mariella lehner

  Stars  

📍Arndtstraße 30, 1120 Wien

As Mariella Lehner’s current work focuses on environmental themes and this year’s topic is Utopia, they chose to depict flocks of starlings. These migratory birds are becoming increasingly rare in Austria, with their numbers declining across Europe. Known for their spectacular formation flights, starlings are highly social and ensure that resources are shared within the entire flock—behaviors they envision for their own utopian vision of a global community.

With parts of Arndtstraße currently being greened and as they now live in the area, their utopia also imagines a greener Meidling, full of trees and nesting places for starlings. 

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mariella lehner
(vienna, austria)

Mariella Lehner (born 1992 in Lower Austria) is a visual artist working across various mediums, with a strong focus on painting. After growing up in the countryside, she moved to Vienna following high school to study Art History, Graphic Design, and later Fine Arts, with further studies in Greece, the US, and China. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally in solo and group shows across galleries, institutions, and off-spaces. In 2018, she co-founded the street art collective Ripoff Crew with Käthe Löffelmann and Linda Steiner, through which they have realized numerous large-scale murals in and around Vienna.