Florentina Holzinger — Photo © Apollonia Theresa Bitzan

Florentina Holzinger

Florentina Holzinger (1986, Austria) lives and works between Vienna and Amsterdam. In her performances, she investigates different forms of female representation and questions extreme female physicality. In doing so, she continuously seeks the line between ‘high art’ and free entertainment.

Holzinger studied choreography at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam. She received the European danceWEB grant (2008) and the ImPulsTanz grant in Vienna (2011). Her solo work Silk was crowned with the Prix Jardin d'Europe during ImPulsTanz (2012).

Together with Vincent Riebeek she created the trilogy Kein Applaus für Scheiße (2012) / Spirit (2012) / Wellness (2013). Holzinger is co-author of the web series Body and Freedom (2016), recorded during the Foreign Affairs festival. A sensational co-production with DE SINGEL, among others, is the large-scale performance TANZ (2019), for which she won several awards.

On display at COME CLOSER

DE SINGEL

Ophelia's got talent © Nicole Marianna Wytyczak

Ophelia’s got talent, 2024

Performance — more dates (past)

For her latest big show, the performance artist Florentina Holzinger from Vienna found inspiration among female literary characters associated with water. Nymphs, sirens and Nereids. Leda, Melusine, Ondine and, of course: Ophelia. Together with the seductive female figures she tempts the audience into the deep to confront us with what we do not wish to see: a threatening climate disaster, wars, objectivity, misogyny ...