10/03/2026
One of the first works that caught my eye at Homo Faber 2026: An Island of Light in Venice.
I came away from Homo Faber thinking about just how many different directions glass can take — from traditional Venetian techniques and intricate filigrana, to sculpture, blown forms, experimental processes and collaborations with other materials. There was glass everywhere, but almost never the same kind of glass twice.
This is a small selection of the works that stayed with me — some because of their technique, some because of their materiality, and some simply because I kept coming back to look at them.
Tobias Møhl’s 5 Part Black Net Collection was made using traditional Venetian glass techniques, particularly filigrana, creating intricate organic patterns within the vessels.
Tobias Møhl Glassartist
Rivivo — Estúdio Campana × Venini
An incredible sculpture built from upcycled blown glass and fragments from Venini’s own history, almost like an archaeological landscape of Murano glass. A beautiful idea of giving discarded and historical fragments a new life.
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Estúdio Campana
Quercia; Salice — Michela Cattai & Andrea Salvagno
Two sculptural interpretations of trees in Murano glass — dark, monumental and beautifully suspended between nature and abstraction. I really loved the way the surfaces caught the light.
𝐌𝐈𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐀 𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐀𝐈
Andrea Salvagno
Hidenori Tsumori — Remnants Of ’26-4
A fascinating combination of glass and clay, where the firing process creates these incredibly delicate, mineral-like surfaces. The forms feel somewhere between geological fragments and something almost alive.
津守 秀憲
New Moon Jar — Alex Frosum & Cécile Ribas
I loved this meeting of blown glass and ceramic — the soft, milky glass forms emerging from the rough, earthy body of the vessel. A beautiful contemporary take on the Korean moon jar tradition.
Alex Añó.
Cécile Ribas
Shape of Dusk — Joon Yong Kim
Layers of coloured glass are blown, carved and polished into a form that feels almost architectural. His work captures that fleeting quality of light just as day begins to turn into night.
Joon Yong Kim
Down the Stairs — Peter Hermansson
This was the Jazz
