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Laura Põld Born in 1984 in , USSR. Currently based in Tallinn, seasonally in .

Laura Põld is an artist mainly working with poetics of 'place'. The combination on mediums such as painting, installation, ceramics, video, and text become staged landscapes in symbiosis with the gallery space, and sometmes environments for interactive performative experimentation.

Contact Address Lõokese 8, Tallinn 11311, E-mail [email protected] Mobile +372 58081531 Website www.laurapold.com

Education 2007 – 2010 MA, University of Tartu, Department of Painting 2003 – 2007 BA, Estonian Academy of Arts, Department of Ceramics

Selected Solo and Duo-Exhibitions 2017 So small it could be mine, Atelierhaus Höherweg e. V., Düsseldorf, Germany 2016 Laura Põld / Johna Hansen. Serving Makes Place. Maebashi Works, Japan Laura Põld / Johna Hansen. Awilda on a drift. Tripitaka, Christianshavn, Copenhagen, Denmark; Hundreds of Illusions Charted as Land, Tartu Art Museum, Estonia, curated by Peeter Talvistu 2015 Road To Silver Mine, Gallery Chemin du Bonheur, Hokuto-shi, Yamanashi, Japan 2014 The Night Your Mate Danced Like A Tree, Gallery Hobusepea, Tallinn; Laura Põld / Titania Seidl. a walk, a wall, some mountains, Showroom Galerie Hrobsky, Vienna; Ruins, Tartu Art House, Monumental gallery; To go to bed by day, Kunstkabinett Kunstverein Bayreuth; Castle, Gallery Vaal, Tallinn 2013 Sigita Daugule / Laura Põld, Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna; Attempts to stage a landscape, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery 2012 Carolina Cyclone, Showroom for Young Art, Galerie Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna; 2011 Lost & Found, Tallinn City Gallery, Estonia; 2010 Conversations with the Curtain, Tartu Art House, Estonia; Adrijana Gvozdenovič / Laura Põld, Hope You Dance , bm:ukk exhibition space, Vienna;

Selected Group Exhibitions 2017 Structured Frustrations, curated by Samira Hashemi. CC. art space Isfahan, Esfahan, Iran 2016 Shiro Oni Studio, group IV 2016, Onishi Brewery, Gunma, Japan; The Great Painter, curated by Liisa Kaljula. Evald Okas Museum, Haapsalu, Estonia; Köler Prize 2016. Exhibition of Nominees, Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia; Sense of Place, Tallinn Art Hall gallery 2015 Art Market Budapest, represented by Gallery Vaal (Estonia); New building, Tartu Art Museum, Estonia; 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; Tallinn - Carcassonne, Jesuit College and Chapel, France 2013 Kunst in der Landschaft 9, Gut Gasteil, Prigglitz; 7. ICA, Art Without Borders, Kulmbach; CHA-2013. The Central House of Artists, 2012 Archaeology and the Future of Estonian Art Scenes, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn; Collection of Desires. Contemporary Estonian Art From Private Collections. Museum of Contemporary Art of Estonia; Reproduktionen, Künstraum Zögernitz, Vienna; 7-Ateliers: exhibition and open studios, Showroom Ulrike Hrobsky, Vienna; NordArt2012, Büdelsdorf, Germany; NOT ONLY, Factory-Art Gallery, Berlin; Collective Video Bohai @ Luminale Frankfurt 2012; TALLINZ, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz; 2011 Young Painter Prize finalists 2011, Titanikas, Vilnius; Estonian painting. Laura Põld, Maarit Murka, Sirja-Liisa Eelma. Old Town Art Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania; The family, März Project Space, Tallinn, Estonia; Confrontations and Provocations. An Insight into Estonian Contemporary Art, National Museum of Warsaw, Poland and Contemporary Art Museum, Szczecin, Poland;

Selected art-related employment 2014 - 2016 Estonian Photo Magazine “Positiiv”, co-editor (contemporary art). Writing of around 15 interviews and articles about camera based contempoirary art practices, both in Estonia and about notable Estonian artists abroad.

2014 - 2016 Estonian Academy or Arts, Department of Fine Arts, guest lecturer („Painiting”)

2013 University of Tartu, guest lecturer (“Painting and Installation”)

2010-2011 University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy, Department o Performing Arts, lecturer (“Interdiciplinary Arts”)

Grants and Awards 2016 Köler Prize 2016 grand prix 2014 Annual award of Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Foundation of Fine and Applied Arts 2013 Ado Vabbe prize 2011 Young Painter’s Prize, 3rd place 2008 Eduard Wiiralt’ Stipend Kalmus scholarship for a young artist

Residencies / Stays 2017 eu-art-network Symposium 2017, Cselley Mühle, Oslip, Austria (August); Treignac Project, Limousin region, France (July); CC. art space, Isfahan, Iran (April); Ateliers Höherweg e.V., Düsseldorf, Germany (Jan. - March) 2016 Maebashi Works, Gunma, Japan (Nov. – Dec.) Shiro Oni Studio, Gunma, Japan (Oct. - Nov.) 2015 AIR Chemin du Bonheur, Hokuto-shi, Japan (May) 2015 Artist-in-Residence Yamanashi, Japan (March – April) 2014 International Ceramics Symposion, Kohila, Estonia (July) 2013 Kunst in der Landschaft 9, Gut Gasteil, Austria (March) 2011 Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts 2011 AiR Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria (Nov. - Dec.) 2010 AiR Schloss Laudon, Vienna, Austria (Oct. - Dec.)

Works in public collections 2014 Art Museum Bayreuth, Germany 2011 Tartu Art Museum, Estonia

Books 2016 Laura Põld and Hundreds of Illusions Charted as Land, edited by Peeter Talvistu. Tartu Art Museum, 2016. 264 pages, Estonian/English Google Drive link to the pdf-file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B15-v4wvsY8wYzFzNkVRWGZKTDg/view?usp=sharing

Selected recent media and publications in English 2017 Six Questions: Laura Põld, Tique art paper. Link:

http://www.tique.art/paper/six-questions/laura-pold/ ; Artists' Spaces. 16 studio visits. Interviewed and edited by Annika Toots and Merilin Talumaa. Published by the Estonian Academy of Arts. 328 pages. 2016 Means of Reaching a Destination, Maris Karjatse. Kunst.ee Magazine.

Link: http://ajakirikunst.ee/?c=magazine&l=en&t=means-of-reaching-a-destination&id=1591 ; Köler Prize 2016. Tique art paper. Link:

http://www.tique.art/paper/exhibitions/köler-prize-2016/ ; Photo reportage from Johna Hansen, Katrine Gram Sloth and Laura Põld’s joint exhibition at the Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn. Echo Gone Wrong. Link:

http://echogonewrong.com/johna-hansen-katrine-gram-sloth-laura-pold/ ; Baltic Art Superstar, Where Are You?, Agnese Čivle, Odrija Fišere, Art Territory.

Link: http://arterritory.com/en/texts/articles/5494-baltic_art_superstar,_where_are_you/ ; Looking at Painting Volume 2. Created and Published by Jessie Churchill. Published in Leeds. 208 pages. 2014 Artist Mobility and the Baltic Cities: Revealing a Transnational Art World, Emma Duester. Echo Gone Wrong magazine. http://echogonewrong.com/artist-mobility-and-the-baltic-cities-revealing-a-transnational-art-world/ An Education – Laura Põld. Estonian Art magazine. Link: http://www.estonianart.ee/art/an-education/