BIO
(1993, Antwerp, Belgium) Florinda Ciucio is a visual artist and filmmaker from Belgium. She graduated with a master’s degree in Film 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, Dok Leipzig film festival, IDFA, Centro Luigi Di Sarro and the Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam.
In 2021, she was a laureate in the national ‘ArtContest’ competition and also selected for a film development lab of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund, where she subsequently won a production grant for the production of a short documentary for children. In 2022, she was selected for 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 award 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 produced a public space sound installation in the city’s library ‘Permeke’ of Antwerp in Belgium. In the same year she has been selected for the Viafarini residency in Milan where she produced an installation that will premiere at the Noorderlicht biennale in Groningen in 2025.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My audiovisual practice explores how we live in an overstimulated world.
I create slow, quiet moments that offer pauses in time, using familiar things like sunsets and windows to invite deeper reflections on how we perceive and experience our environments and process information.
In a world that pushes for constant speed, productivity and attention, exploring what it is to slow down feels to me like a poetic act of resistance.
I often draw inspiration from research on environmental psychology, landscape theory, and mental health to explore how our attention and nervous systems are shaped by the constant flow of daily stimuli and our fading connection to nature.
With a background in film directing, I’m very much influenced by the cinematic experience where viewers sit in a dark room and time feels suspended and controlled.
This feeling of immersion and time-awareness shapes how I create work to both calm and unsettle, inviting people not just to look or listen, but to notice themselves: how they wait, how they crave, how they connect.
EDUCATION
Bachelor's & Master's degree in Film
at LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, Belgium
AWARDS/GRANTS
FLANDERS DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE AND 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/FILM FESTIVALS
2025
BE-PART: Joëlle Dubois: Rekindling, Kortrijk (Belgium)
Biennale ‘Machine Entanglements’, Noorderlicht, Groningen (The Netherlands)
Group exhibition ‘From Anthropocene to Biocene’ at Castel Belasi, Trento (Italy), Curated by Stefano Cagol
Group exhibition ‘Setting’, Viafarini.garage, Milano (Italy)
2024
Public space sound installation ‘The telephone game’ at city library ‘Permeke’ in Antwerpen (Belgium)
Group exhibition‘Terra Incognita’, Viafarini Studio, Milan (Italy)
Group exhibition‘Terrain Instable’, La Forge, Souilac (France) Curated by Andreea Macea
Group exhibition ‘Far away’, Royal Academy of Art, Antwerp (Belgium) Curated by Pamela Garcìa, Aline Kraus
2023
Group exhibition ‘Fragile’, Pôle Culturel de Rochebelle (France) Curated by Carla Contournet
New Media Art Fair Ruhr, Zolverrein (Germany)
Beholder Film festival (The Netherlands)
Cut to Gent Film Festival (Belgium)
Film Fest Dresden (Germany)
Olympia film festival (Greece)
Go Short film festival, Nijmegen (The Netherlands)
2022
Group exhibition ‘Inside out’, Instituto di Cultura de Italia, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Group exhibition ‘Inside out’, Centro Luigi Di Sarro, Rome (Italy) Curated by Veronica Budini
Group exhibition ‘ARP’, Edward Lear gallery, Berat (Albania)
Group exhibition ‘ARP’, Consulate General de Italia, Valona (Albania)
Group exhibition ‘Blue Rain’, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (France)
IDFA film festival, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Cinekid film festival, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
DOKleipzig film festival, Leipzig (Germany)
Docville documentary festival, Leuven (Belgium)
JEF Film Festival, Antwerp (Belgium)
2021
Film screening, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (Belgium)
Group exhibition ‘Artcontest 2021’, Espace Vanderborght, Brussels (Belgium)
Group exhibition ‘Vruchtbare grond’, Het Bos, Antwerp (Belgium)
Group exhibtion ‘Breedbeeld’, Bosland, Helchteren (Belgium)
Rencontres Internationales Paris (France)
2018
Group exhibition ‘seasonalneighbours’, In situ Borgloon (Belgium) Curated by Ciel Grommen
London international documentary festival (UK)
World film festival, Malmo (Sweden)
Szczecin European film festival (Poland)
Trento film festival (Italy)
International documentary festival, Ierapetra (Greece)
Roma Cinema Doc (Italy)
Caminhos film festival, Coimbra (Portugal)
2017
VISITE film program Het Bos, Antwerp (Belgium)
CEME doc film festival, Madrid (Spain)
Back_up Media and Arts Festival, Weimar (Germany)
Dokumentart, Brandenburg (Germany)