spatial practitioner (?)
b. 1997 in Riga, Latvia, working on the meeting points between art, architecture, urbanism, and theatre. With a background in Urban Studies (MSc, Estonian Academy of Arts), and Film, Theatre and Media Studies (BA, University of Vienna), these encounters encompass curatorial work, research, writing, and artistic practice.
Curious about the optimistic materialities of post-soviet neoliberalism and the contemporary project condition within our everyday lifes, I often explore observed paradoxes as alliances with material properties interested in knowledge production in the expanded field of architecture. The ongoing theory-grounded practice gravitates toward themes surrounding the politics of real estate, institutional practices, feminist phenomenology, and performing arts as a critical practice.
Around Riga, Latvia and Vienna, Austria.
LINA fellow 2024.
paula veidenbauma
+371 28642280
paulaveidenbauma@gmail.com
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currently
trembling ground /or/ meta-geology and the occult, where not to build, play, make love, breastfeed, snorkel, grow potaties, residency at vares, valga (ee)
N, 23(4).7275° E , exhibition at living room gallery, athens (gr)
projecting projects, an article for maja, estonian architecture review, fall 2024 issue (ee)
baltic lines group exhibition at inthecloset gallery, vilnius (lt)
presenting at LINA conference community-led architecture, sarajevo (ba)
baltic lines residency at vares, valga (ee) in june 2024
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publications
euromonster blockades, a play-essay for trans magazin, LORE, semi-annual journal of the department of architecture, ETH Zürich, gta verlag, zürich (ch)
vajadzētu pavemt [eng. should vomit sometime], a poetic essay for avīzes nosaukums, issue 15 “kam tic mākslinieks”, may 2023, riga (lv)
atā, titānik! [eng. goodbye, titanic!], an essay published by the philosophy magazine tvērums, spring 2023, riga (lv)
of neighbours and friends, protocol magazin 13: adrenalin, published by UdK Berlin (de), spring 2023, written together with christian hörner, photos by zeno schnelle
this is not a pizza, a zine, printed in the framework of
no-thing studio at the estonian academy of arts tutored by helen runting and leonard ma, tallinn (ee), winter 2022
towards an architecture of caring ecologies, a conversation with architect and researcher erika henriksson, published on arterritory [10/03/2022]
of borders and bees, a conversation with urbanists johanna richter and marcell hajdu, published on arterritory [03/05/2022]
the table between us, an essay for the book first in a series of architectonic objects: the table, published by technical university of vienna, research unit of architecture theory and philosophy of technics, edited by vera bühlmann, georg fassl, and emmanuelle chiappone-piriou, 2018, vienna (at)
recent artistic work
project center europe, a sculpture ansamble together with katariin mudist, fall 2024 (in work)
odliv, a theatre play at the slovak national drama theater, directed by lukaš brutovsky, spring 2024
dog heaven, a video installation together with paul simon
(as pau.a), screened at uus rada gallery, tallinn (ee), fall 2023
home stage, performing and living at the estonian national pavilion at the venice architecture biennale 2023, september/october 2023, venice (it)
theme park earth, installation, at chasing the devil to the moon,
group exhibition at tallinn art hall, tallinn (ee), curated by corina l. apostol, june 2023
lynetteholmen: an artificial island, short film, screened at CPHX copenhagen architecture festival (dk), fall 2022
platform ground at the group show ...through time capsules, paljassaare (ee), winter 2021
de-press conference, critical performance together with nabeel imtiaz, paljassaare (ee), fall 2021
research
baltic lines, initiated together with diana mikane. an artistic research project approaching rail baltic as a methaphorical lense to critically reflect upon connected narratives such as the concept of baltic region, baltic project friendships, baltics as nordic, baltics as a waiting room. the project aspires to develop an expanded methodology fostering new alliances and prompts reflections on where rail baltica's impact extends. baltic lines emphasizes soft approaches for navigating the managerial orientations posed by hard infrastructures on human and non-human landscapes while wondering what the tools for feminist objectivity are within artistic research practice.
this is an ongoing project together with sofie lucia maria carlson, asistė gaidilionytė, gustavs grasis, danute līva, mattias malk, diāna mikāne, katariin mudist, eglė šimėnaitė, kamilė vasiliauskaitė. project selected for 2024 LINA conference in Sarajevo. photo by gustavs grasis.
come in! performativity of flexible rental models in vienna, an artistic research project supported by the austrian federal ministry of the arts, culture, the civil service and sport (start of the project october 2024), explores the performative dimensions of urban living and the quiet neoliberalization of vienna’s housing market while exploring the influx of flexible housing schemes, often marketed as mid-term rental solutions. using floor plans as research devices, the project examines how economic, regulatory, and social forces shape the city's changing rental market.
new energy landscapes, initiated by LABLAB (se), aims to develop a cohesive trans-national and trans-disciplinary platform of know-how on how land-based renewable energy impacts landscapes, spatial planning and identity in the baltic sea region. in the project, representing linnalabor (ee), my work is connected to paldiski, estonia and its green transition through situated ethnographic practice.
partners: LABLAB, SLU Alnarp, Region Dalarna, Valga Municipality and Linnalabor, the Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Sciences in Tartu, Institute of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture of the Art Academy of Latvia, Saldus municipality, Architekturos Fondas and European Humanities University in Vilnius, IBA Thüringen.