Gisèle Vienne

Photo: Karen Paulina Biswell

French-Austrian artist, choreographer and director Gisèle Vienne graduated in Philosophy and studied Puppeteering at the L'Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts de la Marionnette. Over the past 20 years, Vienne has created work inspired by human behaviour, ecstatic ritual and fantasy, which she has toured in Europe, Asia and the USA. In 2020, she collaborated with Etienne Bideau-Rey on a fourth version of her 2001 work Showroomdummies at the Rohm Theater Kyoto. Recent work includes the film Jerk and the show L’Etang. Vienne has exhibited her photographs and installations in several museums, including the Whitney Museum, New York and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.