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. Sturla teaches ceramics at the Kunstuniversität Linz. Recent solo presentations include, Drives My Green Age, Goswell Road, Paris (2024), Went to Country, Project Native Informant, London (2024), Frieze London 2023, Focus Section with Gianni Manhattan, Liste Art Fair 2022 with Gianni Manhattan, Basel, Through Tongue and Soil, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2022). Recent group shows: Dirt, Lagune Ouest, Copenhagen (2025), Here and Now III, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna (2024), Hard Soft, MAK, Vienna (2023), Uber Das Neu, Belvedere Museum, Vienna (2023), Collection, Museum Der Moderne Salzburg (2022).