Gisèle Vienne

Gisèle Vienne is a Franco‑Austrian artist, choreographer, theatre and film director. From an early age, she was trained in visual arts by Dorothéa Vienne‑Pollak and studied dance and music, before later pursuing philosophy and puppetry.

Over the past twenty years, her work has toured extensively across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Her productions and films include Showroomdummies #1–#4 (2001–2020), I Apologize (2004), Kindertotenlieder (2007), Jerk (2008), This Is How You Will Disappear (2010), LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011), The Ventriloquists Convention (2015), created in collaboration with Puppentheater Halle, Crowd (2017), L’Étang (2021) and EXTRA LIFE (2023). In 2021, she directed the film Jerk, followed by Kerstin Kraus in 2024.

Vienne has exhibited her photographs and installations internationally, including at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; and the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. In 2024/2025, she presents two new exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Center Haus am Waldsee and the Georg Kolbe Museum. This focus on her work was inaugurated as part of Berlin Art Week 2024.

Her photography has been published in several books. A new volume, This Causes Consciousness to Fracture, created in collaboration with Estelle Hanania and Elsa Dorlin, was published by Spector Books in November 2024. Her work has also generated numerous publications, and the original music from her productions has been released on several albums.