The story

Jelena Popadic (1964, Yugoslavia) studied Civil Engineering in her native country and then went on to study art and graduate with a BA in Art & Design from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Her objects are usually made of blown glass, mainly sphere, cylinder or cone shaped and often colour underlay. Signature cold working techniques are cutting and above all deep sandblasting, creating deep almost surreal indents in the objects’ surfaces. The symmetrical patterns she creates refer to cell structures, crystals, molecules and atoms. She transforms glass into subdued objects which become very different in their outward appearance. Her work is part of many private and public collections, including the Dutch National Glass Museum and the acclaimed Ernsting Stiftung Glasmuseum in Germany.