Piela Auvinen (born 1981) is artist, ceramist and vocational teacher in the cultural field from Finland. She uses and explores clay diversely with different techniques in her works. Essential in her works is experimentation, material research, mastering technique and also
often playfulness.
Auvinen is an emphatic observer and representor of human being and human mind. She often wants to enable touching in her works. Auvinen is multi-talent in cultural field, eternal student, uncompromising, ambitious and always wants to go further and deeper. Openness, open-mindedness, curiosity and interest of different phenomena gives themes to her works. Clay, as a embodiment of artistic communication, has travelled alongside
her from childhood and significance of this material grows stronger year after year for her.
She has participated over 100 art exhibitions since year 2012. Auvinen has been in jury of Collector Coin Committee as an expert of design and she has been successful in material research of clay and also as a manufacturer of historical ceramic reconstructions in Finland. She was invited to the 2019 Florence Biennale and her art work was awarded in the ceramic art section. In 2020 Auvinen successfully curated the national ceramics exhibition CERAMEGA2020 and in the spring of 2022 the glass art exhibition ”HUMAN – stories in glass” at the Voipaala Art Center. In 2023, Auvinen’s works have been on display in Gallery Halmetoja in Mänttä and Nuutajärvi at the HOT VILLAGE -jubilee exhibition.