Falke Pisano’s artistic practice is defined by its participation in the theoretical discourse surrounding contemporary art; she uses her work to explore connections between objects, abstraction, language, and performance.
Falke Pisano's practice is a way of thinking about / in the world with a particular focus on how certain enduring ideas, divisions, institutions and systems have developed (historically, culturally) and how art and artist might play a role in questioning and challenging them. She argues that we read the world over and over again with the knowledge we gather in different ways and, placing ourselves within those readings, we might try to carve out spaces of action and relation. Pisano tries to articulate and share this process, usually in the form of long-term research cycles. Having been struck, lately, by the reproduction of a certain rationality in my work and language, she is trying to move from an authorial position based in critical research, intentionality and self-reflection to one that responds to violent and exploitative systems by giving voice to affect, desire and disarticulation.
Falke Pisano lives and works in Rotterdam. Recently, she was the 2023 Superhost at MHKA, Antwerp. She has participated in major groups shows such as the Venice Biennial and Manifesta. She has performed in institutions such as Museo Reina Sofia and the Berlin Biennale.