Falke Pisano

Falke Pisano (B.1978, The Netherlands) lives and works in Berlin. Exhibitions in 2009 include: Talkshow, ICA, London, May, Making Worlds curated by Daniel Birnbaum for the 53rd Venice Biennale, Modernologies and The Malady of Writing, both at MACBA, Barcelona September and October. Previous Exhibitions include: 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).

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.

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