Current exhibition

Zora Palová (born 1947) and Štěpán Pala (born 1944) met in the 1970s at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava. They were students of the famous glass class of Václav Cigler, who, along with Prof. Stanislav Libenský, is one of the most important pioneers of the European studio glass movement. They are among his most talented students and are represented in museums and collections around the world. While Zora Palová initially forms her sculptures spontaneously and intuitively from clay, Štěpán Pala plans his sculptures accurately on paper or as a model. The main constants in his work are mathematics and geometry, Zora Palová, on the other hand, uses glass in a painterly style and in motion, like brushstrokes she incorporates.