Inside the radical world of Florentina Holzinger where nudity exposes global hypocrisy.

Went to the opera, vomitedAs cultural slogans go, Florentina Holzinger’s viral advertisement for her 2024 opera, Sancta, was ...
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Who is Florentina Holzinger? Austrian performance artist shocks Venice Biennale 2026 with explicit Seaworld Venice spectacle

Florentina Holzinger has become one of Europe’s most talked about performance artists, known for creating productions that challenge audiences both physically and emotionally. The Austrian ...
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Premiere of Florentina Holzinger opera in Germany sold out

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Performance star Florentina Holzinger stands before the start of a rehearsal in a rehearsal room at the Mecklenburg State Theater.
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Florentina Holzinger's APOLLON Comes to NYU Skirball

NYU Skirball will present the North American premiere of Florentina Holzinger's outrageous and raucous feminist dance, Apollon, on Saturday, February 22 & Sunday, February 23 at 7:30 pm at NYU ...
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‘We are complicit’: Austrian artist Florentina Holzinger’s immersive Venice Biennale pavilion brings apocalypse to the city

In Kevin Costner’s 1995 sci-fi blockbuster Waterworld, melting polar ice caps and rising sea levels have forced humanity to live on improvised makeshift floating junk islands in the ocean. The movie’s ...
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Bring on the naked rollerskating nuns! The wild visions of Florentina Holzinger

Live tattooing, non-simulated sex, flesh hook body hoisting and an ejaculating helicopter – these are commonplace in the astonishing shows of Europe’s hottest director. But is her latest just too ...
The Guardian

‘How can nudity be so provocative?’ Florentina Holzinger on rocking Venice with naked jetskiers, human bells and urine divers

The artist’s Austrian Pavilion, which features a performer ringing a bell with her body and another immersed in the audience’s own urine, is the talk of the biennale. Why is she so surprised by people ...
Hindustan Times

Blood, gore, and lesbian sex: Violent opera leaves 18 audience members needing medical aid

Eighteen attendees at Germany's Stuttgart state opera required medical assistance for severe nausea after witnessing a performance that included live piercing, unsimulated sexual intercourse, and a ...
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Female Artist Hangs Naked Upside Down & Uses Her Body To Ring Giant Bell In Strange Act Of Protest That Makes Zero Sense [VIDEO]

She certainly made a statement. Florentina Holzinger joined a bunch of protestors at the Venice Biennale on Wednesday. They certainly drew quite the crowd. The world’s largest contemporary art ...
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Austrian pavilion artist Florentina Holzinger joins Thaddaeus Ropac

The choreographer Florentina Holzinger, whose genre-defying productions involving nudity, defecation and blood have left audience members being treated for nausea, is to join Thaddaeus Ropac gallery.
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A Splashy, Messy All-Naked Revue

Florentina Holzinger’s striking, bewildering and stomach-churning new piece, “Ophelia’s Got Talent,” opened the season at the Volksbühne theater in Berlin. By A.J. Goldmann BERLIN — A group of naked ...