Pawlak Kazimierz
Vice-Rector for Foreign Cooperation and Promotion
Design of Functional Glass
Graduated from the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wrocław (now Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design) with distinction in 1982, specializing in Glass Design.
Since 1982, I have been working as a glass artist, exploring nearly all glass techniques. I have created works using glassblowing, cold-working, kiln-formed methods, and currently work with fused glass fibers. My practice combines artistic vision with technical mastery, and I organize my work into clearly defined collections.
Awards and scholarships
2021 – Minister of Culture, National Heritage and Sport Award for Lifetime Achievement
2020 – Bronze Medal Gloria Artis
2014 – Grant, The Danish Arts Foundation
2009 – Main Prize, Design – Antydesign, Museum of Architecture, Wrocław, awarded by the Mayor of Wrocław
2001 – Kiohey Fujita Award, Kanazawa, Japan
Selected group exhibitions
2024 – Alone Together, Museum of Glass and Jewellery, Jablonec, Czech Republic
2022 – Glass_On, The Italian Glass Weeks, Venice, Italy
2018 – Magie du Verre, International Glass Exhibition, Hostert, Luxembourg
2017 – International Glass Biennial, Denizli, Turkey
2016 – International Glass Art Festival Tianyuan, Tianyuan, China
Conferences
2023 – 2nd International Culture, Art and Communication Symposium and Exhibition, Bayburt University, Turkey
2022 – Seminar for the International Year of Glass, Academy of Arts & Design Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2011 – 4th Ege Art Days, Izmir, Turkey
2010 – Camgeran 2010, International Glass Symposium, Eskisehir, Turkey
2009 – Prague Festival, Polish Institute, Prague, Czech Republic
Publications
2022 – Podróżnik. O życiu i szkle Kazimierza Pawlaka, Monika Braun, monograph on 40 years of work, ASP Wrocław
2020 – Szkło. Męskie rysy, National Museum, Poznań
2019 – CISZ. 70 years of ceramics and glass at the Wrocław Academy of Art, ASP Wrocław
2017 – Statek Robinsona, Galeria Miejska Wrocław, ed. Marta Kaczmarek
2016 – Ceramics and Glass. Sensual Areas, ASP Wrocław
