Lea Colombo.

Lea Colombo (b. 1993, Cape Town, South Africa) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working across photography, sculpture, collectible design, and immersive spatial experiences.

Her practice is rooted in an intuitive exploration of colour, light, material, and energy — creating works that exist between art, design, and sensory experience. Working predominantly with natural stone, glass, steel, and recycled materials, Colombo's objects investigate themes of vibration, balance, sacred geometry, and human connection.

Her sculptural furniture pieces often combine semi-precious stones such as Red Jasper, Rose Quartz, Sodalite, Serpentine, and Tiger's Eye, transforming raw material into functional forms that feel both grounding and alive. Her ongoing ATOM series explores modularity, energetic relationships, and the invisible forces that connect bodies within space. Through intersecting forms and bold colour compositions, the works become shifting constellations — playful yet precise, sculptural yet deeply functional.

Alongside her collectible design practice, Colombo is internationally recognised for her distinctive photographic language and immersive use of colour. Her work has been exhibited and featured globally through collaborations, installations, and editorial projects that blur the boundaries between art, design, and sensory experience. Currently working between Cape Town and Milan, Colombo continues to expand her universe through objects and environments that invite viewers into a world of colour, frequency, and feeling.

For MATERIA 2026 Copenhagen, the ATOM Stool continues Lea Colombo's exploration of connection, vibration, and modular form through an object that exists between sculpture and function. Built from intersecting curves and balanced geometries, the form references atomic structures, sacred geometry, and the invisible energetic relationships between bodies, colour, material, and space. Produced using recycled materials, the stool carries an additional narrative of regeneration and transformation — existing as a new energetic form created from previous matter. The materiality becomes part of the concept itself: fragments reassembled into a new constellation. Designed to live individually or collectively, the stools create shifting compositions across a space, each variation carrying its own rhythm through colour, finish, and form while remaining part of a larger system. A sensory object intended not only to be used, but felt.