Nina Podobnikar - Slovenian Jewelry Week
Nina Podobnikar
Designer biography:
Nina Podobnikar (born in 1992) is a Slovenian unique designer of glass, ceramics and precious metals. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (ALUO), University of Ljubljana, majoring in Unique Design, and received the Academy award for Special Artistic Achievements for her thesis. Her work is included in the permanent collection of Czech Glass Museum in Prague. She has exhibited at numerous group exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad, and her works have been published in various catalogues and publications. She is improving her skills in precious metal design under the mentorship of master goldsmiths and jewelry designers. She shares her knowledge as a mentor in the Glass Ceramics Lab and the Jewelry Lab in the creative centre of the Rog Centre. In her creations, she intertwines tradition and modernity, exploring the fluidity of a process, which is guided by the interplay of intuition and thoughtfulness.
Collection concept
From the Familiar/Sequence of Transformation
The work stems from my experience of the world, from the way I immerse myself in it through the material. From a series of glass cups, I transformed one into two wearable pieces, a brooch and a ring, and included the other as an independent object. Together, they form a clear sequence of transformation from an everyday object to wearable jewelry. Each piece functions as a small art form intended for the body. When designing, I followed intuitive exploration that opened new perceptual possibilities in a familiar object. In the process, I gradually removed the excess until only the essence remained – the feeling that the form carries. The work strives for purity and opens a quiet inner space of the imaginary.
