Academy of Visual Arts, Frankfurt

Aleksandra Zawistowska is an artist and designer holding Master’s degrees in both Art and Architecture, with studies across Warsaw, Lisbon, and Amsterdam. Her practice centers on hand-blown glass, questioning the physical properties of materials and what beauty can mean when pushed to its limits.
Founder of SZKŁO /shkwo/ , established during her time at Sandberg Instituut, Aleksandra works fluidly across mediums, techniques, and scales. Drawing from nature, geology, and the built environment, her work merges science, culture, and something harder to define. Her practice takes her across Europe, engaging with workshops and expanding her process through making.
She has been listed among AD100 by Architectural Digest and Dwell24’s Best Emerging Designers, was a finalist of the Kunszt Program by Starak Family Foundation, an UrbanGlass scholarship-holder, and Artist-in-Residence at both the Baltic Gallery of Contemporary Art and the Arctic Circle Expedition in Svalbard. Her work has been published widely and exhibited in private galleries and public institutions internationally.
As part of our Design Talk program, we are honored to host Aleksandra Zawistowska, who will discuss her practice, her material research, and the thinking behind Szkło Studio.

Join us for the Design Talk with Aleksandra Zawistowska on Wednesday, June 17th, at 6 PM. Link in bio! #✨

is an artist, designer, and educator whose practice spans typeface design, visual identities, and editorial work rooted in the relationship between language, context, and form. Through systematic thinking and experimental approaches, Matej explores the intersection of typography, cultural projects, and contemporary visual communication. He runs Regular Lines type foundry, teaches typography at Brno University of Technology, and his work has been featured in publications such as Étapes, It’s Nice That, and Typodarium, as well as presented at the International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno.

We are thrilled to welcome Matej Vojtuš, who will share his approach to type design, visual identity, and the thinking behind his practice. Join us for the Design Talk with Matej Vojtuš on Monday, 1st June 2026, at 18:00 (CET) via Zoom — link in bio! 🔤✨

This installation by explores creativity as a force that can’t be contained.

Thank you to everyone who came out to Sovereignty in the Age of the Stack. It was a pleasure having you 💜 see you at the next one!

You are invited to the public showcase of Sovereignty in the Age of the Stack, a speculative laboratory by students of the Academy of Visual Arts Frankfurt. Come explore immersive installations and experimental „future cubicles“ that reveal the hidden politics of the world we already live in.

THURSDAY APRIL 23, 2026 16:00 - 19:00
HANAUERLANDSTRAẞE 211B

New semester, new questions. Welcome to summer semester 2026 at the Academy of Visual Arts Frankfurt. We are excited to learn, create, and challenge together. Good luck to everyone starting out this season. 💜🌞

A project shaped through collaboration at the Academy ✨
Starting with textile project with handmade textile earrings and a perfectly fitted shirt, brought to life by and photographed by .
Shot at the Academy, a place made for collaboration 🤍

This photo series by captures the uncurated rhythms of domestic life shared between two artists. Shot in their shared apartment, it embraces everyday moments — cluttered tables, quiet corners, shared silence.

Exploring rhythm, form, and color 🎵
Record cover designs by our students from the visual grammar class.