about

„My works are abstract imprints of thoughts, moods, memories or concerns.”

Marta Edöcs designs and creates minimalistic glass objects, wall panels and jewelry in her studio.

She transfers inspiration found in the built and natural environment as well as in her own experiences into her works by playing with light, colors and patterns. Her objects are visual imprints of thoughts, memories, or concerns – often social themes- and are characterized by a matte surface, the alternation and contrast of opal and transparent fields, which have different effect depending on light conditions. She hopes her objects become part of spaces, to radiate harmony and energy.

Making glass panels Marta is thinking in patterns, that have a 3D appearance and communicate. The technique she uses is the result of experiments, which she named “CELLelement” based on the first series she made this way, which was then followed by other series like Flow, Focus and NETwork.

During the rather labor-intensive process she is cutting, grinding elements of colored glass, fusing them in combination with glass powders in the kiln, and finally coldworking the object. During the process she is focusing inward and likes to concentrate on silence.

Her jewelry – in which the glass is complemented with silver- is worn as a wearable communication by sophisticated people striving for a unique style.

Beside creating her unique autonomous works, Marta comes up from time to time with designs for small series productions, not only for glass or jewelry, but also for women’s wear.

After learning drawing and painting at Laszlo Hefter glass artist, Sandor Farkas and Gabor Kovacs-Gombos painters, she recived an American scholarship (Participant Training Project for Europe) and she was able to study different fields of art glass in the US.

She has studied with glass artists Narcissus Quagliata, Linda Ethier, Kristina Logan, Giles Bettison, Emma Varga, Amanda Simmons, Piechna Erna and Rudi Gritsch, with jeweller Katalin Jermakov; and has been a teaching assistant for Kristina Logan’s classes at The Studio of The Corning Museum of Glass before starting to teach her own technics there.

Edöcs teaches workshops internationally on kiln glass, beadmaking, and silver jewelry techniques.

Marta Edöcs

BORN

Sopron, Hungary

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020. Reloaded, B32 Gallery Budapest
2014. CELLelement, Palmetta Gallery, Budapest
2013. CELLelement, FISE Gallery, Budapest
2009. Living Jewelry, MAGMA Gallery Budapest
2008. Frozen Romantic, Gallery Erdész, Szentendre
2002. Moor-Art Gallery, Holland
2001. FISE Gallery, Budapest
2001. Magma Gallery, Budapest

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS

2023. GLASSIFICATION.HU touring exhibition, House of Music, Budapest, Venice (as part of Venice Glass Week) and Sofia (as part of Bulgarian Glass Biennale)
2023. Connected by Glass, Museum of Ancient Glass Zadar, Croatia
2023. GlasSpring, Klebelsberg Kuria, Budapest
2022. COLLECT London, Somerset House, represented by North Lands Creative
2022. Budapest Jewelry Week, Central Exhibition, Hybrid Art Space Budapest
2022. The Futurists – Mint Gallery, London
2022. Salon Budapest – Hungarian Craft and Design at Műcsarnok (Kunsthalle) Budapest
2022. Cluster Crafts, London
2022. HUglass22 – contemporary Hungarian Glass Art exhibition – St Stephen Basilica Budapest
2021. Blickfang, Vienna, MAK Museum
2020. MAD About Jewelry online-show, Museum of Art and Design New York
2020. UNGARN 2.0 Glasmuseum Frauenau, Germany
2020. Blickfang, Vienna, MAK Museum
2019. Milano Design Week, Budapest Select, Milano Brera District
2019. Blickfang, Vienna, MAK Museum
2018. COLLECT London, Saatchi Gallery, Represented by Bullseye Projects USA
2018. London, Second Half Art Exhibition, Second Half Centre
2018. Blickfang, Vienna, MAK Museum
2018. Sieraad, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
2017. Blickfang, Vienna, MAK Museum
2017. Selection, HUglass, Art Market, Budapest
2017. BIJOUX! Contemporary Jewelry Show,Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
2016. BIJOUX! Contemporary Jewelry Show, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
2016. „madeinhungary” Design Exhibition, New Budapest Gallery, Budapest
2015. HuGlass, Contemporary Art Glass Exhibition, Hefter Gallery Pannonhalma
2014. HuGlass, Contemporary Art Glass Exhibition, B55 Gallery Budapest
2014. Madeinhungary Design exhibition, VAM Design Budapest

Works in Collections

Museum of Applied Arts Budapest 2023
North Lands Creative’s Collection 2022
FISE Collection/ The Studio of Young Designers / Budapest 2020
Rippl-Rónai Museum, Kaposvár, Hungary 1999

Awards

Silver Accessoires Contest Price Tokio, Japan 2017.
BJW Award, Budapest Jewelry Week Award 2020.

Selected Experiences - Activities

2022 Artist in Residency at North Lands Creative in Scotland
2018-present Instructor at the Studio of Corning Museum of Glass, Corning (NY USA)
2012-2017 Teaching Assistant at the Studio in Corning NY
1994-present Teaching workshops in her own studio in Hungary and at Creative Glass in Zürich
2020 Teaching a technical class at MOME-Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
2019-2022 Member of Stossimhimmel in Vienna
2016 establishing „Material Combinations Group” – a group of 6 women artists working in different media- organising workshops and exhibitions

Publications- Katalogs

GLASSIFICATION.HU Catalog 2023.
Connected by Glass, Catalog by the Museum of Ancient Glass in Zadar, Croatia 2023
ELLE DECORATION (Hungary) 2023
Common Space, National Salon of Applied Arts and Design 2022
„Hommage á Glass” 2022
7.Art-Craft-Design Charity Auction’s Catalog of the Smile Foundation 2022
Magyar Üvegművészek Társasága 2021 (Association of Hungarian Glass Artists)
GlasSpring, Hungarian Contemporary Glass Exhibition Catalog 2021
UNGARN 2.0 Katalog von Glasmuseum Frauenau 2020
Kortárs magyar kerámia, üveg, textil design 2000-2019, Slézia József 2019
Budapest Select- Milano Design Week / Exhibition Catalog 2019
Hungarian Contemporary Art Exhibition- A book published by Gallery Erdész about the touring exhibition in China in 2018
Meat Design Ostrava-Exhibition Catalog 2018
III. Art-Craft-Design, Auction Catalog of the Smile Foundation 2018
HuGlass Exhibition of The Hungarian Glass Art Society, Catalog 2017
FISE 35. Aniversary Catalog, 2017
BIJOUX Catalog 2017
BIJOUX! Catalog, 2016
HuGlass- Contemporary Hungarian Glass Art Catalog 2017
HuGlass- Contemporary Hungarian Glass- Exhibition Catalog 2014
Glass Now, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia 2014
1000 beads, Lark Publishing CO 2014
Hungarian Design Award Booklet 2012
HuGlass 2012- Contemporary Glass Art in Hungary
Design and Craft -Published by Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest 2009
Tempest, Glass Beads 2008
Hungaryan Glass Art/ Enciclopedia 2006
Currency, exhibition of Bullseye Connection Gallery, booklet 2004

MEMBER OF

Association of Hungarian Artists (MKISZ)
Association of Hungarian Glass Artists (MÜT)
Studio of Young Hungarian Designers (FISE)
National Association of Hungarian Artists (MAOE)

EDUCATION

2013. Silversmithing class in Danemark/ at Ravstedhus
2009-2011 Masterclass with Karl Harron and Amanda Simmons in Zürich
2002. Jewelry class with Katalin Jermakov/ Budapest
1994-2001 Kiln glass, glass blowing and flameworking classes with Rudi Gritsch, Linda Ethier, Narcissus Quagliata, Giles Bettison, Kristina Logan, Kate Fowle-Meleny
1994. Scholarship in the USA/ training at different glass studios, with glass artists, and at glass factories1993 hot glass class with Erna Piechna in Zürich
1982-1983 drawing and painting class with Lászlo Hefter, Gábor Kovács-Gombos and Sándor Farkas

SHOWS

2022.COLLECT London, represented by North Lands Creative
2022 Cluster Craft show, London
2022 Cluster Jewellery show London
2021. Blickfang, Vienna, MAK Museum
2020. MAD About Jewelry show, Museum of Art and Design New York
2020. Blickfang, Vienna, MAK Museum
2019. Milano Design Week, Budapest Select, Milano Brera District
2019. Blickfang, Vienna, MAK Museum
2018. Collect, London, Saatchi Gallery, Represented by Bullseye Projects USA
2018. London, Second Half Art Exhibition, Second Half Centre
2018. Blickfang, Vienna, MAK Museum
2018. Sieraad, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
2017. Blickfang, Vienna, MAK Museum
2017. Selection, HUglass, Art Market, Budapest
2017..BIJOUX! Contemporary Jewelry Show, Norton Museum of Art , West Palm Beach, Florida2016. BIJOUX! Contemporary Jewelry Show, Norton Museum of Art , West Palm Beach, Florida2022.COLLECT London, represented by North Lands Creative
2022 Cluster Craft show, London
2022 Cluster Jewellery show London
2021. Blickfang, Vienna, MAK Museum
2020. MAD About Jewelry show, Museum of Art and Design New York
2020. Blickfang, Vienna, MAK Museum
2019. Milano Design Week, Budapest Select, Milano Brera District
2019. Blickfang, Vienna, MAK Museum
2018. Collect, London, Saatchi Gallery, Represented by Bullseye Projects USA
2018. London, Second Half Art Exhibition, Second Half Centre
2018. Blickfang, Vienna, MAK Museum
2018. Sieraad, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
2017. Blickfang, Vienna, MAK Museum
2017. Selection, HUglass, Art Market, Budapest
2017..BIJOUX! Contemporary Jewelry Show, Norton Museum of Art , West Palm Beach, Florida2016. BIJOUX! Contemporary Jewelry Show, Norton Museum of Art , West Palm Beach, Florida

portfolio

this booklet was made for the solo exhibition in 2020 – which was part of the Budapest Jewelry Week events- and contains the works of the previous 10 years, focusing mainly on jewelry, but the second part contains also glass objects.

check my portfolio

represented at

Hefter Glass Gallery
9090 Pannonhalma,
Tóthhegy 11. Hungary

Kiskép Galéria

1016 Budapest,
Krisztina krt. 75, Hungary

London Glass Blowing

Mint Gallery, London