Everyone’s talking about her – we’re talking to her! Following the screening of *A Year without Summer*, Florentina Holzinger will be our guest at the ‘asphalt Artist Talk’.
The work of this Austrian choreographer ranks among the most impressive that the arts scene currently has to offer. In Venice, Holzinger is currently representing her home country, Austria, with the performance ‘Seaworld Venice’, the crowd-puller of the 2026 Biennale that has the entire art world talking. In 2024, Monopol magazine ranked her number one on its list of the 100 most important figures in the art world. From the 2026/27 season onwards, she will be part of the artistic leadership team at Berlin’s Volksbühne.
Culture journalist Elisabeth Luft will be talking to Florentina Holzinger about, amongst other things, her artistic work over the past few years, her radical aesthetic and why she thinks on a grander and freer scale than many others in the traditional art world. How does the choreographer cope with her sudden rise to prominence, and how does resistance affect her artistic work and the freedom of art?
The asphalt Festival and Florentina Holzinger share a long-standing, trusting collaboration. asphalt has already co-produced three of her productions: Following the pieces ‘TANZ’ (2021) and ‘Ophelia’s Got Talent’ (2025), ‘A Year without Summer’ will now be staged at asphalt in 2026. All three works were invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen.
Cologne-based cultural journalist Elisabeth Luft reports for the WDR and Deutschlandfunk, amongst others. Whether covering theatre, dance, literature or cultural policy, she focuses primarily on feminist and power-critical perspectives, as well as environmentally sustainable ideas. She hosts the podcast ‘Wozu das Theater?’, heads up blog editorial teams at theatre festivals and serves on various juries. (Source: asphalt Festival gGmbH)
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