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New series / 2026
Inner Side
Glass joins the fragments into a new whole, preserving a map of change on its surface.
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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.
View the workIn 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.
View the workIn 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
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
Studio in Chekhov. Visits are welcome by prior arrangement.