"Florentina Holzinger, reknowned for boundary-pushing performances involving nudity, stunts, and maximalist spectacle, has joined Thaddaeus Ropac gallery just months before unveiling her project for the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The blue-chip gallery's addition of the Austrian-born, Netherlands-based artist, whose stomping ground lies squarely in the dance and theater worlds, reflects the art world's growing interest in bold, interdisciplinary practices, especially performance art."
"Known for elaborately produced performance works that push both her performers and her audiences to the brink of discomfort, Holzinger is a master of provocation and bending the boundaries of taste. While she may be a relatively new name to the art world, her confirmation for the Austrian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, with the work "Seaworld Venice" comes on the heels of major, sold-out presentations in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and elsewhere."
""To go into a new space means challenging the different habits and conditions of that place, and the different types of expectations. To be in a visual arts context is for me a matter of taking on another space and is a particular inspiration for my work.""
Florentina Holzinger creates elaborately produced performances that combine nudity, stunts, and maximalist spectacle to push performers and audiences toward discomfort and provocation. Thaddaeus Ropac has added Holzinger to its roster just months before her Austrian Pavilion project "Seaworld Venice" at the Venice Biennale. Trained in choreography, Holzinger has been moving from dance into theater, opera, and visual art, with sold-out presentations in Paris, Berlin, Vienna and institutional outings at Schinkel Pavilion and Bergen Kunsthalle. Ropac plans her first gallery show in 2027. Gallery contexts offer mobile spectatorship and new conditions that inspire shifts in her practice.
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