Pauliina Pöllänen (b. 1983, Finland)
Pauliina Pöllänen has a PhD in artistic research from The Art Academy, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen, 2023. In her research project, Porous Worlds – the Liminal Spaces of Relief, she examined the relief, its connections to art, craft, architecture, and ornament, as well as its various dimensions as an artistic medium.
In recent years Pöllänen has exhibited at the CLAY museum in Denmark, Kunsthall Grenland, Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum and Uppsala Art Museum in Sweden, Hordaland Kunstsenter and Kunstnerforbundet. She has been a resident artist at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2018, and at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia 2016. Her works can be found in the collections of KODE, Nasjonalmuseet, Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum and Uppsala Konstmuseum among others.
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