Sara Goldschmied (1975 Arzignano (VI) and Eleonora Chiari (1971 Rome) formed the duo in 2001. They work in Milan with different media such as photography, performance, video and installation exploring the concepts of history and memory "with a provocative approach always played on the thin border between irony and parody, between displacement and visual and semantic 'detournement' ". Throughout their work, Goldschmied & Chiari focus their gaze on sexuality and female identity, in many cases using themselves as performers of their works.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection): Magnifica, IA&A, Cody Gallery, Washington (2021); Where shall we go dancing tonight?, Galleria Poggiali, Milan (2021); Paesaggi Artificiali, Galleria Poggiali, Pietrasanta and Milan (2019); Eclisse, Museo Novecento, Florence (2019) ; Three studies for a portrait, Galleria Cracco and Sky Arte, Milan (2019) ; Vice Versa, Kristen Lorello , New York (2017) ; Where shall we go dancing tonight?, Museion, Bozen (2015) ; La démocratie est illusion, CAC Passerelle, Brest and Villa Croce Museum, Genoa (2014).
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection): Mirabilia, Casa Italia for the Olympics Games ,Tokyo (2021); Utopia Distopia, Museo Madre, Naples (2021); Sans réserve, plongée dans une collection d’art contemporain, Frac Bretagne, Rennes (2020); The quest for happiness, italian art now, Serlachius Museums Gosta, Mänttä, Finland (2019); Urban Forest, Museo Riso, Palermo (2018); Dancing is what we make of falling, O.G.R., Turin (2018); Body to Body, GNAM Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (2017); Historycode, Scarcity & Supply, the 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, New Baijia Lake Museum (2016); 1966 | Constelaciones GAUR | 2016, Museo San Telmo, San Sebastián (2016); Prophetia, Miró Foundation, Barcelona (2015); Organic Matters – Women to Watch 2015, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. (2015); Culture made in Cuba, Fabrica de Arte Cubano, La Havana (2014); Autoritratti. Iscrizioni del femminile nell’arte italiana contemporanea, Museo MAMbo, Bologna (2013); Cultural Freedom in Europe, Goethe Institut, Brussels (2013); History I Never Lived Through (Indirect Witness), Castello di Rivoli, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli (2012).
The artists have achieved national and international recognition, working with institutions and museums including: Venice Biennale 2022, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France (2020); Serlachius Museums, Mänttä, Finland (2019); Museo Novecento, Florence (2019); OGR – Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin (2018); Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ (2018); Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (2017); Museo San Telmo, San Sebastián, Spain (2016); Museion – Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy (2015); MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome (2015); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2015); Fábrica de Arte Cubano, Havana (2014); Passerelle – Centre d’art contemporain, Brest, France (2014); Museo d’arte contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa (2014); MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna (2013); Goethe Institut, Brussels (2013); Castello di Rivoli – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy (2012); La Galerie – Centre d’art contemporain, Noisy-le-Sec, Paris (2012); Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY (2011); MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai (2010); Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France (2007); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2002); Viafarini DOCVA, Milan (2002).
They have participated in the third edition of the Nanjing International Art Festival at the New Baijia Lake Museum, Nanjing, China (2016); The Fear Society, a fringe event of the LIII Venice Biennale, Venezia (2009); the third edition of Dublin Contemporary, Dublin (2011); and the fifth edition of Video Zone International Video Art Biennial at the Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv (2010). In 2020, they were among the winners in the seventh edition of the Italian Council, in the category dedicated to international artists, for their personal exhibition at International Arts & Artists at Hillyer in Washington, DC. In 2015, their works were selected by the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, DC, and by the Museo del Novecento, Milan, for the group exhibition Organic Matters – Women to Watch 2015 (NMVA, Washington, DC). In 2012, they won the Bursary for Young Italian Artists – Premio del Castello di Rivoli; and in 2007 the Arte in Cantiere prize, awarded by the Museion in Bolzano, Italy.
