Florian Maritz CH, b. 1996
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).
Education
2017–2020
Bachelor of Arts in Art and Art Education, HSLU (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts), Lucerne
2019
Erasmus Semester at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (Painting with Daniel Richter)
2016–2017
Foundation Course in Art, HSLU, Lucerne
Solo Exhibitions
2025
schneemann1, KALI Gallery, Lucerne
2023
Haustier, KALI LAB, Paranoia Store, Lucerne
Noch kein Mausoleum für den Edelkrebs, Public Art Commission, Kriens/Horw
2021
La vie est Beautiful, Espace Libre, Biel/Bienne
Glyptothek Maritz, Sic! Elephanthouse, Lucerne
2020
Ciao! – Maritz Sculpture Garden, Altdorf
Group Exhibitions
2025
Partially, B74 Raum für Kunst, Lucerne
2024
Points of View, Altdorf
Derma, Piuquarantuno, Saceba, Mendrisio
Object Art in Focus, Visarte Central Switzerland, Kornschütte, Lucerne
Art Break, Chollerhalle, Zug
2023
Annual Exhibition of Works and Grants, Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf
Dirty Fire, Balabiott Museum, Lugano
2022
Annual Exhibition of Works and Grants, Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf
Bee City, Bee Days, Gitschenen
2021
It’s so cloudy, I can barely see you, HSLU Viscosistadt, Emmenbrücke
Now How To Snow, Performance with Ewald Trachsel, Espace Libre, Biel
Annual Exhibition of Works and Grants, Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf
2020
Carì Art Safari, Carì, Ticino
Annual Exhibition of Works and Grants, Haus für Kunst Uri, Altdorf
49 Ashtrays, Kaffe Kra, Altdorf
2019
Young Artists, Galerie ART87, Andermatt
Publication
2021
Archive for Future, Turbopress, Biel/Bienne
Assistantships
2020
Studio assistant for Lutz & Guggisberg
2023
Studio assistant for Klodin Erb