In 2023, Renata Gąsiorowska was awarded a one-time Ha-Gi scholarship – created to commemorate one of the most important post-war satirical cartoonists in Poland. It was a joint initiative of the Museum of Caricature, the Ordinary Life Foundation, and Zuzanna Lipińska – the daughter of Ha-Gi.

As declared by the director of the Museum of Caricature, Dr. Paweł Płoski: “The scholarship is the beginning of a new idea – the Ha-Gi Award, which will be awarded annually starting in 2024 to a selected illustrator, cartoonist, or satirist by the award committee.”

Nominations for the Award are submitted by: the Museum of Caricature and Agata Napiórska on behalf of the Ordinary Life Foundation – the author of the book Ha-Ga. Pictures from Life (published by Marginesy), while the laureate is chosen by Zuzanna Lipińska – the daughter of Ha-Gi.

The award ceremony will take place on November 23, 2024, at the Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw during the recurring event Long Live Comics!, and a month earlier – on October 22 – there will be an auction of works by contemporary artists. All proceeds from the auction will be allocated to the award and given to this year's laureate of the Ha-Gi Award.

On October 22, 2024, at 6:00 PM at the Museum of Caricature, works by Agata Królak, Gosia Herba, Joanna Karpowicz, Michał Loba, Katarzyna Bogucka, Zosia Dzierżawska, Jacek Świdziński, Daniel Gutowski, Piotr Marc, Piotr Nowacki, Krzysztof Gawronkiewicz, Przemysław Surma, as well as two works by the award's patron, Ha-Gi, will be auctioned.

The auction will be conducted by Karolina Norkiewicz from the Comedy Club.

In 2025, the 50th anniversary of Ha-Gi's death will be commemorated. The Museum of Caricature has planned an exhibition of the artist, juxtaposed with works by contemporary creators.

Ha-Ga (Anna Gosławska-Lipińska) (1915–1975). She published her first satirical drawing in “Szpilki” in 1936. Since then, for almost 40 years (with a break during the war), she published two drawings every week in “Szpilki,” most often depicting two conversing individuals dressed in the latest fashion. These drawings quickly gained her immense popularity. She was primarily a humorous cartoonist – she entertained and amused. But she was also a satirist. Her specialty was mocking petty-bourgeois ladies, but artists, snobs, and bureaucrats also received her sharp critiques. All these characters, drawn with a confident line that decisively and clearly defines the form, have characteristic round eyes.

The Ha-Gi Award

October 22 – 6:00 PM – auction, Museum of Caricature, ul. Kozia 11

November 23 – award ceremony, Long Live Comics!, Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw