenia
  2. Seyed Kaniar Hosseini, 5 years old, Iran
  3. Gergana Rosenova, 6 years old, Bulgaria
Group B (7-10 years old)
  1. Melis Ada Uyanik, 9 years old, Turkey 
  2. Marija Cvetkovaite, 7 years old, Lithuania 
  3. Sahar Akbari, 9 years old, Iran
  4. Artyom Margaryan, 8 years old, Armenia
  5. Fatemeh Masoumi, 10 years old, Iran
Group C (11-14 years old)
  1. Goda Biraite, 13 years old, Lithuania  
  2. Fatemeh Mirzaei, 12 years old, Iran
  3. Viara Pencheva, 14 years old, Bulgaria 
  4. Rahminiyan Rengganis Putri Marzuki, 14 years old, Indonesia
Group D (15-18 years old)
  1. Ava Safaverdi, 15 years old, Iran
  2. Harshinee Shah, 16 years old, India
  3. Asena Arifova, 18 years old, Bulgaria 

The 8th International Festival of
Paintings for Pediatric Patients 2022

This Year, We Organized The 8th IFPPP In The Beautiful City Of Muscat, Oman. The Host Proudly Exhibited The Top 40 Best Paintings And Collaborated With More Than 40 Cities Worldwide. At The Same Time, The 12 Young Winners Of The IFPPP Were Invited To Attend The Awarding Ceremony.

Top young artists in IFPPP 2022:

Group A (3-6 years old)
  1. Selda Arami, 6 years old, Iran
  2. Eleonora Petrova, 5 years old, Bulgaria
  3. Nika Vaziri, 6 years old, Iran
Group B (7-10 years old)
  1. Venus Mahaki, 7 years old, Iran
  2. Aleksa Dimitrova, 10 years old, Bulgaria
  3. Amirhossein Tafahi, 9 years old, Iran
Group C (11-14 years old)
  1. Petya Dimitrova, 11 years old, Bulgaria
  2. Anahita Afshari Tavana, 12 years old, Iran
  3. Reyhaneh Ali Panahi, 13 years old, Iran
Group D (15-18 years old)
  1. Sofiya Marchenko, 15 years old, Russia
  2. Sarina Rabi Hamedani, 15 years old, Iran
  3.  Khush Shah, 15 years old, India

The 7th International Festival of
Paintings for Pediatric Patients 2021

The 7th IFPPP festival in Istanbul was held with 250 selected artworks, out of a total of 1000 excellent paintings, in hallways, corridors, and along the walls of galleries, hospitals and medical centers of 40 countries, including USA , Belarus, Spain, Azerbaijan, Hang Kong, Turkey, Iran, etc. 

Top young artists in IFPPP 2021:

Group A (3-6 years old)
  1. Arvin Fooladvand, 5 years old, Iran
  2. Zlata Yakovleva, 5 years old, Russia
  3. Alekzandar Yankov, 6 years old, Bulgaria
Group B (7-10 years old)
  1. Balogh Borbála Liliána, 9 years old, Hungary
  2. Arshida Asadi Hajivand, 8 years old, Iran
  3. Liliya Yankova, 10 years old, Bulgaria
Group C (11-14 years old)
  1. Nirvana Roostaei, 11 years old, Iran
  2. Anahita Afshari Tavana, 12 years old, Iran
  3. Aanya Soni, 13 years old, India
Group D (15-18 years old)
  1. Lebedeva Zlata, 15 years old, Russia
  2. Lavin Hasanzadeh Oskoei, 15 years old, Iran
  3. Yekta Esmaeili, 15 years old, Iran

The 6th International Festival of
Paintings for Pediatric Patients 2020

The 6th IFPPP festival in Tehran was held with 250 selected artworks, out of a total of 500 excellent paintings, in hallways, corridors, and along the walls of galleries, hospitals and medical centers of 40 countries, including USA , Belarus, Spain, Azerbaijan, Hang Kong, Turkey, Iran, etc. 

Top young artists in IFPPP 2020:

Group A (3-6 years old)
  1. Nika Tayebi, 7 years old, Ahvaz, Iran
  2. Pruthvirajsinh Chauhan, 5 years old, Ahmedabad, India
  3. Mobina Sadat Hosseini, 6 years old, Tehran, Iran AND AmirTaha Shahabiveis, 5 years old, Ahvaz, Iran
Group B (7-10 years old)
  1. Ronika Ahmadi, 7 years old, Ahvaz, Iran
  2. Petya Dimitrova, 9 years old, Ruse, Bulgaria
  3. Anahid Amoozesh, 8 years old, Ahvaz, Iran
Group C (11-14 years old)
  1. Isabella Carrasco, 13 years old, Lima, Peru
  2. Zeinab BenEnayeh, 11 years old, Ahvaz, Iran
  3. Monish Japadia, 11 years old, Ahmedabad, India
Group D (15-18 years old)
  1. Sofia Ananieva, 16 years old, Kharkiv, Ukraine
  2. Melika Ahmadi, 17 years old, Karaj, Iran
  3. Anisha Nawar, 17 years old, Dhaka, Bangladesh

The 5th International Festival of
Paintings for Pediatric Patients 2019

Budapest, Hungary

The 5th IFPPP was inaugurated alongside the USERN Congress and Prize Festival, just like the last four ceremonies did since 2016. It wasn’t the first time for Semmelweis University and Avicenna International College to host the event, as the IFPPP returned to Budapest for the second time since the second IFPPP back in 2016, followed by Ukraine and Italy in 2017 and 2018. The competition however did not get easier than the last time in Budapest as more than 1000 paintings fought for 3 top places in 4 age groups.

Top young artists in IFPPP 2019:

Group A (3-6 years old)
  1.  Tannaz Sadat Tabatabaei, 6 years old, Iran; and Kavya D Patel, 6 years old, India
  2. Adriana Manolescu, 5 years old, Romania
  3. Leticia Bravo Alonso, 5 years old, Venezuela
Group B (7-10 years old)
  1. Rahminiyan Rengganis Putri Marzuki, 10 years old, Indonesia
  2. Raha Behbahani, 7 years old, Iran; and Moksha Shah, 8 years old, India
  3. Alyssa Panchal, 9 years old, Australia
Group C (11-14 years old)
  1. Ela Yildan, 12 years old, Turkey
  2. Mark Antonij Zumer, 14 years old, Slovenia; and Ilia Cheraghi, 11 years old, Iran
  3. Margherita Pierni, 14 years old, Italy; and Batool Marzooq Saeed Ahmed Ali AlBunni, 14 years old, Bahrain
Group D (15-18 years old)
  1. Hanna Peresztegi, 15 years old, Hungary; and Anja Cepelnik, 17 years old, Slovenia
  2. Jayni Patel, 15 years old, India; and Tadas Gudauskas, 15 years old, Lithuania
  3. Guste Jurkute, 18 years old, Lithuania; and Reham Nabil Ali Shehada, 17 years old, Palestine; and Tamara Estefania Palma Arvizu, 16 years old, Mexico

The 4th International Festival of
Paintings for Pediatric Patients 2018

Reggio Calabria, Italy

the 4th IFPPP festival in Reggio Calabria, Italy was held with 250 selected artworks, out of more than 1000 paintings was presented at the Materno Infantil Hospital of Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus with collaboration of more than 26 cities.

Top young artists in IFPPP 2018:

Group A (3-6 years old)
  1. Atrin Afshari Tavana, 5 years old, Iran
  2. Irina Maria, 4 years old, Romania
  3. Nicolas Suzin, 6 years old, Brazil
Group B (7-10 years old)
  1. Anahita Afshari Tavana, 9 years old, Iran
  2. Sohini Roy, 9 years old, India
  3. Asal Ghashangzadeh, 10 years old, Iran; and Benedetta Medici, 10 years old, Italy
Group C (11-14 years old)
  1. Iustina Iamandi, 12 years old, Romania
  2. Faezeh Ghasemi Nejad, 13 years old, Iran
  3. Neel Bhaveshbhai Rajyaguru, 12 years old, India; and Vittoria Habibi Minelli, 13 years old, Italy
Group D (15-18 years old)
  1. Annabelle Armstrong, 18 years old, South Africa
  2. Mohammad Saedi, 18 years old, Iran; and Talah Khalid AbuDayeh, 17 years old, Palestine;
  3. Nastaran Teimouri, 16 years old, Iran

The 3rd International Festival of
Paintings for Pediatric Patients 2017

Kharkiv, Ukraine

The third painting festival was looked forward even more, while for the first time over 1400 artworks had taken part in the huge international art event, and the local executives had planned for a two round voting system for paintings of 20 different nations to one destination, Tehran Children’s Medical Center.

Top young artists in IFPPP 2017:

Group A (3-6 years old)
  1. Yulianna Nasinnyk, 6 years old, Ukraine
  2. Yaroslav Zaharov, 4 years old, Russia
  3. Arnika Rezaei, 5 years old, Iran; And Reza Ghahremani, 6 years old, Iran
Group B (7-10 years old)
  1. Rastin Azimi, 7 years old, Iran
  2. Danaq Boycheva, 7 years old, Bulgaria
  3. Abdul Aziz Al Hemaidi, 10 years old, Qatar
Group C (11-14 years old)
  1. Samira Khalili, 14 years old, Iran
  2. Shivang Kanakray Upadhyay, 11 years old, India
  3. Ümmügülsüm Topcu, 12 years old, Turkey
Group D (15-18 years old)
  1. Simona Grabauskienė, 17 years old, Lithuania
  2. Alina Sferle, 17 years old, Romania
  3. Hanieh Iranmanesh, 15 years old, Iran

The 2nd International Festival of
Paintings for Pediatric Patients 2016

Budapest, Hungary

The Semmelweis university of Hungary had afforded the venue and prices over sea’s for the final ceremony in Budapest. Nima Rezaei believed, that making this event such big and public and indeed international one, is for everyone to believe that children mental health suffers as much as the body suffers, during an illness, short or long. The art gallery of the 2nd IFPPP was formally exhibited in Tehran as one of the 40 exhibit centers, in the world’s children week, September 2016.

Top young artists in IFPPP 2016:

Group A (3-6 years old)
  1. Elina Elyasi, 6 years old, Iran
  2. Kononov Timur, 6 years old, Belarus
  3. Fotios Michail, 5 years old, Greece
Group B (7-10 years old)
  1. Viara Pencheva, 7 years old, Bulgaria; Prutha Vipulbhai Vadodariya, 9 years old, India
  2. Ayshan Bagheralmosavi, 7 years old, Iran
  3. Paul Jules Butler, 8 years old, Germany
Group C (11-14 years old)
  1. Tarifeh Mahmoodkaki, 14 years old, Iran
  2. Bianca Gegea, 14 years old, Romania
  3. Helen Xie, 11 years old, Hong Kong, China
Group D (15-18 years old)
  1. Fatemeh Taati, 17 years old, Iran
  2. Laura Lentovits, 15 years old, Hungary
  3. Nidhi Shirol, 17 years old, India

The First International Festival of
Paintings for Pediatric Patients 2015

Tehran, Iran

More than 900 artwork were received and 200 paintings were chosen for exhibition on the final week of the festival. Children and teenagers under 18 who were hospitalized at least once were supposed to send their painting to the end of August 23rd, 2015 (Doctor’s day). This festival was honored by the support of more than 60 medical centers, drug companies, children’s health and art organizations including the IPOPI organization, the PROJECT and the Child Foundation.

Top young artists in IFPPP 2015:

Group A (3-6 years old)
  1. Eivinas Venckus, 6 years old, Lithuania; Mohammad Aryan Ghazvinian, 5 years old, Iran
  2. Yazdan Ghaemi, 5 years old, Iran
  3. Baran Zareian, 5 years old, Iran; Maryam Alieyva, 4 years old, Azerbaijan
Group B (7-10 years old)
  1. Maks LenartCernelc, 9 years old, Slovenia
  2. David Alexandru, 10 years old, Romania
  3. Amir Mohammad Bahmadi, 10 years old, Iran
Group C (11-14 years old)
  1. Paulina Schulz, 13 years old, Germany
  2. Elin Serkisian, 12 years old, Iran
  3. Alba Begara Valera, 12 years old, Spain
Group D (15-18 years old)
  1. Zahra Farasmane, 16 years old, Iran
  2. Neha Ray, 16 years old, India
  3. Mariam Ali Dbouk, 15 years old, Lebanon

You Are Invited To The Next International Festival of Paintings for Pediatric Patients

Now, we would like to invite all children and adolescents with the age of fewer than 18 years old, who were admitted to a hospital during their life, to the 8th festival.

Instructions: Painting (Drawing) on an A4 page (297 mm × 210 mm)

Theme: Health

Required information: Name and Family name, Age (Date of Birth), City (Country), Tel (e-mail), Postal address, Disease name, Hospital name

Deadline for submission: June 9th, 2023

1- The original painting should be mailed to: Prof. Nima Rezaei, Children’s Medical Center Hospital, Gharib St, Keshavarz Blvd, Tehran 14194, IRAN

2- The scan copy of the painting (with a resolution of more than 300 dpi) should be e-mailed to: ifppp.heart@gmail.com

Two hundred selected paintings (drawings) will be printed in the booklet of the Festival.

The best 12 selected individuals will be our special guests at the Festival. Their awards will be formally presented at the Festival. At that time, they will be invited to come to the podium and be introduced to the audience.

The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th festivals in Tehran (Iran), Budapest (Hungary), Kharkiv (Ukraine), Reggio Calabria (Italy), Budapest (Hungary), Tehran (Iran), Istanbul (Turkey), Muscat (Oman) were all amazing, where more than 1000 paintings were submitted each year; and we hope to receive more than a thousand paintings this year as well. The top 200 selected artworks would be published in the booklet of the festival. 

We are eagerly looking forward to receiving your paintings soon.

Best regards,
Nima Rezaei

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