Falke Pisano

Falke Pisano (B.1978, The Netherlands) lives and works in Berlin.

Falke Pisano’s lecture-performances, text-based video’s, objects and photocopied publications are the elements of a body of work that is distinctly induced by a practice of writing. Although mainly text-based, Pisano’s work displays a strong concern with the existence and features of concrete objects, and in particular abstract concrete objects. Using language as a means to re-think the potential of abstraction, sculpture and artistic practice she activates the abstract sculpture as a thought-generating principle and employs the idea of the unstable transforming and disintegrating object as a way to address issues concerning object-qualities, form, construction and engagement.

Previous solo exhibitions include: The Body in Crisis (curated by Lorenzo Benedetti), De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands (2012); Body, Communication, Escape, Text (curated by McIntyre Parker), Pied a Terre, San Francisco; Desert Solitaire, Benoît Maire & Falke Pisano, The Reading Room at CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania (2011); Public Speech, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK (2010); Conditions of Agency, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium; Organon on The Wave, with Benoît Maire, at Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, (2009); Show me, don’t tell me, Brussels Biennale, Brussels, Time Crevasse, Yokohama Triennale, Japan; Principle of Hope / Matter of Fact, Manifesta 7, Italy, Word Event, Kunsthalle Basel; Object, the Undeniable Success of Operations, SMBA, Amsterdam (co-curated with Krist Gruijthuijsen) ; When things cast no shadow, 5th berlin biennial for contemporary art, Berlin (all 2008). 

Group exhibitions have included (in 2012): Performing Abstraction (curated by Rina Carvajal), Luciana Brito Gallery, Sao Paulo; Objects and Disintegrations (curated by Patrycja Rylko), Gdansk City Gallery, Gdansk, Poland; Closer (curated by Krist Gruijthuijsen & Maxine Kopsa), Kunstverein, Amsterdam ; (in 2011) We are Grammar, Pratt Manhattan Galleries, New York; Get concrete at some point, Galerie Krobath, Berlin; (in 2010) Berlin-Paris, Galerie Neu / MD72, Berlin; Laokoon, COCO Kunstverein, Vienna; The Archeology of Autonomy, The Object Lag, Nieuwe Vide/Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands; Rehabilitation, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels; Heide Nord and Falke Pisano, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany; 7 Little Mistakes, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy; In the Event of Suspicion, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
(in 2009) For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Contemporary Art Museum
St. Louis, USA, traveling exhibition: ICA, London, MOCAD, Detroit, De Appel, Amsterdam, Culturgest, Lisbon; Modernologies, MACBA, Barcelona – traveling exhibition (Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw); Art Is Only A Feeling, KOVOS hal, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Lets talk about Painting, Le Stand, Lyon, France; The Conspiracy, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; Modern Modern (curated by Pati Hertling), Chelsea Art Museum, New York; Exposition XXIIe Ateliers Internationaux, Parc Culturel de Rentilly, Marne-la-Vallée, France; Curating the Library, deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium; Gennariello, Balice Hertling, Paris; (in 2008) Matter of Fact: Aftermath, Galeria Vermelho, Sao Paulo/Capacete+Gentil Carioca/ Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Acting Joe, George and Mr. Seek, Wartesaal Zürich, Zürich;
Playground Festival, STUK, Leuven, BelgiumShow me, don’t tell me, Brussels Biennale, Brussel; Time Crevasse, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan; Principle of Hope / Matter of Fact, Manifesta 7, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy
One of these things is not like the other things, Unosunove, Rome; Word Event, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel; Object, the Undeniable Success of Operations (curated with Krist Gruijthuijsen), SMBA, Amsterdam; Groupshow, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna; Berlin Biennale 5: When things cast no shadow (Night), Berlin; (in 2007) Ego’s (S,M,L,XL), Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands; Into It, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany
If I can’t Dance…, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium; Twice Told Tales, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris; Overtake, Lewis Glucksman Gallery Cork, New York; Imagine Action, Lisson Gallery, London; Elephant Cemetery, Artist Space, New York; (in 2006) Talking Cures, Moca, Maas at Hedah, Maastricht, Netherlands; Just in Time, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; What Is/What Could Be, W139, Amsterdam

She is represented by Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam; Balice Hertling, Paris and Hollybush Gardens, London.

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