Pawela Laura

A visual artist associated with Upper Silesia and Warsaw. She graduated in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, where she led the Guest Studio in 2006. She also studied at the Art Institute in Opole and the University of Warsaw. She made her debut in 2002 with the project “Reallaura,” which used mobile telephony to wittily comment on the changes taking place in the information society. Pawela works in installation, video-art, creates objects, sculptures and photographs. She has exhibited in Poland and abroad, presenting works in about ninety exhibitions. She has realized her projects in France (“Bathroom”/2005), Argentina (“Unfinished Histories”/2008), Silesia (“Untitled/Friedrich”/2008), Finland (“Musicam Video”/2010-11) and most recently in New York and Utopia (“Bloodbuzz Ohio”/2011) and Texas (“Pink Horizon”, 2014). Her works are in private and public, Polish and foreign collections, including the Contemporary Museum in Wroclaw, the MOCAK in Krakow, the collections of the Arsenal Bialystok gallery, Bunkier Sztuki and others. She is the recipient of many awards and scholarships (Artistic Award of the Marshal of the Silesian Voivodeship, 7th Geppert Competition, Young Poland scholarship, Visegrad Fund scholarship), she was nominated for Polityka’s Passports in 2004, her work was also presented on the pages of many catalogs and publications (including “New Phenomena in Polish Art after 2000″, “Textiles Bis”). As of 2019, she is a doctoral student at the Doctoral School at the Łódź Film School.