Artist Spotlight - Flo Dinis Klopries
Biography
F LO (Florinda) D I N I S K L O P R I ES was born in PORTO - PORTUGAL.
Art Prize - “Young Talents - Porto through childrens´eyes” (children from all primary schools) held by the Fine Arts College of Porto (Faculdade de Belas-Artes do Porto).
Scholarship by DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) for language studies at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Germany).
"Diplôme Supérieur d´Etudes Françaises", Institut Français de Porto, Alliance Française.
"The desert in me (1)", Flo Dinis Klopries, 2019, mixed media on canvas, mixed media on canvas, 100x160 cm
Degree in Arts (BA in German and English Philology and Literature) at FLUP (Faculdade de Letras/College of Arts/Modern Languages, University of Porto).
Engenheiro António de Almeida Foundation Prize, Portugal.
"Magister Artium" studies at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany) (interrupted for family reasons!).
Worked several years as translator in Germany.
Singing and piano studies at Musikschule der Stadt Bonn: Anita Nobel, Switzerland (singing) and Paul Rey Klecka, U.S.A (piano, Orchester der Beethoven Halle).
"The desert in me (3)", Flo Dinis Klopries2020, 100x140 cm, mixed media on canvas
Member of the Musikschule der Stadt Bonn´s Vocal Ensemble.
Member of the "Poppelsdorfer Kammerchor" (Bonn), direction: Kurt-Ludwig Forg.
Classical singing studies with Liesel Abels (Germany), Bonner Oper and Elzbieta Sukniewicz (Poland), Kölner Musikhochschule, co-repetition.
Moved to Sarreguemines (France) with her family (where she still lives today).
Singing studies with Naira Gloumschatze (Georgia, soprano, soloist at Saarbrücker Staatstheater (Germany).
Member of several choirs/chamber choirs and soloists ensembles in Portugal, Germany and France.
"Releasing the Square (1)" (diptych) Flo Dinis Klopries, 130x200 cm, mixed media on canvas, 2024
2006 - 2009
Member of abstract painter Michel Duparchy´s modern art group (Foyer Culturel de Sarreguemines).
2009 - 2017
Academic fine art studies: at Stefan Beiu‘s and Victor Grusevan’ s (Moldavia) art studio (both visual artists and former docents at Moscow Art Academy Wassily Surikov; Académie Française de Beaux-Arts Prizewinners): academic drawing and painting (with models), old master techniques, collages, mixed media…
2015
Certificate of Artistic Achievement - Luxembourg Art Prize 2015 - Musée Pinacothèque Luxembourg.
2016
Certificate of Artistic Achievement - Luxembourg Art Prize 2016 - Musée Pinacothèque Luxembourg.
"Kintsugi (1)", 2020, 100x160 cm
2019
Certificate of Artistic Achievement - Luxembourg Art Prize 2019 - Musée Pinacothèque Luxembourg.
2022
Member of Mondial Art Academia.
Société Académique ARTS-SCIENCES-LETTRES Paris member.
“International Art Professionals Awards 2022“
Honorific mention (Abstract Art)
“The desert in me”
2023
Association des Amis du Salon d´Automne de Paris member.
Opening an art studio: Flo DINIS KLOPRIES - art studio - 66271 Kleinblittersdorf, Saarland, Germany.
"Kintsugi (2)", Flo Dinis Klopries, 2021, 100x160 cm, mixed media on canvas
2024
ADAGP Paris (french author´s rights society) membership.
Admission as Fondation Taylor Paris member.
Honorable Mention “Artist of the Year Award” Circle Foundation for the Arts.
Académie Européenne des Arts-France member.
Prize Award Arts-Sciences-Lettres Paris: Bronze Medal.
Prize Awards Ceremony at Hotel Intercontinental - le Grand - Paris, october 6, 2024.
Honorable Mention - Circle Foundation for the Arts.
Circle Foundation´s Contest for Group Exhibit at Agora Gallery, Chelsea New York.
Several poems published in "5a Antologia de Poetas Lusófonos na Diáspora“ (5th Antology of portuguese speaking poetry authors in Diaspora”, Oxalá Editora.
Certificate of Artistic Achievement - Luxembourg Art Prize 2024 - Musée Pinacothèque Luxembourg.
"Kintsugi (4)" Flo Dinis Klopries, 2022, 100x130 cm, mixed media on canvas
2025
Société des Auteurs Lusophones de France (SALF) member.
Admission as Société des Artistes Français (SAF)/Salon des Artistes Français Paris.
Admission as Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes (SNBA), Lisbon, member.
Certificate of Artistic Achievement - Luxembourg Art Prize 2025 - Musée Pinacothèque Luxembourg.
Collectors Art Prize 2025/Art Legends of Our Time by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine.
First Prize / “International Academic Award Apollo Dionysian Prize in Contemporary Art 2025”, Rome.
Primo Premio/Trofeo Aureo in Arte e della Critica in semiotica estetica dell´Accademia Internazionale di Significazione Poesia e Arte Contemporanea (accademiapoesiarte.it) to her artwork "Kintsugi (7).
ROMA3 REGIONE LAZIO ROMA CAPITALE
ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA NEW YORK
COMUNE DI CANALE MONTERANO
2026
Admission as Société des Beaux-Arts de Lorraine member.
University of Porto Ambassador Alumni in France (U.P.) Formally invited by the University of Porto.
"Kintsugi (7)" Flo Dinis Klopries, 2024, 100x130 cm, mixed media on canvas
Artist Statement
Flo Dinis Klopries creates contemporary abstract works that move between gesture, texture, and symbolic form. Working across painting, ink drawing, mixed media, and photography, the practice explores the tension between control and spontaneity, intimacy and expanse, surface and depth. Through layered materials and recurring visual rhythms, the work invites slow looking. Each piece develops as a field of accumulation, where memory, movement, and emotional atmosphere remain visible within the surface. The result is a body of work that is both materially rich and open to interpretation.
"Kintsugi (8)" Flo Dinis Klopries, 2024, 80x100 cm
Flo Dinis Klopries is a female interdisciplinary contemporary artist born in Porto, Portugal, and currently living and working at the french/german border. Her academic and artistic training spans multiple disciplines, including fine arts, philology, and music - reflecting her relentless pursuit of knowledge and self-expression- each leaving an indelible mark on her creative output.
"Kintsugi (5)" Flo Dinis Klopries, 100x130 cm, mixed media on canvas
Her foundational studies in classic painting techniques and her later immersion in modern and abstract art practices laid the groundwork for her stylistic versatility. Under the tutelage of several renowned visual artists she acquired the discipline and precision associated with old master techniques, while also embracing the experimental spirit that defines contemporary art. This duality is a hallmark of her work, allowing her to traverse a spectrum of styles and themes with remarkable fluidity.
Unchained Waters (1), 2019, 130x100 cm
Her dynamic oeuvre, at once enigmatic and profoundly resonant, is situated between figuration and abstraction – blurring the line between both but emphasizing abstraction over representation – wants to build a bridge between the inherited past, her subjective vision of the present and her own exploration of what might be the future. The influence of her mentors from the Moscow Art Academy (now living in France!) is evident in her technical precision, while her abstract explorations owe much to her engagement with modernistic aesthetics.
FEMINA: le Féminin Sacré (2), 2025, 80x100
She is an artist who does not shy away from complexity, embracing it as a necessary aspect of both creation and existence. Her work invites viewers into a space of reflection, where the tactile and the transcendental converge, and it is as much about emotion as it is about form - both the product of her spontaneous feelings and emotions and the philosophical reflections of her intellect.
Femina: le Féminin Originel (1), 2025, 80x60 cm
Her preferred subjects are the timeless exploration of the human condition between the universal and the personal, the abstract and the concrete, but also i.e. the dipicting of the fleeting beauty of natural spaces aiming to underline their eternal qualities. Dinis Klopries art is deeply informed by her sense of place. Her landscapes are not mere representations but emotional cartographies, mapping the interplay of internal and external worlds. Nature serves as both a mirror and a catalyst for human emotion.
FEMINA: le Féminin Sacré (1), 2025, 80x100 cm
Flo Dinis Klopries is not content to simply depict the world. She seeks to capture its essence, to distill its fleeting beauty into something eternal. Her exploration of themes like fragility, resilience and the passage of time resonates deeply in our contemporary moment offering a space for reflection and renewal where the tactile and the transcendental converge.
In a world increasingly dominated by spectacle and immediacy, Dinis Klopries´art stands as a counterpoint. It reminds us of the enduring power of painting as a medium for profound expression.
FEMINA: le Féminin Cosmique (1), 2026
Her career is marked by regular exhibitions in Paris participating in prestigious international salons such as Art Capital/Salon des Artistes Francais, the Salon d´Automne ou le Salon des Beaux-Arts de la Société National des Beaux-Arts,... These venues, stepped in history provide the perfect context for her work.
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