Gisèle Vienne is a Franco-Austrian artist, choreographer and director. After graduating in Philosophy, she studied at the puppeteering school Ecole Supérieure Nationale des Arts de la Marionnette. She works regularly with the writer Dennis Cooper, among others. Over the past 20 years, her work has toured in Europe and has regularly been performed in Asia and in America. Touring shows include: I Apologize (2004); Kindertotenlieder (2007); Jerk (2008); This is how you will disappear (2010); LAST SPRING: A Prequel (2011); The Ventriloquists’ Convention (2015), in collaboration with Puppentheater Halle; Crowd (2017), L’Etang (2021) & EXTRA LIFE (2023). In 2020, she created a fourth version of Showroomdummies at the Rohm Theater Kyoto with Etienne Bideau-Rey, originally created in 2001. Gisèle Vienne has frequently been exhibiting her photographs and installations in museums among which the New York Whitney Museum, the Centre Pompidou Paris, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, the Centre d’art Contemporain de Genève, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. In 2024/2025, she presents two new exhibitions for the Contemporary Art Center Haus am Waldsee and the Georg Kolbe Museum, inaugurated as part of Berlin Art Week 2024.
