Florentina Holzinger

A further highlight in 2026 is a new site-specific project by the Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger. Austria’s representative at this year’s Venice Biennale is developing an Étude specifically for Kunsthaus Bregenz in the summer of 2026. Details on the project will follow, although we can reveal this much already: the lake will play an important role in the work.

Florentina Holzinger (b. 1986, Vienna) works across artistic disciplines and has produced extensive, widely discussed, awarded-winning theatre. Her most recent stage productions include A Year Without Summer, 2025, her first opera project SANCTA, 2024, Ophelia’s Got Talent, 2022, A Divine Comedy, 2021, Étude for an Emergency, 2020, and her most toured work TANZ, 2019. She has been an associate artist with the Volksbühne Berlin since 2020. With her Étude formats, one-off performances in public spaces, Holzinger has gradually opened her practice to the visual arts context, having presented Études at Schinkel Pavillon Berlin and Bergen Kunsthall amongst others since 2020. In 2026, she will represent Austria at the 61st Venice Biennale. Florentina Holzinger studied choreography at the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam.