About Anka Poludov

Anka Poludov’s work merges experimental photography, glass art traditions, and contemporary moving-image practice. Her visual language is informed by the Czech avant-garde photographic tradition—known for its abstraction and material experimentation—and by the Czech art glass movement of the 1970s, which transformed glass into a medium for sculptural and conceptual art. She studied fine arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where she developed a conceptual approach to painting, video art and photography, and later completed cinematic studies at the University of Southern California, expanding her practice into time-based narrative media. Poludov’s current projects, including the Lumeno series, continue this trajectory: investigating light as a tangible medium, merging handcrafted optical elements with advanced image sequencing to create infinite spectral loops.