Melinda SOLTÉSZ / GLASSFLOW

1974, Budapest

glass artist

www.glassflow.hu

She graduated as a glass designer from the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in 2009, and as an art manager from the Budapest Metropolitan University in 2012. She started her career as a gold- and silversmith, then she turned to enamel, ceramics and glass. After graduation she lived in Tallinn for a year, where she worked as a visual designer alongside interior designers. As a co-organiser and curator, together with László Attila Márton she created the exhibition series ‘Applied Arts in Interior Design’ under the auspices of the Hungarian Interior Designers Association. In 2004 she won the Bursa Hungarica Scholarship. Since 2018 she has been a curator of the Lajos Kozma Scholarship, since 2019 she has been a benefciary of an art scholarship granted by the Hungarian Academy of Arts, and in 2020 she won the Excellent Hungarian Craftsmanship Award.