Bogdan Kosak
Ceramicist. Born in 1966 in Sumina. He obtained a Master’s degree in Ceramic Art and Design in 2019 from the Faculty of Glass and Ceramics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Wrocław. He specialises in the design of functional porcelain and ceramic sculpture.
Between 1995 and 2006, he designed for Porcelana Śląska and BGH Network in Katowice. He is the author of dozens of implemented projects in functional ceramics. Between 1995 and 2008, he managed the modelling workshop at Porcelana Śląska. In order to realise individual solutions in artistic and functional ceramics, he founded the KOSAK Ceramic Modelling Workshop in 1995, which he has run jointly with Beata Kosak in Cieszyn since 2010. In 2013, he established a ceramics studio at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Through his teaching work at the academy, he conducts research expanding the scope of ceramics in inclusive design. For several years, he has been working on projects within interdisciplinary teams: UFO, A Plate for a Neighbour, The Trail of Unobvious Monuments, and the Rehabilitation Ceramics Studio.
Works in the collections of: the National Museum in Warsaw, Centre for Modern Design; the National Museum in Kraków; the Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola; the Regional Museum in Tomaszów Lubelski; the Silesian Museum in Katowice; the Museum in Gliwice; Villa Caro; and Cieszyn Castle.