Florian Lechner (he/him) is an abstract visual artist. His work operates at the intersection of sculpture, installation, digital image, spatial production, and artistic research from a post-digital perspective. At the heart of his practice are hybrid aesthetic spaces in which analog and digital states, materiality, perception, and virtuality are interwoven.
Lechner studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, graduating in 2012 as a master student of Hermann Pitz; he received his diploma in Fine Arts in 2021. Since 2020, he has been working at the TUM School of Engineering and Design in the field of art in architecture, where he combines artistic research, spatial design practice, and experimental teaching formats.
A central focus of his scientific and artistic work lies on epistemic spatial and experimental arrangements in art and teaching. Lechner understands spaces as relational structures that not only represent knowledge but actively generate it. Through installative arrangements of materials, media, and bodies, situations arise in which perception, movement, and reflection become methods of aesthetic insight. His practice is guided by approaches of Artistic Research and Research through Practice, in which diverse artistic methods are established and understood as epistemic tools. In his teaching as well, he develops open, collaborative working formats that conceive of the studio as a space for research and discourse. Currently, his work is focusing on the interrelated questions of operative abstraction, spatial-media experimental arrangements, and the role of teaching formats as epistemic infrastructures of artistic form.
His works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at the Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, the Museum für Konkrete Kunst Ingolstadt, and the Galerie Smudajescheck. Works by Florian Lechner are held in collections such as the Bavarian State Painting Collections.
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