Laura Mahnke
is an artist and writer based in Hamburg, Germany. Her individual and collaborative work has been shown, among others, in Modos Dever (Leipzig, solo), ICAT, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Frappant Galerie, and MOM art space (Hamburg), MKG Hamburg, Dos Mares (Marseille). She participated in various symposia, publications and podcasts at or published by Künstlerhaus Lauenburg, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, and others.

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I am a professional potter, sculptor and writer. My work focuses on the human body and flesh, memories, (inner) landscapes, and the present time. I am fascinated and deeply moved by emotions like rage, yearning and shame. Formally, I wander between the literal and poetic abstraction. My writing is situated in autotheory and I call it raw writing or raw poetry.

I am a woman with a non-academic background and I started studying fine arts in my late twenties being a mother of one. Everything I did before entering the academic art world shapes and enriches my artistic practice: motherhood, feminism, punk, community building and low-budget decadence.

Metaphorical materials as well as the way and the conditions under which a work is produced carry another layer of my work. Poetry or prose, either self written or consumed through music and literature, often act as the cornerstones of my work or become works themselves.