Laurence Sturla
Laurence Sturla, born 1992 in Swindon, UK; lives and works in Vienna.
Sturla’s visual language of his ceramic sculptures are part industrial, mechanical, part engine, part architecture. They draw heavily from Sturla’s upbringing in Swindon, once part of the thriving industrial revolution in England but now one of many English towns lined with empty factories. Sturla’s post-industrialist machines illustrate the fallacy between technological precision and our (in)ability to recall and visually digest space, function or logic.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Lebt und arbeitet in Wien, Kunsthalle Wien (2026); Kardinal König Prize, Salzburg, Austria; Arno Lehmann Preis für Keramik Gmunden, Austria (2025); Dirt, Lagune Ouest, Copenhagen, DenmarkWent to Country (solo), Project Native Informant, London; Drives My Green Age (solo), Goswell Road, Paris; Here and Now III, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna (2024); HARD SOFT. Textiles and Ceramics in Contemporary Art, MAK Museum of Applied Arts,Vienna; On the New, 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna; Ring ring ring, Pal Projects, Paris (2023); The Purloined Masterpiece. Images as Time Machines, Gemäldegalerie, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Academy f Fine Art, Vienn; Staying with the Trouble, Carbon12, Dubai (2022); Stone Dreams, Loggialoggialoggia, Munich; PK // K, Haus Wien, Vienna; Drawings, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2021); NOI, Museion, Bolzano (2019). Sturla teaches ceramics at the Kunstuniversität Linz.
Gianni Manhattan exhibitions:
Frieze London 2024Through Tongue and SoilDrawingsviennacontemporary 2020
Sturla’s visual language of his ceramic sculptures are part industrial, mechanical, part engine, part architecture. They draw heavily from Sturla’s upbringing in Swindon, once part of the thriving industrial revolution in England but now one of many English towns lined with empty factories. Sturla’s post-industrialist machines illustrate the fallacy between technological precision and our (in)ability to recall and visually digest space, function or logic.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Lebt und arbeitet in Wien, Kunsthalle Wien (2026); Kardinal König Prize, Salzburg, Austria; Arno Lehmann Preis für Keramik Gmunden, Austria (2025); Dirt, Lagune Ouest, Copenhagen, DenmarkWent to Country (solo), Project Native Informant, London; Drives My Green Age (solo), Goswell Road, Paris; Here and Now III, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna (2024); HARD SOFT. Textiles and Ceramics in Contemporary Art, MAK Museum of Applied Arts,Vienna; On the New, 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna; Ring ring ring, Pal Projects, Paris (2023); The Purloined Masterpiece. Images as Time Machines, Gemäldegalerie, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Academy f Fine Art, Vienn; Staying with the Trouble, Carbon12, Dubai (2022); Stone Dreams, Loggialoggialoggia, Munich; PK // K, Haus Wien, Vienna; Drawings, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2021); NOI, Museion, Bolzano (2019). Sturla teaches ceramics at the Kunstuniversität Linz.
Gianni Manhattan exhibitions:
Frieze London 2024Through Tongue and SoilDrawingsviennacontemporary 2020
Laurence Sturla, born 1992 in Swindon, UK; lives and works in Vienna.
Sturla’s visual language of his ceramic sculptures are part industrial, mechanical, part engine, part architecture. They draw heavily from Sturla’s upbringing in Swindon, once part of the thriving industrial revolution in England but now one of many English towns lined with empty factories. Sturla’s post-industrialist machines illustrate the fallacy between technological precision and our (in)ability to recall and visually digest space, function or logic.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Lebt und arbeitet in Wien, Kunsthalle Wien (2026); Kardinal König Prize, Salzburg, Austria; Arno Lehmann Preis für Keramik Gmunden, Austria (2025); Dirt, Lagune Ouest, Copenhagen, DenmarkWent to Country (solo), Project Native Informant, London; Drives My Green Age (solo), Goswell Road, Paris; Here and Now III, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna (2024); HARD SOFT. Textiles and Ceramics in Contemporary Art, MAK Museum of Applied Arts,Vienna; On the New, 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna; Ring ring ring, Pal Projects, Paris (2023); The Purloined Masterpiece. Images as Time Machines, Gemäldegalerie, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Academy f Fine Art, Vienn; Staying with the Trouble, Carbon12, Dubai (2022); Stone Dreams, Loggialoggialoggia, Munich; PK // K, Haus Wien, Vienna; Drawings, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2021); NOI, Museion, Bolzano (2019). Sturla teaches ceramics at the Kunstuniversität Linz.
Gianni Manhattan exhibitions:
Frieze London 2024Through Tongue and SoilDrawingsviennacontemporary 2020
Sturla’s visual language of his ceramic sculptures are part industrial, mechanical, part engine, part architecture. They draw heavily from Sturla’s upbringing in Swindon, once part of the thriving industrial revolution in England but now one of many English towns lined with empty factories. Sturla’s post-industrialist machines illustrate the fallacy between technological precision and our (in)ability to recall and visually digest space, function or logic.
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Lebt und arbeitet in Wien, Kunsthalle Wien (2026); Kardinal König Prize, Salzburg, Austria; Arno Lehmann Preis für Keramik Gmunden, Austria (2025); Dirt, Lagune Ouest, Copenhagen, DenmarkWent to Country (solo), Project Native Informant, London; Drives My Green Age (solo), Goswell Road, Paris; Here and Now III, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna (2024); HARD SOFT. Textiles and Ceramics in Contemporary Art, MAK Museum of Applied Arts,Vienna; On the New, 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna; Ring ring ring, Pal Projects, Paris (2023); The Purloined Masterpiece. Images as Time Machines, Gemäldegalerie, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Academy f Fine Art, Vienn; Staying with the Trouble, Carbon12, Dubai (2022); Stone Dreams, Loggialoggialoggia, Munich; PK // K, Haus Wien, Vienna; Drawings, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2021); NOI, Museion, Bolzano (2019). Sturla teaches ceramics at the Kunstuniversität Linz.
Gianni Manhattan exhibitions:
Frieze London 2024Through Tongue and SoilDrawingsviennacontemporary 2020
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