Biography
Born in 1976, Gisèle Vienne is a Franco-Austrian artist, choreographer, and director. After studying philosophy and music, she trained at the National School of Puppetry Arts. For the past 20 years, her stage productions and choreographies have toured Europe and have been regularly presented in Asia and America, including works such as 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* and in 2024, Kerstin Kraus. Gisèle Vienne regularly exhibits her photographs and installations in museums such as the Whitney Museum in New York, the Centre Pompidou, and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, and the Contemporary Art Centre in Geneva. In 2024/2025, she will present two new exhibitions in Germany at the Haus am Waldsee Contemporary Art Centre and the Georg Kolbe Museum, both inaugurated as part of Berlin Art Week 2024. She has published several books, including This Consciousness to Fracture, a photography book of her works created in collaboration with Estelle Hanania and Elsa Dorlin, to be published by Spector Books in the fall of 2024. Her work has been featured in several publications, and the original music for her productions has been released on several albums.