Laura Põld is an interdisciplinary artist whose work extends across installations, sculpture, and textiles. Her practice delves into environmental history, human and more-than-human relations, focusing on themes of community and material culture. Drawing on craft techniques like ceramics and tufting, Põld explores the political and historical contexts of materials, often incorporating mythologies and folklore in a critical framework. Her work examines the intersections between nature, shelter, and survival, presenting them through large-scale constructions that interact with their spatial contexts.
Põld has exhibited widely, with recent solo presentations at viennacontemporary (2023, 2024) and Art Brussels (2023), and group shows at notable institutions such as the Kumu Art Museum and EKKM (2023). Her work has also been featured internationally at the MO Museum in Vilnius (2024) and the Zuzeum Art Centre in Riga (2022).
She has participated in prestigious residencies, including the ISCP in New York (2019) and the Academy of Ceramics in Gmunden, Austria (2023), deepening her interdisciplinary practice that merges contested histories, environmental narratives, and poetic expression.
Põld is currently living and working in Tallinn and Vienna. She holds the position of Visiting Associate Professor at the Department of Installation and Sculpture at the Estonian Academy of Arts and is a co-curator in the 2024 QMA Artist Collective, Vienna.