Czech

Frantisek Jungvirt, born in 1996, is a glass artist, designer and glass painter based in Prague. He works across a variety of projects ranging from art direction to glass design. His work encompasses everyday products, gallery objects, site-specific artworks and limited series. He mostly return to the most classic references of Czech glassmaking which he associate with new impulses. He try to move the technical and visual boundaries of the glass department. He has been awarded several times for his work. Frantisek is a part of the artistic’s platforms: Michelangelo Foundation and Northlands Creative. Since 2020, he has been the creative director of the KLIMCHI glass brand. Studies Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague – Glass studio, doc. ak. soch. Rony Plesl OA, SOŠ a SOU Třeboň, Artistic and Crafts glass processing – specialisation painting Exhibitions – selection 2022 Cluster Crafts Fair, Ugly Duck, 49 Tanner Street, London 2022 Talking to the Future, Bergdorf Goodman’s 5th Avenue flagship, Culture Object, New York 2022 Rhy Art Basel Salon, Basel, Switzerland 2022 In Sacrificio Florum / Embraced by Flowers, Museum Montanelli, Prague 2022 Transparency of Colors, Glazenhuis, Belgium 2021 The Salon Art & Design Fair, Anything And Everything – Culture Object, Park Avenue Armory, NYC 2021 Designblok – Curatorial project Renaissance 21st century – The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague 2021 Paris Design Week, Czech center in Paris 2021 Ludvík Kuba Gallery Poděbrady, Spa Poděbrady, Czech Republic 2021 Czech Design Week, International Festival of Design in Prague 2021 Element glass / Material of fantasy, Regional Gallery Vysočina in Jihlava, Czech Republic 2021 Scrape & Scratch, Culture Object, New York 2020 Designblok 2020, Space for exhibitions of collector’s design, Prague 2020 Czech Design Week, International Festival of Design in Prague 2020 Fashion Glass, Kuzebauch Gallery, Prague 2020 Culture Object, New York, USA 2019 Czech Design Week, International Festival of Design in Prague 2019 Designblok 2019 – UMPRUM, Výstaviště Holešovice, Prague 2019 Bologna Design Week, project for Czech Design Week 2019 Shape, Sun Gallery, Carlsbad, Czech Republic 2019 Milan Design Week, Ventura Future, BASE, Milán 2019 Czech Design Week Selection, Brera Design District, Milán 2019 Fresh Colours, Museum Portheimka, Prague 2019 Cross The Line /Czech glass in Israel, Czech house Jeruzalém 2018 Czech Design Week, International Festival of Design in Prague 2018 Designblok 2018, Preciosa Flagship Store, Prague 2018 London Design Fair, Exhibition Colours of transparency, London 2018 Z JIHO-ČECH, Glassimo gallery, Prague 2018 Glassfest Karlovy Vary, 18th Art Glass Festival, Czech Republic 2017 Fragile, Glassimo gallery, Prague 2017 Designblok 2017 – UMPRUM, Výstaviště Holešovice, Prague 2016 Three Generations – Continuity of Glasswork Education, Japan Awards 2022 Czech Grand Design Awards 2021 – Finalist 2021 Erste Premier Talent Display 2021, Designblok 2021 Stanislav Libenský Award – among the 30 selected participants 2021 Czech Design Award – Best of Design 2021 Czech Grand Design Awards 2020 – Nominee 2021 EDIDA 2021 Awards – Nominee 2020 EDIDA 2020 Awards – Nominee 2018 The Winner of Ludwig Moser Award 2018 2018 Master of Crystal 2018 – Special Jury Prize 2018 Master of Crystal 2018 – Prize of the Museum of Glass and Jewelery in Jablonec nad Nisou 2018 Junior Glass Ways – Award per craft – for glass painting 2015 Sanssouci Junior Glass Match 2015 – Award per craft – for glass painting Practise, internships and stays 2018 Engraving workshop – Jaroslav Šára, Kolektiv Ateliers, Nový Bor 2018 Residence stay in Moser glass factory, Karlovy Vary 2017 Course “King craft”, lector Antonín Votruba, UMPRUM Prague 2016 Course of hot shop techniques, Secondary School of Applied Glass Art, Železný Brod 2015 Education and cognitive internship, Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan 2015 Course pâte de verre, lector Anne Petter, Centre of glass art, Glass hute František Sázava Representation in public collections Museum of Glass and Jewellery in Jablonec nad Nisou Glass Museum in Kamenický Šenov Glass Museum in Nový Bor South Bohemian Museum in České Budějovice Collection of Annín Glass Museum, Annín