Paolo Chiasera

Paolo Chiasera works across installation, video, painting, performance, architecture, curating, and writing. These mediums often overlap in his analysis and staging of collective myths, cultural symbols, and icons. Through manifold narratives he retraces the interactions between history and power, social groups, and the loss of control. More recently his practice has focused on painting in its expanded field of appearance and use.

Chiasera’s work has been exhibited internationally, with solo shows at Accademia Carrara, Bergamo (2025); Martina Simeti, Milan (2025); Fondazione Collegio Artistico Venturoli, Bologna (2025); SPS – Fondazione Archivio Turi Simeti, Milan (2024); PSM, Berlin (2017, 2012); Villa Medici, Rome (2016); MAXXX, Sierre (2015); Vleeshal, Middelburg (2014); MAN, Nuoro (2014); MAC, Lissone (2013); Francesca Minini, Milan (2012); Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia (2011, 2003); S.M.A.K., Ghent (2010); Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin (2010); MARTa Herford (2009); MACRO, Rome (2008); Smith Stewart, New York (2007); MAMbo, Bologna (2006); and W139, Amsterdam (2005). His work has been included in group exhibitions at Musei Civici di Macerata (2026); Magazzino del Sale, Cervia (2026); Pinacoteca Nazionale, Bologna (2025); Fondazione Prada, Venice (2018); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2017, 2007); Kunsthalle Memmingen (2016); Triennale di Milano (2013); Bergen Kunsthall (2011); Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid (2009); the 2nd Thessaloniki Biennale (2009); and MAXXI, Rome (2007). In 2019 he conceived True-False Stories for the Réseau Musées Valais, Switzerland.