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’.

 
 
 
 
 
 

Selected Exhibitions & Projects

New Worlders (2022–ongoing)

An ongoing research-based project that has taken multiple forms, including installation, short films, multichannel video and publication.

  • 5-channel video installation, Art Rotterdam, Prospects and Concepts, The Netherlands (May 2022)

  • Short film, Fiber Festival, Amsterdam (June 2022)

  • Installation, with short film What ever happened down Rio das Mortes?, at Colonial Endurance group show, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (July–Oct 2023)

  • Field research trip to the Amazon, exploring ecological and local narratives (2023)

  • Rio das Mortes, short film, under consideration in festival submissions (2024)

  • Atlas Maria, short film and publication, WIP.

Unknown Grounds (2019–2022)

Performative-Symposium. Commissioned as Curator-director by VHDG Art Initiative. 

Change in Y, Change in X (2019–2021)

  • Installation & publication, Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, The Netherlands (Aug–Nov 2021)

  • "Point of No Return," Narva Art Residency (NART), Estonia (Apr–Jun 2021)

  • Drift Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Sep 2021)

  • Acefala Galeria, Buenos Aires, [Solo exhibition], (May–July 2019)

Other Projects

  • Letters to my Friend, "Other Ways of Watching Together" Festival, Neverland Cinema @MAMA, Rotterdam (Feb 2020)

  • Pervomaisk (2018, Feature Documentary, premiered at BAFICI, awarded by the Argentinian National Fund for the Arts)

  • Immovable Property, installation, Hania space, VHDG, Leeuwarden, [SOLO EXHIBITION] (Oct, 2017)

  • Hole, installation and publication, at Art Rotterdam Intersections (Feb 2017), Museum Belvédère (Summer Exhibition) and Tweetakt Festival, Utrecht (Apr–Jun 2018)

Publications (selection)

  • Script for a Synthetic Play, Editor and Contributor, Ed. Onomatopee Projects.

-Volume 1: On (Un)grounding Community and the Generative Power of Fiction (2022), Includes essay: Of Asymmetrical Legs, Scars, Infrastructures and Exile

-Volume 2: The Public Building (2025), Includes essay: Stranger Fantasy

  • Of asymmetrical legs, Scars, Infrastructures and exile, booklet, Self published, (2021)

  • Relay Conversations, series of conversations edited and authored with Sissel Marie Tonn, Jonathan Reus and curated guests, online publication: instrumentinventors.org (2017-2019)

  • Hole, self published (2016) 

  • Revista CIA – Contemporary arts magazine, Center of Artistic Investigations, Co-founder, Member of Editorial Board and Collaborator (2010-2013) 

-Volume 1: Includes essay: "1000 máquinas" [1000 machines] - pp.244-249

-Volume 2: Includes essay: "Usuariedad, ¿una nueva plusvalía?" [Usership, a new capital gain?] - pp.220-228

Residencies

  • Soundtrack Carrousel, VideoPower, Maastricht (2024)

  • Colonial Endurance, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (2023)

  • Acéfala Galería, Buenos Aires (2019)

  • VHDG, Leeuwarden (2027 & 2018)

Curatorial Work

  • Unknown Grounds II, Performative Symposium, Stadsschouwburg De Harmonie, Leeuwarden (2022)

  • Unknown Grounds I, Performative Symposium, Leeuwarden (2019)

  • The Reading Room, Community-based event series, Co-Curator, hosted by Stroom Den Haag and Page Not Found (2017–2021)

Grants & Awards

  • Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Kunstproject (2023)

  • Mondriaan Fonds, Voucher for São Paulo Biennale (2023)

  • Amarte Fonds, Ontwikkelbijdrage / Schrijfgeld (2023)

  • Werktuig voor ontwikkeling, PPO (2023)

  • Jong Talent Mondriaan Fonds, Stipendium for Emerging Artists (2020)

  • Pro Kunstproject Subsidie, Stroom Den Haag (2020)

  • Pro Onderzoek Subsidie, Stroom Den Haag (2020) 

  • Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Feature Documentary Prize for Pervomaisk (2017)

  • Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, Post-Production Subsidy (2017)

Education

  • BA+MA Equivalent in Philosophy, Universidad de Buenos Aires (2007–2013)

  • BA in ArtScience, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (2014–2016)

  • Course in Art & Politics, BAK, Utrecht (2018)

  • Cinematography, Fundación Universidad del Cine (FUC), Buenos Aires (2005–2006)

Languages

  • Spanish, mother tongue

  • English, fluent

  • Portuguese, intermediate

  • French, intermediate

  • Dutch, intermediate

 

Web & Editorial Design: Daiana Tarica 2018