Laurence Sturla

Laurence Sturla is a ceramic sculptor born in 1992 in Swindon, UK, and currently living and working in Vienna. Sturla's artistic style is a visual language that combines industrial and mechanical elements, engines, and architecture. It draws from Sturla's upbringing in Swindon, where he witnessed the decline of the once-thriving industrial revolution in England, resulting in numerous abandoned factories across town. Sturla's post-industrialist machines portray the contradiction between technological accuracy and our inability to remember and visually understand space, function, or logic.

Sturla's work has been exhibited in various exhibitions, including The Purloined Masterpiece. Images as Time Machines, Gemäldegalerie, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Academy f Fine Art, Vienna; Staying with the Trouble, Carbon12, Dubai (2022); Stone Dreams, Loggialoggialoggia, Munich; PK // K, Haus Wien, Vienna; Drawings, Gianni Manhattan, Vienna (2021); NOI, Museion, Bolzano (2019). Furthermore, Sturla teaches ceramics at Kunstuniversität Linz. Two of his exhibitions at Gianni Manhattan are Through Tongue and Soil and Drawings, which were both shown in viennacontemporary 2020.