FLORA LEMMENS

My work is anchored in the term perception. Each of us sees the world through a different lens. It is fascinating how individual realities collide, drift apart, or slip past one another. What interests me most is disconnection: this moment when understanding fails and we feel alienated to one another.
Bodies are central in my work because they symbolize both separation and connection. A body makes it clear where you end and I begin, yet we move through the same fragile life together. This leads me to themes of estrangement, alienation and closeness: how someone can suddenly feel distant, how the familiar can turn strange, but we still endlessly seem to long for closeness.

I work experimentally and in the in-between of disciplines, using photography, new media, experimental music, 3D, and other digital forms. My process is always searching, guided by tests and encounters rather than fixed outcomes. Each project is a way to see how closeness and distance play out between people.

Disconnection is not only personal. It reflects one of the biggest challenges of society today. Constant connection through technology, yet a growing feeling of being apart. My work does not solve this, but it creates space to notice it, to feel it, and to ask questions about it.

Education:
2024-2025: NEXT XR Talent Program, XR Development, Playgrounds, Eindhoven, NL
2022-2023: Subsidiary Course – (Art)ificial Intelligence, iArts, MIA, Maastricht, NL
2022-2023: Internship at NL12, led by Leo Erken and Frieda Gustavs, Amsterdam, NL
2021-2022: Honours Programme, Zuyd Premium Programme, The Artist and The Others, NL
2021-2022: Subsidiary Course – Communication Science, Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL
2019-2023: Bachelor of Arts, BA – Visual Communications | Photography, MIA, Maastricht, NL

Keynote Speaker, Conferences & Research:
2025: APE CAMP 2025, Conference, Keynote Speaker, Art x Tech, Seoul, KR
2025: YOUR.AI project, Conference, Advisor on Artists vs. AI, Rome, IT
2025: The Art Department 2025, Keynote Speaker, Eindhoven, NL
2025: NatLab, Keynote Speaker “Gyre Subdued”, NEXT XR Talent Program, Eindhoven, NL
2023: Cultural & Artistic Research, Round-Trip South-Korea, KR

Awards/Grants:
2025: Silver Medal – Experimental Photography, Fotoslovo 2025
2025: Winner Best idea – Mission 2 feat. Incheon Airport, South-Korea, APE CAMP 2025
2024: NEXT XR Talent Program, Playgrounds Eindhoven: XR Development Grant
2023: Winner – Incentive Prize ScriptieKunst.org 2023
2023: Finalist – Henriëtte Hustinx Prize, Edmond Hustinx foundation
2018: Winner – The Golden Hummingbird, CINEKID Media Award, ECP

Group Exhibitions:
2025: SEAC 2025 Concert – MusicSpace GF, Seoul, KR
2024: Dutch Design Week – Section-C, Eindhoven, NL
2024: Limburg Biënale – Marres, Maastricht, NL
2024 : ‘Amuse’ – Galerie Wilms ft. Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, NL
2024: ‘Op Pad’ – Zuyderland Medical Centrum, Geleen, NL
2023: ‘Regenerate’, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen, NL
2023: ‘Bodytalk’,  De Salon, De Domijnen, Sittard, NL
2023: ‘The Beginning’, curated by Gladys Zeevaarders, Graduation Show, MIA, Maastricht, NL
2023: ‘Art vs. Technology’, curated by Anniek Mol, Fotofestival Eindhoven, Eindhoven, NL
2023: ‘Spectrum’, (Art)ificial Intelligence, Banka Studios, Maastricht, NL
2022: ‘LFF Expanded’, curated by Ulrich Schrauth, part of internship at NL12, BFI London, ENG
2022 ‘Something Is Not Quite Right’, curated by Ana Sous, de Meldkamer, Maastricht, NL
2022: Young Office – Bonnefanten, Maastricht, NL
2022: Liberation Festival, Roermond, NL
2021: Psyched! (Film) Festival, Heerlen, NL
2021: ‘Ab Imo Pectore’, Visual/Sound Installation, Musica Sacra Festival, Maastricht, NL
2021: ‘The makeable mind’, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Groningen, NL
2021: ‘Room with our View’, Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht, NL
2018: ‘Art in the grocery store’, De Domijnen, Sittard, NL

Solo & Duo Exhibitions:
2022: ‘The Birth of The Netherlands 1572’, with Jac Lemmens, Roermond, NL
2021: ‘Selfless’, Musica Sacra Festival, De Domijnen, Sittard, NL

Interviews, Publications & Press:
2025: ‘Fashioning Rendered Worlds’, WETWARE Magazine – Adil Boughlala
2025: Artist Talk Business, Podcast – Manon Beernink
2024: OOMPH!, Café Het Hijgend Hert, Breda – Mackenzie Fincham
2023: Metropolis M, Eindexamens 2023, ‘Instar’ – Guus van Engelshoven
2022: Radio Lelystad, Maandagavond Salon – Joshua Buijnink
2021: De Limburger, ‘Musica Sacra: Moeder Aarde inspireert tot grootse daden’ – Maurice Wiche
2021: L1 Radio, L1 Cultuurcafé, ‘Selfless’ – Tom Doesborg
2021: De Domijnen, ‘Selfless’ Festivalprelude Musica Sacra Festival – Philip Leussink
2020: Elly Blom poetry bundle 2020
2018: ‘Prize for Instagram Project’, 7Days Youth newspaper – Charlotte Goldhoorn

Brand Collaborations:
2024: Saal Digital, Professional Line Photobook
2020: Saal Digital, Professional Line Photobook
2018: Saal Digital, Aluminium Print 

Flora Lemmens is an interdisciplinary artist from Sittard, a small village in the south of the Netherlands. She studied at Maastricht Institute of Arts and is known for her innovative and thought-provoking work.

Flora’s work explores the relationship between perception, the mind and reality, aiming to create a sense of disconnection and detachment. Praised for its emotionally resonant nature, her work has been exhibited in places such as De Meldkamer, Bonnefanten, Liberation Festival Roermond, Musica Sacra Festival, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Theater aan het Vrijthof and Het Nieuwe Domein. In 2023 Flora won the incentive ScriptieKunst prize and was nominated as finalist of the Henriëtte Hustinx Prize with her graduation work “INSTAR”.

Flora continues to experiment and push the boundaries of her practice. Her work invites us to reflect on the relationship between the self, the world and reality, and to celebrate the power of the human experience. Through her use of digital art forms, Flora’s work inspires us to consider the impact of technology on our perceptions and experiences and to celebrate the power of human experience in a rapidly changing technological landscape.