Paolo Chiasera (Biography)

Paolo Chiasera – Biography

EDUCATION

2006/7

The Italian Academy at Columbia University, Research fellow, NYC, USA 

1996/2003

Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva Fondazione Ratti: visiting professor Marina Abramović, Como, Italy

2001

M.A. Academy of Fine Arts, Bologna, Italy

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

True False Stories (Duo Show with Øystein Aasan) Musée de Bagnes, Musée d’Isérables, Musée du Loetschental, Musée Olsommer, Musée valaisan de la Vigne et du Vin, Le Portait Croisé, Valais, Switzerland

2017

PC SantaFe 4.0TD, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany

Frankenstein, PSM, Berlin, Germany

Profanation: Ghenos Eros e Thanatos, Galleria De Foscherari, Bologna, Italy

2016

PC, Art Club, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy

2015

Revenant: Don’t expect anything, Daniel Marzona, Berlin, Germany

Population Two (with Øystein Aasan), PSM, Berlin, Germany

Anagramma, Cura Basement, Rome, Italy

The Hunter-Gatherer, ArtInternational, Istanbul, Turkey 

Black Hunter, Maxx, Sierre, Switzerland

2014

I giardini di Sardegna Cipro e Gerusalemme, Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art, Middelburg, The Netherlands

I giardini di Sardegna Cipro e Gerusalemme, MAN, Museo Arte Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy

Urmutter, Francesca Minini, Miami Beach, USA

2013

Videography, MAC, Lissone, Italy

2012

The Art of  Conversation, PSM, Berlin, Germany

 Màn, Francesca Minini, Italy

2011

Motif, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy

2010

Ain’t No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele   

Kunst, Gent, Belgium

Rote Schauspielhaus, Verein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany

Juliette, PSM, ABC Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin, Germany

2009

Munter Freiem Himmel / Under the Open Sky, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany

 Condensed Heidegger’s Hut, PSM, Berlin, Germany

Archivio Zarathustra, Jiri Svestka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

Present Future, PSM, Artissima, Turin, Italy

2008

The Origin of Black Brain,  Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy

 Forget The Heroes, MACRO, Museo Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy 

2007

Tupac Project, Raine’s Foundation School, London, UK

The Trilogy, Smith Stewart Gallery, New York, USA

2006

The Trilogy: Cornelius, MAMBO, Museo Arte Moderna Bologna, Bologna, Italy

The Trilogy: Vincent, Francesca Minini, Milan, Italy

The Trilogy: Drawings, Columbia University, New York, USA

2005

Young Dictators’ Village, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2003

Spazi Circoscritti, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy

2002

20°Livello, GAM, Galleria Civica Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Marta Maps New Routes through the Collection, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany

2020

RE-COLLECTING, MAMBO, Museo Arte Moderna Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2018

Machines à Penser, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy

2017

A House Half Way, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

Exhibition Paintings, Kunst Meran, Meran, Italy

2016

Posizioni attuali dell’arte italiana, curated by Marta Cereda, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese, Italy

EX, MAMBO, Museo Arte Moderna Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Cumuli 2, Kunsthalle Memminghen, Memminghen, Germany (traveling exhibition),      

Galerie Fünfundzwanzig, Salzburg, Austria Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany

Kamarado, Stekelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Oggetti su un piano, Fondazione del Monte, Bologna, Italy

2013

Quaranta anni d’Arte Contemporanea Massimo Minini, Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italy

Momentum 7, Moss, Norway

2012

Asche und Gold, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany

2011

“Oh how time files”, Kunsthall Bergen, Bergen, Norway

History from my revolution, Oslo University, Oslo, Italy

2010

Psychosculptures, Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands

Ibrido, PAC, Milan, Italy

2009

Misura Italiana, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
        2nd Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece

2008

15 Quadriennale, Roma, Italy

Focus on Contemporary Italian Art – Mambo’s collections, Mambo, Museo d’Arte   

Moderna di  Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2007

Apocalittici ed integrati, MAXXI, Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy

Law of Relativity, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy

2006

Italy made in art now, Museum for Contemoorary Art, Shangai, China

Young Italian Art at The Turn of The Millennium, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China 

2005

(my private) HEROES, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany

T1 Turin Triennale, Turin, Italy

Ma Non al Sud, Galleria Montenegrini, Siracuse, Italy

2003

Forse Italia, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium

Focusis, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

2002

To the lighthouse, GAM, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin,Italy


EXIT: Nuove geografie della creatività italiana, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy

SPECIAL PROJECTS

SECONDO STILE Nomadic canvas Based Artist Run Exhibition Space present:

2015

Hangar, Lisbon
Cité des Art, Paris University of Leicester, UK
MAN, Museo Arte Moderna Nuoro, Italy 

2014

Kochi Muziris Biennale, India –  PO PO Studio, Yangon, Bruma, India
Curatorial club, Berlin Kunstverein Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin, Germany

2013

PSM, Berlin, Germany
Raimar Stange apartment
Berlin-Moonlight Lonunge, Berlin, Germany 

GRANTS/PRIZES

2016

Davidoff Art Residency, la Escuela de Disegno Altos de Chavon, La Romana, Dominican  Republic

2006

New York Prize

LECTURE AND TEACHING

2016

Akademie der Künste, Berlin Kolloquium – invited by Jimmy Roberts (June), Berlin, Germany

2015

Akademim der Kunste, Berlin Kolloquim – invited by Gernot Wieland (January) Berlin, Germany

2013

Guest teacher; Kunsthochuschule Kassel – 1 day workshop on exhibition painting (April, 2013), Kassel, Germany

2012

Tutor Studio Practice – Transact Institute (once year engagement), Berlin, Germany

Painting 1 – Analysis and Convergences at Salon popular, B Merlin in the framework of Off The Painting, invited by Tania Schumacher and Ellen Blumenstein (14 March,  2012), Berlin, Germany

 

2011

Guest teacher at Kunsthojskolen in Holbaek – 1 week workshop cinema theory and video art – Invited by Niels Bonde (November 21-25), Holebaek, The Netherlands 

 The Horizon after Commodity as part of Oslo University, invited by Ina Blom (June 18), Oslo,  Norway

2003

Guest teacher at Kunsthojskolen in Holbaek – 1 week workshop cinema theory and video art – Invited by Niels Bonde (November 21-25), Holebaek, The Netherlands 

 The Horizon after Commodity as part of Oslo University, invited by Ina Blom (June 18), Oslo,  Norway

WRITINGS

2011

The Horizon after commodity, notes on perversion DOWNLOAD https://www.paolochiasera.info/writing-and-talk
Commissioned by Bergen Kunsthall 

MONOGRAPHS

2016

PC, Villa Medici, Roma

The Black Hunter, MAXXX Sierre, text by B. Antille, The Idea of North

2015

The Hunter-Gatherer, ArtInternational, Istanbul / text by P. Chiasera and F. Gori

2011

Paolo Chiasera, The fog, Cura Books

 Rotes Schauspielhaus, The Greenbox Kunst Editionen, Berlin / text by S.Prinz, Why 

Sculpture Is Not Tiresome / M. Le Blanc, interview with P. Chiasera

2010

Unter Freiem Himmel, Marta Herford, Kremer Verlag / text by L.Benedetti, Benin 

Imaginary Landscapes / C. Chan, A Starry Night-Under The Open Sky / T.Niemeyer, 

 Distance An Inner World

2009

Relic And Fetish, Argobooks, Berlin/ Text by A. Schlaegel, Analogies / A. Villain, 

Archive Chiasera /D. Roelstraete, Metamorphology

Archivio Zarathustra, Onestarpress, France

2008

Paolo Chiasera, MACRO collana Panorama, Electa / text by D. Eccher in convertsation with P. Chiasera / R.Stange, Grand Master Crash

2007

Tupacproject, LImehouse Art Foundation press, London, / L Benedetti, Monuments 

On The Move / H. U. Obrist, S. Boeri, P. Chiasera, interview / P. Tazzi, Heroes

2006

Vincent, Cornelius, Pieter, Mambo, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna /texts by A. Demeester / J. Hoet

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

FRAC des Pays de la Lorie, France

GAM Galleria  Civica Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

MACRO Museo Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy 

MAMBO, Museo Arte Moderna Bologna, Italy

MART, Museo Arte Rovereto Trento, Rovereto, Italy

MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany

Museo del Novecento, Milan, Italy