bio
(1993, Antwerp, Belgium)
Florinda Ciucio is a Belgian artist working in film, video, sound, and installation. She earned a Master’s in Audiovisual Arts from LUCA School of Arts in Brussels in 2018. Since then, her work has traveled between the exhibition space and cinema, including Espace Vanderborght in Brussels, IDFA Film Festival, Dok Leipzig, the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Estonia, the Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam, and Centro Luigi di Sarro in Rome.
In 2021, she was selected as one of 10 promising emerging visual artists in Belgium at the national Art Contest etition and selected among 8 filmmakers to participate in a development lab by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund. This led to her being chosen for a production grant, resultingin the short documentary for children ‘GOALS’, which was part of a nomination at the Belgian film and television prizes, the ‘ENSORS’.
In 2022, she participated in an artist residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, supported by the Flanders Department of Culture and Arts. In 2023, she received the VOCATIO prize for young artists and researchers in Belgium in the “performing arts” category, for her work as an audiovisual artist and film director, awarded by the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2024, she was selected for the ‘Viafarini’ residency in Milan, granted by Flanders Department of Culture and Arts.
In her work she often centers the feeling of sensorial overstimulation, working a lot with the element of time featuring concepts as cycles, rhythm, repetition and routines. She explores its impact through the creation of immersive, meditative and contemplative spaces, using moving image and sound. Through this work, she aims to establish environments that encourage silence and question the incessant impulses of daily life.
education
2017- 2018 Master's degree in Audiovisual Arts, LUCA School of Arts Brussels
2014- 2017 Bachelor's degree in Audiovisual Arts, LUCA School of Arts Brussels
awards/grants
FLANDERS STATE OF ARTS Residency grant 2024
VOCATIO AWARD laureate 2023
ARTCONTEST Laureate of 2021
VLAAMS AUDIOVISUEEL FONDS Production Grant 2021
BREEDBEELD Grant for audiovisual project development 2020
SABAM Grant for audiovisual development 2018
residencies/labs
VIAFARINI 2024 Artist residency, Milano
OFFICINA STAMPERIA DEL NOTTAIO 2023 Artist in residence, Tusa, Sicily
CITE INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS PARIS 2023 Artist in residence, Paris
CENTRO LUIGI DI SARRO 2022 Artist in residence, Rome
CITE INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS PARIS 2022 Atelier Koningin Elisabeth van België residency supported by Flanders State of Arts
HET BOS Artist in residence 2021, Antwerp
VLAAMS AUDIOVISUEEL FONDS Ket&Doc Development Lab 2020-2021, Brussels
UNITED NATIONS Trainee program 2019 at the Audiovisual Department, Madrid
exhibitions
2024 ‘Viafarini open studio’, Via Farini Studio, Milan (Italy) Curated by Giulio Verago
2024 ‘Terrain Instable’, La Forge, Souilac (France) Curated by Andreea Macea
2024 ‘Far away’, Royal Academy of Art, Antwerp (Belgium) Curated by Pamela Garcìa, Aline Kraus
2023 ‘Fragile’, Pôle Culturel de Rochebelle (France) Curated by Carla Contournet
2023 New Media Art Fair Ruhr, Zolverrein (Germany)
2022 ‘Inside out’, Instituto di Cultura de Italia, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Curated by Alessandra Di Sarro, Veronica Budini
2022 ‘Inside out’, Centro Luigi Di Sarro, Rome (Italy) Curated by Alessandra Di Sarro, Veronica Budini
2022 Group exhibition ‘ARP’, Edward Lear gallery, Berat (Albania)
2022 Group exhibition ‘ARP’, Consulate General de Italia, Valona (Albania)
2022 Group exhibition ‘Blue Rain’, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (France)
2022 ‘Open Studio’, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (France)
2021 ‘Horaizon’, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (Belgium) Curated by Meggy Rustamova, Dagmar Dirkx
2021 ‘Artcontest 2021’, Espace Vanderborght, Brussels (Belgium)
2021 ‘Vruchtbare grond’, Het Bos, Antwerp (Belgium)
2020 ‘Breedbeeld’, Bosland, Helchteren (Belgium)
2018 ‘seasonal neighbours’, In situ Borgloon (Belgium) Curated by Ciel Grommen
film festivals
2023 Beholder Film festival (The Netherlands)
2023 Cut to Gent Film Festival (Belgium)
2023 Film Fest Dresden (Germany)
2023 Olympia film festival (Greece)
2023 Go Short film festival, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
2022 IDFA film festival, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2022 Cinekid film festival, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2022 DOKleipzig film festival, Leipzig (Germany)
2022 Docville documentary festival, Leuven (Belgium)
2022 JEF Film Festival, Antwerp (Belgium)
2021 Rencontres Internationales Paris (France)
2018 London international documentary festival (UK)
2018 World film festival, Malmo (Sweden)
2018 Szczecin European film festival (Poland)
2018 Trento film festival (Italy)
2018 International documentary festival, Ierapetra (Greece)
2018 Roma Cinema Doc (Italy)
2018 Caminhos film festival, Coimbra (Portugal)
2018 Screening,National Museum of Contemporary Art (Estonia)
2017 VISITE film program Het Bos, Antwerp (Belgium)
2017 CEME doc film festival, Madrid (Spain)
2017 Back_up Media and Arts Festival, Weimar (Germany)
2017 Dokumentart, Brandenburg (Germany)
2016 CEME doc film festival, Mexico City (Mexico)
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