Laura Mrksa (Croatia, 1992) is a slow designer in a fast-paced world, working from Amsterdam. Her design practice revolves around the transformation of everyday objects, predominantly furniture, as a means of exploring concepts related to materialism, consumerism, and individualism. At the moment, the focus of her practice is directed towards crafting objects that engage with the notion of rest. Within this theme, Laura adopts a comprehensive research approach, exploring urgent social realities such as workplace pressures and the impact of social media on our daily lives.
Simultaneously, she delves into the design sector’s imperative to create slow and meaningful spaces and encounters. Her dominant design tool is weaving, and she has developed a technique that utilizes the splicing of rope. Through an intuitive process of building without predetermined patterns, Laura creates nets that are subsequently incorporated into the objects she designs.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025 |
Biannual exhibition of Croatian Design 2324, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, CRO |
2024 |
Fokus: Trash, Vienna Design Week, Vienna, AT INC_Fest_final.final.final, OT301, Amsterdam, NL |
2023 |
Consuming Time, Gallery Bernardo Bernardi, Zagreb, CRO Alcova, Milan Design Week, IT |
2019 |
The Shape Of Water curated by Triennale Design Museum, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, JO The Shape Of Water curated by Triennale Design Museum, Prince Sultan Hall, Riyadh, SA The Playful Living, Milan Design Week, Milan, IT |
2018 |
The Shape Of Water curated by Triennale Design Museum, Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Centre, Kuwait City, KW The Shape Of Water curated by Triennale Design Museum, Msheireb Enrichment Centre, Doha, QAT Ein&Zwanzig by German Design Council, Milan Design Week, Milan, IT Biannual exhibition of Croatian Design 1718, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb, CRO |
2017 |
The 52nd Zagreb Salon of Applied Art and Design, Zagreb, CRO A Piece Of Zagreb, Design District Zagreb, Zagreb, CRO |
2016 |
The Lights Of The Future, Croatian Designers Association, Zagreb, CRO Young Balkan Designers, Mixer House, Belgrade, RS |
PUBLICATIONS
2024 | |
Laura Mrksa & Sepp Eckenhaussen, ‘Bedtime Stories for Restless Souls’, in Nocturnalities: Bargaining Beyond Rest, edited by Andrea Knezović & Agata Bar (Eindhoven: Onomatopee, 2024). |