Biography

Florinda Ferreira Dinis Klopries (artist name: Flo Dinis Klopries) is a visual artist born in Porto, Portugal, whose practice reflects a rich interplay of language, music, literature, and the visual arts. Her career spans Portugal, Germany, and France, and is shaped by a deep commitment to artistic experimentation, technical refinement, and cross-cultural exchange. Working across painting, drawing, photography, mixed media, and poetry, she creates work that moves between abstraction and figuration, intuition and structure, memory and material presence.

Her artistic path began with early recognition. She received an award for the art prize “Young Talents – Porto through children’s eyes,” organized by the Faculdade de Belas-Artes do Porto as part of a competition among primary schools. This first distinction marked the beginning of a lifelong engagement with creative practice.

Alongside her artistic development, Flo Dinis Klopries pursued a broad academic and linguistic education. She received a DAAD scholarship for language studies at Heidelberg University in Germany and earned the Diplôme Supérieur d’Études Françaises from the Institut Français de Porto / Alliance Française. She studied at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP), where she completed a degree in German and English Philology and Literature, and was awarded the Engenheiro António de Almeida Foundation Prize for academic excellence. She later continued her studies in Germany at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Münster in Magister Artium, later working as a translator.

Music also played an important role in her formation. She studied singing and piano at the Musikschule der Stadt Bonn, trained in voice and piano with Anita Nobel and Paul Rey Klecka. She was a member of the Vocal Ensemble of the Musikschule der Stadt Bonn and the Poppelsdorfer Kammerchor, and further developed her classical singing studies with Liesel Abels, Elzbieta Sukniewicz, and later Naira Gloumschatze. She also sang in choirs, chamber choirs, and soloist ensembles in Portugal, Germany, and France. This long musical background continues to inform her sensitivity to rhythm, pacing, tension, and atmosphere in her visual work.

After moving with her family to Sarreguemines, France, she shifted her focus more fully toward the visual arts. From 2006 to 2009, she was part of the modern art group led by abstract painter Michel Duparchy at the Foyer Culturel de Sarreguemines. This experience opened a significant new phase in her artistic development.

From 2009 to 2017, she studied in the studio of Stefan Beiu and Victor Grusevan, both former lecturers at the Wassily Surikov Moscow State Academy of Fine Arts and prizewinners of the Académie Française des Beaux-Arts. There, she received rigorous training in academic drawing and painting from live models, Old Master techniques, collage, and mixed media. This period was formative in establishing the strong technical foundation that underpins her work, while also encouraging her interest in layered surfaces, material experimentation, and the dialogue between tradition and contemporary expression.

Her work has received international recognition over the years. She was awarded the Certificate of Artistic Achievement by the Luxembourg Art Prize at the Musée de la Pinacothèque in Luxembourg in 2015, 2016, 2019, 2024, and 2025. In 2022, she became a member of the Société Académique ARTS-SCIENCES-LETTRES Paris and received an Honorific Mention in Abstract Art from Mondial Art Academia.

In 2023, Flo Dinis Klopries founded her own art studio, “Flo Dinis Klopries – art studio,” in Kleinblittersdorf, Saarland, Germany. The studio provides a dedicated space for ongoing artistic research and production, bringing together the diverse influences that shape her practice: language, music, literature, memory, and visual form.

Further distinctions followed in 2024, when she became a member of ADAGP Paris and Fondation Taylor Paris. That same year, she received an Honorable Mention in the Artist of the Year Award from the Circle Foundation for the Arts, joined the Académie Européenne des Arts-France, and was awarded the Bronze Medal of the Prize Award Académie Arts-Sciences-Lettres Paris. She also received an Honorable Mention connected to a group exhibition competition at Agora Gallery, Chelsea, New York. In addition, several of her poems were published in the 5th Anthology of Lusophone Poets in the Diaspora by Oxalá Editora.

In 2025, she became a member of the Société des Auteurs Lusophones de France (SALF), joined the Société des Artistes Français (SAF) as a foreign member, and became part of the Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes (SNBA) in Lisbon. She also received another Certificate of Artistic Achievement from the Luxembourg Art Prize. Among her most notable recent distinctions are the Collectors Art Prize 2025 / Art Legends of Our Time from Contemporary Art Curator Magazine and the First Prize / International Academic Award Apollo Dionysian Prize in Contemporary Art 2025 in Rome for her work “Kintsugi (7)”.

Her literary practice continues alongside her visual work. In 2026, she was invited by the University of Porto to serve as an Ambassador Alumni in France. That same year, additional poems by her were published in the 6th Anthology of Lusophone Poets in the Diaspora – Poems (Not Only) of Love by Oxalá Editora.

Florinda Dinis Klopries lives and works between disciplines, with a practice defined by sensitivity, rigor, and openness. Her work reflects an ongoing exploration of how material, memory, and emotion can coexist on the surface of an image, creating spaces that invite reflection, close looking, and layered meaning.

Artist Statement

I develop abstract works through layered texture, gestural line, and a material process that embraces both precision and chance. My paintings and mixed media pieces explore the dynamic tension between structure and organic flow, creating visual fields that feel at once constructed, intuitive, and alive.

Inspired by memory, nature, and inner transformation, I use color and surface to evoke emotional depth rather than literal narrative. Repeated motifs of weaving, rupture, and accumulation shape a body of work that reflects resilience, complexity, and the shifting architecture of lived experience.

Through blues, golds, reds, and earthy tones, I build compositions that reward slow looking and invite open interpretation. My aim is to create work that feels tactile, contemplative, and resonant — images that continue to unfold with each viewing.

Website: https://www.flodinisklopries.com
Instagram: instagram.com/flodinisklopriesartstudio

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