Laura Põld
Laura Põld (1984) continuously explores fundamental human (and animal) needs, including 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 her choice of materials and their historical context, implementing traditional handiwork and building techniques like (primitive) ceramics and embroidery, which interest her as preservation of memory and experience. In her oeuvre, Põld has been engaged in creating a sense of place, combining and juxtaposing materially sensitive objects, narrative elements and memorabilia within the qualities of specific exhibition space. Her often large-scale constructions or installations either take over or interfere with the allocated exhibition venue and/or its context.
Laura Põld studied ceramics at the Estonian Academy of Arts, painting at the University of Tartu and sculptural conceptions and ceramics at the University of Art and Design Linz. She has been awarded with a number of prizes and scholarships like the Eduard Wiiralt scholarship (2008), Ado Vabbe scholarship (2013), annual prize of The Cultural Endowment of Estonia (2014), Köler Prize grand prix (2016) and grand prize of The Cultural Endowment of Estonia (2018). Laura Põld is based in Tallinn and Vienna.
Exhibitions at Kogo
Press and 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.
CV
Laura Põld, born in 1984 in Tallinn, based in Tallinn and Vienna.
Education
| 2018-.2021 | 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
| 2021 | Walking Talking Minerals, Laura Põld and Lou Sheppard, Titanik Gallery, Turku, Finland. |
| 2021 | Dirt is a record. Soil is an archive, POSITIONS Berlin 2021, Tempelhof Airport, Berlin, Germany. |
| 2021 | Dark blue smells salty, yellow tastes bitter, #09 Laura Põld, curated by Steffi Parlow, Kommod, Vienna, Austria. |
| 2021 | Doing What They Do Best, Kunstraum Memphis, Linz, Austria. |
| 2020 | Shedding Skin, Laura Põld and Piret Karro, Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia. |
| 2020 | Denial, Laura Põld and Katrin Väli, Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia. |
| 2020 | Beautiful Necessity, Laura Põld and Eva Volmerson, ARS Showroom, ARS ArtFactory, Tallinn, Estonia. |
| 2019 | Hello from inside, Studio #211, International Studio and Curatorial Program ISCP Fall Open Studios, New York, USA. |
| 2019 | Burrows. Flights, Laura Põld and Katrin Väli, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia. |
| 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, Laura Põld and 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 and Laura Põld, Draakon Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia. |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2021 | Global Crises, Local Relationships, curated by Fruzsina Kigyós, Easttopics Gallery, Budapest, Hungary. |
| 2021 | Domestic Drama, curated by Cathrin Mayer, Halle für KunstSteiermark, Graz, Austria. |
| 2021 | The Bambi Project, curated by Šelda Puķīte, Kogo Gallery, Tartu, Estonia. |
| 2021 | Haus Wien, Favoriten, with PK/K, curated by Laurence Sturla Vienna, Austria. |
| 2021 | CREO ERGO SUM. Baltic Contemporary Ceramic Art. In the framework of the 3rd Latvia Ceramics Biennale programme, The Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga, Latvia. |
| 2021 | Lebhafte Materie, curated by Stephanie Winter & Jan Gustav Fiedler, Motherboard project space, Vienna, Austria. |
| 2021 | Mud mother #1 / Bathybius haeckelii, New Jörg, Vienna, Austria. |
| 2021 | T.O.M.B.O.L.A., bb15, Linz, Austria. |
| 2020 | 6×2=75, Galerie Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria. |
| 2020 | Ceramic Laboratory, Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils, Latvia. |
| 2019 | Bitter waters to reach the sweet, Alte Schieberkammer, Vienna, Austria. |
| 2019 | Beings with, curated by Jenni Nurmenniemi, Fiskars Biennale, Fiskars, Finland. |
| 2019 | What keeps me, curated by Pille Kaleviste, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia. |
| 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 and Contemporary Art Museum, Szczecin, Poland. |
Curated Exhibitions
| 2021 | Mountains are time, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria. |
| 2018 | one-on-one. on skills, curated together with Kati Saarits, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia EKKM, Tallinn, Estonia. |
Residencies
| 2020 | Ceramic Laboratory, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Ceramics; |
| 2019 | International Studio & Curatorial Program, ISCP-EKKAK residency, New York, USA; |
| 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
| 2021 | Claus Michaletz Preis, POSITIONS Berlin 2021; |
| 2019-2021 | Artists’ and writers’ wage grant, Republic of Estonia Ministry of Culture; |
| 2019 | ISCP-EKKAK residency at ISCP, New York; |
| 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
| 2021 | forum – Kunstuniversität Linz; |
| 2021 | IG Gildende Kunst, Wien; |
| 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.
Mari-Leen Kiipli