Florentina Holzinger — Ophelia's Got Talent. Photo: © Nicole Marianna Wytyczak
Last updated: May 2, 2026
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The Austrian Pavilion presents "Seaworld Venice," a groundbreaking project by choreographer and performance artist Florentina Holzinger. The exhibition features a permanent installation at the Austrian Pavilion alongside a series of site-specific performances across Venice and its lagoon.
Drawing on Venice's relationship with the sea, the work explores mythological water creatures, female corporeality, and water as both symbol and existential resource. Holzinger's characteristic blend of dance, theatre, and performance creates unprecedented imagery of bodies interacting with machinery and nature.
Florentina Holzinger (b. 1986, Vienna) is a Vienna-born choreographer and performance artist based in the Netherlands. After initially studying architecture, she switched to choreography at SNDO Amsterdam, where her diploma project "Silk" won the Prix Jardin d'Europe (2012).
Holzinger has rapidly risen as one of the most in-demand choreographers worldwide for her boundary-pushing feminist performance art. Her works are often sexually charged and physically extreme, connecting to the Viennese Actionism tradition while challenging conventions of the female body in performance.
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Nora-Swantje Almes is a performance curator specializing in live art. Currently Curator of Live Programme and Outreach at Gropius Bau, Berlin (since 2024). Previously worked at Bergen Kunsthall, Glasgow International, and Artangel London.
Austrian Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport. Holzinger was selected from 54 proposals submitted for the pavilion.