Magic in Vienna, 2024

Magic in Vienna, 2024. Public art installation commissioned by Museums Quartier Wien, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Verena Kaspar-Eisert.

At the invitation of the MuseumsQuartier, queer artist Luciana Pinchiero has created this new work to mark International Pride Month.
Pinchiero is interested in deconstructing prevailing patterns in historiography and representations of the present, especially those dictated by the male gaze.
The title "Magic in Vienna" is a reference to the romance novel of the same name by Betty Neels, published in 1985. Romance novels are aimed at a broad, heterosexual, female audience and offer a fantasy world. This genre is often characterized by patriarchal norms and heteronormativity. The book covers are designed accordingly.
The artist has taken the covers of such books and used them to create collages with images of historical sculptures from the collections and from the façade of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, thus making the idea of queer magic in Vienna visible. 

“I wanted to bring together different moments in history, with a diversity of aesthetics and expressions of sexuality. As a queer artist, I aim to offer a visual narrative in which binary and heteronormative assumptions of gender and expressions of love are challenged, and in which a whole range of manifestations of love are celebrated,” the artist explains.

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Bad Posture at Praxis New York, 2024

Bad Posture, an exhibition by artist Luciana Pinchiero, traverses the dynamics between the corporeal and the sculptural in relation to the female body––the vicissitudes of objecthood and subjecthood, of being worshiped and loved. “ —text by Jillian McManemin

Read the exhibition text by Jillian McManemin

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Reviving Venus at Spring/Break 2022

Flirty Marys —from Shelves of Desire, 2022
Flirty Marys —from Shelves of Desire, 2022

Found objects and spray paint.

‘Reviving Venus’ is a duo show with artist Gal Cohen, curated by Aya Goshen. Spring/Break Art Show 2022, New York City.

Installation view of Shelves of Desire, 2022
Installation view of Shelves of Desire, 2022

Found objects and various materials, installed on window ledge.

‘Reviving Venus’ is a duo show with artist Gal Cohen, curated by Aya Goshen. Spring/Break Art Show 2022, New York City.

Installation view of Shelves of Desire, 2022
Installation view of Shelves of Desire, 2022

Found objects and various materials, installed on window ledge.

‘Reviving Venus’ is a duo show with artist Gal Cohen, curated by Aya Goshen. Spring/Break Art Show 2022, New York City.

Wings of Desire —from Shelves of Desire, 2022
Wings of Desire —from Shelves of Desire, 2022

Found object and embroidery thread.

‘Reviving Venus’ is a duo show with artist Gal Cohen, curated by Aya Goshen. Spring/Break Art Show 2022, New York City.

Pain and Glory —from Shelves of Desire, 2022
Pain and Glory —from Shelves of Desire, 2022

Found object and embroidery thread.

‘Reviving Venus’ is a duo show with artist Gal Cohen, curated by Aya Goshen. Spring/Break Art Show 2022, New York City.

Installation view of Shelves of Desire, 2022
Installation view of Shelves of Desire, 2022

Found objects and various materials, installed on window ledge.

‘Reviving Venus’ is a duo show with artist Gal Cohen, curated by Aya Goshen. Spring/Break Art Show 2022, New York City.

Know Your Queen —from Shelves of Desire, 2022
Know Your Queen —from Shelves of Desire, 2022

Collage, cardboard, wood and spray paint.

‘Reviving Venus’ is a duo show with artist Gal Cohen, curated by Aya Goshen. Spring/Break Art Show 2022, New York City.

About to Get It —from Shelves of Desire, 2022
About to Get It —from Shelves of Desire, 2022

Collage on found object.

‘Reviving Venus’ is a duo show with artist Gal Cohen, curated by Aya Goshen. Spring/Break Art Show 2022, New York City.

Installation view of 'Reviving Venus' , 2022 —detail of my installation 'Fembow' next to Gal Cohen's 'Coliseum Theater' and 'Female Figure'
Installation view of 'Reviving Venus' , 2022 —detail of my installation 'Fembow' next to Gal Cohen's 'Coliseum Theater' and 'Female Figure'

‘Reviving Venus’ is a duo show with artist Gal Cohen, curated by Aya Goshen. Spring/Break Art Show 2022, New York City.

Fembow, 2021 —included in the exhibition 'Reviving Venus' , 2022
Fembow, 2021 —included in the exhibition 'Reviving Venus' , 2022

Laser cut- digital print on Sintra, acrylic, PVC plumbing female elbows, and spray paint, 55 in (h) x 130 in (d) x 45 in (w) approx.

‘Reviving Venus’ is a duo show with artist Gal Cohen, curated by Aya Goshen. Spring/Break Art Show 2022, New York City.

(top) Spear Bearer as Bride—from the series 'Brides and Statues' , 2020 ; (bottom) A Campaign to Get a Husband Home —from the series 'Life and Statues' , 2022
(top) Spear Bearer as Bride—from the series 'Brides and Statues' , 2020 ; (bottom) A Campaign to Get a Husband Home —from the series 'Life and Statues' , 2022

Collage on paper (framed), 12”x9” (paper size)

‘Reviving Venus’ is a duo show with artist Gal Cohen, curated by Aya Goshen. Spring/Break Art Show 2022, New York City.

(bottom) Take the Boredom Out, 1972—from the series 'Life and Statues' , 2019 ; (top) Castle Keep —from the series 'Romance and Statues' , 2020
(bottom) Take the Boredom Out, 1972—from the series 'Life and Statues' , 2019 ; (top) Castle Keep —from the series 'Romance and Statues' , 2020

Collage on paper (framed), (bottom) 12”x9” paper size, (top) 11 “x 14” paper size

‘Reviving Venus’ is a duo show with artist Gal Cohen, curated by Aya Goshen. Spring/Break Art Show 2022, New York City.

Fembow, 2021

Fembow, 2021 (detail)
Fembow, 2021 (detail)

laser cut- digital print on Sintra, acrylic, PVC plumbing female elbows, and spray paint, 55 in (h) x 130 in (d) x 45 in (w) total approx.

These representations of female bodies (Greek maenads) printed at human scale seem to be almost ‘falling’ and ‘supported’ by an object made of female elbows (plumbing material), creating a kind of cane that offers support to the panels/figures. This message of sorority was inspired by Plutarch’s story “The Women of Amphissa”

Currently on view at Bronx Calling: The Fifth AIM Biennial, The Bronx Museum, 2021-22

Photographs by Catalina Muñoz Schliebener
Fembow, 2021
Fembow, 2021

laser cut- digital print on Sintra, acrylic, PVC plumbing female elbows, and spray paint, 55 in (h) x 130 in (d) x 45 in (w) approx.
Fembow, 2021 (detail)
Fembow, 2021 (detail)
Fembow, 2021
Fembow, 2021
Fembow, 2021 (detail)
Fembow, 2021 (detail)
Fembow, 2021 (detail)
Fembow, 2021 (detail)

Collages 2019-20

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Exhibition "a gesture, an expression" at happylucky no1 gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. 2019
Exhibition "a gesture, an expression" at happylucky no1 gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. 2019
Exhibition "a gesture, an expression" at happylucky no1 gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. 2019
Exhibition "a gesture, an expression" at happylucky no1 gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. 2019
Exhibition "a gesture, an expression" at happylucky no1 gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. 2019
Exhibition "a gesture, an expression" at happylucky no1 gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. 2019
Exhibition "a gesture, an expression" at happylucky no1 gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. 2019
Exhibition "a gesture, an expression" at happylucky no1 gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. 2019
Exhibition "a gesture, an expression" at happylucky no1 gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. 2019
Exhibition "a gesture, an expression" at happylucky no1 gallery in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. 2019

Estudio de un Monumento que Nunca Existió (Study of a Monument that Never Existed), 2017–2018

Retrato de El Eco (Portrait of El Eco), 2017
Retrato de El Eco (Portrait of El Eco), 2017

Digital Photography. 11 x 14 in (framed)

Image content: Documentation of El Eco, a public sculpture made by Argentinian female artist Lola Mora, in 1906. This sculpture is located at the ex-Zoo in Buenos Aires since 1910. It was part of a monument commissioned to the artist, but destroyed hours before its inauguration. “El Eco” is all that is left from the original monument that was vandalized for unknown reasons, displaced without supervision, disappeared without leaving record, and forgotten.

I’ve been working for over a year on a project that will bring this story to light in 2019. Coming soon.
Teta Remendada (Patched Boob), 2017
Teta Remendada (Patched Boob), 2017

Digital Photography. 11 x 14 in (framed)
De la Mano de El Eco (By El Eco's Hand), 2017
De la Mano de El Eco (By El Eco's Hand), 2017

Digital Photography. 14 x 11 in (framed)
El Eco en el Zoológico (El Eco at the Zoo), 2017
El Eco en el Zoológico (El Eco at the Zoo), 2017

Digital Photography. 14 x 11 in (framed)
La Axila y La Teta de El Eco (El Eco's Armpit and Boob), 2017
La Axila y La Teta de El Eco (El Eco's Armpit and Boob), 2017

Digital Photography. 11 x 14 in (framed)
Brazo Remendado (Patched Arm), 2017
Brazo Remendado (Patched Arm), 2017

Digital Photography. 11 x 14 in (framed)
El Cuello con Manchas de El Eco (El Eco's Spotty Neck), 2017
El Cuello con Manchas de El Eco (El Eco's Spotty Neck), 2017

Digital Photography. 11 x 14 in (framed)
Cola remendada (Patched Butt), 2017
Cola remendada (Patched Butt), 2017

Digital Photography. 11 x 14 in (framed)

Collages 2017-18

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This Kind of Mountain, 2017

This Kind of Mountain, 2017
This Kind of Mountain, 2017

Still image projected from the inside of a house onto one of the house's front windows. Seyðisfjörður, Iceland for the List í Ljósi 2017 (Light Festival 2017)

Image content: Digital collage of found image of refugee mother and son wrapped in an emergency blanket over Seyðisfjörður's skyline

Ph: Hrefna Björg Gylfadottir
This Kind of Mountain, 2017
This Kind of Mountain, 2017

Digital collage
This Kind of Mountain, 2017
This Kind of Mountain, 2017

Installation view

List í Ljosi 2017 (Light Festival, 2017). Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
This Kind of Mountain, 2017
This Kind of Mountain, 2017

Installation view

List í Ljosi2017 (Light Festival, 2017). Seyðisfjörður, Iceland

Independence is Better Than Meat, 2017

Independence is Better Than Meat
Independence is Better Than Meat

Promotional image of video stills for exhibition of works made in Iceland, during an art residency in Spring 2017.

This project was developed after reading "Independent People" by Halldór Laxness, which is considered the quintessential Icelandic work of literature. All the pieces in this installation respond to an excerpt of this novel -a conversation that the two main characters have at the beginning of the book.
Independence is Better Than Meat
Independence is Better Than Meat

Video still
Independence is Better Than Meat
Independence is Better Than Meat

View of (in process) installation for exhibition of works made in Iceland during Spring 2017

Looped four-channel video, rocks, sound, clay

 
Independence is Better Than Meat
Independence is Better Than Meat

View of (in process) installation for exhibition of works made in Iceland during Spring 2017

Detail of line of miniature clay-made Icelandic sheep

 
Independence is Better Than Meat
Independence is Better Than Meat

Video still
Independence is Better Than Meat
Independence is Better Than Meat

View of (in process) installation for exhibition of works made in Iceland during Spring 2017

Looped four-channel video, rocks, sound, clay
Independence is Better Than Meat
Independence is Better Than Meat

Video still

Pride & Joy, 2016

Pride & Joy (Installation view)
Pride & Joy (Installation view)

Intervention at The Hollows Art Space's basement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Washing machine, clothes dryer, plastic bucket, spray paint, looped video projection, water, plastic detergent spoon, tiles, and sound

 
Pride & Joy (Installation view)
Pride & Joy (Installation view)

Intervention at The Hollows Art Space's basement in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Washing machine, clothes dryer, plastic bucket, spray paint, looped video projection, water, plastic detergent spoon, tiles, and sound
Pride & Joy (detail of video projected from inside laundry machine)
Pride & Joy (detail of video projected from inside laundry machine)

Intervention at The Hollows Art Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Washing machine, clothes dryer, plastic bucket, spray paint, looped video projection, water, plastic detergent spoon, tiles, and sound

Suspended Ode, 2015

Suspended Ode
Suspended Ode

Installation of paper cutout design for bathroom ceiling

GraftArt exhibition "Apartment 2" in Brooklyn, NYC
Suspended Ode
Suspended Ode

Installation of paper cutout design for bathroom ceiling (detail)

GraftArt exhibition "Apartment 2" in Brooklyn, NYC
Suspended Ode
Suspended Ode

Installation of paper cutout design for bathroom ceiling (detail)

GraftArt exhibition "Apartment 2" in Brooklyn, NYC
Suspended Ode
Suspended Ode

Installation of paper cutout design for bathroom ceiling (detail)

GraftArt exhibition "Apartment 2" in Brooklyn, NYC

Dime con quién andas y te diré quien eres, 2015

Dime con quién andas y te diré quien eres
Dime con quién andas y te diré quien eres

(Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are)

Handmade ceramic tiles, plaster, looped single-channel video

Installation view
Dime con quién andas y te diré quien eres
Dime con quién andas y te diré quien eres

(Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are)

Handmade ceramic tiles, plaster, looped single-channel video
Dime con quién andas y te diré quien eres (detail)
Dime con quién andas y te diré quien eres (detail)

(Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are. Detail)

Handmade ceramic tiles, plaster, looped single-channel video
Tile making process
Tile making process

Handmade ceramic tiles, additive effect.

What is a tile without the others? Is it still a tile?
Molds for Tiles
Molds for Tiles

Plaster molds
Tiles and more tiles
Tiles and more tiles

Ceramic tiles, birch bark, and other in-process elements at the artist's studio

Colón y Sus Secuaces (Columbus and His Henchmen), 2014

Colón y Sus Secuaces (Columbus and His Henchmen), 2014
Colón y Sus Secuaces (Columbus and His Henchmen), 2014

Documentation of a walk/performance in Central Park, NYC. Duration: 2 hours.

A walk performed in Central Park from Latin-American Liberators monuments to Columbus monument. The audience delivered balloons with messages they wrote to Columbus after hearing a performance narrating each statue in relation to decolonization.
Colón y Sus Secuaces (Columbus and His Henchmen), 2014
Colón y Sus Secuaces (Columbus and His Henchmen), 2014

Documentation of a walk/performance in Central Park, NYC. Duration: 2 hours.
Colón y Sus Secuaces (Columbus and His Henchmen), 2014
Colón y Sus Secuaces (Columbus and His Henchmen), 2014

Documentation of a walk/performance in Central Park, NYC. Duration: 2 hours.
Colón y Sus Secuaces (Columbus and His Henchmen), 2014
Colón y Sus Secuaces (Columbus and His Henchmen), 2014

Documentation of a walk/performance in Central Park, NYC. Duration: 2 hours.
Colón y Sus Secuaces (Columbus and His Henchmen), 2014
Colón y Sus Secuaces (Columbus and His Henchmen), 2014

Documentation of a walk/performance in Central Park, NYC. Duration: 2 hours.
Colón y Sus Secuaces (Columbus and His Henchmen), 2014
Colón y Sus Secuaces (Columbus and His Henchmen), 2014

Documentation of a walk/performance in Central Park, NYC. Duration: 2 hours.

The After-Hero Effect, 2014

The After-Hero Effect, 2014
The After-Hero Effect, 2014

Video Still

Legs over greenscreen

Video duration: 2m 38s
The After-Hero Effect, 2014
The After-Hero Effect, 2014

Life size plaster mold of human legs, one channel video, paper on wall

Installation view

 
The Aftre-Hero Effect, 2014
The Aftre-Hero Effect, 2014

Outline of open legs

Acrylic on paper
The After-Hero Effect, 2014
The After-Hero Effect, 2014

Outline of open legs

Acrylic on paper
The After-Hero Effect, 2014
The After-Hero Effect, 2014

Painted paper cutouts on wall

Installation view
Impossible Bodies, 2014
Impossible Bodies, 2014

Outline of open legs (360 degrees)

Two-part ceramic piece
The After-Hero Effcet, 2014
The After-Hero Effcet, 2014

Outline of open legs

Acrylic on paper

Equestrian Actions & A Series of Liberating Acts, 2013

A Series of Liberating Acts (Bolivar), 2013
A Series of Liberating Acts (Bolivar), 2013

Collage on paper, digital print

8 x 10 in
A Series of Liberating Acts (Martí), 2013
A Series of Liberating Acts (Martí), 2013

Collage on paper, digital print

8 x 10 in
A Series of Liberating Acts (Bolivar, Martí and San Martín), 2013
A Series of Liberating Acts (Bolivar, Martí and San Martín), 2013

Collage on paper, digital print 

8 x 10 in (each)
Equestrian Actions (Bolivar), 2013
Equestrian Actions (Bolivar), 2013

Collage on paper, xerox prints and pencil

11 x 14 in
Equestrian Actions (Martí), 2013
Equestrian Actions (Martí), 2013

Collage on paper, xerox prints and pencil

11 x 14 in
Equestrian Actions (Bolivar, Martí and San Martín), 2013
Equestrian Actions (Bolivar, Martí and San Martín), 2013

Collage on paper, xerox prints and pencil

11 x 14 in (each)
Andes Re-enactment, 2013
Andes Re-enactment, 2013

Video still

Granadero performance over Andes landscape

Duration of video:  3m 56s
Collage of Andes, 2013
Collage of Andes, 2013

Video Still

Collage of found footage

Video duration: 2m 25s

 

The Odradeks, 2013

The Odradeks
The Odradeks

Group of assemblage of found ceramic pieces

Installation view
Odradek Dos
Odradek Dos

Assemblage of found ceramic pieces, spray paint

 
Odradek Uno
Odradek Uno

Assemblage of found ceramic pieces, spray paint
Odradek Tres
Odradek Tres

Assemblage of found ceramic pieces, spray paint
Odradek Uno
Odradek Uno

Assemblage of found ceramic pieces, spray paint
The Odradeks
The Odradeks

Group of assemblage of found ceramic pieces

Installation view
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