Florian Nörl

Linz, Austria

Bavarian-born artist Florian Nörl redefines the material language of contemporary art through his pioneering Textilstein® technique. This unique process transforms found materials such as postmodern textiles, fragments of bed linens, antique newspapers, and discarded fabrics into sculptural surfaces that are both richly textured and intensely patterned.

By fusing these everyday remnants into what he calls “technofossils,” Nörl creates works that blur the boundaries between abstraction and figuration while preserving tangible traces of human consumption. Each petrified textile becomes a layered metaphor for the Anthropocene, simultaneously immortalizing personal and collective memory while confronting the material legacies of our time.

Through his practice, Nörl invites viewers to reflect on questions of materiality, sustainability, and cultural permanence. His Textilstein® works are not only visually compelling but also conceptually charged, artifacts that hold traces of our past while inviting reflection on what endures.

"My art is timeless by itself. I see it as a kind of time capsule. Petrifying our time and past. Fossils of your clothing, bed linens, fabric.
We were here."