Laura Puska
b. 1986
Joensuu, Finland
education
2020 ViCCA, exchange, MA visual arts and curating, Aalto university, Helsinki, Finland
2019- LUCA School of Arts, MA Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium
2013-2016 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2015 Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China
2012-2013 ABKM - Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Maastricht, the Netherlands
2010-2011 International Workshop, Metafora, Tallers d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
2006-2010 Nuutajärvi's School of Glass, KK Tavastia, Nuutajärvi, Finland
solo exhibitions
2019 ToGetHer, curated by WE Art Project, Making Space, Kanton, China
2018 I might be closer to you than you think, curated by WE Art project, gallery Five, Quanzhou, China
2017 Lähellä, Hirvitalo - Center of Contemporary Art Pispala, Tampere, Finland
2015 Not Now, Nothing Gallery, Xiamen, China
2015 Fine Gestures, Nothing Gallery, Xiamen, China
2012 How do you roll your news? Hunoghun, Reykjavik, Iceland
selected exhibitions
2021 Gates (might) open soon, Kanal-Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium
2021 Zomersalon 2021, Kunsthal Gent, Ghent, Belgium
2021 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Tokamachi, Japan
2020 Dis-Dancing, with The NordiK Government, Vermeulen, Brussels, Belgium
2019-20 New Glass Now, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, USA
2019 New Encounters, artspace Edition Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan
2019 50 years glass, Museum Jan van Togt, Amstelveen, the Netherlands
2019 River, collaboration with Yang Zhiqian, CEAC - Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China
2019 State of Transparency, Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2019 Nordic Salon II, Café des Arts, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, China
2018 Rolling Snowball, Amnua Art Museum of Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
2017 Kunniavieras, Rauman Järjestötalo, Rauma, Finland
2017 Live from Finland, The Finnish Institute in London, London, UK
2016-17 Living Room Project, a series of site-specific installations taking place in Finland, Iran and France
2016 Graduation show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2016 Unannealed, The Large Glass Department, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2016 Looking down and backwards... together with Immigrants and animals, Kutomo, Turku, Finland
2015 The Possibility of An Island, Shapowei, Xiamen, China
2014 UnCut, de Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2013 SAM-decorfabriek, Maastricht, the Netherlands
2013 Paraphrasing babel, Maastricht, the Netherlands
2011 Para aqui o para llevar? Metafora, Barcelona, Spain
2011 Projecte Alella, Can Manye, Alella, Spain
2011 Stairways... Untitled BCN, Barcelona, Spain
2011 Bootyfarra, Punt Multimedia, Barcelona, Spain
2010 23WTRTW, Metafora, Barcelona, Spain
2007-11 several student exhibitions, Nuutajärvi/Tampere, Finland
selected performances / events
2019 Other bakers, LRDC, Lucitopia, Jiangxi, China
2019 See again, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2017 I You It, Porin Juhlaviikot, Pori, Finland
2017 Living (Room) Event, Paris, France
2017 I You It, We You They, Art Fair Suomi, Helsinki, Finland
2015 Defining encounters, Shapowei, Xiamen, China
2015 Self-bakers, between a mirror and a dough, C-Platform, Xiamen, China
2015 Invitation, Nothing Gallery, Xiamen, China
2015 Invitation, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2013 Conversations I&II, collaboration with artist Crystal Gregory (USA), Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2013 Building office, collaborative process, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2013 Holder, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2013 Enter/Exit, A Miscellany of Broken Silence, audio publication by VEC Audio, Rod Summers, the Netherlands
2013 Valdis/Beast, film by Tosca Teran, Toronto, Canada
2013 Invitation, Intro inSitu, Maastricht, the Netherlands
2011 Story project, Barcelona/Madrid, Spain
residencies /talks / workshops / teaching
2019 residency, WE Art Project, Making Space, Guangzhou, China
2019 residency, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
2018- teacher, Western Art Program, Julong High School of Arts, Quanzhou, Fujian, China
2017 Hautumo, 10 months long incubator program consisting of several residencies in various locations in Finland and England
2017 residency Paaygaah, Tehran/Keresht, Iran
2015 artist talk & workshop, C-Platform, Xiamen, China
2015 guest lecturer, Huaer De Mimi Huayuan Art School, Xiamen, China
2013 guest instructor, NGO Mundesia, Mitrovica, Kosovo
2010 residency, Nanopod Hybrid Studio, Toronto, Canada
curating
2020- URGENT - a residency for art works, Ghent, Belgium
Launched in September 2020 with the first resident The Blob by Dutch artist Eva Spierenburg.
Curatorial collaboration with Sanaz Raffii and Gaah Art Production Studio since 2017-
2020 Interstice - Without Words, Etemad Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2018 Without Words, Gaah Space, Keresht, Iran
Currently run exchange projects
April 2020- body as a landscape with Paul Nieboer
March 2020- exchange of daily notes with Katharina Kapsamer
July 2018- daily food exchange with Deming Chen
Memberships
2020- The NordiK Goverment, artist collective, gallery K41, Brussels, Belgium
2017 HIAA Helsinki International Artists' Association
2016- MUU Artists' Association