Gisèle Vienne
Gisèle Vienne is a French-Austrian artist, choreographer, and stage director.
For the past 20 years, her staged and choreographic works have toured throughout Europe and have been regularly presented in Asia and the Americas. These include Showroomdummies #1, #2, #3, #4 (2001–2020), I Apologize (2004), Kindertotenlieder (2007), Jerk (2008), This is how you will disappear (2010), LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011), The Pyre (2013), The Ventriloquists Convention (2015), Crowd (2017), L’Étang (2020), and EXTRA LIFE (2023). In 2021, she directed the film Jerk, followed by Kerstin Kraus in 2024.
Gisèle Vienne regularly exhibits her photographs and installations in museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Centre Pompidou, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, and the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. In 2024/2025, she presented two new exhibitions at Haus am Waldsee and the Georg Kolbe Museum, inaugurated as part of Berlin Art Week.
She has published several books, including This Consciousness to Fracture, a new photography book featuring her works, conceived in collaboration with Estelle Hanania and Elsa Dorlin and published by Spector Books in autumn 2024. Her work has also been the subject of numerous publications, while the original soundtracks of her performances have been released across several albums.