Florentina Holzinger is an Austrian performance artist and choreographer whose practice combines extreme physicality with theatrical precision to probe the limits of corporeal agency. Working across dance, performance, opera and theatre while critically engaging with their histories, Holzinger blends legitimised ‘high’ culture with pop and countercultural currents to unsettle the lines between spectacle and subversion. In collaboration with a team and cast that bring expertise in a broad range of body-based practices and performance genres, her works experiment with body modification – in all its possible forms – as an interplay of transformation and illusion.
Holzinger’s works have been awarded the Nestroy (TANZ, 2020) and Faust awards (Ophelia’s Got Talent, 2023) and have been selected by Theatertreffen Berlin four times in a row (TANZ, Ophelia’s Got Talent, SANCTA, A Year Without Summer). Besides her stage productions, Holzinger creates Études, an ongoing series of site-specific, one-off performances in public space that have been presented in collaboration with Schinkel Pavillon Berlin, Bergen Kunsthall, Atonal Festival and Wiener Festwochen among others. Since 2021, she is associate artist at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin.