Works

 

ARTIST

 

Stanislava Grebeníčková

Stanislava Grebeníčková shows the tendency to intimate and poetic expression in her glass sculptures. Her interest turns to hidden signification of things subsurface processes. They take place in the silence of innermost emotions. The sculptures have, despite this fragile intimacy, the expression belonging to a symbol. They part of the purity of stereometrical figures, which mingle with the playfulness of the accidence of natural forms. It is where the author has been finding basic inspiration sources for years - in scenic forms and zoomorphic motives. Rounded shapes are filled with the harmonic peace of dim transparency, cuspate by the watchfully vibrating tone of tension. 
They hide mysteriously sensual and perceptual message, remote from masculine “conquest of the world”. One may feel, in the hidden meaning of some sculptures with slightly erotic motives by this author, also the presence of another markedly feminine moment. We can suspect it like a by-the-way flighty, playful smile, which has been haunting the masculine mind ever since. It is the mixture of conciliatory understanding of both weakness and sparkling of the light irony of double meaning.

Education & Teaching (Selected)

Since2007Teacher at the Glass School, Nový Bor, Czech Republic
2003Instructor at the Glass School in La Granja de San Ildefonso, Spain
2002Instructor at Edsbjörke Studio in Sunne, Värmland, Sweden
2001Teaching Assistant at the Pilchuck School, Stanwood, WA, USA 
Teaching Assistant at the workshop at the Glass School in La Granja de San Ildefonso, Spain
Since1981Free-lance Artist
1978Scholarship at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1974-1980Academy of Decorative Arts and Architecture, Prague, Czech Republic
1970-1974Glass School of Applied Arts, Železný Brod, Czech Republic


Awards / Grants (Selected)

1998Silver Prize - International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa ´98, Japan


Exhibitions (Selected)

1985-2017New Czech Glass, Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, Finland 
The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa ´98, Ishikawa Industrial Center, Kanazawa, Japan  
Light Transfigured - Contemporary Czech Glass Sculpture, Odakyu Museum, Tokyo, Japan 
Contemporary Czech Glass Sculpture, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Kyusyu, Japan 
Stanislav Libenský& His School, Grand Crystal Museum, Taipei, Taiwan 
Stanislav Libenský & His School, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA 
Czech Glass Art 2004, Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, USA 
Joalharia Checa Contemporanea/Structures, Galería Reverso, Lisboa, Portugal 
S.Grebenickova & M.Handl, Museo de Arte en Vidrio, Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain 
Light - Optics - Illusion - Space, West Bohemian Museum, Pilsen, Czech Republic 
S.Grebenickova & M.Handl, Galerie Welti, Düsseldorf, Germany 
Connections 2009 : European Glass Sculpture, Mánes Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic 
Lovers from Prague - Czech Jewellery Exhibition 2015, World Jewellery Museum, Seoul, Korea 
International Art Fair : Schmuck 2015, Munich, Germany 
NO LIMITS, Museo de Arte en Vidrio, Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain


Collections (Selected)

Ernsting Stiftung, Coesfeld, Germany 
Museo de Arte en Vidrio de Alcorcón (MAVA), Madrid, Spain 
Museum of Decorative Arts (UPM), Prague, Czech Republic 
Museum of Arts & Design (MAD), New York, USA 
Toyama City Collection, Toyama, Japan 
Utatsuyama Craft Workshop, Kanazawa, Japan 
Glass Museum Ebeltoft,Ebeltoft,Denmark  
Northern Bohemian Museum, Liberec, Czech Republic 
Eastern Bohemian Museum, Pardubice, Czech Republic