Pablo Accinelli (Buenos Aires, 1983) articulates questions of language, function, and perception through drawing, sculpture, and installation, employing tools of geometry and an architectural approach to form. His works propose visual systems that oscillate between the literal and the metaphorical, the object and its representation, use and observation, exploring the structures that shape how we see, inhabit, and interpret the world.
The artist's models allude to broader systems — social, symbolic, or spatial — and challenge the boundaries between the banal and the conceptual. His practice uses ordinary, functional elements such as paper clips, broom handles, keys, and padlocks, which are removed from their usual context. These objects often seem to be waiting for something or someone, evoking a sense of suspension, silent presence, and anticipation.
The body of his work forms an expanded field of meaning in which what is visible is just as significant as what remains hidden or absent. Navigating ideas of camouflage and presence, minimal gestures and speculative reasoning, and the notion of elasticity — of objects and space alike — Accinelli’s practice questions the symbolic value of things, their uses, and the systems that organize them. His works function as both examples and questions: invitations to pause, to pay attention, and to experience the act of seeing through a different lens, as if encountering the familiar for the first time.
Selected solo exhibitions include: Destino común, Sala Gabriela Sabatini, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2025); Destino común II, Galería Bruno Murias, Lisbon, Portugal (2024); Destino común, Galería Campeche, Mexico City, Mexico (2024); O Canto dos Sapos, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil (2023); El canto de los pájaros, Galería Crisis, Lima, Peru (2023); Entes y serpientes, Galería Isla Flotante, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2022); Alegrías, Galería Bruno Murias, Lisbon (2021); Núcleo, Museu Lasar Segall, São Paulo (2019–2020); Duraciones, Galería Bruno Murias, Lisbon (2018); Nubes de paso, MALBA – Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016).
Selected group exhibitions include: What Are You Thinking, Portikus, Frankfurt (2025); Form and Volume, Galeria Cristina Guerra, Lisbon (2019); No habrá nunca una puerta. Estás adentro, Fundación Santander, Madrid (2018); Por Aqui Tudo é Novo, Inhotim (2016); United States of Latin America, MOCAD – Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (2015); Future Light – Escaping Transparency (Vienna Biennale), MAK Vienna (2015); Extension du domaine du jeu, Nouveau Festival – 6th edition, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2015); Video Universe – The Magic of Images, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Asturias (2014); Level One, Gb Agency, Paris (2013); When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, MOCAD, Detroit (2013); A iminência das poéticas, 30th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2012).
Public collections include: CACI – Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim, Brazil; Kadist Collection, France; MALBA – Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires; MACBA – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires; MAMBA – Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina; CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, Madrid, Spain; CIFO Foundation, USA; Zabludowicz Collection, United Kingdom.