Contact
For collaborations, commissions and enquiries you can reach me here
ldubourjal@hotmail.frCV
b.1994
current artist in residence at WOW Lieven Amsterdam
Studies
2022 MA Dutch Art Institue, ArtEz
2018 Bachelor of Arts and Design, Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Exhibitions
2022
Open rehearsal, Looking for Character, in Aeroponics acts Dutch Art Institute, at Central Fies, Italy
Performance, excerpt from Looking for Character, in A Mic Of One’s Own: If the body is a home, who is our neighbor?, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, NL
Performance, excerpt from Looking for Character, in Dutch Art Institute, at BACO Bergamo, Italy
Group Exhibition, Inside Laï’s mind, in Home Cinema x Unreliable Narrators, Reneenee, Amsterdam, NL
Online exhibition, Flags of Wasted Lands, ARTFUSION Room VI, The Holy Art, UK
Online screening, Inside Laï’s mind, in Home Cinema x Unreliable Narrators
Group online exhibition, Inside Laï’s mind, in A Cooperative enterprise during The Wrong Biennale n°5
2021
Performance, excerpt from Looking for Character, in Dutch Art Institute, Posttheatre, Arnhem, NL
Solo live event, Inside Laï’s mind, Museum of Unfulfilled Dreams, Fringe Arts Bath, UK
Group exhibition, The Octopus Dialogues, in Future Everyday Life, Formation Camp, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL,
Group exhibition, Hunger&Focus, Prisoner of our own illusion, Amsterdam, NL
Group exhibition, Flags of Wasted Lands, Garden exhibition, Wow Lieven, Amsterdam, NL
Solo digital event, Inside Laï’s mind, Museum of Unfulfilled Dreams, Fringe Arts Bath, UK
Solo exhibition Flags of Wasted Lands, eight cubic meters, Amsterdam, NL
Group exhibition, Selfie Embroideries, at Immateriel, Amsterdam, NL
2020
Solo exhibition Flags of Wasted Lands, eight cubic meters, Amsterdam(NL)
Group exhibition No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam(NL)
2019
Group exhibition Absurd Beings on Skin, Kunstcapel, 1-4 May, Amsterdam(NL)
Group exhibition KunstRai 2019, Amsterdam (NL)
Group exhibition, Wow this is not a Fashion Show, WOW, Amsterdam (NL)
2018
Group show ALIGNE, subtly towards static movement, Butcher’s Tears, Amsterdam (NL)
Graduation Show Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2017
The Fashion Show Rietveld Academie 2017 Amsterdam (NL)
Group Exhibition Cinq cent quarante minutes at Sexyland, Amsterdam (NL)
2016
The Fashion Show Rietveld Academie 2016 Amsterdam (NL)
2015
The Fashion Show Rietveld Academie 2015 Amsterdam (NL)
Group Exhibition WONDER&WANDER in the Oude Kerk, Amsterdam (NL)
Residencies
2021
Artwell Amsterdam (NL)
2019
WOW Lieven Amsterdam (NL)
2018
WOW Amsterdam (NL)
Prices and distinction
2021
Certificate of merit, Luxembourg Art Prize
Publications
2022
WOW artists in residency
2018
Eindexamen Rietveld 2018 afdeling VAV https://trendbeheer.com/2018/07/05/eindexamen-rietveld-2018-afdeling-vav/
2016
Recens N°5
Introduction to the practice
Laura Dubourjal is a French fashion designer, artist, and facilitator based in the Netherlands. Her multidisciplinary practice moves between clothing, text, performance, and collaborative formats; often using garments, theatre methods, and workshop structures to explore how stories live in bodies, images, and materials.
Raised in a family of actors, Laura draws on theatre as a tool for staging conversation, role-shifting, and embodied reflection. Her work weaves together textiles, voice, and gestures to investigate how knowledge is shared, remembered, or made visible; especially through plant motifs, visual culture, and altered everyday forms.
She is currently the coordinator of the Lectorate Art & Spatial Praxis at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, where she co-develops formats for artistic dialogue and shared inquiry. Recent projects include Tactics of the Plot, developed with Linnea Langfjord Kristensen and Patricia de Vries, which explores narrative structures through collective reenactments and reflective group work.
Alongside her artistic and facilitation work, Laura runs an eponymous independent fashion studio focused on limited-edition pieces that bridge storytelling and material research.
She attended the Audio-visual department (VAV) at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (BA 2018) and the Dutch Art Institute at ArtEZ (MA 2022).
Her work has been exhibited in venues and events such as PuntWG , Oude Kerk Amsterdam, Amsterdam Fashion Week, Eight Cubic Meters Gallery, Kunstcapel Amsterdam, and KunstRAI Art Fair, Kunstinstituut Melly and Central Fies (IT).
She is currently based between Amsterdam and Paris.