Textile designer Magdalena Sophie Orland has been living and working in Leipzig since completing her Master's degree in Conceptual Textile Design at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle (Saale) in 2019.

Her artistic research approaches in her textile works are multifarious. They include 

experimental material investigations, interdisciplinary connection building, merging of traditional craft and manufacturing techniques with contemporary interpretations and methods, as well as the role of textile design within society. 

An essntial part of her work is project-based and builds on cooperation between different crafts. This enables a constant process of questioning the boundaries of design. 

Magdalena Sophie Orland has received several awards for her theoretical and practical master's thesis ZWISCHEN_RÄUMEN and has been presented in various exhibitions.

In 2021 she founded together with Susanne Ostwald the design cooperative OODD Studios. Here, they focus on  contemporary interpretations of lace. 

Mar 2023

3. BKV-Prize for Young Applied Arts

since Nov 2022

graduate scholarship 
Burg Giebichenstein, Kunsthochschule Halle

Okt 2022 

OODD Studios Preis der Carl und Anneliese Goerdeler Stiftung, Grassi Museum for Applied Arts Leipzig

2022
Kinder-leicht scholarship, Art Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt

Feb 2021

nomination Saxon State Prize for design 

2020-2021

work scholarship from the Art Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt, Project ORLANDO

Sep 2020

nomination German Design Award, Newcomer

Jun 2020

MaDe Award BEST INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION
international workshop and award series 
MaDe - Material Designers , Milan (IT)

May 2020

Förderpreis Wilhelm-Lorch-Foundation

Mar 2020

nominated for TALENTE 2020, Chamber of Crafts and Small Industries for

Munich and Upper Bavaria

Nov 2019

nomination for the Lucky Strike Junior Designer Award, category: textile & fashion special mention

Oct 2019

GiebichenStein Design prize „GiebichenStein 

der Freunde“, nominated in the category: most interesting experiment

Jan 2019 

award recipient

„House of Textile“

of the home textile association

Jul 2017 - Jul 2019

scholarship of The German, Academic Scholarship Foundation

Jul 2016

1st prize, innovation award of Caras Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH for a wall design

Nov 2015 - Feb 2016

award recipient

ausgezeichnet! most excellent!

Jun 2023

Admission into the 
Future Materials Bank

Dec 2021

Article about OODD studios in
FREITAGABEINS- Magazin Nr. 2

Mar 2021

Material Designers Book

Oct 2020

Exhibition Catalogue Nouveautés -

Kunstschule und Spitzenindustrie in Plauen

Sep 2020

Presentation at Heimtextil-Trendbook 21/22 Spott Trend Agency Denmark

Sep 2020
Feature DECO Home  

Jun 2020

Feature Textilwirtschaft 

Jun 2020
Interview The Collective

Mar 2020

5 Pages in the  yearbook 2019 

Burg Giebichenstein - Kunsthochschule Halle

Apr 2023

OODD Studios at Milan Design Week, Isola Design District (IT)

Jan 2023

OODD Studios

Solo Exhibition ORLANDO

Art Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt

Aug 2022

Conference "Colour and Health" ,

Humboldt University Berlin

Jul 2022 

LANDMARK, OODD studios, CLUSTER CRAFTS, London (GB)

Jun 2022

Evening Academy HGB - Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig

May 2022

F/A Fake Authentic Gallery, Collectible Brüssel (BE)

OODD studios x MeierUnger Architekten

Mar - Aug 2022

Schlosserei, Bachelor Project ÜBERDIENACHT 

Gallery Schloss Lichtenwalde

May - Nov 2021

Nouveautés – Kunstschule und Spitzenindustrie in Plauen Dresden Museum of Decorative Arts

Feb - Jul 2021

Materia Gris
CentroCentro Madrid (ES)

Jun 2020

virtual platform Isola Design District (IT) 

Mar 2020

Sonderschau TALENTE, Chamber of Crafts and Small Industries for

Munich and Upper Bavaria

Jan 2020

ZWISCHEN_RÄUMEN 

at IMM Cologne

Nov 2019 
ZWISCHEN_RÄUMEN 

at Stilwerk Hamburg

Oct 2019

ZWISCHEN_RÄUMEN auf at Dutch Design Week (NL)

Oct 2019

ZWISCHEN_RÄUMEN in at Art Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt

Jun - Oct 2019

BUNTESGOLD- Peru aus der Sicht zeitgenössischer Textilkünstlerinnen

Gallery Schloss Lichtenwalde, Project 

ZEHNMALFÜNFZEHN 

Jan 2019

Project Moosaros at HEIMTEXTIL-fair,

Nov - Dec 2018

BUNTESGOLD- Peru aus der Sicht zeitgenössischer Textilkünstlerinnen

Weisbachsches Haus Plauen, Project ZEHNMALFÜNFZEHN

Jun - Oct 2018

BUNTESGOLD- Peru aus der Sicht zeitgenössischer Textilkünstlerinnen

Sommerschloss Ostrov (CZE), Project 

ZEHNMALFÜNFZEHN 

Jun - Sep 2018 

TUCHFÜHLUNG

Museum for Applied Arts Gera

Apr - Jun 2018 

TUCHFÜHLUNG

New Saxon Gallery Chemnitz

Nov 2017 - Jan 2018

BUNTESGOLD in Peru - Fotoausstellung einer Inspirationsreise

Reglerkirche Erfurt

Jan 2017

CAMPUS HEIMTEXTIL

Jun 2016

digital naturverbunden 

TU Chemnitz

Nov 2015 - Feb 2016

ausgezeichnet! most excellent!

Wasserschloss Klaffenbach

Mar - May 2015

ELEMENTARY

Projektraum Chemnitzer Künstlerbund