Flora Reznik (1986) is a visual artist, researcher, curator and filmmaker. Her practice is shaped by artistic research: thorough theoretical inquiry nourishes her artistic work. Her projects are non medium bound and often incorporate video, text and performance in the context of installations, interdisciplinary events or publications. 

Flora deals with issues of inheritance, identity, archival materials, female role models and interspecies political alliances in order to imagine new modes of memory and collective agency in the face of environmental crisis and enduring colonial infrastructures.

Flora Reznik was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she obtained a Diploma in Philosophy (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and co-founded the Contemporary Arts Magazine CIA, directed by Roberto Jacoby. Currently she is based in The Hague, The Netherlands, where she studied at ArtScience Interfaculty, in the Royal Academy of Art. She has shown her work in various visual art festivals and museums in The Netherlands and abroad. Her first feature documentary film premiered in the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival (2018) and obtained a prize from the Argentinian National Fund for the Arts. Collaboration and facilitating interdisciplinary learning and conversation is essential to Reznik's practice. From 2017 to 2021 together with Sissel Marie Tonn and Jonathan Reus, she co-organized  The Reading Room, a series of events engaging artists with scholars in a mutual exchange of knowledge.  In 2019 and 2022 She is the artistic director and co-curator of the performative-symposium Unknown Grounds, 2019-2022. She initiated the publication series project "Script for a Synthetic Play", published by Onomatopee Projects.

 

‘I like to think about my practice as expeditions: usually I need to go far to find something very personal to work with. Long durational performances in the public space and long term rigorous theoretical research mediate my intimate experience.

My approach is a mix of very personal storytelling, and philosophical questions: aiming to an extended sensibility, for abstraction/potentiality via paying attention to the concrete, giving space for emotion and wonder.

Ground is a notion that combines both a material and concrete aspect with an abstract or imaginary one. This intersection is my field of inquiry’.

 
 
 
 
 
 

EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS

2023 | New Worlders, group exhibition Colonial Endurance, Detecting the Algorithm of Violence in Infrastructures, curated by TOK, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, July 28 - October 10. 2022 | Guest performer in Three Degrees from Reality, by Ensamble Modelo 62, Gaudeaumus Festival, Festival Dag in de Branding, Intro in Situ, September - October 2022 | New Worlders, Short film Fiber Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 8-19. 2022 | New Worlders, 5 channel video installation, Art Rotterdam, Prospects and Concepts, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, May 19-22. 2021 | Change in Y, Change in X, Noorderlicht Internationaal Fotofestival: The Makeable Mind, Akerk, Groningen, August 7 - November 28. 2021 | Change in Y, Change in X, Drift Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sept 25. 2021 | Change in Y, Change in X, in group exhibition "Point of no return. Attunement of attention" at Narva Art Residency (NART), Narva, Estonia, April 24 - June 20.
2020 | Letters to my friend, “Other Ways of Watching together” festival, Neverland Cinema @mama, Rotterdam, Feb 8. 2019 | Unknown Grounds, performative symposium, artistic director / curator, commissioned by VHDG and Tresoar Leeuwarden, Nov 21 & 22. 2019 | Habitan esas laderas / Change in Y, Change in X, Acefala Galeria, Buenos Aires, May-July. [SOLO EXHIBITION] 2019 | Biopiracy experiment, Maldoror Galerie, Den Haag, January 3rd- February 3rd. 2019 | Pervomaisk, FICSUR, Festival Internacional de Cine del Sur del Mundo, Especial Destacados, January. 2018 |Pervomaisk, FICSUR, Festival Internacional de Cine del Sur del Mundo, October 25 – 29. 2018 | Hole: LhGWR Gallery, (Liefhertje en De Grote Witte Reus), Den Haag, June 8 – July 14. 
2018 | Pervomaisk (feature documentary film), screening in DNR Filmclub, Den Haag. May 22.
2018 | Pervomaisk (feature documentary film), BAFICI, Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, April.
2018 | Variation of Hole in Ephemere, Studio Loos, Den Haag. March 8.
2018 | Variation of Hole in Tweetakt Festival, Utrecht. April-June.
2017 | Immovable Property: Hania space, VHDG, Leeuwarden, October. With the support of Mondriaan Fonds. [SOLO EXHIBITION] 
2017 | Hole: Museum Belvédère, Museum voor Moderne en Hedendaagse Kunst in Heerenveen, Summer Exhibition.
2017 | Hole: Club Cultural Matienzo, Buenos Aires, February.
2017 | Hole: Art Rotterdam, Intersections. February.
2016 | Hole: Book. Finalist in contest Felifa Futura, Buenos Aires. Book exhibited in Book Fair.
2016 | Hole + Presentation of the book by Maldoracca in the Gallery Noordwal 117, during the Hoogtij #46, Den Haag.
2016 | Hole: Royal Academy of Art, Graduation Show, Den Haag.
2015 | Brama: live performance, part of The Empty Space, Theater aan het Spui, Zaal 3, The Hague.
2015 | Wander about: book, written and hand made. Part of collective final event Interfaculty, Bunkier Sztuki gallery, Kraków.
2015 | The Bait: experimental short film. Eye on Art / KABK Research lab. Presented in Eye Museum, Amsterdam.

 

RESIDENCIES

2023 | Colonial Endurance, Series of workshops and project’s laboratory, final exhibition, digital archive and a symposium, curated by TOK, Rotterdam, March-July. 2019 | Acefala Galeria, Buenos Aires, April 15 - May 15.
2018 | VHDG, Leeuwarden, August. Materials research.
2017 | VHDG-SRV, Leeuwarden, September-October.
2015 | Movement Research Residency: “Tensegrity and movement.” At CLOUD, danslab.

CURATION

2022 | Initiator, artistic director and co-curator of Unknown Grounds II, The public building, performative symposium, produced by VHDG+Arcadia, Stadsschouwburg De Harmonie, Leeuwarden,  June 7-8. . 2019 | Initiator, artistic director and curator of Unknown Grounds, performative symposium, produced by VHDG+Tresoar Leeuwarden, November 21-22.
2017-2021 | Co-curator of the Reading Room, Stroom Den Haag and Page Not Found, Den Haag.
2013-2014 | Co-founder and editor of Contemporary Arts Magazine, CIA, Buenos Aires.  

 

GRANTS AND PRIZES

2023 | Kunstproject, het Cultuurfonds. 2023 | Mondriaan Fonds, Voucher Sao Paulo Biennale 2023 | Amarte Fonds, Ontwikkelbijdrage/ Schrijfgeld 2023 | Werktuig voor ontwikkeling, PPO. 2020 | Jong Talent Mondriaan Fonds, NL, Stipendium for emerging artists. 2020 | Pro Kunstproject, Stroom Den Haag. 2018 | Pro Onderzoek Subsidie, Stroom Den Haag.
2017 | Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Category Feature Documentary, Third Prize, for Pervomaisk.
2017 | Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, Post Production subsidy, for Pervomaisk.
2017 |  Premio Felifa Futura, Finalist. Book Hole.
2017 | Documentation grant, Stroom Den Haag.

 

PUBLICATIONS

2023 - Coming soon | Script For A Synthetic Play, The Public building, Editor, contributor and Artistic director, published by Onomatopee Projects 2022 | Script For A Synthetic Play, On (Un)Grounding Community And The Generative Power Of Fiction, Editor, contributor and Artistic director, published by Onomatopee Projects 2021 | Of asymmetrical legs, Scars, Infrastructures and exile. Companion text to the project "Change in y, change in x". Self published. 2018-2021 | ‘Relay Conversations’, periodic online publication from the Reading Room, at Stroom Den Haag, on http://instrumentinventors.org/research/
2018 | Conversaciones con un Marxista-Sionista, self-published.  2016 | Hole, self-published.
2014 | “Lo mesiánico en Derrida: el paso del fundamento ético hacia la responsabilidad política”, Instantes y Azares, nr 14.
2014 | “Usership, a new surplus?” CIA contemporary arts magazine, nr 2.
2013 | “1000 machines”, CIA contemporary arts magazine, nr 1.

 

ACQUISITIONS

2016 | Hole, acquired by MAL Collection Loppersum.

EDUCATION

2018 | Course Art and Politics by Maria Hlavajova, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. 2014-2016 | ArtScience (BA), Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
2007-2013 | Degree in Philosophy (BA+MA equivalent), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Thesis title: “Messianism without messianism in Jacques Derrida: another time for justice”. Grade: 10 (highest).
2005-2006 | Universidad del Cine, Illumination and Camera. (2 years approved).
2000-2004 | Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires.

 

 

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