Public Defence

Public defence: Pauliina Pöllänen

Time: 16 May, 09:00 - 12:00

Place: Gunnar Sævigs sal at the Grieg Academy, Lars Hillesgate 3

Pauliina Pöllänen will defend her PhD degree at the University of Bergen on May 16 2023 with her project "Porous Worlds - Liminal Spaces of the Relief"

The artistic research project examines the relief, its connections to art, craft, architecture, and ornament, as well as its various dimensions as an artistic medium.  It has been the relief´s in-between status and the lack of contemporary art discourse around it that has informed the questions like: what is at stake working with relief form today? What kind of artistic potential and possibilities does ceramic relief have to offer? 

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