Laura Põld

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Laura Põld (1984) is based in Tallinn and Vienna.

In her ouvre, Põld has been engaged in creating a sense of place, combining and juxtaposing materially sensitive objects, narrative elements and memorabilia to the qualities of a specific exhibition space. Her often large-scale constructions or installations either take over or intervene with the allocated exhibition venue and/or its context.

In her work she continuously explores the fundamental human (and animal) needs such as community, safety and shelter. She started making paintings and installations referring to a sense of home and living abroad in the 2010s. In her latest work, she focuses on the choice of materials and their historical context, implementing traditional handiwork and building techniques like (primitive) ceramics and embroidery, which interest her as a preservation of memory and experience.

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Everyday Witchcraft

→Press/Publications

Laura Põld’s solo exhibition “Hendreds of Illusions Charted as Land” at Tartu Art Museum
Echo Gone Wrong. 9/01/2016

Every Landscape is a Condition of the Spirit
Piret Karro. Kunst.ee. Eesti kunsti- ja visuaalkultuuri ajakiri. 1/2016

An Education – Laura Põld
Laura Põld. Estonian Art. 2/2014

Six Questions: Laura Põld
Tique.

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Laura Põld (1984) is based in Tallinn and Vienna.

Education

2018-…	The University of Art and Design Linz, Department of sculptural Conceptions / Ceramics (MA)
2007-2010	Tartu University, Department of Painting (MA)
2003-2007	Estonian Art Academy, Department of Ceramics (BA)

Selected Solo- and Duo Exhibitions

2018	Artists in Collection 10 x 10: Laura Põld, curated by Maarin Ektermann and Mary Talvistu, Kunda Cement Museum, Kunda, Estonia
2017	So Small It Could Be Mine, Ateliers Höherweg e. V., Düsseldorf, Germany
2016	Serving Makes Place, with Johna Hansen, Maebashi Works, Gunma, Japan;
2016	Awilda On a Drift. Fireboat “Tripitaka”, with Johna Hansen, Christianshavn, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016	Hundreds of Illusions Charted as Land, curated by Peeter Talvistu, Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia
2015	Road To Silver Mine, Gallery Chemin Du Bonheur, Hokuto-Shi, Japan
2014	The Night Your Mate Danced Like a Tree, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2014	Ruins, Monumental Gallery, Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia
2014	A Walk, a Wall, Some Mountains, with Titania Seidl, Ulrike Hrobsky Showroom for Young Art, Vienna, Austria
2014	To Go to Bed by Day, Kunstkabinett Kunstverein Bayreuth, Germany
2014	Castle, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2013	Duo exhibition with Sigita Daugule, Galerie Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria
2013	Attempts to Stage a Landscape, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2012	Carolina Cyclone, Showroom for Young Art, Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria
2012	Home Sweet Home, with Mari Prekup, Old Town Art Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011	Lost & Found, Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2010	Hope You Dance, with Adrijana Gvoydenovic, bm:ukk exhibition space, Vienna, Austria
2010	Conversations With the Curtain, Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia
2010	Fear, Veiko Klemmer / Laura Põld, Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018	Ascending From the Liquid Horizon, curated by Kati Ilves, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France
2018	How to: Live. Virtual Biographies, curated by Marika Agu, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
2018	Lola Liivat. Spiritual resistance, curated by Hanna-Liis Kont, Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia
2018	Everyday Witchcraft, curated by Merilin Talumaa, Kogo Gallery, Tartu, Estonia
2018	Contemporary Art from Estonia, curated by Britta von Campenhausen, ECB, Frankfurt, Germany
2018	Boarderline, curated by Peeter Talvistu, Valga Museum, Valga, Estonia
2018	A Hole in the Grey Curtain, curated by Sam Basu, Treignac Projet, Treignac, France
2018	No Reptiles, Justice, curated by Sebastian Mittl, Vienna, Austria
2018	Elisabeth Altenburg / Nahid Behboodian / Laura Põld, Atelierhaus Salzamt Linz Gallery, Linz, Austria
2017	Failure / Afterlife, Estonian Photographic Art Fair, Telliskivi Creative City, Tallinn, Estonia
2017	MUSAO, Masc Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2017	Intra-Structures – Monster of the Seven Lakes, curated by Jussi Koitela, Treignac Projet, Treignac, France
2017	Structured Frustrations, curated by Samira Hashemi, CC. art space Isfahan, Esfahan, Iran
2016	Shiro Oni Studio, group IV 2016, Onishi Brewery, Gunma, Japan
2016	The Great Painter, curated by Liisa Kaljula, Evald Okas Museum, Haapsalu, Estonia
2016	Sense of Place, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2015	New Building, Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia
2015	Art Market Budapest, represented by Vaal Gallery (EE), Budapest, Hungary
2015	Tule lummuses, Kohila Sümpoosium 15, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2015	Fucking Andy, Eden, Techno, Disco. Mo. ë, Vienna, Austria
2014	New Material, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
2014	Väljasõit rohelisse. Tartu 1860-2014, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
2014	Tallinn – Carcassonne, Jesuit College and Chapel, Carcassonne, France
2013	Kunst in der Landschaft 9, Gut Gasteil, Prigglitz, Austria
2013	7. ICA, Art Without Borders, Kulmbach, Germany
2013	CHA-2013, The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2012	Archeology and the Future of Estonian Art From Private Collections, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
2012	Collection of Desires. Privatized Art, curated by Anders Härm, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia
2012	Reproduktionen, Künstraum Zögernitz, Vienna, Austria
2012	7 Ateliers: exhibition and open studios, Showroom Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria
2012	NordArt 2012, Büdelsdorf, Germany
2012	NOT ONLY, Factory-Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2012	Collective Video Bohai, Luminale 2012, Frankfurt, Germany
2012	TALLINZ, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Germany
2011	Estonian Painting: Laura Põld, Maarit Murka, Sirja-Liisa Eelma, Old Town Art Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011	Young Painter Prize 2011, Art Center Titanic, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011	The Family, März Project Space, Tallinn, Estonia
2011	Confrontations and Provocations. An Insight into Estonian Contemporary Art, curated by Eha Komissarov, National Museum of Warsaw, Poland & Contemporary Art Museum, Szczecin, Poland

Curated Exhibitions

2018	one-on-one. on skills, curated with Kati Saarits, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia

Exhibition Design

2018	Lola Liivat. Spiritual resistance, curated by Hanna-Liis Kont, Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia

Residencies

2018	Kunda Cement Museum
2018	Atelierhaus Salzamt Linz, Austria
2017	Treignac Projet, France
2017	Va space for contemporary art, Isfahan, Iran;
2017	Ateliers Höherweg e.V. Düsseldorf, Germany
2016	Maebashi Works, Gunma, Japan
2016	Shiro Oni Studio, Gunma, Japan
2015	AIRY, Kofu, Yamanashi, Japan
2014	XIV International Kohila Ceramic Symposium, Kohila, Estonia
2011	Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria
2010	Artist in Residence, Schloss Laudon, Vienna, Austria

Prizes and Scholarships

2018	Annual Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia
2016	Köler Prize grand prix
2014	Annual award of Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Foundation of Fine and Applied Arts
2013	Ado Vabbe prize
2009	DoRa scholarship, CAA conference, Los Angeles, USA
2008	Eduard Wiiralt prize
2008	Kalmus scholarship for a young artist

Professional Membership

2018	Estonian Ceramists’ Association
2011	Tartu Artists’ Union
2010	Estonian Artists’ Association

Works in Collections

European Central Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
Bayreuthi Art Museum, Germany
Tartu Art Museum, Estonia

Monograph

Peeter Talvistu (ed.), Laura Põld and Hundreds of Illusions Charted as Land, Tartu Art Museum, 2016

Selected Publications in English

Stacey Koosel, Beige Magic, Arterritory 27.08.2018.
Artmirror, “Everyday Witchcraft” at Kogo Gallery, 23.08.2018.
Photo reportage from the exhibition ‘Everyday Witchcraft’ at Kogo gallery, Echo Gone Wrong, 20.08.2018.
Six Questions: Laura Põld, Tique | art paper, 2017.
Merilin Talumaa, Annika Toots (eds.), Artists’ Spaces. 16 studio visits, Estonian Academy of Arts Press, 2017.
Maris Karjatse, Means of Reaching a Destination, Magazine of Art and Visual Culture in Estonia KUNST.EE, 2/2016.
Köler Prize 2016, Tique | art paper.
Photo reportage from Johna Hansen, Katrine Gram Sloth and Laura Põld’s joint exhibition at the Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Echo Gone Wrong, 20.04.2016.
Agnese Čivle, Odrija Fišere, Baltic Art Superstar, Where Are You?, Arterritory, 06.04.2016.
Jessie Churchill, Looking at Painting. Volume 2, Leeds, 2016.
Emma Duester, Artist Mobility and the Baltic Cities: Revealing a Transnational Art World, Echo Gone Wrong, 18.02.2014.
Laura Põld, An Education – Laura Põld, Estonian Art 2/14.