Born 1978, Amsterdam
Lives and works in Berlin

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2011        Desert Solitaire, Benoît Maire & Falke Pisano, The Reading Room at CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania

2010        Public Speech, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK

                 Conditions of Agency, Extra City, Antwerp, Belgium

2009        Figures of Speech (Formation of a Crystal), Hollybush Gardens, London

                 Organon and the Wave (with Benoît Maire), Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

                 Art Unlimited (with Galerie Balice Hertling and Ellen de Bruijhen Projects), Art 40 Basel, Basel

2008        Desert Solitaire (with Benoît Maire), Hollybush Gardens, London

                 Objets et formes à la Maison, Galerie Singuliere La Maison, Nice, France

                 Balice Hertling, Paris

                 Halle für Kunst e.V., Lüneburg, Germany

2007        Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam

                 Samsa Präsentiert, Berlin

 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2011        We are Grammar, Pratt Manhattan Galleries, New York

                 Get concrete at some point, Galerie Krobath, Berlin

2010        Berlin-Paris, Galerie Neu / MD72, Berlin

                 A Performance Project, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria

                 Laokoon, COCO Kunstverein, Vienna

                 Yucatan is Elsewhere, Academiegalerie, Utrecht, Netherlands

                 The Archeology of Autonomy, The Object Lag, Nieuwe Vide/Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands

                 Une exposition (du) sensible, La Synagogue de Delme, Delme, France

                 Rehabilitation, Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels

                 Eskimo Space, 1857, Oslo

                 The Wave, Falke Pisano & Benoît Maire, Hollybush Gardens, London

                 Heide Nord and Falke Pisano, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany

                 7 Little Mistakes, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy

                 Perpetual Interview, Christina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon

                 Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

                  In the Event of Suspicion, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany

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

                 Making Worlds, 53rd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia, Italy

                 Time as Matter, New Acquisitions, MACBA, Barcelona

                 What if This Was a Piece of Art?, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany

                 à corps & à textes, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, France

                 Modern Modern (curated by Pati Hertling), Chelsea Art Museum, New York

                 Talkshow, ICA London, London

                 Exposition XXIIe Ateliers Internationaux, Parc Culturel de Rentilly, Marne-la-Vallée, France

                 The Real Thing, MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands

                 Mirrors (curated by Gyonata Bonvicini), MARCO, Vigo, Spain

                 Curating the Library, deSingel, Antwerp, Belgium

                 Gennariello, Balice Hertling, Paris

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
                 Chapitre 1 (les situations discrètes), Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, Franc
                 Playground Festival, STUK, Leuven, Belgium
                 Show me, don’t tell me, Brussels Biennale, Brussels
                 Time Crevasse, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
                 Zero Gravity, ATA Center Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
                 Die Wahrnehmung von Ideen führt zu neuen Ideen, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und
                 Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
                 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
                 When doing things and words, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
                 L'art en Europe, Domain Pommery, Reims, France
                 Object, the Undeniable Success of Operations (curated with Krist Gruijthuijsen), SMBA, Amsterdam

                 Groupshow, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna
                 DE RÉALITÉ, Hangar à Bananes, Quai des Antilles, île de Nantes, France
                 Of this tale, I cannot guarantee a single word, Royal College of Art Galleries, London
                 Berlin Biennale 5: When things cast no shadow (Night), Berlin
                 UtopiaTransfer, Kiscelli Museum, Budapest
                 Ultramoderne, CAC Brest, Brest, France
                 Power, Foxy Productions, New York

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
                 Ultramoderne, Hall Paul Wurth, Luxembourg
                 Exposition N° 1, Balice Hertling, Paris
                 Twice Told Tales, Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
                 Overtake, Lewis Glucksman Gallery Cork, New York
                 Imagine Action, Lisson Gallery, London
                 9 or 10 works I used to like…, Monitor Gallery, Rome
                 Curacion Geometrica, The Reliance, London

                 Das Offende Ende/ The Open End, Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
                 About the Possibility of Sculpture, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany
                 Extracts (Objects), Beauty Unrealized, PSWAR, Amsterdam
                 Elephant Cemetery, Artist Space, New York

2006       Talking Cures, Moca, Maas at Hedah, Maastricht, Netherlands
                 Resonances, Stuk, Leuven en Artis, Den Bosch, Netherlands
                 Just in Time, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
                 If I can’t Dance…, De Appel, Amsterdam
                 Hiscox Art Award, Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam
                 What Is/What Could Be, W139, Amsterdam

 

 

PERFORMANCES

 

2009        Curating the Library, de Singel, Antwerp, Belgium

2008        Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours, 5th Berlin Biennale, Berlin
                 Figures of Speech, Playground Festival, Stuk Leuven, Netherlands
                 Object and Disintegration: A Performance in Trialogue Form (with Will Holder and
                 Karolin Meunier), Liste 08 Performance Programme, Basel / Berlin Biennale 5
                 Affecting Abstraction #3, Halle für Kunst Lüneburg, Lüneburg (Germany) / Evas Arche und der Feminist, New York
                 Scenario for Form #1, Galerie Singuliere La Maison, Nice, France
                 A Sculpture Turning into a Conversation, Betonsalon, Paris

2007        Affecting Abstraction #3, Lisson Gallery, London/Casco, Utrecht (Netherlands)
                 Affecting Abstraction #2, Greenwich Café, Brussels
                 Affecting Abstraction #1, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

2006        A Sculpture Turning into a Conversation (with Ellen de Bruijne Projects) LISTE- The Young Art Fair Basel, Basel

                 Concrete Abstractions, Hiscox Art Award, Arti&Amicitiae, Amsterdam

                 Untitled Lecture, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands

2005        Lecture on Concrete Abstractions, Technical University, Eindhoven, Netherlands

                 Lecture on Concrete Abstractions, If I can’t dance – I don’t want to be part of your revolution, Festival aan de Werf, Utrecht

 

 

LECTURES ON WORK / TEACHING

 

2010        Lecture on Figures of Speech, Critical Applause, CCA Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

                 Lecture on Figures of Speech, B-open, Bergen, Norway

2009        Lecture on Work : Something you should know, EHESS, Paris

                 Workshop : Kijken en Benoemen, Honoursclass, Hogeschool voor de kunsten Den Haag,

                 Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands

                 Lecture on Figures of Speech, Studium Generale, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht,

                 Utrecht, Netherlands

                 Lecture on Work, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna

2007        Lecture on Work, Villa Arson, Nice, France

                 Lecture on Work, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zürich

 

 

PANEL DISCUSSIONS

 

2009        In Other Words, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich

                 The politics of display and Rewriting the History of Modernism, MACBA, Barcelona

 

 

CURATED EVENTS / EXHIBITIONS

 

2007        My Friends of Reflective Abstraction (event, performance/readings by Will Holder, Frank Koolen, Charlotte Moth,

                 Falke Pisano), Betonsalon, Paris

                 As Yet (event with lectures, film and performance around the idea of ‘speculation’, with Will Holder), De Appel, Amsterdam
                 falkeandcharlotte (programme of presentations, events and publication, Dolores/EdB Projects; with Charlotte Moth)

                 Freelance programming of Dolores, project-space/side-programme of exhibitions, screenings and performances at

                 Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
                 Curator Dolores, project-space/side-programme of exhibitions, screenings and performances at Ellen de Bruijne

                 Projects, Amsterdam

 

 

EDUCATION / RESIDENCIES



 

2011        Capacete, Rio de Janeiro/ Sao Paulo, Brazil

2008        Schloss Bleckede, Lüneburg, Germany

                 Künstlerstätte Schloss Bleckede, Lüneburg, Germany                     

                 Ateliers Internationaux of Frac Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France                     

                 IMMA, Dublin 


2007        Villa Arson (October 2007 to February 2008), Nice, France

                 Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

2003-04 Jan van Eyck Avademy, Maastricht, Netherlands

 

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

 

2009        Basisbeurs, Fonds voor Beeldende Kunsten

                 Flexibele werkbijdrage

2008        Flexibele werkbijdrage

                 Arbeitsstipendium Jurgen Ponto Stiftung

2007        Productiesubsidie

2006        Hiscox Art Award

 

 

PUBLISHED TEXTS / ARTIST CONTRIBUTIONS

 

2010        “Figures of Speech”, artist book (co-edited and designed by Will Holder), JRP-Ringier Christoph Keller Editions

2009        “About artistic production as speech-acts, the performative aspect and questions of efficiency in relation to

                 reflection and transparency”, Gagarin #20

                 “A Sculpture turning into a Conversation”, Ultra Mera Commonplace, Rollo Press, Zürich

2008        Portfolio, Art 21

                 “The Dense Object”, Mock and other superstitions 1

                 “Images”, a project by Spike Magazine

                 “The Dense Object”, Palais de Tokyo (website), Paris

                 “Contributions to CUT”, Galerie van Gelder

                 Andreas van Düren, “A Sculpture turning into a conversation”, TEXT

2007        Slash Seconds Issue 5, www.slashseconds.org

                 Benoit Maire, “Some (in)formal notes on reading: What is Consciousness?”, Revolver/Gavin Wade

                  Kasper Andreasen (Ed.), “The architect builds it up, the artist pulls it down’ So what does the writer do? And what is it?”,
                 TIME OUT Warmoestaart 139, 2004-2007, W139

                 The Dense Object, Beauty Unrealized, PSWAR, Roma Publication #103

                 “A Sculpture turning into a Conversation”, Casco Issues X: The Great Method

                 FR DAVID, guest editor 1^st issue, De Appel, Amsterdam

                 Text for Keren Cytter exhibition, Ik ben/I am Artis, yearbook, Artis Den Bosch

2006        “Contribution to The Continuous Present”, Tomorrow Book Studio

2005        “Concrete Abstracties”, Metropolis M, Issue 5

 

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

2010        Feature Interview, Laura McLean-Ferris, ArtReview, tbp
                 Interview, Paul O'Neill, If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution, tbp

2009        Will Holder speaks of the poetics of concrete poetry and documenting the work of Falke Pisano, Dot Dot Dot 17 jan

                 “Space in Language”, Interview, Vincent de Bellis, Mousse Magazine 19, Summer

                 Lillian Davies, “Vitamin 3D”, Phaidon Press, London

                 “Figures of Speech”, Review, Colin Perry, Art Monthly June

                 “Sculptures as conversation”, Abitare 492, May

                 Hannes Loichinger, “leaflet”, Künstlerstätte Bleckede

2008        Christophe Gallois, “Words and Objects”, , Metropolis M Issue

                 “A Piece of the Action: The Rematerialisation of Performance Today”, Alice Motard, “Of this tale, I cannot guarantee a single
                 word”, Royal College of Art, London

                 Falke Pisano. “Speculative Language”, Victoria Chaine Mendrzyk,“Of this tale, I cannot guarantee a single
                 word”, Royal College of Art, London

                 Lillian Davis, Interview, Uovo Magazine 17

                 A Flourishing Militant Art, Domeniek Ruyters, L’Art Contemporain en Europe, Beaux Arts editions

                 Antony Hudek, “Falke Pisano at BaliceHertling”, Flashart March/April

                 Lilian Davis, “Falke Pisano at BaliceHertling”, Artforum, April

                 Vivienne Rehberger, “Falke Pisano at BaliceHertling”, Frieze, May

                 Isobel Harbison, “Overtake”, untitled 44, Winter

2007        "Imagine Action", Frieze, Issue 110, October

                 "Artists imagine action to stimulate change" 12/10/07, Studio International "imagine action at

                 Lisson Gallery" Artvehicle Issue 20, www.artvehicle.com

                 Mark Whilsher, "Imagine action", Art Monthly

                 Elaine O’Sullivan (online review), "Overtake: The reinterpretation of modern art", Circa Magazine, www.recirca.com

2006        “Just in Time”, Proposal for Municipal Art Acquisitions, SM CS

                 “Abstracted Realities”, Hiscox Art Award, Hiscox, Exhibition Catalogue