Flora Vanclooster

Flora Vanclooster (BE, °2001) is a visual artist based in Brussels. She holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Visual Arts from LUCA School of Arts in Schaarbeek.

Flora’s artistic practice consists of video- and audio-installation, various text formats, photography, and performative interventions in public spaces. Her work is activist and political in nature and mainly explores themes like feminism and sexual politics. Flora is aware and critical of the society that surrounds her and her projects are internal and external reflections on that society, raising questions but never definitively answering them. She is very interested in how different artists from different time periods and zeitgeists explore similar themes, and often links contemporary art practices to artistic movements that came before her, such as the feminist avant-garde of the 1970s.

Her recent projects have become increasingly confrontational, and rather than presenting a finished work to an audience, she always wants the reaction of the audience to be a part of the work. In this way, her projects are never fixed or finalised, but rather ongoing researches that take on different spatial forms over time.

This direct exchange between artwork and audience and the various intersections of art and politics, is what sparked Flora’s interest in curating, along with her volunteer experience at different exhibitions and art festivals in Belgium.