Nowak-Bieganowska Jagoda
Functional Glass
I graduated from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław in 2016. Between 2018 and 2022, I participated in doctoral studies at the same academy, earning my PhD in 2023.
Since 2021, I have been co-teaching in the Intuitive Design Studio led by Prof. Kazimierz Pawlak at the Department of Glass, Wrocław Academy of Art and Design. I focus on artistic glass in everyday and close surroundings. I am interested in art inspired by design and craft, engaging in direct interaction with people. My work explores interpersonal relationships and the human connection with the material world and nature, commenting on contemporary reality.
Awards and scholarships
2025 – Artistic Scholarship of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship / Marshal Office of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship
2022 – Finalist, Coburger Glaspreis 2022
2020 – 2nd Prize, The Glass Prize 2020, Open Glass Artists category, for On the palm of you (UK)
2019 – Finalist, The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa 2019 (Japan)
2019 – 2nd Prize, Young at Start 2019, Elle Decoration, project Ukojenie
Selected solo exhibitions
2022 – Gestures, Galeria BB, Wrocław (part of the European Glass Festival – Play with Glass)
2021 – Served to the Table, Municipal Art Gallery MM, Chorzów
2021 – Not Served to the Table, Glass Manufactory Puck, Puck
2020 – Served to the Table, Underwater Festival Wrocław, Browar Mieszczański, Wrocław
Selected group exhibitions
2024 – Poland's Vibrant Glass Scene, Glasmuseum Lette, Coesfeld, Germany
2023 – Young Polish Glass Art, Achillest Stiftung Museum, Hamburg, Germany
2022 – Coburger Glaspreis 2022, European Museum of Modern Glass, Coburg, Germany
2022 – GLASS ON / Have we ever dreamt about it?, Venice Glass Week, Italy
2021 – Toyama International Glass Exhibition 2021, Toyama Glass Art Museum, Japan
Conferences
2019 – International Student Glass Symposium, Lednicke Rovne, Slovakia; panel presentation: Kiln Techniques – Slumping
2019 – Philosophy and Cartography, conference co-organized by the Institute of Philosophy, University of Wrocław, and the Wrocław Academy of Art and Design; presentation: A plate as a map of the world
