‘We are complicit’: Austrian artist Florentina Holzinger’s immersive Venice Biennale pavilion brings apocalypse to the city

Austrian artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger presents “Seaworld Venice” in Austria’s Venice Biennale pavilion as an immersive installation addressing climate change, technology, and a flooded dystopian future, according to The Art Newspaper. Curator Nora-Swantje Almes says the project has no intentional direct references to science fiction, despite thematic parallels to the 1995 film “Waterworld.” Holzinger is known for extreme performance works including “Tanz” (premiered 2019 in Vienna with warnings for nudity, blood, needles, strobes, and graphic violence) and the opera “Sancta,” after whose 2024 Stuttgart performances 18 people were treated for severe nausea. Almes says Austria’s selectors and the ministry were supportive of presenting Holzinger’s hybrid, boundary-crossing practice in the national pavilion.

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