Gisèle Vienne

Gisèle Vienne is a Franco-Austrian artist, choreographer and director. After studying philosophy and music, she trained at the École Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette.

For 20 years, her stage productions and choreographies have toured across 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 photography and installations in museums such as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva and the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. In 2024–2025, she presented two new exhibitions at the contemporary art center Haus am Waldsee 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 new volume of photographs of her works created in collaboration with Estelle Hanania and Elsa Dorlin, published by Spector Books in fall 2024. Her work has been the subject of numerous publications, and the original music for her pieces has been released on several albums.