Pau/a

Artist collective Pau/a is formed by Paul Simon and Paula Veidenbauma. The duo established their collaboration in 2021 while studying at the Estonian Academy of Arts (master’s programme in Urban Studies). Having an academic background in-between (landscape) architecture and film and media theory, Pau/a engages with critical urbanism practices by creating interventions contextualised under their research fieldwork. Paul Simon is a landscape architect and urban activist, engaging with the topics of urban nature, postcapitalist city and migration. His works track down and celebrate the instances of absurdity that come with human cohabitation. Paula Veidenbauma is an urbanist, interested in the peculiarities of private and public segregation. She explores the spatial turn towards the neoliberal condition through her own body as a material for explorative praxis.