Olga Flór explores our surroundings through abstraction, valuing abandoned spaces, everyday environments, and memories as meaningful connections with reality. They are traces of our passage and project environments of escape. Her approach to design revolves around suggesting alternative ways to experience and perceive our environment, emphasizing our relationship with objects and things. By prioritising contemplation in our materialistic and image-driven society, Flór depicts notions such as duration and boredom as contrasting ideal states of being. Through a poetic and semi-abstract approach, she crafts unique metal and textile sculptures, tapestries, and wearables, invoking warmth and opening spaces.
Exhibitions and collaborations
2024
May
Home : This Must Be The Place - Spring school program and exhibition/ concept, curation and scenography with Corradino Garofalo
2023
September/october
Curation, Exhibition Design and organisation of «Drawn To» Pop-up store; The Pool Edition and DDW 2023 edition in EIndhoven.
June-October
Exhibition «House of Dreamers» curated by Anne-Laure Lestage at Fondation Boghossian, Brussels
July - December
Design and production of Design Academy Eindhoven Awards: René Smeets, Melkweg and Gijs Bakker
July - December
Design and production of Karel van Mander and Jan van Gelder Trophies VNK (Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici)
October
Above The Fallow Land - Exhibition for Dutch Design Week 2023 in Sectie-C/ concept, curation and scenography with Corradino Garofalo
October
Preparing for Wintersleep - Exhibition for Dutch Design Week 2023 in Sectie-C/ Curated with Corradino Garofalo
2022
June
Exhibition at Villa Noailles in Hyères, Design Parade, SARDINE SARDINE by Madeleine Oltra and Angelo de Taisne
August
ARTORAMA in Marseille with FRACAS Gallery, «27 planters, 9 artists»
September
Solo Show in Hotel MOTTO during Vienna Design Week 2022
September
Viennese Noodle Bar of Vienna Design Week 2022
October
Collective exhibition for Dutch Design Week 2022
October
Part of the collective exhibition "Un Ciseau à Soie" by Envie Pressante, in Pantin
2021
April-September
Exhibition at Kazerne Eindhoven, Impromptu mini graduation show
May
Duo Exhibition with Willem Van Hoof at The Pool in Sectie-C 2021
May-June
Music composition in collaboration with dancer and choreographer Fatou Diarra
July-October
Art - Science exhibition at L’hôtel Lallemant in Bourges
July-October
Snelgeld from Cultuur Eindhoven for the Project «Oasis»
September
Exhibition at Salone del Mobile, «Missed Your Call»
October
Collective exhibition at Sectie-C for Dutch Design Week
2020-2021
Collaboration with physicist-artist Jean-Marc Chomaz and Chaire arts et Sciences at Ecole Polytechnique (Paris)
2020
March-June
Collaboration with Havensteder Rotterdam-Zuid, Exhibition City Circles
May-July
Collaboration with TextielLab weaving department
June
Collaboration EE Exclusives
September
Workshop Award Design Academy Eindhoven
October
Dutch Design Week 2020 virtual
December
Duo exhibition at Motta kunstboeken Eindhoven with Lola Tual
2018-2019
Collaboration with TextileLab weaving department
2016-2020
Design Academy Eindhoven in the Public & Private department
2015/2016
Bachelor Art History in Grenoble
2015 - 2016
Collaboration with textile Designer Janaïna Milheiro
2013-2015
Fundation course Industrial Design and theory in Lyon
2013
Internship with textile Designer Janaïna Milheiro
Objects At Rest
Tangible Windows
Comforting Things
Commissions
Curation
Plantasia, 2022
SWIPE DOWN ON THE PICTURE - When Humans leave a space, other beings spread, adapt, grow new leaves. The title of this project comes from Mort Garson’s album «Mother Earts Plantasia» (1976) which was composed especially for plants and was only sold to people who had some at home. Invasive and free, flora embellish and revive where humans give up. Every abandoned fragment of wall or object is taken over by them. These pieces are inspired by plants claiming their own space. They give the possibility to indoor plants to inhabit their own corner like we have our own rooms. On the one hand the twisted aluminium roots could intertwine with those of a growing plant, and on the other lies a sunflower for eternity.
Photo 5 taken by Silvia Cappellari during the exhibition "House of Dreamers", Fondation Boghossian, Brussels
