Florian Maritz is a sculptor whose work transforms the overlooked materials of everyday life—e.g. used textiles, kitchen foil, PET bottles—into poetic monuments of care, consumption, and domestic labor. His practice explores the tensions between personal routines and societal excess, reframing parenthood and household mess as fertile sculptural ground.
In Archive for Future, Maritz imagines a future archaeological collection built from today‘s discarded objects. These sculptural “relics” fuse absurdity and sincerity, reflecting on what we leave behind and how value is constructed over time. The project serves as both a critique of material culture and a gesture of speculative preservation.
Recurring themes of environmental awareness and emotional labor run through his practice, whether in marble pacifiers, papier-mâché stacks of household goods, or large-scale public works like Noch kein Mausoleum für den Edelkrebs, which links ecological fragility with myth-making and monumentality.
Maritz studied at HSLU Luzern and completed an Erasmus semester at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Daniel Richter. His work has been exhibited at Sic! Elephanthouse (Luzern), Espace Libre (Biel/Bienne), Piuquarantuno (Mendrisio), and Haus für Kunst Uri (Altdorf), among others.
He lives and works in Isenthal (CH).