From the cycle TOYS, Sun, glass, size: 39 x 19 x 19cm, signed: Aleksandra Kujawska
BIO ARTISTS:
Aleksandra Kujawska is concerned with man's atavistic longing for nature and community. She is a PhD student in Prof. B. Mak-Sobota's studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. She took part in several group and solo exhibitions in Paris, London, Milan, Luxembourg, Venice, Nowy Bor, Sofia, Dresden, Warsaw, Cracow, Wroclaw, Lodz, Gdynia, Jelenia Gora. Winner of awards, among others: 1st place - Furniture Diamond, 1st place in the international competition "Glass Improvisation", winner of "Must Have 2020" Łodź Design, winner of "Must Have 2021" Łódź Design Festival, finalist of "Good Design 2021" competition Institute of Industrial Design in Warsaw, winner - special mention of the International Competition "Design Educated" in Germany. She participated in exhibitions of the most important world design festivals such as: London Design Week, Expo Milan, Salone del Mobile Milano, Venetian Glass Week, Glass Biennale Sofia, Gdynia Design Days, Łódź Design Festival. Her works are in the collections of the Karkonosze Museum, the Museum of Ceramic Technologies in Koło and the Gallery of Polish Design at the National Museum in Warsaw. Scholarships and grants: Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Adam Mickiewicz Institute in Warsaw, Urban Glass in New York, Pilchuck Glass School in USA. Vice President of the Glass Students' Scientific Circle at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, curator of exhibitions, author of publications on glass art.
Education:
State High School of Fine Arts in Jelenia Góra-Cieplice, artistic glass in the studio of Władysław Czyszczoń.
E. Geppert Academy of Fine Arts, Wrocław, Faculty of Ceramics and Glass, Master's degree in utility glass at the studio of Prof. Kazimierz Pawlak.
Postgraduate Studies Glass in Architecture - specialization stained glass in the studio of Prof. Ryszard Więckowski, Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Faculty of Ceramics and Glass.
Interdepartmental Doctoral Studies, Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, graduate, doctoral student in the Department of Glass. May 28, 2018 initiation of doctoral dissertation in the Department of Glass at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław, in the studio of Professor Beata Mak-Sobota.
ARTIST'S CREDO:
I am interested in the relationship between man and nature. In my works I focus on the atavistic needs of contemporary man for contact with nature and community. I look for areas of human desire, emotions associated with the loss of these relationships and longing for them.
I am interested in contemporary man's realization that he is biological, that he is part of nature with which he has lost contact and whose existence he has forgotten. I am far from constructing instructions or everyday life. I am interested in the process of self-awareness and the related emotions, needs, longings, fears. I try to describe them in my works.
