EXPERIENCE Filomena Smola for 3daysofdesign
[PURA UTZ INVITADOS WELCOMES]
Filomena Smola
Join us at Pura Utz Copenhagen Space during 3daysofdesign to experience Polish glass artist Filomena Smoła’s sculptural glass works for the very first time in Copenhagen.
We welcome you for the opening reception on June 10 to meet Filomena, hear the stories behind her work, and step into her world of molten glass — all over a glass with us.
Opening Reception
June 10 from 14–17
Exhibition
June 10–12 from 10–17
Location
Pura Utz Copenhagen Space
Sorgenfrigade 1, Copenhagen N
About Filomena Smola
Working independently with molten glass — still a rare position for women in the field — Filomena Smoła creates works that exist between sculpture and function.
Drawing on memory, landscapes, forgotten decorations, and domestic objects from her own life, she transforms personal histories into tactile forms. Objects that feel both familiar and strangely dreamlike.
For Filomena, functionality is never the final purpose. Instead, her pieces become vessels for memory, longing, and reflection — inviting us to look closer at the beauty hidden within everyday life.
"For me, beauty is not an abstract ideal, but something deeply rooted in everyday life."
Filomena's practice is shaped by a fascination with what remains. Not collapse, but repair. Not loss itself, but the ways people rebuild, endure, and carry memories forward.
Each piece is formed through an intimate dialogue with molten glass — balancing fragility and strength, presence and absence, art and utility.
The connection between Filomena Smola and Pura Utz
Is the dedication to craft and a shared belief in craftsmanship as a living practice.
Like the artisans we work with in Guatemala, Filomena's work is rooted in material knowledge, patience, and the transformative power of making by hand.
Objects created slowly, carrying both the hand of the maker and the stories they hold.
About Pura Utz Invitados
With Pura Utz Invitados, we’re opening up our Copenhagen space to artists, makers, and creatives whose work shares our deep fascination with materials, craftsmanship, and the value of making things by hand.
It’s an invitation — both to the artists we admire and to the community around us — to bring inspiring makers into conversation with our own universe.