Bielecka Dagmara
Member of the Faculty Council and the Programme Council
Artistic Glass
Studies at the Faculty of Ceramics and Glass, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław. Diploma completed in the studio of Prof. Zbigniew Horbowy, 2000.
In my artistic practice, two main sources of conceptual exploration can be identified. The first involves transferring inspiring, recognisable forms and motifs—visually associated with specific sets of images or symbols—into the medium of glass. By rendering the characteristics of other materials in glass, I create metaphors, associations, and meanings embodied in spatial objects and unique vessels.
The second narrative derives from inspiration drawn from nature. Using mimetic elements and structures abstracted from the world of living organisms and translated into glass, I create amorphous, abstract forms.
Awards and Scholarships (selected)
2024 – Bronze Medal Gloria Artis – Meritorious to Culture
2022 – Individual Second-Degree Rector’s Award for organisational achievements in the academic year 2021/2022
2020 – Individual Second-Degree Rector’s Award for teaching achievements in the academic year 2019/2020
2018 – Bullseye Emerge 2018, Bullseye Projects Bronze Award, Portland, OR, USA
2017 – New Glass Review 38, finalist, The Corning Museum of Glass, New York, USA
Exhibitions (selected)
2025 – Salon Art + Design 2025, group exhibition, Craftica Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA
2025 – Emotions. Passion. Burgundy, group exhibition, Craftica Gallery, Salone del Mobile 2025, Milan, Italy
2024 – Poland’s Vibrant Glass Scene, group exhibition, Glasmuseum Lette, Coesfeld-Lette, Germany
2023 – Young Talent Award, group exhibition, Achilles Stiftung Glass Museum, Hamburg, Germany
2021 – Organica, solo exhibition, BB Gallery, Kraków, Poland
Conferences
2018 – Art Speaks with Fire, Academic Conference of the 11th High Temperature Festival, lecture: Glass from Fire and Kiln, Centre of Glass and Ceramics Art, Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław
Publications (selected)
2022 – Young Glass – Reactivation, author of an article published in KonserwacjaWRO, I/2022, pp. 134–137, ISBN 978-83-66321-95-3 | ISSN 2956-4123
2021 – Organica — film documenting the solo exhibition at BB Gallery, Kraków; directed by Jacek Hamot and Małgorzata Kujda. Published on YouTube in Polish and English versions, funded by a small grant
2021 – Organica. Dagmara Bielecka’s Exhibition at BB Gallery, pp. 43–45, article on the author’s solo exhibition, including the essay The Lost Paradise of Nature? by Dr hab. Beata Mak-Sobota, Glass and Ceramics, bimonthly, no. 1/2021, ISSN 0038-8144
2021 – Thought and Matter – Ceramic and Glass Installations in Urban Shop Windows, author of the text for the Young Sculpture catalogue, ISBN 978-83-66321-06-9
2020 – Dagmara Bielecka Condenses All Transparent Elements and Substances in Glass, text by Monika Braun, in Ceramics and Glass: 70 Years of Presence at the Wrocław Academy of Art and Design / The Present, pp. 46–51, ISBN 978-83-66321-12-0
