Laura Põld

1984– · Estonian artist and ceramicist (born 1984)
Eesti Kunsti Oksjonid; Eesti Kunstiakadeemia muuseum; Eesti Kunstimuuseum; Kogo galerii; Tartu Kunstimuuseum; Vaal galerii

trained at Estonian Academy of Arts

Laura Põld (1984) is an artist whose work deals with the history of materials and objects as well as the environment, exploring ways of organizing space and basic cross-species needs, such as security, habitat, and community. Põld’s installations seek a dialogue with their location and its historical and political context. Her works are created by combining textile, wood, found objects, ceramics, and video. (2016), the artist opened up the veils of her poetic perception, allowing visitors to be simultaneously in a pine forest, on a dock, by salt water, in the mountains, and in a castle courtyard. Mixing different temporal and spatial experiences from Estonia, Austria, and Japan, she exhibited raku-fired ceramics, marble-effect installations, and painted sculptures whose patterned surfaces revealed shifts in perspective. In her later work, Põld has focused on the choice of materials and their historical context, using traditional craft techniques such as ceramics and embroidery, which are of interest to the artist as repositories of memory and experience. Laura Põld’s exhibitions in recent years have focused mainly on the relationship between man and nature, and on environmental issues. As part of the Estonia 100 art project (2018), Põld integrated an alternative environment into the permanent exhibition of the Kunda Cement Museum, examining the history of the town of Kunda, its manufacturing industry and its natural resources. She experimented with natural clay pottery techniques, creating monumental objects that incorporated both the town’s historical markers and found fossils. The desire to juxtapose man-made landscape elements with natural materials continued in the exhibition.

2 auction lots · 1 sold · 2025–2026 · €4,300 — as the auction houses published them; not a valuation

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6 works at Kogo galerii. Prices as the galleries state them.

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2018 · Kogo galeriiSheer
2018 · Kogo galeriiArtist book “Dirt Song”
2020 · Kogo galeriiOverlay II
2021 · Kogo galeriiOverlay I
2021 · Kogo galeriiFolds
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6 works with a picture; the first 6 here, all in the catalogue. Pictures for public-domain works, live gallery listings and the works galleries and artists show on their own pages, from those servers.

Similar artists — same period, media and subjects: Per William Petersen · Heigo Jelle · Angela Maasalu · Terje Ojaver · Anna-Stina Treumund · Valdek Alber

Also trained at Estonian Academy of Arts: Eduard Wiiralt · Evald Okas · Andrus Johani · Johann Naha · Leonhard Lapin

Contemporaries in Eesti Kunstimuuseum: Merike Estna · Jass Kaselaan · Andrea Büttner · Cia Rinne · Officin/Louise Hold Sidenius

By decade: 2010s · 2020s
By medium: Installation · Painting · Other · Sculpture · Drawing
Where the works are: Art Museum of Estonia · Tartu Art Museum · Estonian Academy of Arts Museum

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