Slovak Contemporary Glass

1942, Vyšné Čabiny

His glass objects show a preference for the expressive properties of melted glass, color, and rough surfaces and, most of all, for contrasting combinations of glass and materials with completely different properties resulting in tension between the fragile and the strong, the transparent and the opaque, the colorful and the colorless.

1959-1963 Secondary School of Applied Arts, Bratislava

1963-1969 Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Department of Glass in Architecture (V. Cigler)

1990-2007  Head of the Department of Glass at the Bratislava Academy.

Solo Exhibitions (selection):

1998  Gallery NOVA, Bratislava

1993  Museum of modern Art of the Family Warhol, Medzilaborce

1992  Museum of Ukrainian Culture, Svidník

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2007  Department of Glass at the Academy 1990-2007, Gallery of M.A.Bazovský, Trenčín

2005  Department of Glass, Gallery Čadca

1999  Transparence, Catsle La Roche, Gyon, F

          Glass Reflections, Municipal Gallery, Bratislava

1998  Glass Sculpture and Object, Expo 98, Lisbon, Portugal

1997  30^th Anniversary of the Department of Glass, Gallery of M.A.Bazovský, Trenčín; 

          Orava Gallery, Dolný Kubín

1996  Glasskunst Triennale, Norimberg, D

          Slovak Glass, Strasburg, F

Representation in public collections (selection):

Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava

East-Slovak Gallery, Košice

Šariš Gallery, Prešov

Museum of Ukrainian Culture, Svidník