Skip to main content Home ARTnews News After Viral Venice Pavilion, Florentina Holzinger Brings a 9-Hour Body-Art Spectacle to Vienna Florentina Holzinger's "Seaworld Venice" at the 2026 Venice Biennale. Getty Images At this year’s Venice Biennale, the performance artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger used the stage of the Austria Pavilion to alert viewers to an increasingly underwater dystopia. Seaworld Venice issued a dire warning of the flood to come: an underwater amusement park and a circling jet-ski signaled ecological catastrophe driven by turbo-tourism, while a group of performers climbed an enormous weathervane as a testament to the strength of collective action, and a performer lived in a reconstructed sewer treatment plant, in a tank sustained by body fluids contributed by the audience.⁠ Related Articles It was, certainly, among the most talked about pavilions at this year’s Biennale.…