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, archival materials, female role models and speculates about interspecies political alliances. Hoping to imagine new modes of memory and collective agency in the face of environmental crisis and enduring colonial infrastructures.
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. Her short film Rio das Mortes premiered in the Eye Filmmuseum, and is part of its collection as one of the ‘New Selected Artists Moving Image’ 2025. She has just finished the short film Atlas Maria, produced by VideoPower, and also part of the Eye Filmmuseum collection, soon to be premiered.
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.
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.
‘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
2026: Atlas María, short film. Soon to premiere.
2025: Rio das Mortes, short film, premiere at Eye Filmmuseum, as part of the ‘New Selected Artists Moving Image’ .
2025: Script for a Synthetic Play: The Public Building (Volume 2), Publication, Editor and Contributor, Ed. Onomatopee Projects. Includes essay: Stranger Fantasy (author)
2023: What ever happened down Rio das Mortes?, Installation, at ‘Colonial Endurance: Detecting the Algorithm of Violence in Infrastructures’ group show, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (July–Oct)
2022: New Worlders, Short film, Fiber Festival, Amsterdam (June)
2022: New Worlders, 5-channel video installation, Art Rotterdam, Prospects and Concepts, The Netherlands (May)
2022: Script 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)
2022: Unknown Grounds, The Public Building second edition, Performative-Symposium. In partnership with Stadsschowburg de Harmonie and Arcadia (Leeuwarden, 7-8 June)
2020: Letters to my Friend, short film, "Other Ways of Watching Together" Festival, Neverland Cinema @MAMA (Rotterdam, Feb)
2019: Unknown 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)
2019: Change in Y, Change in X, Installation & publication, Acefala Galeria, Buenos Aires, [Solo exhibition], (May–July); 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)
2018: Pervomaisk, Feature Documentary, premiered at BAFICI, awarded by the Argentinian National Fund for the Arts)
2017: Immovable Property, installation, Hania space, VHDG, Leeuwarden, [SOLO EXHIBITION] (Oct)
2017-2019: The Reading Room, in-person community events series, co-organized with Sissel Marie Tonn and Jonathan Reus, and Relay Conversations, series of conversations edited and authored with Sissel Marie Tonn, Jonathan Reus and curated guests, online publication: instrumentinventors.org
2017: Hole, installation and publication, at Art Rotterdam Intersections (Feb 2017), Museum Belvédère (Summer Exhibition) and Tweetakt Festival, Utrecht (Apr–Jun 2018)
Residencies
2025: Unfinished Film Festival, Video Power
2024: Soundtrack Carrousel, VideoPower, Maastricht
2023: 5 months -Field research trip to the Amazon, exploring ecological and local narratives. Self organized.
2023: Colonial Endurance, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
2019: Acéfala Galería, Buenos Aires
2017 & 1018: VHDG, Leeuwarden
Grants & Awards
2025: Stroom den Haag, Pro Kunstproject
2023: Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Kunstproject
2023: Mondriaan Fonds, Voucher for São Paulo Biennale
2023: Amarte Fonds, Ontwikkelbijdrage / Schrijfgeld
2023: Werktuig voor ontwikkeling, PPO
2020: Jong Talent Mondriaan Fonds, Stipendium for Emerging Artists
2020: Pro Onderzoek Subsidie, Stroom Den Haag
2017: Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Feature Documentary Prize for Pervomaisk
2017: Instituto Nacional de Cine y Artes Audiovisuales, Post-Production Subsidy
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