About Flora
Flora Lechner is a designer from Vienna, Austria, currently based in the Netherlands.
In her work she takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining sculpture, design and moving image. She first and foremost examines the utility and handling suggested by an object or material. She tries to interrupt, repurpose or even overemphasize the suggestion by confronting the object with its absurdities. In this way, she plays with guidelines and imagination, exploring different levels of reality and challenging the conventions of shifts in form and material, always maintaining a humorous perspective. She likes to see her works as small stages or potential action spaces, playing with the idea of activation and ghostly stasis.
In her work she takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining sculpture, design and moving image. She first and foremost examines the utility and handling suggested by an object or material. She tries to interrupt, repurpose or even overemphasize the suggestion by confronting the object with its absurdities. In this way, she plays with guidelines and imagination, exploring different levels of reality and challenging the conventions of shifts in form and material, always maintaining a humorous perspective. She likes to see her works as small stages or potential action spaces, playing with the idea of activation and ghostly stasis.
Education
2018-2020
2012- 2018
2018-2020
Design Academy Eindhoven, Contextual Design MA
2012- 2018
Industrial Design, MA (Cum Laude) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Selected Exhibitions
2022Group exhibition Cruising - Huidenclub, Rotterdam (NL)
The Instant Noodle Bar-Vienna Design Week , Vienna (AT)
2022
Group exhibition Cruising - Huidenclub, Rotterdam (NL)
Group exhibition Despise design, all bless the fair - Onomatopee, Eindhoven (NL)
Commissioned seating system for an art installation by Marie Tuckóva- Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR)
Group exhibition
The Instant Noodle Bar-Vienna Design Week , Vienna (AT)
Group exhibition
Intergenerational Graduation Show- Milano Design Week,
Milan (IT)
Group exhibition
Out of Proportion- Pick me up!- DWDS, Bregenz (AT)
Publication
2022Les Nouveaux Riches-InterviewKnow more︎︎︎
Contextual Design, Graduation show by artsthread
2018
Conceptkicks: Körperobjekte by Flora Lechner.
2022