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First name

Tanja
Last Name

Pak
Username

Tanja_Pak
City

Ljubljana
Country

Slovenia
Biography

Tanja Pak achieved a master’s degree in art at the Royal College of Art, having graduated in industrial design from the Academy of Fine Art of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, where she is now full professor, heading Glass and Ceramics department.
She is creatively committed to sculpture, artistic spatial installations and the design of functional glass objects.
She exhibits worldwide and her work isllections and public spaces. She has also won artist residencies in studios and museums around the world, including The Corning Museum of Glass, Creative Glass Center of America, Pilchuck, part of many co and Musée du Verre in France.
She has received many international art and design awards, among them two Red Dot Honourable Mentions and the Arte Laguna special prize. Her work has been selected for the New Glass Review four times and was among many important glass competition finalists, such as the Toyama International Glass Art Exhibition, the Kanazawa International Exhibition, the European Glass Context, and other juried or curated exhibitions.

In her recent artworks, Tanja has been delving into feelings of solitude and loneliness of the individual's inner world. She has been exposing the search for closeness, the fragile nature of interpersonal bonds and relationships, and the flimsiness of our unity in the face of indivisibility when it comes to our integral whole.

She works in her studio in Ljubljana.

Education

School / Course

Royal College of Art, London (MA RCA)
Graduated

1996
School / Course

Academy of Fine Art and Design, University of ljubljana (BA in Industrial design)
Graduated

1994

Solo Shows

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Memories, Glass atrium, ljubljana, SI
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Rêveries / There, Križevniška church, Ljubljana Festival, Ljubljana, SL
Date

2022
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Mid-Breath, Velenje Art Gallery, SL
Date

2021
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Tanja Pak, artist in residence / Maradiva Resort & Spa, Mauritius
Date

2019
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Breath in Between, TR3 Gallery, Ljubljana, SL
Date

2018
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Paths, Atelje galerija, Ljubljana, SL
Date

2017
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Tanja Pak, Brands&Signs, Month of Design, Ljubljana, SL
Date

2017
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InBetweennes, Kresija Gallery, Ljubljana, SL
Date

2016
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A Walk in a Desert, Atelje Galerija, Ljubljana, SL
Date

2013
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Within / I held my breath but the world kept on dreaming, multimedia installation, Ljubljana’ Castle, SL
Date

2012
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Pointé, glass installation, Ljubljana’ Castle, SL
Date

2012
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Dreaming Away, multimedia installation, Ljubljana’ Castle, SL
Date

2011
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The Moment After-Alina., multimedia installation, Ljubljana’ Castle, SL
Date

2011
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Flow, Red Dot 2009, Glesia Gallery, Ljubljana, SL
Date

2009
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Tanja Pak, Sculptures, Council of Europe, Strassbourg, FR
Date

2009
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Lara, Red Dot 2008, Glesia Gallery, Ljubljana, SL
Date

2008
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Undulations, again., Ljubljana, SL
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Traces, KGLU Slovenj Gradec, SI
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Red and Black, Gallery Marjan Lovšin, Ljubljana, SI
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Traces, Miklova House, SI
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Whisperings, Ljubljana Castle, SI

Group Shows

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Toyama International Glass Eshibition, Toyama, JP, 2024
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The Ice Furnace, Venice Glass Weelk, Venice, IT, 2023
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Venice Glass Week Hub 2022, Palazzo Loredan, Venice, IT
Date

1970
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Collect 2022, London, UK
Date

1970
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European Glass Context 2021, Denmark,
Date

1970
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Venice Glass Week Hub 2021, Palazzo Loredan, Venice, IT
Date

1970
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Arte Laguna Prize 2020 and 2021, Arsenale, Venice, IT
Date

1970
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Made in Slovenia, (with Museum of Architecture and Design, Slovenia), Paris Design Week, Paris
Date

1970
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Tunnel 29, Milan Design Fair 2020 (with Museum of Architecture and Design, Slovenia), Milan, IT
Date

1970
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Collect 2021, London (With Joanna Bird gallery), London
Date

1970
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Tunnel 29, MAD, Ljubljana, SL
Date

1970
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Collect 2020, London, UK
Date

1970
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Beauty and His Beast, Legnice in Lodz, PL
Date

1970
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Beauty and His Beast, Wroclaw, PL
Date

1970
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Venice Glass Week Hub, Palazzo Loredan, Venice, IT
Date

1970
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Arte Laguna Prize 2019, Arsenale, Venice, IT
Date

1970
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Slovenian Creativity, with Slovenian National Museum, XI'an Museum, China
Date

1970
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45th International Invitational, Habatat Gallery, Michigan, MI, USA
Date

1970
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International Glass Kanazawa, JP
Date

1970
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International Glass Symposium, Glass Museum, Novy Bor, CZ
Date

1970
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Vitraria Glass +A Museum, opening exhibition, Venice, IT
Date

1970
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Design+, Month of Design, Ljubljana, SL
Date

1970
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Chroma Culture, Bullseye Gallery, Portland, OR, USA
Date

1970
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Inspired by Nature, Hempel Glass Museum, DK
Date

1970
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Hot Glass, CAA, London, UK
Date

1970
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Silent Revolutions – Contemporary Design in Slovenia, Moscow, RU, 2013 / Helsinki, FI, 2012 / Tent Gallery, London, UK, 2011 / Eindhoven, NL, 2011
Date

1970
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Glass in Context 2012, Bornholm Art Museum, DK
Date

1970
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Coincidencies II / Exhibition of Slovenian artists, Galerija Murska Sobota, SL
Date

1970
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Month of Design – All Awards Design, Ljubljana, SL
Date

1970

Awards & Nominations

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Full Professorship
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Red Dot Honorable Mention Design Award
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Red Dot Honorable Mention Design Award
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Designer of the Year, Sl
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New Glass Review 37
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New Glass Review 35
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New Glass Review 33
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New Glass Review 29
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Erasmus +, Iceland University of the Arts, IS
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Erasmus +, Royal College of Art, London, GB
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One month artist residency in New York (Ministry of Culture, Slovenia), USA
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Receiver of the atelier in Švicarija Creative Center in Ljubljana for the period of five years, SI,
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Arte Laguna Prize 2021 finalist, IT
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Maradiva / Arte Laguna Special Prize 2019, Mauritius
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Arte Laguna Prize Finalist
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Art residency in MusVerre, Sars-Poteries, FR, (commencing exhibition on 2020)
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Receiver of the atelier in Švicarija Creative Center in Ljubljana for the period of five years, SI,
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Cill Rialaigh residency, Transartist project, IE
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Cill Rialaigh residency, Transartist project, IE
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Cill Rialaigh residency, Transartist project, IE
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International Glass Kanazawa finalist, JP
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International Glass Symposium, active participation, Novy Bor, CZ
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Arctic Glass Studio Norway, Professional residency, NO,
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University of Washington, Professor exchange program, WA, USA
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Creative Glass Center of America, Fellowship, NJ, USA
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Corning Museum of Glass Studio, Artist in residence, NY, USA
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Bullseye R&E center, Artist Exchange Program, residency, Portland, OR, USA
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New Mexico, Professional residency (invited), NM, USA
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Masterclass with James Carpenter, Bornholm, DK
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Northlands Glass Center, Professional residency (invited), Scotland
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Pilchuck residency, Emerging Artist in Residence, WA, USA
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One month artist residency in New York (Ministry of Culture, Slovenia)
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Creative Glass Center of America, Fellowship, NJ, USA
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Workshop with Judy Hill, Jacksonville, FL, USA
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Pilchuck Scholarship, WA, USA
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Chevening scholarship, GB
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Valvasor – Chevening scholarship, GB and SI

Jobs & Positions

Company / Organisation

University in Ljubljana, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, SI
Company / Organisation

Glesia, Studio Tanja Pak

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