The Studio of Zofia Glazer-Rudzińska

The Studio of Zofia Glazer-Rudzińska: Archival Research and Educational Program

In 2025, the Arton Foundation is carrying out the project The Studio of Zofia Glazer-Rudzińska: Archival Research and Educational Program. The initiative takes as its starting point the artist’s studio — a space of creative work for nearly three decades — and the rich artistic archive connected to it, which includes drawings, prints, paintings, and objects.

As part of the project, the archive of Glazer-Rudzińska will be inventoried and digitized. The digitized collection will be made publicly available through the Forgotten Heritage database. The educational component will include a series of lectures and workshops dedicated to the artist’s practice and broader issues concerning the care and management of artistic archives. A filmed guided tour and virtual walkthrough will offer insight into the studio space and serve as documentation of its current state.

Explore the e-book Developing the Whole Picture: The Case of Zofia Glazer-Rudzińska’s Work and Archive╰┈➤

Co-financed by the City of Warsaw

Zofia Glazer-Rudzińska (1950–2017)
Painter, printmaker, draftsman, and author of spatial forms and bibliophile poetry editions. A graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, she completed her diploma with distinction in the lithography studio in 1974. From 1975, she was affiliated with her alma mater, where she advanced through all stages of an academic career — from assistant to Professor Jerzy Tchórzewski to full professor (1997). Between 1996 and 1999, she served as Vice Dean of the Faculty of Sculpture, and from 1995 to 2017, she ran the Drawing Studio at the same faculty. She also taught drawing at the State Higher School of Theatre in Warsaw (1990–1992). She authored numerous series of lithographs, including Crabs, Cathedral, Learning to Fly, Portraits, Salon, and Landscape. Her black-and-white lithographs featuring hand motifs stood out for their intuitive formal strength. Glazer-Rudzińska produced several bibliophile editions, illustrating poetry by Dylan Thomas, Paul Éluard, T.S. Eliot, Józef Baran, and Anna Kamieńska. An active figure in both artistic and academic life, she was a long-time juror of the National Competition for Art Schools. She enjoyed great respect among students and within the academic community.