Żak Justyna
Glass Design (Glass Department)
Functional and Artistic Glass Design (Department of Conservation and Restoration of Ceramics and Glass)
In 2014, she graduated from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław with a degree in Art and Design of Glass.
I am a glass artist and designer, as well as a lecturer at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. My artistic practice explores the material properties of glass, its behavior under extreme conditions, and its metaphorical potential. I am particularly interested in the relationship between glass, nature, time, and processes of transformation. I combine technological experimentation with ecological reflection, treating glass as a narrative, critical, and symbolic medium.
Awards and scholarships
2025 – Decoration “Meritorious for Polish Culture”
2022 – First Prize, UP–Cycles. Closed Loop Is Art Competition, Gdańsk
2022 – Honourable Mention, Young at the Start Competition, Gdynia
2020 – First Prize, International Sustainable Lamp Competition, Warsaw
2020 – Scholarship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
Exhibitions
2025 – Salon Art + Design, group exhibition, Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA
2025 – Salone del Mobile, group exhibition, Milan, Italy
2024 – Milano Vetro –35, post-competition exhibition, Milan, Italy
2023-2024 – ZNIKAM, group exhibition / competition project, Łódź Design Festival, Łódź, Poland
2021-2022 – The Venice Glass Week, group exhibition, Venice, Italy
Conferences
2024 – Ostrakon – International Symposium of Ceramics and Glass, “Conversations with the Elements: Glass Design in the Context of Travel as a Phenomenon,” Academy of Fine Arts – Centre of Applied Arts and Innovation, Wrocław, Poland
Publications
2024 – Like Melting Glaciers. Justyna Żak and Her Glass Vases, online publication, Made White magazine
2021 – OD-NOWA, catalogue of a solo exhibition, ISBN 978-83-87820-93-0, Wałbrzych Art Gallery BWA, Wałbrzych
2021 – Starting Point, catalogue of a solo exhibition, ISBN 978-83-881057-0-8, Historical Museum of the Dukes of Sułkowski Castle, Bielsko-Biała
2018 – Support Systems in Production Engineering, vol. 7, issue 3, Part I: Technology and Art – Shared Areas, ISBN 978-83-65265-26-5, Pranova Publishing House, pp. 109–117, article: “Glassmaking Techniques in the Context of Lighting Design”
