Born and raised in Austria, Flora received her first academic education in London. She studied in the interdisciplinary Bachelor’s program “Arts and Sciences” at University College London, seeking to marry her diverse interests in art history, literature, theatre, linguistics, human geography, and philosophy of science. She graduated in 2017 with a dissertation on the temporalities of performance in Tehching Hsieh and Samuel Beckett's works.

Flora continued her education with an MA in Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths, pursuing research on logistics and the shipping industry, as well as human-animal collaborations in contemporary dance. She graduated in 2018 with a dissertation on grids, race, and abstraction in the work of Sondra Perry.

Awarded with a Fulbright Scholarship, Flora moved to the United States to gain a second Master’s degree in Performance Studies at New York University. During her time at NYU, Flora’s research expanded to include performative speech acts and the breaking of promises in the work of Adrian Piper, as well as the relationship between abstraction and the body in the works of Rosella Biscotti and Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

Since the fall of 2019, Flora is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is currently working on projects in Latin American performance, modern and contemporary African art, decolonial curating, Soviet Socialist Realism, and Ancient Near Eastern art. She works as a graduate teaching fellow in the Department of Art History at Hunter College.

Flora is a passionate dancer, an avid reader, and a diligent writer. She has lived in France, Kenya, Tanzania, the United Kingdom, and The United States and is highly committed to multiple forms of intercultural exchange. She has volunteered as a German language teacher for refugees, completed internships at a Jewish cultural institution and the Goethe Institute in Paris, and worked at the Salzburg Festival for classical music and drama. In London, she co-organized a series of embodied reading workshops and pub study groups. In New York, she hosts concerts, talks, and performances in the event space that is the living room of her co-op. Her passion for the arts and contemporary socio-political concerns continue to fuel her academic, professional, and personal pursuits.