TLmag special edition : Glass is Tomorrow

Running from November 8, 2025 to March 15, 2026, Glass: Transcending Matter. The Cirva Collections at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAMC+) offers an ambitious presentation of Cirva’s collections to date. The exhibition draws a rich dialogue between design, visual arts, and scientific inquiry through the singular lens of glass.

Featuring 23 French and international galleries, the inaugural Ceramic Art Fair takes places this week, between October 21-25, at the Maison de l’Amérique latine, including installations in the building’s elegant garden.

At Istanbul’s Pera Museum, Swedish artist Åsa Jungnelius presents A Verse Written with Earth, Fire, Water, and Air, an exhibition curated by Elif Kamişli. Known for her boundary-pushing glass works and feminist approach to craft, Jungnelius invites visitors to experience matter as both medium and message — where glass breathes, marble listens, and obsidian remembers.

Lameice Abu Aker is a designer living between Jerusalem and Milan. She studied furniture design at the Politecnico in Milan, but a chance encounter with a generations-old family glass workshop in the village of Jaba, Palestine, inspired her to create Ornamental by Lameice, a wildly creative collection of glassware and tableware. TLmag spoke with Abu Aker about her creative practice, her fascination with the alchemy of glass and the history of glass-making in Palestine.