Alena Antonova Glass artist
RU

New series / 2026

Inner Side

Glass, kiln-formed, sandblasted
32 × 81 × 5 cm

Glass joins the fragments into a new whole, preserving a map of change on its surface.

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Works

Alena Antonova’s work explores glass memory, fragility and transformation. Her interaction with the medium becomes a game of “act and freeze.” “Act” is the shaping of an object: working with molten glass and setting it in motion. “Freeze” is cooling, when the material comes to rest and the transformation is fixed.

The objects that emerge from these experiments reflect on the nature of things—an attempt to reveal hidden meanings and reconsider the world around us.

2026

Inner Side

“Inner Side” conveys the fragility of the world around us and an attempt to gather into a whole what is falling apart. The glass surface bears imprints of broken plaster molds once used in the studio to produce editioned objects.

Each shard is selected and laid like a piece of mosaic. As the glass sets, it joins the fragments into a new whole, literally recording a “map of change” on its surface.

Inner Side

Glass, kiln-formed, sandblasted

32 × 81 × 5 cm

Inner Side No. 2

Glass, kiln-formed, sandblasted

50 × 40 × 12 cm

Inner Side No. 3

Glass, kiln-formed

30 × 31 × 15 cm

Series / 2025

Electricity

Mold-blown glass, sandblasted
32 × 18 × 18 cm

The contrast between glossy seams and a matte surface turns the cracks into channels resembling electrical discharges.

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In these objects, the plaster mold generates crack patterns as it heats up, becoming a co-author of the texture that the glass captures on its surface as it is blown.

On view

Glass Session on Yelagin Island, St Petersburg

Electricity No. 1 2025

Mold-blown glass, sandblasted.

Glassblower: Azamat Berikbaev (NWglass.lab);

Molds and coldworking: Alena Antonova

32 × 18 × 18 cm

Electricity No. 2 2025

Mold-blown glass, sandblasted.

Glassblower: Azamat Berikbaev (NWglass.lab);

Molds and coldworking: Alena Antonova

22 × 22 × 21 cm

Electricity No. 3 2025

Vase from the Electricity series

Mold-blown glass, sandblasted.

Glassblower: Azamat Berikbaev (NWglass.lab);

Molds and coldworking: Alena Antonova

36 × 22 × 22 cm

Series / 2024

From Within

From Within vol. 1.2
Mold-blown glass

Light passing through glass lenses creates caustics in reflection, concentrating glints of light.

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In this series, glass and rays of light reveal an object’s inner world, hidden from a surface glance and imperceptible in ordinary daylight.

From Within vol. 1.1 2024

Glass, blown into a wooden mold.

Glassblower: Vladimir Likhorad (NWglass.lab);

Coldworking: Alena Antonova

41 × 16 × 16 cm

From Within vol. 1.2 2024

Mold-blown glass.

Selected Works

Works created in Czech studios in collaboration with master glassmakers.

Breathe series, 2014

Sculpture series

33 × 33 × 5 cm

2017

Hyperion

Cast glass, ground, polished and bonded

40 × 44 × 80 cm

2016

Untitled

Cast glass, ground and polished

4 × 26 × 18 cm

Alena Antonova with works from the From Within series
Alena Antonova with works from the From Within series

Glass artist

Alena Antonova

Born in Moscow in 1990. Lives and works in Chekhov. Her practice spans cast glass, kiln-forming, fusing and glassblowing.

In 2013, she graduated from the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Design and Applied Arts and completed her diploma project in the Czech Republic. Over the following years, she continued developing a series of sculptures in Czech glass studios.

In her independent artistic practice, she experiments with the material beyond the utilitarian function of the object.

Education

Artboost residency at the Get Art Fit online school

Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Design and Applied Arts, Department of Glass Art

Competitions

Glass Session on Yelagin Island, competition for the production of a project in hot glass studios, winner

Glass Session on Yelagin Island, competition for the production of a project in hot glass studios, winner

Designed and Made in Russia, Ethical Design category, finalist

Group Exhibitions

Glass Session on Yelagin Island, St Petersburg, Russia

Degrees of Transparency. Vitalité fragile, Heritage Gallery, Moscow, Russia, curated by Marina Shirskaya

Glass Session on Yelagin Island, St Petersburg, Russia

Designed and Made in Russia, Moscow, Russia

International Glass Biennale, Sofia, Bulgaria

Prosvet, Moscow, Russia

85th Anniversary of the Moscow Artists Union, Moscow, Russia

Bohemian Inspiration, M’ARS Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

SIL Contemporary Art Festival, Chistyakov House Museum, Pushkin, Russia

Biennales

International Glass Biennale, Sofia, Bulgaria

Exhibitions / collaborations / acquisitions

Get in touch

antonovaaja@gmail.com a.antonova17@yandex.ru +7 916 615-32-38 Instagram ↗ Telegram ↗ Portfolio ↗

Studio in Chekhov. Visits are welcome by prior arrangement.