Bańka-Kulka Kalina
Head of the Department
Stained Glass
Glass in Architecture
In 2013, she graduated from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, receiving a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass.
I create glass objects and images, most often presented as site-specific installations. In my current practice, I pursue personal and sentimental projects referring to family relationships within the generational lineage of women. I address themes of motherhood and childhood, exploring how the past shapes our present. I combine artistic practice with design and teaching activities. I have taught, among others, at UrbanGlass in New York, Pilchuck Glass School (USA), and Bild-Werk Frauenau in Germany.
Awards and Scholarships (selected)
2025 – Honorary Badge Meritorious for Polish Culture
2024 – Special Distinction, –35 Milano Vetro Competition, Sforza Castle, Milan, Italy
2024 – Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
2018–2021 – Scholarship of the Minister of Science and Higher Education for Outstanding Young Researchers
2018 – Honourable Mention, EMERGE 2018 International Glass Competition, Bullseye Gallery, USA
Exhibitions (selected)
2025 – Finalist, HUB –35 Competition, The Venice Glass Week, Palazzo Loredan, Venice, Italy
2025 – Transformations: Modernity in the Third Polish Republic, group exhibition with publication, National Museum in Kraków, Poland
2021 – Everything Will Be Useful, solo exhibition, SiC! Gallery, BWA Wrocław, Poland
Konferencje
2025 – Risk & Resonance – The Stained Glass Experience, lecture: My Stained Glass Way, Bild-Werk Frauenau / Frauenau Glass Museum, Germany
2025 – GAS Conference, panel discussion: Sustaining Creativity in the Modern World, University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA
2022 – Camgeran 2022, lecture: Glass Horror Vacui, Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey
2021 – Polish Glass – Tradition & Education, Glass Art Society, virtual conference, Seattle, USA (co-presented with Marzena Krzemińska-Baluch)
Publications (selected)
2025 – Everyday Life Enchanted in Glass, Kalina Bańka-Kulka, Glass and Ceramics Quarterly, No. 1/2025, ISSN 0039-8144; interview by Katarzyna Jasiołek, pp. 15–19
2024 – Kalina Bańka-Kulka – Selected Works, Label magazine, Light and Glass, issue 68/2024
2024 – Transformations: Modernity in the Third Polish Republic, ISBN 978-83-7581-468-2, Publisher: National Museum in Kraków
2024 – Generational Echoes in Glass – The Artistic Narratives of Kalina Bańka-Kulka, Design Alive, No. 49/2024, p. 136
