Laurence Sturla

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.

Education
2017 - 2023 Object Sculpture, Prof. Julian Goethe AKBILD, Vienna, Austria
2013-2016 BA hons Fine Art Parsons, Paris, France


Solo Exhibitions
2024
Project Native Informant, London, UK
2023
Frieze, with Gianni Manhattan, UK
2022
Liste Art Fair, with Gianni Manhattan, Basel, Switzerland
Through Tongue and Soil, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, Austria
2021
Stone Dreams, Loggia, Munich, Germany
2020
Vienna Contemporary with Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, Austria
2018
The Shooter’s Drunk!, Pina, Vienna, Austria
2017
Behind The Fridge, Goswell Road, Paris, France


Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
Hard Soft, MAK, Vienna, Austria
Uber das Neue, Beledere Museum Vienna, Austria
2022
Collection, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
2022
Nominated, Mumok, Vienna, Austria
The Other Side Of The Door, SuperMarkt, Berlin, Germany
The Purloined Masterpiece, AKBILD collection, Vienna, Austria
Time Warp, UA26, Vienna, Austria
Staying With The Trouble, Carbon 12, Dubai, UAE
2021
PK // K at Haus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Drawings, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna, Austria
2019
Opening: Loggia, Loggia, Vienna, Austria
Noi, Museion, Bolzano, South Tyrol
The Chasm, Franz Josefs Kai 3, Vienna, Austria
The Terrible Twos, Goswell Road, Paris, France
Thun Ceramic Residency, Bolzano, South Tyrol
2018
Carved and Shaped by Proximity, Pina, Vienna, Austria
Bar-du-Bois-Kultur, Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2017
Entrées Extraordinaires II, Atelier W, Paris, France
2016
Sous un soleil à briser les pierres, Double Séjour, Paris, France
2014
Real World Treignac, a workshop residency with Shanaynay, Paris, and Treignac Project, France Residencies
Real World Treignac, a workshop residency with Shanaynay, Paris, and Treignac Project, France


Selected Publications and Interviews
2023 New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/06/arts/vienna-thun-sturla-frieze-london.html
2021Texte Zur Kunst feature, Envy Issue
2021 Parnass, Up and coming feature.
2020 Interview with Piero Bisello, editor director of Conceptual Fine Arts - https://www.conceptualfinearts.com/cfa/2020/12/02/laurence-sturla/
2020 Hysteria, Goswell Road Publishing, Paris launch
2020 Interview with Pia Marie Remmers for PW Magazine - https://www.pw-magazine.com/2020/laurence-sturla-on-fantastic-history/
2019 The Terrible Twos, Goswell Road Publishing, launched in Paris