“Florentina Holzinger works in imagery that I had never seen before: ballet with motorbikes, a choreographed helicopter that splashed water in my face, bodies controlling heavy machinery or suspended from hooks. In her all encompassing artistic practice, she depicts the vulnerability and resilience of our bodies and the world. In SEAWORLD VENICE, Holzinger paints an apocalyptic scenario that is already here, illustrating humankind’s complicity in a collapsing (eco)system: lives lived in the waste of others. Fleeting images and compositions that haunt us, edging the impossible. She radically expands what is considered possible – a mindset that is contagious and that we need right now more than ever.”
Nora-Swantje Almes is a curator with a focus on performance in the visual arts context and performative exhibition formats. She has been Curator of the Live Programme and Outreach at the Gropius Bau Berlin since 2024. Prior to this, she headed the live programme at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, for three years, where she developed the commissioned work Harbour-Étude with Florentina Holzinger and her team in summer 2024. In her curatorial career, she has held positions at Glasgow International, Participant Inc., New York, Artangel London and Schinkel Pavillon Berlin.