GLASSIFICATION.HU - Glass Masters from Hungary

Hungarian Art Glass in the Czech Republic.

GLASSIFICATION.HU – Glass Masters from Hungary: is the name of a traveling exhibition presenting the best of contemporary Hungarian Art Glass. A group presentation of contemporary Hungarian Glass Art has not been seen in the Czech Republic in recent decades. Now thirteen artists of different generations will be represented with their unique works. After Venice, Brussels, Lisbon, and Madrid, it's stopping at the Museum of Glass and Jewellery in Jablonec from 23rd May to 19th October, presenting the distinctive works of thirteen artists of different generations.

The exhibition, organised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Hungary and curated by Rita Mária Halasi, has been updated for showing in the Czech Republic in cooperation with the Jablonec Museum and the Liszt Institute in Prague. "This exhibition at the Jablonec Museum, with its extraordinary international prestige, will greatly help increase the international visibility of the world-class results produced in Hungarian glassmaking," said Hajnal Kassai, Director of the Institute.

There hasn't been a collective presentation of contemporary Hungarian glass art in the Czech Republic for decades now, so Glassification.hu project is coming to fill that gap, its ambition to help restore the Czech-Hungarian professional dialogue. "The motivation on both sides was further fuelled by the entry of handmade glass production in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, of which Hungary is part," says Milada Valečková, Director of the Jablonec Museum.

The travelling Glassification.hu exhibition has won plaudits over the past two years at the world's leading festivals, including Venice Glass Week, the Sofia International Glass Biennale, and the Denizli International Biennale of Glass Art. It has been seen in prominent museums, such as the Museum of Applied Arts in Belgrade, the Museum of Applied Arts in Lisbon, and the Museum of Contemporary Glass Art in Madrid-Alcorcon, and has touched down in Vienna, Brussels, Helsinki, Ankara, Istanbul, and Dunajská Streda, while the home audience had the opportunity to view it in Budapest.

It is filled with unique works of art, valuable both for their artistic and technological qualities. "They are often crafted using specific manual techniques that Hungarian artists have developed themselves. This could be of interest to glass lovers and Czech theorists and glassmakers alike, " says Petr Nový, curator of the museum in Jablonec nad Nisou, on the content of the exhibition.

The Jablonec Museum has put together a professional two-day programme for Hungarian artists and theorists, as part of which they’ll be able to pay a visit to glassworks, glass studios, and museums in the Crystal Valley in North Bohemia, which is known for having one of the largest concentrations of handmade glass production in the world. As the culmination of mutual collaboration on the Jablonec exhibition, world-renowned Hungarian glass artist Péter Borkovics has donated a work of art to the museum that will head to the permanent exposition after the exhibition has ended.

The opening will take place on Thursday, May 22nd from 5 pm and the exhibition will be on view until May 19th.

Exhibiting artists:

Endre Gaál, László Lukácsi, Márta Edőcs, Anita Darabos, Péter Borkovics, Krisztina Kecskés, Kyra László, Kristóf Bihari, Melinda Soltész, Csilla Szilágyi, Balázs Sipos, Eszter Bősze, Amala Gyöngyvér Varga.

More about the exhibition here: GLASSIFICATION.HU Glass Masters from Hungary