GLASS & FIRE

Katarzyna Krej’s first solo exhibition of artistic glass at Galeria M. Presented will be glass objects and sculptures belonging to the cycles “Millstone Collars”, “Cosmic Energy” and “Flow”. The artist admits that the process of creating them is intricate and time-consuming, similar to lace weaving. She heats thick rods of glass and, when they become liquid, forms thin threads from which she ‘weaves’ unusual shapes and forms, which then enter into a dialogue with space. When encountered, the artworks invite tranquillity and reflection on beauty, fragility, and transience.

The opening and meeting with the artist will take place on Friday, October 20th at 7pm. 

The exhibition will be open from 20-31.10.2023

Katarzyna Krej (1979) studied Glass Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław from 1999 to 2004, and she defended her diploma under the supervision of professor Małgorzata Dajewska. In 2003, she spent a year on an Erasmus scholarship at the Department of Painting and Glass Design at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart, under the guidance of professor Johannes Hewel. She was featured in the New Glass Review 24 and New Glass Review 26 at The Corning Museum
in New York, a competition that selects the 100 most interesting glass objects from around the world. From 2002 to 2004, she received an Artistic Scholarship awarded by the Mayor of Wrocław. In 2022, her works were exhibited at Glass Art 2022 in Nice, as part of the glass and fashion show in Biot, France, at an exhibition in Shanghai, China, and at four exhibitions in Poland.
In January 2023, one of her works qualified for the second stage of the Horbowy International Glass Competition. She lives and works in Wrocław.