Helen Anna Flanagan (b. Birmingham, based in Rotterdam, NL) is an artist working in video, performance and installation. Observed human incidents often form the starting point of her work. She combines these real events with fictitious narratives to produce video, installation and performance. By constructing and imagining scenarios – often making use of the category of the absurd – she looks to investigate social structures and the political subtext of the everyday, focusing on affects and emotions, labor and the body.

Flanagan was a resident at HISK, Gent from 2019-20 and is a graduate of Falmouth University of Arts (UK) and AKV St Joost (NL). Her work has been shown at exhibition spaces including CENTRALE | Lab, Brussels (2022); M, Leuven (2021); IKOB Museum (2021), Eupen (2021); WIELS, Brussels (2021); ASPEX Gallery, Portsmouth (2021); Kunsthal Gent (2021); Projektraum 145, Berlin (2021); Netwerk Aalst (2021); IMAI, Düsseldorf (2020); MHKA, Antwerp (2020); CAMPO Victoria, Gent (2019); MOMA Odessa (2019).; among others. Her films have been widely screened on video platforms and at film festivals, including Sharjah Film Platform (AE), Lo schermo dell’arte Film Festival (IT), Proyector Plataforma de Videoarte (SP), November Film Festival (UK), Film and Video Poetry Symposium (USA), Plymouth Contemporary 2017 (UK), Art Rotterdam (NL), and The Room Projects (FR). She is the winner of the 2019 Feminist Art Prize awarded by IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art, the VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize 2020 and the Art Contest 2021 Prize, Brussels.