2025Simon Lehner - How Far is a Lightyear, 2005-2019 - Set

The young Austrian artist Simon Lehner creates hybrid artworks that engage with a wide range of themes.

Born in 1996, Simon Lehner studied Photography and Time-Based Media at the University of Ap- plied Arts in Vienna. While his artistic practice is rooted in photography, it expands into painting techniques and image processing. Using archival photographs as a starting point, he creates three- dimensional photographic objects and installations that are digitally altered and enriched with painterly elements. In his cycle "How far is a lightyear?", Lehner explores themes such as masculin- ity, trauma, and the development of identity within the family. Childhood photographs are digitally reworked and recomposed into new visual narratives and compositions.