Opowiadam o ulotnej materii świata fizycznego oraz psychospołecznej niestabilności i samotności. Portretuje swoją babcię tę zagubioną i tę prawdziwą, nawiązując do jej „okna na świat”. Obiekty które stworzyłam to szklane powidoki jej, jej domu, rzeczy i moich wspomnień, wypisałam na nich różne historie oraz szereg przedmiotów, porzuconych i zapomnianych, odzyskanych i zebranych, bo „na pewno się przydadzą”. Zapisałam na nich też moje wspomnienia, pełne leśnych spacerów, dzikich ziół i roślin - beztroskiego dzieciństwa, za którym tęsknię…
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Fusing and roll-up technique, Free hand sculpted glass, glass pictures, handpainted old bottles.
Opowiadam o ulotnej materii świata fizycznego oraz psychospołecznej niestabilności i samotności. Portretuje swoją babcię tę zagubioną i tę prawdziwą, nawiązując do jej „okna na świat”. Obiekty które stworzyłam to szklane powidoki jej, jej domu, rzeczy i moich wspomnień, wypisałam na nich różne historie oraz szereg przedmiotów, porzuconych i zapomnianych, odzyskanych i zebranych, bo „na pewno się przydadzą”. Zapisałam na nich też moje wspomnienia, pełne leśnych spacerów, dzikich ziół i roślin - beztroskiego dzieciństwa, za którym tęsknię…
fot.Dzikie Studio

Fusing and roll-up technique, Free hand sculpted glass
Opowiadam o ulotnej materii świata fizycznego oraz psychospołecznej niestabilności i samotności. Portretuje swoją babcię tę zagubioną i tę prawdziwą, nawiązując do jej „okna na świat”. Obiekty które stworzyłam to szklane powidoki jej, jej domu, rzeczy i moich wspomnień, wypisałam na nich różne historie oraz szereg przedmiotów, porzuconych i zapomnianych, odzyskanych i zebranych, bo „na pewno się przydadzą”. Zapisałam na nich też moje wspomnienia, pełne leśnych spacerów, dzikich ziół i roślin - beztroskiego dzieciństwa, za którym tęsknię…
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Fusing and roll-up technique, Free hand sculpted glass 21 x 16 cm and 29 x 12,5 cm
Opowiadam o ulotnej materii świata fizycznego oraz psychospołecznej niestabilności i samotności. Portretuje swoją babcię tę zagubioną i tę prawdziwą, nawiązując do jej „okna na świat”. Obiekty które stworzyłam to szklane powidoki jej, jej domu, rzeczy i moich wspomnień, wypisałam na nich różne historie oraz szereg przedmiotów, porzuconych i zapomnianych, odzyskanych i zebranych, bo „na pewno się przydadzą”. Zapisałam na nich też moje wspomnienia, pełne leśnych spacerów, dzikich ziół i roślin - beztroskiego dzieciństwa, za którym tęsknię…
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Moving smoothly from commenting on the current global reality to private narration, the artist ventures to carry out a very private and sentimental project. Kalina’s grandmother is its main protagonist, as well as the deep, bittersweet relationship with her, resulting from the aforementioned condition – compulsive hoarding. The artist’s guide in her childhood and adolescence, who introduced her to the world of nature, carelessness and sense of here and now, so desirable today, stimulates her to analyse her creative process, make an attempt to restrain the accumulation of thoughts, artistic strategies and currently employed forms of expression.

solo exhibition 29.01. – 24.04.2021
SIC! BWA Wrocław Kościuszki Square 9-10
The issue of compulsive accumulation, or pathological hoarding, scientifically known as syllogomania, is the main narrative axis of Kalina Bańka’s upcoming exhibition Everything Will Come in Handy. It will be a story of an endless number of collected objects, ephemeral matter of the physical world and psychosocial instability.

The issue of compulsive accumulation, or pathological hoarding, scientifically known as syllogomania, is the main narrative axis of Kalina Bańka’s upcoming exhibition Everything Will Come in Handy. It will be a story of an endless number of collected objects, ephemeral matter of the physical world and psychosocial instability.
Moving smoothly from commenting on the current global reality to private narration, the artist ventures to carry out a very private and sentimental project. Kalina’s grandmother is its main protagonist, as well as the deep, bittersweet relationship with her, resulting from the aforementioned condition – compulsive hoarding. The artist’s guide in her childhood and adolescence, who introduced her to the world of nature, carelessness and sense of here and now, so desirable today, stimulates her to analyse her creative process, make an attempt to restrain the accumulation of thoughts, artistic strategies and currently employed forms of expression.
However, every change is a process requiring time and determination. Old habits die hard, they are often compulsive and addictive. The artist’s long-established creative process has been subjected to experimentation. The results will soon be seen at Wrocław’s SIC! BWA gallery.
Curator: Mika Drozdowska

solo exhibition 29.01. – 24.04.2021
SIC! BWA Wrocław Kościuszki Square 9-10
The issue of compulsive accumulation, or pathological hoarding, scientifically known as syllogomania, is the main narrative axis of Kalina Bańka’s upcoming exhibition Everything Will Come in Handy. It will be a story of an endless number of collected objects, ephemeral matter of the physical world and psychosocial instability.
Moving smoothly from commenting on the current global reality to private narration, the artist ventures to carry out a very private and sentimental project. Kalina’s grandmother is its main protagonist, as well as the deep, bittersweet relationship with her, resulting from the aforementioned condition – compulsive hoarding. The artist’s guide in her childhood and adolescence, who introduced her to the world of nature, carelessness and sense of here and now, so desirable today, stimulates her to analyse her creative process, make an attempt to restrain the accumulation of thoughts, artistic strategies and currently employed forms of expression.
However, every change is a process requiring time and determination. Old habits die hard, they are often compulsive and addictive. The artist’s long-established creative process has been subjected to experimentation. The results will soon be seen at Wrocław’s SIC! BWA gallery.
Curator: Mika Drozdowska

Kiln formed bullseye glass, metal frame, 3 glass pictures 50x70 cm / 2020
Part of PhD work "Between emptiness and accumulation" 2020

I refer and the phenomenon of online challenges.Kids spending more and more hours per week in front of screens,rather than spend time with family.

"Enjoy your meal!" kiln formed bullseye glass, metal frame, 3 glass pictures 60x80 cm2020
Part of PhD work "Between emptiness and accumulation" 2020

Popular social networks make us addicted and consume more and more of our time. In my glass works refer to internet addiction especially in children. They consume the virtual world, but this world eats them.

Part of PhD work "Between emptiness and accumulation" 2020

We are a consumer society, we acquire more than we need, and cannot understand that by buying less we own more. Things begin to own us, whereas it is us who should be their owners. I turns attenion to enviromental degradation caused by industry and excessive consumerism fuels by the world of advertising, social media, fashion and trends. Popular social networks make us addicted and consume more and more of our time. In my glass works refer to internet addiction especially in children. They consume the virtual world, but this world eats them.
The objects presented on the floor formally resemble empty colourful containers remaining after previously consumed products. The laboriously prepared and gaudy forms change their original function. The useless packages, devoid of their content, themselves become objects of interest, drawing attention and forming a set of unique glass objets d’art.

Part of the site specific installation, total size approx: height 190 cm x width 190 cm x depth 70 cm. The size of the objects height from 18 to 32 cm x width from 18 to 25 cm x depth from 12 to 18 cm
Bullseye glass, roll-up technique, screenprinted, glassworks made with the Gent glass team in Belgium
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We are a consumer society, we acquire more than we need, and cannot understand that by buying less we own more. Things begin to own us, whereas it is us who should be their owners. I turns attenion to enviromental degradation caused by industry and excessive consumerism fuels by the world of advertising, social media, fashion and trends. Ads consume us and this thoughtless consumption produce kilograms of new harmful trash, The objects presented on the floor formally resemble empty colourful containers remaining after previously consumed products. The laboriously prepared and gaudy forms change their original function. The useless packages, devoid of their content, themselves become objects of interest, drawing attention and forming a set of unique glass objets d’art.

site specific installation, total size approx: height 190 cm x width 190 cm x depth 70 cm
Kilnformed Bullseye glass, fusing, sumping and roll-up technique, handpainted, screenprinted, metal frame and metal wires

We are a consumer society, we acquire more than we need, and cannot understand that by buying less we own more. Things begin to own us, whereas it is us who should be their owners. I turns attenion to enviromental degradation caused by industry and excessive consumerism fuels by the world of advertising, social media, fashion and trends. Ads consume us and this thoughtless consumption produce kilograms of new harmful trash, The objects presented on the floor formally resemble empty colourful containers remaining after previously consumed products. The laboriously prepared and gaudy forms change their original function. The useless packages, devoid of their content, themselves become objects of interest, drawing attention and forming a set of unique glass objets d’art.

Glass vases / color blown glass / handpainted / 2018
photo: Dzikie studio

Glass vases / color blown glass / handpainted / 2018
photo: Dzikie studio

Glass vases / color blown glass / handpainted / 2018
photo: Dzikie studio

Blown glass / handpainted / 2018
This project is intended to pay attention to the issue of segregation of waste in the face of environmental degradation by industry and excessive consumerism.
flashy colors and hand-painted decorations referring to the climate of blocks of flats in which it is the most difficult to enforce waste segregation. The project is intended to reflect on the personal attitude of each of us to waste segregation and make everyone aware that it can do something positive for the environment.
foto: Dzikie Studio

Blown glass / handpainted / 2018
This project is intended to pay attention to the issue of segregation of waste in the face of environmental degradation by industry and excessive consumerism.
flashy colors and hand-painted decorations referring to the climate of blocks of flats in which it is the most difficult to enforce waste segregation. The project is intended to reflect on the personal attitude of each of us to waste segregation and make everyone aware that it can do something positive for the environment.
foto: Dzikie Studio

Blown glass / handpainted / 2018
This project is intended to pay attention to the issue of segregation of waste in the face of environmental degradation by industry and excessive consumerism.
flashy colors and hand-painted decorations referring to the climate of blocks of flats in which it is the most difficult to enforce waste segregation. The project is intended to reflect on the personal attitude of each of us to waste segregation and make everyone aware that it can do something positive for the environment.
foto: Dzikie Studio

Blown glass / handpainted / 2018
This project is intended to pay attention to the issue of segregation of waste in the face of environmental degradation by industry and excessive consumerism.
flashy colors and hand-painted decorations referring to the climate of blocks of flats in which it is the most difficult to enforce waste segregation. The project is intended to reflect on the personal attitude of each of us to waste segregation and make everyone aware that it can do something positive for the environment.
foto: Dzikie Studio

Blown glass / handpainted / 2018
This project is intended to pay attention to the issue of segregation of waste in the face of environmental degradation by industry and excessive consumerism.
flashy colors and hand-painted decorations referring to the climate of blocks of flats in which it is the most difficult to enforce waste segregation. The project is intended to reflect on the personal attitude of each of us to waste segregation and make everyone aware that it can do something positive for the environment.
foto: dzikie studio

Blown glass / handpainted / 2018
This project is intended to pay attention to the issue of segregation of waste in the face of environmental degradation by industry and excessive consumerism.
flashy colors and hand-painted decorations referring to the climate of blocks of flats in which it is the most difficult to enforce waste segregation. The project is intended to reflect on the personal attitude of each of us to waste segregation and make everyone aware that it can do something positive for the environment.
foto: Dzikie studio

Glass collection , crystal blown glass, hand cut, 2018

Delicate, perfectly clear, transparent, hand-decorated dishes show the fragility of industrial, heavy, fuming constructions contributing to air pollution.

photo: dzikie studio

Glass collection , crystal blown glass, hand cut, 2018

Delicate, perfectly clear, transparent, hand-decorated dishes show the fragility of industrial, heavy, fuming constructions contributing to air pollution.

photo: dzikie studio

Glass collection , crystal blown glass, hand cut, 2018

Delicate, perfectly clear, transparent, hand-decorated dishes show the fragility of industrial, heavy, fuming constructions contributing to air pollution.

photo: dzikie studio

size: 45 x 45 x 13 cm
szkło bullseye, technika fusingu, 2017
bullseye glass, fusing technique
foto: Grzegorz Stadnik

bullseye glass / fusing & slumping technique / 2016
photo: Grzegorz Stadnik

Instalacja / szkło / technika fusingu / Plac Nowy Targ / Wrocław / 2016/2017
Glass Instalation / Nowy Targ sq.in Wrocław / Poland
Street noise, dirty, scratched, broken, destroyed, often unnoticeable elements of the urban reality have distorted the harmony of my way, becoming the pretext...

Instalacja / szkło / technika fusingu / Plac Nowy Targ / Wrocław / 2016/2017
Glass Instalation / Nowy Targ sq.in Wrocław / Poland
photo: Grzegorz Stadnik

size: 51,5 x 51,5 x 14 cm
szkło bullseye, technika fusingu / 2016
bullseye glass, fusing technique
photo: Grzegorz Stadnik

size: 114 x 78 x 30 cm / bullseye glass, fusing & slumping technique / 2016
Someone will put up a notice, someone else will tear it of, and then someone will write and glue something on it. Rain, snow, sun, make everything look fuzzy, faded, less and less conspicuous. Those kind of objects are most often created by coincident and random people. For me those very objects - perishing from the city landscape, covered with rust, torn posters, information, inscriptions or scratches, create a starting point and a base for projects which I later use in my work with glass
photo: Grzegorz Stadnik

DETAIL / size: 114 x 78 x 30 cm / bullseye glass, fusing & slumping technique / 2016

ase, Cristal glass, 2018

The perfection of the crystal glass mass has been disturbed by the addition of lead oxides before blowing a hot mass of glass into a wooden mold. These components play an important role in the melting of crystal glass, thanks to which it is clear, shiny and effectively splits light. The combination of hot melt glass with lead oxides at the last stage - blowing the glass into a wooden mold gave the possibility to create on the vases unique "ornaments" that distorted the perception of perfectly transparent crystal glass.

photo: dzikie studio

Vase, blown Cristal glass, 2018

The perfection of the crystal glass mass has been disturbed by the addition of lead oxides before blowing a hot mass of glass into a wooden mold. These components play an important role in the melting of crystal glass, thanks to which it is clear, shiny and effectively splits light. The combination of hot melt glass with lead oxides at the last stage - blowing the glass into a wooden mold gave the possibility to create on the vases unique "ornaments" that distorted the perception of perfectly transparent crystal glass.

photo: dzikie studio

szkło płaskie, ręcznie malowane, malatury witrażowe, sitodruk, podświetlenie LED / 52x52x50 cm / 2016
hand-painted flat glass, screen printing, stained-glass paintings, LEDs

szkło płaskie, ręcznie malowane, malatury witrażowe, sitodruk, podświetlenie LED / 52x52x50 cm / 2016
hand-painted flat glass, screen printing, stained-glass paintings, LEDs

Szkło płaskie, ręcznie malowane, malatury witrażowe, sitodruk, podświetlenie LED / 52x52x50 cm / 2016
Hand-painted flat glass, screen printing, stained-glass paintings, LEDs /

Szkło płaskie, ręcznie malowane, malatury witrażowe, sitodruk, podświetlenie LED / 52x52x50 cm / 2016
Hand-painted flat glass, screen printing, stained-glass paintings, LEDs /

CYCLE OF #BUBBLE handpainted classic stained glasses in the highlighting metal boxes

handpainted classic stained glass in the highlighting metal box

witraż klasyczny / szkło / metal / nagranie dźwiękowe / 2016
hand-painted classic stained glass / metal / led light / sound recording / size: 52 x 52 x 14 cm / 2016

witraż klasyczny / metalowa skrzynka / diody led / 2015 rok

handpainted classic stained glass in the highlighting metal box

witraż klasyczny / metalowa skrzynka / diody led / 2015 rok

handpainted classic stained glass in the highlighting metal box

witraż klasyczny / metalowa skrzynka / diody led / 2015 rok

handpainted classic stained glass in the highlighting metal box

Witraż klasyczny / metalowa skrzynka / diody led / 2015 rok

handpainted classic stained glass in the highlighting metal box

witraż klasyczny / metalowa skrzynka / diody led / 2015 rok

handpainted classic stained glass in the highlighting metal box

witraż klasyczny / metalowa skrzynka / diody led / 2015 rok

handpainted classic stained glass in the highlighting metal box

witraż klasyczny / metalowa skrzynka / diody led / 2015 rok

handpainted classic stained glass in the highlighting metal box

witraż klasyczny / metalowa skrzynka / diody led / 2015 rok

handpainted classic stained glass in the highlighting metal box

glass cockroaches / technique of fusing and slumping / 2015

glass gilt cockroaches / technique of fusing and slumping / 2015

It is a set of glass covers designed to showcase cupcakes, muffins etc... Their original animal – shaped forms take the display to another level. Each cover is handmade from blown glass which adds to it is unique character. / 2016

It is a set of glass covers designed to showcase cupcakes, muffins etc... Their original animal – shaped forms take the display to another level. Each cover is handmade from blown glass which adds to it is unique character. / 2016

"Seven deadly sins in XXL size"
Series of seven stained-glass works made in traditional way using fused glass. The glass is painted by means of the contour, patinas,enamels and surrounded by led. / 2013

"Seven deadly sins in XXL size"
Series of seven stained-glass works made in traditional way using fused glass. The glass is painted by means of the contour, patinas,enamels and surrounded by led. / 2013

"Seven deadly sins in XXL size"
Series of seven stained-glass works made in traditional way using fused glass. The glass is painted by means of the contour, patinas,enamels and surrounded by led. / 2013

"Seven deadly sins in XXL size"
Series of seven stained-glass works made in traditional way using fused glass. The glass is painted by means of the contour, patinas,enamels and surrounded by led. / 2013

"Seven deadly sins in XXL size"
Series of seven stained-glass works made in traditional way using fused glass. The glass is painted by means of the contour, patinas,enamels and surrounded by led. / 2013

"Seven deadly sins in XXL size"
Series of seven stained-glass works made in traditional way using fused glass. The glass is painted by means of the contour, patinas,enamels and surrounded by led. / 2013

"Seven deadly sins in XXL size"
Series of seven stained-glass works made in traditional way using fused glass. The glass is painted by means of the contour, patinas,enamels and surrounded by led. / 2013

Multi-function set to be used on a daily basis. It is made of glass and porcelain and it allows us to freely rearrange its individual elements and change their function.
Glass / porcelain / 2013