Pablo Chiereghin is an Italian artist based in Vienna whose work explores social and political themes through actions, performances, and interventions aimed at creating dialog with viewers. His pieces are conceived to lead viewers along situational paths with multilayered meanings. Some recent works include a clothes donation installation critiquing aid and exclusion of migrants, a performance highlighting random social issues, and transforming an art gallery into a police station to examine concepts of safety, fear and control.

1. Pablo Chiereghin
some works
2010-2015
Glasergasse 4/9, 1090, Wien - 0043 650 7306291
pablo@pablochiereghin.com - www.pablochiereghin.com

2. Pablo Chiereghin’s research is moved by social and political dynamics and by daily-life-curiosity. His ac-
tions, performances, interventions are conceived in dialog with the public and often play with the interfer-
ences between medium and significance. His work, and the processes from which it is generated, leads
the viewer on situational paths and multilayer meanings where the key role is assigned rather than to a
subject or an object, to the synthesis of an idea.
Born in 1977 in Adria (Ro) Italy. He graduated in Communication studies in Bologna. Postgraduate in Pho-
tography at Central St. Martins, University of Arts of London. Co-founder of the collective Buuuuuuuuu.net.
Represented by Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna.
Solo exhibitions (solo), duo exhibition (duo) and solo project and performance
2015 • “Kleiderspende” Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, AT
2014 • “Police. We for you. You with us” Galeria Tir, Nova Gorica, SLO (solo)
2013 • “Drop out of sight”, with Aldo Giannotti, Lust Gallery, Vienna, AT (solo)
• “A trip between two imaginary points” permanent street signs installation, Strada Romea, IT
• “Bank Club”, performance, Vienna, AT
2012 • “Holiday Pictures” 4e7artforum, performance and video installations, Vienna, AT (solo)
2011 • “Ooops” interactive sculpture in Augarten, Supported by KÖR, Graz, AT
• “Austellung”, Tobecontinued gallery, Vienna, AT
2010 • “Privacy Matters”, European Month of Photography, Anzenberger Gallery, AT (duo)
• “Hi I’m Pablo Chiereghin, I come from Adria” Das weisse haus Vienna AT (solo)
2008 • “Pablo Chiereghin. They say I seem clever” MiCamera gallery, Milano, IT (solo)
• “Birthday Suit”, The Window Gallery, London, in coll. with Barbican Art Gallery, UK
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2015
• “Social Glitch“ Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, AT
• “Moving not moving” Gallerie Laurence Bernard, Geneva, CH
• “Feuer und Flamme” Museum des Stiftes Admont, Admont, AT
• “Perpetuum Mobile” Vienna Art Week, Kunst Haus, Vienna, AT
• “Modell#1”, “Modell#2” and “Small” Kunstraum Super, Vienna, AT
• “Artmart” Künstlerhaus, Vienna, AT
• “The local artist is present”, Trieste, IT (artist talk and screening)
• “Modell” Collini Areal, Hohenems, AT
• “Living Monuments” MLZ Gallery, Trieste, IT (artist talk and screening)
• “Die Wiesse haus Kunstschau”, das wiesse haus, Vienna, AT
• “ArTs festival” Festival arte in spazio pubblico, Trieste, IT
• “Subpop”, Popmuseum, Vienna, AT
2014
• “There is no current exhibition”, andata.ritorno Gallery, Geneva, CH
• “Objective Point of View” brut-Künstlerhaus; Vienna, AT
• “aNOther Festival” Konzerthaus-brut, Vienna, AT
• “Salotto Vienna” MAK, Trieste, IT (artist talk and screening)
• “Jahresgabenausstellung”, das weisse haus, Vienna, AT
• ”Deltarte Festival” Parco del Delta del Po, IT

3. 2013
• “Kunstgastgeber Gemeindebau” Projekt von KÖR, Vienna, AT
• Photon Gallery, Lijubliana, SLO (artist talk and screening)
• Trieste Contemporanea, Trieste, IT (artist talk and screening)
• ”Deltarte Festival” Museo della Bonifica, Taglio di Po, IT
• “All the times that i told the story of my Place” National Archeological Museum, Adria IT (performance)
• ”Jahreausstellung” das weisse haus, Vienna, AT
• ”Unterholz” and “Interpersonal influence initiative screaning” Aparat, Vienna, AT
2012
• “Poli di Attrazione” Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Vienna, AT
• ”How to Disappear completely” with Aldo Giannotti performance, das weisse haus, Vienna, AT
• “Multimart”, Gumperdorferstrasse, Vienna, AT
• “Jahresgabenausstellung” das weisse haus, Vienna, AT
• “The Family” Lust Gallery, Vienna, AT
2011
• ”Declining Democracy” with Buuuuuuuuu.net, CCC La strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, IT
• ”MetaMart - Kunst und Kapital” Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, AT
• ”Free Port of Art” Trieste Biennale, Magazzino 26, Trieste, AT
• “NeoSI” at Schattendof Kunstverein curated by Amer Abbas, Schattendof, AT
2010
• “ArtMart”, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, AT
• “Klang/Farben Film/Musik”, European Center for Culture, Belgrade, SRB
• ”When a ball dreams, it dreams it is a frisbee”, Rondo, Graz, AT
• “The collective body”, Liquid Loft studio - Grundkino, Vienna, AT
• “Be my Guest” performance with Aldo Giannotti, at Kittycorner, Berlin, D
• “Love Nest” Wannabe Gallery, Milan, IT
• ”Siteshow”, London, UK
Bibliography
Catalogs (selected)
• “Social Glitch” by S. Eckermann, G. Nestler, M.Thoman, ISBN 978-3-200-04408-1, 2015.
• ”Art and Politics Now” by Anthony Downey, Thames and Hudson, ISBN978-0-500-29147-4, 2014.
• “Eyes on Monat der fotografie Wien”, Fotohof Edition, Salzburg, ISBN: 978-3-902993-03-08, 2014.
• ”Kunstgastgeber Gemeindebau” KÖR, project catalog, 2014.
• “Art in public space Styria Projects” Ambra/v, ISBN 978-3-99043-568-7, 2013.
• “Jahresbericht 2011” Universalmuseum Joanneum, ISBN 978-3-9501936-7-1, 2012.
• “Die Weissen Jahre” Das Weisse Haus, ISBN 978-3-902829-47-4, 2012.
• “Declining Democracy” Silvana Editoriale, La strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, 2011.
• “Free port of Art”. Trieste Biennale, Central Europe Initiative, 2011.
• “Eyes on Monat der fotografie Wien”, Fotohof Edition, Salzburg, ISBN 978-3-902675-46-0, 2010.
• ”Portraits with telephone numbers” project catalog, 2010.
• “Pablo Chiereghin. They say I seem clever”, catalog, Noiza, 2008.
Articles (selected)
• Die Presse “Kunstasyl” catalog distribuited with the newspaper (28th Oct 2015)
• Die Presse “In Triest zeigst sich Wien in Salon” MAK Salotto Vienna (12th Aug 2014)
• Rebelart.net features “Bank Club”, (Apr 2013) and “The Scam” (Jan 2012)

4. • Heute features “Bank Club” (May 2012) and “Un Sorso di Romagna” (6th Nov 2012)
• Die Presse features “Un Sorso di Romagna” Multimart (4th Nov 2012)
• Repubblica.it, features “Portraits with telephone numbers”, 30 photos (Jan 2011)
• SNOB magazine, Russia, feaurures 14 pages Portfolio of “Picture of a Lie” (Jul-Aug 10)
• GQ Italy, interview, in the New talents columns, (Feb 10)
• Zoom, features “Pablo Chiereghin. They say I seem clever” (Nov-Dec 2008)
• Kult, features “Pablo Chiereghin. They say I seem clever” (Oct 2008)
• PhotoIcon, portfolio publication 3 pages (n.5, Spring 2008).
• Report, RAI use the series Birthday Suit for RAI National TV, as a trailer of the TV-show (Feb-Apr 2008).
• Renische Zeitung.de features “Birthday Suit” (Mar 2008)
• Repubblica.it, features “Birthday Suit” with a gallery of 26 photos (Jan 2008)
Collections
• BMUKK Ministry of Culture and Arts, Austria,
• Gesellschaft der Freunde der Bildenden Kunst, Wien
• Private collections
Art Fair & Auctions
• Kunstasyl, Benefizauktion Wien, 2015
• Vienna Artfair, Multimart, 2012
• Dorotheum 18. Benefizauktion Wien, 2012
• ArtVerona, Micamera, 2010
Prizes, Grants & Residencies
• Ivan Moudov´s “Air Drawing Contest” winner with “A line from here to home” Mumok, Vienna, 2013
• Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Steiermark support the project Ooops in Augarten Graz, 2010
• Rondo, Graz, artist in residence, 2010

5. Exchangeable Object
instruction on a plinth, 2015

6. Die Plakate von Gott (God Slogans)
installation and video realized with existing advertising material of the archdiocese of Vienna,
2015
Dio c’é (God exists)
photo down right - sub-culture sign for heroin dealers
graffiti on the wall, 2015

7. Kleiderspende (Clothes donation)
Kleiderspende is an installation created in the frame of kunstasyl a charity art auction for migrants.
The rugs bricks are industrial products coming from the second hand clothes market. The bricks had been
assembled in a wall wich reflects the “permanent-emergency-status” in which governments and istituitions
deal with the migrant situation revealing a contradictory strategy of aid and exclusion.
installation, 5m x 2m, 2015

8. Longitudinal Demo
performance in the frame of the Social Glitch exhibition, where random keywords of the Instant Associa-
tion workshop (with E.Klacan, Hoelb/Hoeb, G.Straub) are sprayed on a 30m long banner and carried in a
longitudinal demo along the old city center. 2015 (foto Andreas Diem)

9. Police. We for you. You with us.
An exhibition about social order and safety
Galerjia Tir, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 2014
Gallery installation view (sign, flag, gates)

10. Police. We for you. You with us.
An exhibition about social order and safety
Dj performance, projection and party views
(text)
The building of the art Gallery Tir, in the occupied cultural center of Mostovna, Nova Gorica is transformed
in a police station. The artist, far from proposing a clear position, develops a series of projects between
safety and social order.The exhibition uses police promotional videos and a sound selection of police-relat-
ed songs performed live as cultural ready-made. The aim is underline the role of this “democratic” institution
in relation with fear, anger, safety and control, bringing this social issues to the relation between individuals
in their hierarchic roles of officers and common people.

11. Police. We for you. You with us.
An exhibition about social order and safety
Video PAL 5 min loop
Video Installation views
(official promotional videos from international police - Georgia, Texas, Italy, India, UK)
outside installation views

12. Mir fehl das Meer (I miss the sea)
intervention/performance, 2013
within the frame of Council house project Kunstgastgeber Gemeindebau
organized by KÖR (Art in public space Vienna) and Wiener Wohnen

13. A trip between two imaginary points
permanent road sign installation,
Strada statale Romea between Venezia and Ravenna
2013, 2 Aluminum street road 200 cm x 150 cm

14. A straight line through the planet
with Aldo Giannotti
2013, video PAL 1:32

15. Portrait with other people
with Aldo Giannotti
2013, C-Print photography on diasec

16. How to Disappear Completely
with Aldo Giannotti
2012, performance, video PAL 2:37, photos 40 cm x 30 cm

17. Self-disappearing tool
with Aldo Giannotti
2013, Pepper Spray on a Plexiglass shell

18. Bank Club
“I do not know where my money is now and how it is invested but I am having fun in the bank”.
Using their bank cards people gain access to the entrance room of some banks and have a party there.
This party-project is a copyleft instruction to hedonistically protest against bank’s policies and their role
in our daily life.
2013, performance, video PAL 7 min, photos 40 cm x 30 cm
video and editing Roberto Beani
photos Gerald Zahn

19. The Scam
2011, performance, contracts
The artist organizes a complex financial operation under the fake supervision of a broker’s firm.
The participants give money under the promise of having the amount doubled or at least to have their
money back within 3 months.
The artist gives to the investors signed contracts and then uses the money for personal purposes.

20. Buuuuuuuuu
artistic participative action against authoritative democracies
(an ongoing project with Aldo Giannotti and Gianmaria Gava)
above left: blog image www.buuuuuuuuu.net
above right: installation views at Declining Democracy, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, 2011

21. Un sorso di Romagna / Ein Schluck Oberösterreich
2012, bottles of wine regularly on sale in Italian shops, wooden box edited and signed
This work deals with political merchandising, nostalgia and normalization. The bottles purchased
in an Italian supermarket and presented as readymade in Austria, open a negotiation on the dis-
similarities in the civic sense and in the social and juridical attitudes between Austria and Italy.
The title, referring to the regions of birth of Mussolini and Hitler, is based on a famous slogan for a
cheap Italian table wine “Un sorso di Romagna”.

22. 30.000 Votes. H.C. Strache Serbian-Ortodox Bracelet
object 2011
HC Strache, the leader of Austrian right nationalist party FPÖ, despite his strong position
against immigration, while running for Major in Vienna wears a ‘brojanica’, a traditional
Serbian-Ortodox bracelet. The Serbs are the biggest non-Austrian community in Vienna.

23. Holiday Pictures
It happened to me a lot of times to fall asleep while seing a slideshow of holiday pictures
2011, performance
“Holiday pictures” is a social ready made. The performance, that took place in a Viennese gallery,
consists of a slideshow of a holiday snapshots as it was to be shown to friends and relatives.
The pictures accompanied by videos were shot as private memories and they become a visual
medium of a narration allowing the artist a supplement of private stories, inappropriate details,
and boring references.

24. Sonnenfreunde
2012, Intervention and objects,
The garden of the Italian Institute of Culture in Vienna is declared a naturist garden.
In the exhibition halls (facing the FKK garden)
institututional naturist magazines from the 60’s and 70’s are on display

25. exhibition views

26. Destination Italy
2012, Video installation,
The artist presents the two introduction pages of Italy’s Lonely Planet guide.
A video projection magnifies the brief description of a nation, its economy, its culture,
its politicians, people, habits and moods.
(text Lonely Planet)
Destination Italy
‘I am young and send texts (sms),’ Italy’s prime-minister-cum-media-tycoon Silvio Berlusconi remarked with his Cheshire-cat
smile in a TV interview in early 2009. Born in 1936 and keen to promote his sense of eternal youth, Berlusconi is the image of
the Italian self-made man who once made his living singing on cruise ships but became wealthy in construction and, from 1980,
the media.
Elected three times as prime minister since 1994 (most recently in a landslide in 2008), Berlusconi’s electoral fortunes slipped in
mid-2009 in nationwide provincial and municipal polls as he was enveloped by scandal. After his wife, former actress Veronica
Lario, announced she would file for divorceand claimed her husband consorted with minors, an investigation was opened into the
presence of call girls at parties hosted by the prime minister. Berlusconi declared the claims to be part of a plot orchestrated by
the left and publications like La Repubblica and Espresso (both owned by a rival tycoon).
The prime minister has, since the early 1990s, been involved in numerous court cases related to claimed wrong-doing in his
business affairs. Nothing has ever stuck but, as head of the government, he promoted an immunity law, passed in July 2008, that
protects him from prosecution while in office. It came in before his British lawyer, David Mills, was convicted in February 2009

27. of taking bribes from a Berlusconi company to hush up evidence in other trials against Berlusconi.In a sense, ’twas ever thus. The
land that gave us Roman efficiency and Renaissance aesthetics has a turbulent history. The peninsula remained hopelessly divided
into bickering city-states and small warring kingdoms after the fall of Rome and eventually succumbed to foreign control. Italy
only reunited and regained independence in the late 19th century. Since then, what is today Europe’s fourth largest economy has
been a country of enormous contradictions.
The Belpaese (Beautiful Country) is one of the single greatest repositories of sensorial pleasures on earth. From art to food, from
stunning and varied countryside to flamboyant fashion, Italy has it all. This is the country that brought us Slow Food, devoted
to the promotion of fresh products and fine traditional, cooking. What started as a local protest against fast food has become a
worldwide movement.
With 44 sites, Italy has more Unesco World Heritage sites than any other country on earth. Its great città d’arte (cities of art), like
Rome, Venice and Florence, have been attracting visitors for centuries, and with good reason. At times, it seems like the country
rests on its artistic laurels. This is not entirely true. Milan, the country’s financial hub, has created one of Europe’s biggest and
most modern trade fairs and is planning a major residential development, the CityLife complex ( p272 ), in the heart of the city.
Venice is possibly the city that has, in appearance, changed least down the decades but it has recently opened a sleek new bridge
over the Grand Canal and a spectacular contemporary art space at the Punta della Dogana. Nature occasionally strikes hard at
Italy’s artistic wealth. Flooding in 1966 caused incalculable damage to Venice and Florence. One of the positive results of those
disasters was the emergence of a new class of expert art restorers. Such expertise will be in demand in Abruzzo, struck by an
earthquake (6.3 on the Richter scale) on 6 April 2009. It left 295 dead and 55,000 homeless.
The city of L’Aquila, at the epicentre, was hit especially hard. Stupor at the collapse of the general hospital in L’Aquila turned to
anger when it was revealed that it had been operating without permits and had not been built to meet the seismic standards of the
area. Berlusconi promised €8 billion for reconstruction and an anti-Mafia watchdog to make sure organised crime didn’t benefit
from these funds. He also moved the July G8 world economic summit from Sardinia to L’Aquila, at a time when Italy’s economy
was looking especially fragile. The International Monetary Fund predicted a 2.1% drop in Italian GDP in 2009 and further losses
in 2010.
The question of the Mafia remains an open sore. The publication in 2006 of Gomorra, a chilling and personal account of the Na-
ples Camorra by journalist Roberto Saviano, showed just how deep the problem goes. Although Sicily’s Cosa Nostra grabs many
of the headlines, the Camorra is Italy’s biggest organised crime group (if this mix of warring clans can be considered a single en-
tity). Known to its own members as The System, it is involved in everything from drugs and arms trafficking to illegal industrial
waste disposal. Occasionally there is good news on the crime front. In early 2009, Salvatore Zazo, a key Camorra boss involved
in drug trafficking between Colombia and Naples, was arrested in Barcelona, Spain. Immigration is a hot potato. Immigrants have
forever changed the face of Italian cities and towns, bringing cultural enrichment and social tension. Berlusconi’s centre-right
administration has made illegal immigration a major issue and, in 2009, signed a deal with Libya allowing Italian Navy vessels to
force boat people back to Libya. The first three boatloads were sent back in May, raising eyebrows from the UN to Brussels and
causing an outcry at home. Further protest came with a new, hardline security law package passed in July. It makes illegal immi-
gration a criminal offence and obliges doctors, among others, to report patients without legal papers to the police.
Berlusconi dropped another bombshell in February 2009 when he announced that Italy, which had turned its back on nuclear
power in the 1980s, would build four reactors with the aid of the French EDF power giant. Meanwhile, Pope Benedict XVI got
himself into hot water after reinstating four arch-conservative bishops who had been under a papal ban since1988. One of them,
the British Bishop Richard Williamson had, only days before the Vatican’s announcement, declared he did not believe in the Jew-
ish Holocaust in WWII. Both the Pope and Williamson wound up making public apologies.
A feeling of apprehension pervades much of Italian society, but an irrepressible sense of humour allows Italians to poke fun at
themselves and their leaders and get on with the good things in life. A lovely case in point is the 2008 film, Il Divo (p68), about
long-standing political eminence Giulio Andreotti.
FAST FACTS
Population: 59.6 million - Area: 301,230 sq km
GDP: €1273 billion (€21,359 per head) - GDP growth: -1% - Tourism contribution to GDP: 11.5%
Inflation: 0.2% - Unemployment rate: 7.8% (10-13.5% in the south)
Average life expectancy: 77.6 years (men), 83.2 years (women)
Highest point: Mont Blanc (Monte Bianco) at 4807m
Coffee consumption: Italians drink 600 cups per head a year, according to one study!

28. Ooops
2011, performance, sculpture
150 soccer balls are kicked by the artist onto a tree in a public park
project realized with the support of KÖR Steiermark

29. Things that light up
2013, participative installation
The exhibition space is completely dark. Each visitor gets a head lamp at the entrance and uses it
inside the exhibition space. No art object is on display.

30. Austellung
2011, exhibition project
Ausstellung is a show about tautology in art. The exhibition is a negation of complexity through a needless
repetition of materials or techniques in which the aesthetic of the works presented remains incidental.
Stepping back from the allusions of readymade, the exhibition project focuses on simplicity using things
that mean exactly what they are. This linear process develops in reference to the definition of art
boundaries, underlining a rupture between the presence of the object and a voluntary absence of the
content. Referring to semiotic background theories, the relation between medium and message is here
emphasized in the presentation of channels or incidental tools that normally stay behind the art piece but
constitute the physical fundament of its possible existence.
Ausstellung is, on one hand, very honest with the public and, on the other, it is a sarcastic critic to art that
makes complexity its essence
Schwarzweißbild (B/W photo)
Ausstellung Banner White Projection A4 paper Hole Four Nails

31. Snow
2010, intervention at Rondomat exhibition, Rondo
title, window, landscape

32. “Prendete e mangiatene tutti”
take it and eat it
2010, installation performance
The artist serves a home-made soup with four kinds of beans, lentils, cabbage, Jerusalem
artichokes, onions, potatoes and olive oil. Unleavened bread and red wine.
The project, conceived for the show Collective Body, in its reference to the Catholic rituals
aimed to propose a common digestion

33. Exhibition’s title
2010, text on paper, nail
21 cm x 29,7 cm, unique edition

34. “Tengo Famiglia” (“I have family”)
2012, Statement

36. (text in the work, english translation)
I, Pablo Michele Chiereghin,born in Adria (Ro) Italy the 29th of September 1977, disposing mind and memory do
hereby make, publish and declare the following to be my Last Will and Testament.
I nominate as executor my father Nerino Chiereghin.
I direct that my legally enforceable debts, last illness and funeral expenses, be paid out of my residuary estate, and
when not possible will be covered by my parents Odette Pannilunghi and Nerino Chiereghin.
I leave my artworks to my beloved partner Annibelle Seilern und Aspang, she should donate 10 pieces to my parents,
one piece to Aldo Giannotti, Gianmaria Gava, Maurizio Maier, Roberto Fazzina, Alberto Ama’ Damiano Barbon,
Carlo Chiereghin, Nicola Ferman and Manuela Spiga.
I hereby commit Annibelle to give one third of the profits coming from the future exploitation and the selling of my
works to my parents.
I leave my personal belonging, objects and books of the house of Vienna to Annibelle. She will give some memories
of my recent life to my parents. In case of irreversible coma, persistent vegetative state or terminally illness I want
to have life-sustaining treatment for maximum two months. According to this will and maximum limit, my executor
can decide to short the treatment period. After two months I do not wont any treatment given to postpone my death.
After my death, I wish to donate the following organs: heart, lungs, kidneys, corneas, liver, and any other in accord
with my Executor. I direct that my remains be cremated.
I dispose to have a not religious funeral and I ask Annibelle to organize the ceremony.
This testament could be modified anytime.
This text was declared as testament and personally signed by me under the uninterrupted presence of my three wit-
nesses
Vienna, December 17, 2009
Instructions
2010, mixed media,
160 cm 40 cm by 40 cm, edition of 3+AP

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