About

I’m a Helsinki based artist, working under the name Studio Lasifaasi. I’m looking the traditional world of glass art from an unconventional point of view: I’m trained both as a scientist and a designer, and I’m constantly working at the borders of art, science, and design. When not working with art glass, I’m doing research on glass chemistry or teaching art.

Laura Aalto-Setälä

Artist CV

Born 1988 in Espoo, Finland
contact laura@lasifaasi.fi

Education

MA in Applied Product and Spatial design, Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture, 2016
M.Sc. in Theoretical Physics, University of Helsinki, 2014

Private exhibitions

Tarkkailijoita - Observers Galleria Outolintu, Turku, 2.-21.6.2015

Group exhibitions

Kirjeitä Itämerelle, 7.8.-5.9.2020 Galleria Kuja, Helsinki
Lasin kierre, 7.1.-22.3.2020, Gumbostrand konst & form
Suomen lasi elää 8, 15.2.-19.4.2020, Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki Studio Lasifaasi, Habitare 2018, 12.-16.9.2018, Helsinki Suomenlinna B34, 15.5.-30.9., 2017, 2018, 2019
Finnorszag, Bor és kézmuves Gallery, 22-24.9.2017, Budapest, Hungary
100 x Glass, Finnish Glass Museum, Riihimäki, 18.5.-5.11.2017
Suomenlinna B34, Suomenlinna, Finland 15.5.-30.9.2017
Turku Artists’s Assoaciation 92th Annual Exhibition Gallery Brinkkala, 30.9.–6.11.2016, Turku, Finland
Stanislav Libensky Award Exhibition, ZIBA Prague Glass Museum, Prague, Czech Republic, 20.10.-31.12.2015
Protoshop, Habitare Furniture Fair, Helsinki, 9.-13.9.2015
Take away - art to go, Galleria Johan S, Helsinki, 13.5-12.6.2015
Suomen lasi elää 7, Finnish Glass museum, Riihimäki, 13.2.-10.5.2015
Rajamailla, Galleria Lasipalatsi 31.3.-6.4.2014
International Glass Art Student Exhibition, Palmer House, Chicago 20.-22.3.2014

Awards and competitions

Honourable mention at Red Dot Award 2018: Product Design
1st prize, popular science writing composition by Tiede, 2018
Honourary mention, Finnish Glass Museum’s design competition, 2017
1st prize, American Ceramic Society’s PCSA Science video demonstration competition, 2017 & 2018 1st prize, American Ceramic Society’s PCSA Creativity Competition, 2017
Finalist at Stanislav Libensky Award 2015
Finalist at SOK art award 2016
Finalist at Art of Basware 2016

Scientific publications

S53P4 bioactive glass scaffolds induce BMP expression and integrative bone formation in a critical-sized diaphysis defect treated with a single-staged induced membrane technique.
DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2021.03.035

Sintered S53P4 bioactive glass scaffolds have anti-inflammatory properties and stimulate osteogenesis in vitro
DOI: 10.22203/ecm.v041a02

Effect of bioactive glass air‐abrasion on the wettability and osteoblast proliferation on sandblasted and acid‐etched titanium surfaces
DOI: 10.1111/eos.12683

Air Abrasion with Bioactive Glass Eradicates Streptococcus mutans Biofilm from a Sandblasted and Acid-Etched Titanium Surface
DOI: 10.1563/aaid-joi-d-18-00324

Antibacterial properties of bioactive glass particle abraded titanium against Streptococcus mutans
DOI: 10.1088/2057-1976/aabeee