Diego Bianchi
Errores Irreales
Performance

Slide show

19.11.2025

Diego Bianchi, *Errores Irreales*,2025
Performance view HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz
Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com

Diego Bianchi, *Errores Irreales*,2025
Performanceansicht HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Graz
Photo: kunst-dokumentation.com

The “body” is under pressure. There is little that is so close and essential to us as the idea and the substance of the body, and at the same time so shapeable and vulnerable. Thus it is not surprising that not only the perception and interpretation of the body in general has become so diverse and controversial, but also its depiction in sculpture, whose traditional approaches to materiality, shaping, hybridity, and fluidity are all now being redefined. Today there are new paths in sculpture that aim to better grasp in form our contemporary sense of the body and its diverse interpretations.

Bianchi’s immersive sculptural installations reinterpret the concepts of sculpture and of the torso, taking seriously the sensitivity and distress of the human body as subjected to manifold pressures, and expanding and updating its forms of expression. The place of the body in society, exposed to all the increasing demands of our time, plays a key role – both from a biological and a technological perspective. Bianchi works primarily with found objects from his own environment, drawing our attention to the excesses and wastage of contemporary consumer culture.

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Solo exhibitions (selection): Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Romainville (2025), New Performance Turku Biennale, Turku (2023), Museo abandonado, Dakar (2023), Marres, Maastricht (2023), Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (2022), Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Romainville (2020), 11th Liverpool Biennial (2020), BIENALSUR, Córdoba (2019), BIENALSUR, Valparaíso (2017), Centro de creación contemporain, Madrid (2017), Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires (2017), Barro Gallery, Buenos Aires (2016), Wiener Festwochen (2015), Centro de Arte Experimental, Buenos Aires (2015), Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires (2010), Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires (2009), Centro Uno de Arte Contemporáneo, Rio Negro (2007).

Group exhibitions (selection): ARCOmadrid (2025), MAC VAL, Vitry-sur-Seine (2024), Pivô, São Paulo (2024), macLYON, Lyon (2024), Bienal de Coimbra, Portugal (2024), Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Romainville (2024, 2023), Marres, Maastricht (2023), CAPC, Bordeaux (2023), Centre Pompidou, Metz (2022), Musée de la Haute Vienne Château de Rochechouart (2023), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (2021), Centre d’art contemporaine de Normandie (2018), Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires (2017), MALBA, Buenos Aires (2015), Museo Arte Moderno Cuenca (2015), 13th Istanbul Biennial (2013), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Niteroi, Río de Janeiro (2007), 11th Biennale de Lyon (2012), X. Bienal de la Habana, Havanna (2009).

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Video

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