Gisèle Vienne
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
12 September 2024 – 12 January 2025
In autumn-winter 2024, Haus am Waldsee has invited the artist, choreographer and director Gisèle Vienne for her first solo institutional exhibition in Germany. The project is part of a larger collaboration between Haus am Waldsee, Georg Kolbe Museum, and Sophiensæle, funded by the Berlin Senate, that brings Vienne’s work to Berlin during Art Week 2024. Across the city, two exhibitions and a performance of Vienne’s acclaimed 2017 work Crowd showcase her artistic endeavours in a variety of disciplines including photography, sculpture, installation and performance. The project allows her work to be experienced as a form of Gesamtkunstwerk in Berlin, a city that has significantly shaped Vienne’s practice in both content and form.
Over the last 20 years, French-Austrian artist, choreographer and director Gisèle Vienne (born 1976 in Charleville-Mézières) has created a complex body of work that often takes as its starting point the age of adolescence; the transformative time where you are not quite adult, but no longer just a child, and the hopes and anxieties that accompany this period. Her work also looks into the role assigned to youth in contemporary society, and how this impacts social dynamics. By incorporating dolls and puppets in her works, her exhibitions and performances often have a dreamy or nightmarish quality. Vienne has had solo and group exhibitions at the Grand Palais, Paris; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among others. She regularly performs at internationally renowned dance festivals, including Impulstanz, Vienna.
This is the artist's first collaboration with Phileas.
