Flora
Reznik
Visual Artist & Filmmaker · The Hague, NL
Flora Reznik (AR, 1986) is a visual artist and filmmaker based in The Netherlands. Her practice is shaped by artistic research, and her projects are non medium bound: she makes films, installations, interdisciplinary events and publications.
Flora deals with issues of inheritance, identity, and archival materials. Her work is grounded in the relationships between landscape, history, and the body — exploring how physical space holds memory, how migration and colonization shape collective identity, and how geographical shifts carry enduring political meaning. Hoping to imagine new modes of memory and collective agency in the face of environmental crisis and enduring colonial infrastructures.
Collaboration and facilitating interdisciplinary learning is essential to her practice. From 2017 to 2021 she co-organized The Reading Room with Sissel Marie Tonn and Jonathan Reus. She is the artistic director and co-curator of the performative-symposium Unknown Grounds (2019 & 2022), and initiated the publication series “Script for a Synthetic Play,” published by Onomatopee Projects. She is currently part of Filmdak, a community-building initiative offering lens-based artists a space to share work in progress, exchange feedback, and organize workshops and artist talks. Her recent work has been made possible through the generous support of Video Power, an organization dedicated to process-driven filmmaking — experimental film, documentary, and video art — who produced her latest film Atlas María.
Born in Buenos Aires, she holds a Diploma in Philosophy (Universidad de Buenos Aires) and co-founded the Contemporary Arts Magazine CIA, directed by Roberto Jacoby. She studied at ArtScience Interfaculty, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague.
“My approach is a mix of very personal storytelling, and philosophical questions: through a method of poetic abstraction, I look for strong images that carry deep and conflicting social meaning. Aiming to an extended sensibility, for abstraction/potentiality via paying attention to the concrete, giving space for emotion and wonder.”
Selected Exhibitions & Projects
2026Atlas María, short film. Soon to premiere.
2025Rio das Mortes, short film, premiere at Eye Filmmuseum, as part of the ‘New Selected Artists Moving Image’.
2025Script for a Synthetic Play: The Public Building (Volume 2), Publication, Editor and Contributor, Ed. Onomatopee Projects. Includes essay: Stranger Fantasy (author)
2023What ever happened down Rio das Mortes?, Installation, ‘Colonial Endurance: Detecting the Algorithm of Violence in Infrastructures’ group show, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (July–Oct)
2022New Worlders, Short film, Fiber Festival, Amsterdam (June)
2022New Worlders, 5-channel video installation, Art Rotterdam, Prospects and Concepts, The Netherlands (May)
2022Script for a Synthetic Play, On (Un)grounding Community and the Generative Power of Fiction (Volume 1), Publication, Editor and Contributor, Ed. Onomatopee Projects. Includes essay: Of Asymmetrical Legs, Scars, Infrastructures and Exile (author)
2022Unknown Grounds, The Public Building second edition, Performative-Symposium. In partnership with Stadsschouwburg de Harmonie and Arcadia (Leeuwarden, 7–8 June)
2020Letters to my Friend, short film, “Other Ways of Watching Together” Festival, Neverland Cinema @MAMA (Rotterdam, Feb)
2019Unknown Grounds, First edition: Performative-Symposium. Commissioned as Curator-director by VHDG Art Initiative. In partnership with Tresoar — Archief, museum en bibliotheek Fryslân (Leeuwarden, 21–22 Nov)
2019Change in Y, Change in X, Installation & publication, Acefala Galeria, Buenos Aires [Solo exhibition] (May–Jul); Noorderlicht International Photo Festival, NL (Aug–Nov 2021); “Point of No Return,” Narva Art Residency (NART), Estonia (Apr–Jun 2021); Drift Festival, Amsterdam (Sep 2021)
2018Pervomaisk, Feature Documentary, premiered at BAFICI, awarded by the Argentinian National Fund for the Arts
2017–19The Reading Room, in-person community events series, co-organized with Sissel Marie Tonn and Jonathan Reus; and Relay Conversations, online publication: instrumentinventors.org
2017Immovable Property, installation, Hania space, VHDG, Leeuwarden [Solo exhibition] (Oct)
2017Hole, installation and publication, Art Rotterdam Intersections (Feb 2017); Museum Belvédère (Summer Exhibition); Tweetakt Festival, Utrecht (Apr–Jun 2018)
Residencies
2025Unfinished Film Festival, Video Power
2024Soundtrack Carrousel, VideoPower, Maastricht
20235 months — Field research trip to the Amazon, exploring ecological and local narratives. Self-organized.
2023Colonial Endurance, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
2019Acéfala Galería, Buenos Aires
2017–18VHDG, Leeuwarden
Grants & Awards
2025Stroom den Haag, Pro Kunstproject
2023Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Kunstproject
2023Mondriaan Fonds, Voucher for São Paulo Biennale
2023Amarte Fonds, Ontwikkelbijdrage / Schrijfgeld
2023Werktuig voor ontwikkeling, PPO
2020Jong Talent Mondriaan Fonds, Stipendium for Emerging Artists
2020Pro Onderzoek Subsidie, Stroom Den Haag
2017Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Feature Documentary Prize for Pervomaisk
2017Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, Post-Production Subsidy