Kalina BANKA - KULKA (1989), Flash Mash; 2023

Heat-formed glass using various techniques including fusing or slumping and silkscreen; 23 x 21 x 20 cm.
Signed, dated on bottom: Kalina Bańka Kulka 2023

Graduate of the Department of Ceramics and Glass at the Eugeniusz
Geppert in Wroclaw, where she currently runs a graduate studio in the Department of
Glass. She received her doctoral degree in 2020 and currently serves as head of the
Department of Glass. She has held twelve solo exhibitions and participated in
several hundred glass exhibitions in Poland and abroad, including in the USA, Italy, Denmark,
Switzerland, Ireland, Turkey, Germany, Bulgaria, Estonia, the Netherlands, Lithuania and the
Czech Republic. She has won numerous national and international competitions in the field of
the field of glass and design. In 2016, her work was shortlisted for the New
Glass Review 38 - a prestigious review of the 100 most interesting realizations in glass,
organized by the Corning Museum of Glass in New York. In recent
years, she has taught original glass courses at renowned institutions such as
UrbanGlass in New York, Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood (USA) and Bild-.
Werk Frauenau in Germany. Her works are in the collection of the Museum of
Karkonosze Museum in Jelenia Gora, the National Museum in Cracow, the Glass Museum
Alter Hof Herding in Germany, as well as in numerous private collections in Poland and
abroad.