Gernot Wieland
3rd BIENALSUR, Buenos Aires
17 November, 2021 – 17 February 2022
The curators of the third edition of the BIENALSUR, Diana B. Wechsler and Leandro Martínez Depietri, invited Gernot Wieland to develop a new work co-produced by Phileas. Building on his long-standing interest in human and animal psychology, Wieland’s video work took Alfred Hitchcock’s film The Birds as its point of departure and intertwined it with the history of a psychiatric hospital in Turin, Italy, during the 1970s.
Gernot Wieland (born 1968 in Horn, Austria) is an artist whose films, drawings, lecture-performances and installations comment on the idea of human belonging within inherited social, political and psychological contexts. Wieland’s works have been shown, among others, at the Salzburger Kunstverein; International Film Festival, Rotterdam; Kunstverein Kassel; Kunsthaus Graz, and the Liverpool Biennial. Wieland has received several awards, most recently the EMAF Media Art Award 2019 from the German Film Critics.
Since its first edition in 2015, the BIENALSUR has been organised in collaboration with a vast network of cultural institutions from around South America, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Salta, Argentina; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago de Chile, Chile; and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lima, Peru. The Birds was the first collaboration between Phileas, Gernot Wieland, and the BIENALSUR.
We are delighted to announce that Bird In Italian Is Uccello has won one of the prizes at the 24th edition of the Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (FCDEP).
