Laura Põld
Born in 1984 in Tallinn, Estonia, currently living and working in Tallinn and Vienna.
Contact: pold.laura@gmail.com
Education
2018 - … The University of Art and Design Linz, Department of Sculptural Conceptions / Ceramics, MA
2007 - 2010 MFA, University of Tartu, Department of Painting
2003 - 2007 BA, Estonian Academy of Arts, Department of Ceramics
2000-2003 Collegium Educationis Revaliae, Department of Fine Arts
Selected Solo/Duo Exhibitions
2017
So small it could be mine, Ateliers Höherweg e. V. Düsseldorf, Germany
2016
Laura Põld / Johna Hansen. Serving Makes Place, gallery Maebashi Works, Gunma, Japan
Hundreds of Illusions Charted as Land, curated by Peeter Talvistu. Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
2015
Road To Silver Mine, Gallery Chemin Du Bonheur, Hokuto, Japan
2014
The Night Your Mate Danced Like A Tree, Gallery Hobusepea, Tallinn
Ruins, Tartu Art House, Monumental Gallery, Tartu
Laura Põld / Titania Seidl. a walk, a wall, some mountains, Galerie Hrobsky Showroom for Young Art, Vienna
To go to bed by day, Kunstverein Bayreuth e.V., Kunstkabinett Altes Rathaus, Bayreuth, Germany
Castle, Gallery Vaal, Tallinn, Estonia
2013
Sigita Daugule / Laura Põld, Gallery Ulrike hrobsky, Vienna, Austria
Attempts to stage a landscape, Art Hall gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2012
Caroline Cyclone, Ulrike Hrobsky Showroom for Young Art, Vienna, Austria
Laura Põld / Mari Prekup. Home Sweet Home, Old Town Artist Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011
Lost & Found, Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2010
Hope You Dance (with Adrijana Gvozdenović), bm:ukk, Vienna, Austria
Veiko Klemmer / Laura Põld. Fear, Gallery Draakon, Tallinn, Estonia
Conversations With The Curtain, Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia
2009
Catch!, Tartu Children’s Art School, Tartu, Estonia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
2018 Ascending from the Liquid Horizon, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes, France, curator Kati Ilves
How to: Live. Virtual Biographies, EKKM, Tallinn, curator Marika Agu
Lola Liivat. Spiritual resistance, Tartmus, curator Hanna-Liis Kont
Everyday Witchcraft, Kogo gallery, Tartu, curator Merilin Talumaa
Contemporary Art from Estonia, ECB, Frankfurt, Germany, curator Britta von Campenhausen
Borderline, Valga Museum, Estonia, curator Peeter Talvistu
A Hole in the Grey Curtain, Treignac Projet, Treignac, France, curator Sam Basu
No Reptiles, Justice, Vienna, Austria, curator Sebastian Mittl
Elisabeth Altenburg / Nahid Behboodian / Laura Põld, Gallery Atelierhaus Salzamt Linz, Austria
2017
MUSAO, Masc Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Estonian Photographic Art Fair, Telliskivi Creative City, Tallinn
Instra-Structures – Monster of the Seven Lakes, Treignac Projet, France, curator Jussi Koitela
Structured Frustrations, CC. art space Isfahan, Esfahan, Iran, curated by Samira Hashemi
2016
Shiro Oni Studio group 4 final show, Old Brewery, Onishi, Gunma, Japan
The great painter, Evald Okas Museum, Haapsalu, Estonia. Curated by Liisa Kaljula
Köler Prize 2016. Exhibition of Nominees, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM)
Sense of Place. Johna Hansen (SE/DK), Katrine Gram Sloth (DK), Laura Põld (EE), Tallinn Art Hall gallery
2015
Uus Maja, Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
ART MARKET BUDAPEST, represented by Gallery Vaal (EE), Hungary
Tule lummuses, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
Genki Festival, Fujiyoshida, Japan
Fucking Andy, Eden, Techno, Disco. Mo.ë Vienna, Austria
2014
New Material, The Museum of Contemporary Art of Estonia
Väljasõit rohelisse: Tartu 1860-2014. Tallinn Art Hall
International Ceramics Symposion, Kohila, Estonia
Tallinn-Carcassonne, Jesuit College and Chapel, Carcassonne, France
2013
Reproduktionen, Showroom Roter Teppich für junge Kunst am Karlspatz, Vienna, Austria
Kunst in der Landschaft 9, Gut Gasteil, Prigglitz, Austria
CHA-2013. Process, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
7.ICA via Focus Europa, Schloss Plassenburg, Kulmbach, Germany
2012
Archaeology and the Future of Estonian Art Scenes, KUMU Art Museum, Estonia
IV Tallinn Drawing Triennial: Boundary, Threshold and Trace, Viinistu Art Museum, Estonia
Collection of Desires. Privatised Art. The Museum of Contemporary Art of Estonia
Reproduktionen, Kunstraum Zögernitz, Vienna, Austria
7-Ateliers, Showroom Gallery Hrobsky, Vienna, Austria
NordArt, Büdelsdorf, Germany
NOT ONLY, Factory-Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Collective Videobohai @ LUMINALE Frankfurt, Germany
TALLINZ, Linz Kultur / Atelierhaus Salzamt, Austria
NAPP, curator Margot Kask, Pärnu Linnagalerii Raekojas, Pärnu, Estonia
2011
Young Painter Prize 2011 finalists show, VDA Titanicas, Vilnius, Lithuania
Estonian artists. Laura Põld, Maarit Murka, Sirja-Liisa Eelma, Old Town Art Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Simple Stories, Rakvere Exhibition House, Estonia
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts final exhibition, Austria
Puhas, März project space, Tallinn, Estonia
Family, März project space, Tallinn, Estonia / painting
White, Gallery Vaal, Tallinn, Estonia
Confrontations and Provocations, National Museum of Warsaw, Poland Confrontations and Provocations, Contemporary Art Museum of Szczecin, Poland
For Love Not Money. For Beginners via Tallinn XV Print Triennial, East Creative Space
2011! Convert. Estonian Painting, The Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn
2010
ESTONIA in Berlin Brandenburg, Märkischer Künstlerhof, Berlin Brandenburg, Germany
TSiOON/iOON, Tartu Art House, Estonia
iOON/TSiOON, Tartu Children’s Art School, Estonia
Design Festival Design Night, Tallinn, Estonia
The Last Painting, Tartu Art Hall, Estonia
The Estonian Artists' Association’s Yearly Show: Confrontations, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
Competition Exhibition of Young Artists from the Baltic States, GlobalArtRoom Gallery, Riga, Lithuania
Blue, The Museum of New Art in Pärnu, Estonia
Estonian Ceramists Association’s yearly exhibition: ÄRA, gallery Draakon, Tallinn, Estonia
2009
Self-Exposure, Gallery ArtDepoo, Tallinn, Estonia
Wir sind aus Estland, Düsseldorf, Germany
Wir sind aus Estland, Gallery Melnikow, Heidelberg, Germany
Painting/Deconstruction – The Little People, Gallery Draakon, Tallinn, Estonia
Grants and Awards
2016 Köler Prize 2016 grand prix
2014 Annual Award of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Foundations for the Fine and Applied Arts
2013 Ado Vabbe stipend (Tartu Culture Foundation and Tartu city)
2011 Atelierhaus Salzamt Linz stipend for a 3 months residency in Linz;
Young Painter Prize (of the Baltic states), 3rd Prize;
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts grant
2010 Bundesministerium für Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur (bm:ukk) and KulturKontakt stipend for Artist in Residence at Schloss Laudon, Vienna, Austria
2009 The DoRa Scholarship (for improving mobility) for visiting CAA 97th Conference in LA
2008 Kalmus‘ Scholarship for a young artist
2008 Eduard Wiiralt’s Stipend (Estonian Ministry of Culture)
Residencies
2017
CC. art space Isfahan, Iran (April)
Ateliers Höherweg e. V. Düsseldorf, Germany (January - March)
2016
Maebashi Works, Gunma, Japan (November - December)
Shiro Oni Studio, Gumma, Japan (October - November)
2015
Chemin Du Bonheur, Hokuto, Japan (May)
Artist-in-Residence Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan (March - April)
2014
International Ceramics Symposion, Kohila, Estonia (July)
2013
“Kunst in der Landschaft” project, Gut Gasteil, Prigglitz, Austria (March)
2011
Artist in Residence Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria (November 2011 - January 2012)
Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Austria
Katrina Daschner’s class “Performance and the Performative” (August)
2010
Artist in Residence Schloss Laudon, Vienna, Austria (October - December)
Professional Membership
2018 Estonian Ceramists’ Association
2011 Tartu Artists’ Union
2010 Estonian Artists’ Association
Works in Collections
2018 European Central Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
2014 Art Museum Bayreuth, Germany
2011 Tartu Art Museum, Estonia