Alma Bektas is a floral artist and designer who transforms nature into art, positioning herself as a mediator between the wild and the cultivated, the organic and the constructed. Her practice spans floral design, botanical installations, scenography, costume, and set design. She holds a degree in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) in Vienna and has years of experience working as a florist, which deepens her engagement with the materiality and complexity of plants.
Her work highlights the resilience and defiance of flowers, often focusing on plants perceived as weeds or those that develop protective, spiny qualities to survive in harsh environments. By emphasizing strength, adaptation, and persistence rather than conventional beauty, her sculptures and installations address broader questions around sustainability, ecological fragility, and the human impact on climate change.
Currently based in Vienna, she pushes her practice as a critique of humanity’s destructive obsession with control over nature. Her works act as reminders of violence, exploitation, and loss—rejecting the romanticization of flowers and instead exposing the brutality of our environmental reality. Through this confrontation, she challenges viewers to face the consequences of human-driven ecological collapse.
SHOWS+COMMISSIONS
2025 TROPHILIA Okolo Festival public space sculpture Zagreb, Croatia
2025 VIENNA DESIGN WEEK stone design Vienna
2025 MITTE floral sculpture ACUD Gallery, Berlin
2025 GRANE Extended floral sculpture Exhibit Gallery, Vienna
2025 Composition vs. Decomposition floral sculpture EKA Gallery, Tallinn Estonia
2025 MYSTERIEN SPIELE stage & costume design Volkskundemuseum, Vienna
2025 UNDER THE BLANKETS costume design & creative direction Wiener Fest Wochen
2025 TURON stage design Mala Herba Donaufestival Krems
2025 BLOOMS window display Sacher Hotels Vienna
2025 Denerea floral sculpture Popchop Otto Wagner Areal Vienna
2024 BRANCHING VEINS Floral Installation, Group Show, Museum of Wooden Urban Architecture, Villnius, Lithuania
2024 GRANE Floral Sculpture, The Window and the Couch, West Space Vienna, Austria
2024 OPIUM by Katharina Kummer Stage Design, Young Spectator´s Theater Leipzig, Germany
2024 FLORA HERSELF Floral sculpture, (CON)TEMPORARY FASHION SHOWCASE, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
2024 METABOLISM Floral Sculpture, Galerie KRAS Vienna, Austria
2024 GORE GARDEN Floral Sculpture, Supermarket Art Fair Stockholm, Sweden
2024 ELEVATE FESTIVAL Floral Sculpture, Orpheum Graz, Austria
2023 THE FEST Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien
2023 SHOWROOM Floral Installation, Austrian Fashion Association, Paris
2023 WATER LILY GROWING; MILES OF A SHALLOW Floral installation, Group show Wasserturm, Wien ,
2023 NEIGHBOURS Floral Installation Group show, WEST Space, Vienna
2023 NAILGASM Floral Installation, Ausstellung Austrian Fashion Association, Vienna
2023 ELEVATE FESTIVAL OPENING” Floral Installation, Orpheum, Graz
2022 ImPulsTANZ Vienna International Dance Festival, Floral Design
2022 VIENNA DESIGN WEEK ”FOKUS: Ornament” Vertical Distel, floral Installation
2022 EXPERIENCE NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE Totem floral sculpture, Group show, Room D, MUSEUMSQUARTIER, Vienna
2021 UNDER ARCHED CEILINGS Floral Installation, Group show, Sala Terrena Heiligenkreuzerhof Wien
2021 UNDER THE MUSHROOMS Video Installation, Kunst Haus Wien
2021 ON A DAILY BASIS Floral Installation, Group show, Das Werk, Vienna
THEATER
2025 MYSTERIEN SPIELE stage & costume design Volkskundemuseum, Vienna
2024 “OPIUM oder: Ich habe Hunger, Ich möchste Gott essen”, Theater der Jungen Welt, Leipzig, stage and costume props
2023 “DAS HEIDI” Theater o.N. Berlin, stage and costume design
2023 “WHAT DID YOU DO WHEN LADY DI DIED” Werk X am Petersplatz, stage and costume design
SELECTED CLIENTS / COLABORATORS / PUBLICATIONS
CINCIN
VIENNA DESIGN WEEK
MAK MUSEUM
IMPULSTANZ
AUSTRIAN FASHION ASSOCIATION
ANOUK STORE
REGIA MAG
JANA WIELAND
CHRISTINA SEEWALD
VIS A VIS
ZEIT MAGAZINE
DIE PRESSE
RADO
MATCHA KOMACHI
SUMPF
ZALANDO
SLINA STORE
ELEVATE FESTIVAL
ABFAB
SKOPIK&LOHN
DSCENE
REGIAMAG
JENNIFER MILLEDER
RONDO
PRESS