What happens when a body becomes an error and errors start looking human? | Halle für Kunst Steiermark
When Bodies Glitch
Walk into Diego Bianchi's Errores Irreales and you'll see something that shouldn't exist: bodies that look wrong. Not broken. Wrong.
A torso that's part mannequin, part car door. A limb made from objects that were never meant to be limbs. Skin that's fabric, metal, plastic - materials scavenged from Buenos Aires, Paris, Graz, reassembled into forms that feel familiar and deeply off.
It's not sculpture in the traditional sense. It's more like witnessing what happens when reality misfires. When the body glitches. When the line between human and object doesn't just blur. It breaks.
The installations feel alive. Not in a comforting way. In a way that makes you wonder if you're looking at a body or at something pretending to be one.
The Space Breathes. So Do the Errors.
This isn't a static exhibition. Performers move through the space, activating the sculptures, collapsing the boundary between viewer and object.
You're not observing bodies - you're inside the same warped ecosystem where nothing stays what it was.
Diego Bianchi - Galerie Wolff
Bianchi calls it Errores Irreales - unreal errors. Not mistakes. Not accidents. But intentional breaks in the logic of what a body should be. And the errors don't feel abstract. They feel real. They feel like us.
Because we live with these errors. We create them. We are them.
Why It Matters
Bianchi materializes what we already feel: bodies under constant pressure to perform, conform, fit impossible categories.
Errores Irreales shows what happens when the body absorbs its environment and becomes hybrid, fluid, unrecognizable.
Diego Bianchi Left: Diego Bianchi, Alpargata, 2019 - Holz, Schaumstoff, Korbflasche, Stoffschuh 180 × 64 × 35 cm Courtesy der Künstler und Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris Foto: François Doury | Right: Exhibition View von Diego Bianchi: El presente está encantador, 2017, Courtesy Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires Foto: Bruno Dubner
Why We're Going
We love when art refuses to resolve. When it shows you something uncanny and doesn't explain it away.
When it asks: what happens when the body is no longer a fixed thing and lets you sit with that question.
If you're in Graz, don't miss this.
Diego Bianchi: Errores Ireales
📍 Where: Halle für Kunst Steiermark, Burgring 2, 8010 Graz
📅 When: 24.10.25 – 18.01.2026
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Curated by Sandro Droschl
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