Artist Workshop (EN)
Laurence Sturla
No Landmarks

Join the artist Laurence Sturla for a special workshop developing ceramic sculptures based on images, found objects and research materials. We will explore how forms can be distorted, reassembled and materially reimagined through our hands. Rather than creating a “correct” representation, the focus lies on using simple hand-building techniques to translate details from images into new and autonomous ceramic forms.

The workshop is divided into two parts: First, a large number of individual components will be produced and arranged together as a shared visual “field.” In the second part, participants will select from all the elements created by the group and use them to develop their own sculptures. In this way, individual works emerge from collective materials, moving between machine, architecture and sculpture.

The workshop invites participants to practically explore questions of authorship, memory and collective form-making.

Please bring a selection of images, materials or found objects which you feel resonate with the idea of a landmark. In addition, research materials curated by the artist will be available on site.

No prior experience necessary!
Materials and tools will be provided.

Please register at: vermittlung@kunsthallewien.at

Workshop fee: € 25 
Reduced rate: € 15

The reduction applies to students, civil servants and people in military service, apprentices and Kunsthalle Wien annual ticket holders. Places are also reserved for holders of the ‘Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur’ culture pass.

Laurence Sturla

Laurence Sturla (b. 1992, Swindon, United Kingdom) creates sculptures that evoke the remnants of industrial systems while simultaneously suggesting anatomical structures and organic processes. Working with clay, he folds earlier, unfired fragments back into new forms, producing surfaces that appear weathered and marked by their own past.

Laurence Sturla has held solo exhibitions at Goswell Road, Paris (2024, 2017); Loggia, Munich (2021) and Pina, Vienna (2018). Sturla’s work has also featured group presentations at Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2025); MAK – Museum of Applied Arts; Belvedere (both Vienna, 2023). Sturla teaches in the Department of Sculptural Conceptions / Ceramics, Kunstuniversität Linz.