Laura Põld

Estonian artist and ceramicist (born 1984)
Eesti Kunstimuuseum; Kogo galerii; Tartu Kunstimuuseum

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

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

Contemporaries in Kogo galerii: Kristi Kongi · Paul Kuimet · Līga Spunde · Andrés Galeano · Holger Loodus

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Data from MuIS and the EKM Digital Collection. Full catalogue