The author's work is influenced by the life situations that shaped her from a creative point of view.
Curve - shape - attraction - moment - balance. She seeks and discovers unity for the visual and aesthetic communication with the general audience.
Designer and jeweler Maria Kobelova is engaged in the production and design of jewelry made of precious metals, which transcend into free conceptual art. The author's journey led through the metal and jewelry studio at FDULS in Pilsen under the guidance of prof. VK Novák and doc. MA Petr Vogl and subsequently continued through the ceramics studio under the leadership of doc. MgA. Gabriel Vacha.
Maria works in her own studio located at Varšavská 1338/15, Prague 2 - Vinohrady.
As part of custom-made work, she specializes in the production of solitary jewelry, as well as engagement and wedding rings.
awards
Maria Kobelova received the Best Jewelry Collection 2020 Designblok Award for her Euphoria collection and also a nomination for the Czech Grand Design Awards. In 2019, she was also nominated for the same award for the SOFA and Spatula collections. Her porcelain collection Jsem received a nomination in the Polish Graduation projects 2017. She won the competition for the Czech National Culinary Team 2016 with an original porcelain set of dishes and was nominated for Epi vibrating jewelry in the Talente international competition in Munich 2016.
exhibitions
Maria Kobelova has so far been exhibiting her work in Slovakia, Poland, Italy, Portugal and Germany.
Designblok 2021 I collection Siri I Gabriel Loci I Prague
Designblok 2020 I collection Euphoria I Gabriel Loci I Prague
SOFA + collection & EUPHORIA collection I with Daniela Peskova I MBPFW F / W20 I Gabriel Loci I Prague
SOFA collection & USUS collection & Spatula project I Designblok I Prague International Design Festival, Výstaviště Holešovice I Prague
USUS collection & Spatula project I Venice Design Week I Venice
USUS collection I Collectiva Meeting I Porto
SOFA collection with Daniela Peskova & Aleš Hnátek I POP-UP I Object concept store I Brno
SOFA collection with Daniela Peskova I MBPFW SS20 I Invalidovna I Prague
MBPFW I SmetanaQ I Prague
USUS collection I Designblok I Prague International Design Festival, Výstaviště Holešovice I Prague
Graduation projects I Łódź Design Festival I Poland
Gallery XI Bratislava
Jewelry and music I Galeria Autoria I Porto
Graduation projects I Cieszyn Castle I Poland
Tincal lab Challenge 2017 I Tincal lab I Porto
Be a part of I Gallery Klenová, Klatovy
National Design Award 2017 I Slovak Museum of Design I Bratislava
CAST and BURN I Gallery XI Bratislava
Final work I Dům porcelánu s modrou krví I Dubí
PASS IT ON I Flowers for Slovakia I Bratislava Design Week I Bratislava
PASS IT ON I Flowers for Slovakia I Castle Cieszyn I Poland
GEMSTONE collection I designSUPERMARKET I Kafka's House I Prague
NALEJTO studio I Design as a game I DESIGNBLOK I Výstaviště Holešovice I Prague
Preciosa I Master of Crystal 2016 I Gallery DOX I DOX BY QUBUSI Prague
IKA Olympiade der Köche I Czech National Culinary Team I Erfurt
PASS IT ON I Flowers for Slovakia I Dutch Design Week I Eindhoven
50th anniversary of the SŠUV school, Kremnica
International Biennial of Student Design I Technical Museum in Brno I Brno
On the table I Bratislava Design Week I Bratislava
Overlaps 3 I Gallery Vestřed I Plzeň
PASS IT ON I Flowers for Slovakia I Slovak Institute in Berlin I Berlin
On the table I Ceramic sculptures in Kadan I Municipal Museum Kadaň
PASS IT ON I Flowers for Slovakia I DMY 2016 I Kraftwerk I Berlin
NALEJTO studio I Exhibition in module I Zlín Design Week 2016 I Zlín
NALEJTO studio I Prague Design Week 2016, Kafka's House, Prague
On the table I Gallery XI Bratislava
Talent 2016 In the International Crafts Fair Munich I Munich
LIGHT VOLUME I Galerie u Randú I Kyšice
Dvě pozice křehkosti I Galerie Vestředu I Plzeň
bazzar I One Slovak story… I Košice
MBPFW I Gallery September I Prague
International Biennial of Student Design I Technical Museum I Brno
Silver Schools I Gallery N I Jablonec nad Nisou
2 times 15 I Biennial of Jewelery in Železný Brod I Galerie Šroubárna I Železný Brod
Brooches routes I Akropolicka Gallery I Kremnica
Exhibition Appearance of the Pilsen City Art Prize I Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art I Pilsen
DOUX The Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, Designblok 2023
EUPHORIA Gabriel Loci, Designblok 2020
SOFA & USUS & SPATULA Výstaviště Praha, Designblok 2019