Zdjęcie wydarzenia Play With Glass – European Glass Festival / 2016

Play With Glass – European Glass Festival / 2016

For the fifth time running, glass artists and enthusiasts will meet at the Play with Glass – European Glass Festival in Wrocław from 15th till 23rd October.

For the fifth time running, glass artists and enthusiasts will meet at the Play with Glass – European Glass Festival in Wroclaw from 15th till 23rd October. With every passing year the festival arouses more interest in Poland and abroad. It is steadily becoming one of Europe’s most important glass art events.

The organisers – Anita Bialic and Prof. Kazimierz Pawlak – invite outstanding European glass artists encompassing three generations to take part in the festival.
‘In this way, we seek to show the great opportunities that glass can provide to artists. At the same time, we track the changes that have occurred in the use of this material over the last few decades,’ stresses Kazimierz Pawlak.The most important event of the Play with Glass – European Glass Festival is the main exhibition, which is devoted to a different topic every year and has been presented at the historical Session Hall at Wrocław’s Main Railway Station, the City Gallery in Łódź, the Karkonosze Museum in Jelenia Góra, and the Art Gallery in Legnica.

This year’s main exhibition, ‘Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde,’ will be accompanied by displays organised at ten Wrocław galleries, including the Debut Festival at the Arttrakt Gallery presenting works by a young Czech designer Sebastián Kitzberger, who was nominated for the Discovery of the Year award in 2015, the Czech Grand Design Awards, and ‘Where is my Paradise?’ – a solo exhibition by an outstanding German-based Japanese artist Shige Fujishiro at the SiC! BWA Wrocław Gallery.

The festival will also include an international seminar on European glass art and numerous arts and education projects, including: Glass in Wrocław’s Urban Space, A Glass Display Case, A Glass Bus, an Open House at the Chair of Glass of the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław and in Lower Silesian glass studios, and glass workshops. During this year’s festival, all galleries presenting displays under the festival will be open on the Glass Weekend of 15th-16th October.

Since 2012, the European Glass Festival has been organised annually in October by the BB Gallery and the Fly with Art Foundation in close collaboration with the Municipality of Wrocław, the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław and the Association of Polish Artists and Designers – the Wrocław Chapter. The project of the festival was included in the application of the City of Wrocław for the title of the European Capital of Culture 2016.

The 5th European Glass Festival is co-financed by the European Capital of Culture.

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