Photograph by Sally Mackay
Laura Krog (b. 2004, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal) is a multidisciplinary artist currently pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Pretoria.
Her work navigates the strange intimacy of shared spaces and histories, often centering around the dinner table as a site of connection, absurdity, and quiet ritual. Drawing from medieval iconography, family traditions, and contemporary detritus, she builds tactile, symbolic worlds inhabited by anthropomorphic beasts and altered artefacts.
Blending printmaking, sculpture, waxwork, and collage, Krog’s practice explores themes of myth-making, memory, and inter-personal dynamics. Fictional bestiaries, mismatched crockery, and wax tableware coexist with stitched serviettes and fish-people in courtly dress. Her works embrace contradiction: both humorous and sincere, reverent and subversive, they reimagine everyday materials through the lens of the medieval grotesque.
Through playful reconstruction and speculative record-keeping, she examines how we aestheticise control, tenderness, gossip, and the self. Her ongoing interest lies in bridging past and present, crafting fragmented but legible cosmologies where viewers are invited to look closer - and find themselves implicated in the feast.
She is currently based in Pretoria. Recent projects have explored group critique culture, symbolic dining rituals, and mythographic representations of interpersonal archetypes.
Exhibitions
How the light gets in, pinhole group exhibiton, Trent Gallery (2023)
Intertwined, undergrad group exhibition, Gallery 2-1 (2024)
Printmaking group exhibition, Ecole d'Art du Grand Angouleme (2024)
Connecting Migrations, printmaking group exhibition, Link Gallery (2024)
At once, undergrad group exhibtion, Gallery 2-1 (2025)