Gisèle Vienne is a Franco-Austrian artist, choreographer, theatre and film director. From an early age, she was trained in visual arts by Dorothéa Vienne-Pollak, studied dance, and music, and later philosophy, and puppeteering.

Over the past twenty years, her work has toured in Europe, Asia, and America, among others the productions and films 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 Ventriloquists Convention (2015) in collaboration with Puppentheater Halle, Crowd (2017), L’Étang (2021), and EXTRA LIFE (2023). In 2021, she directed the film Jerk and in 2024 Kerstin Kraus.

Vienne has frequently exhibited her photographs and installations in museums, among them the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva and 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 as a focus on her work inaugurated as part of Berlin Art Week 2024.

She published her photography in several books. A new book of photographs of her works and performances, This Causes Consciousness to Fracture, created in collaboration with Estelle Hanania and Elsa Dorlin, is published by Spector Books in November 2024. Her work has led to various publications and the original music of her shows to several albums.

DACM is developing a project of an independent European company. Anchored in Strasbourg in the Grand Est region, where the company maintains long-term relationships with Le Maillon, Théâtre de Strasbourg – Scène Européenne ; La Filature, Scène Nationale de Mulhouse ; Le Manège, Scène Nationale de Reims ; and the School of the Théâtre National de Strasbourg.

 

This establishment in a quintessential cross-border region, encouraging exchanges between France, Germany, and Switzerland, has enabled DACM to build strong ties with several venues, such as the Ruhrtriennale, an international Arts festival held throughout the Ruhr region ; the Internationales Sommerfestival at Kampnagel in Hamburg, which has presented all of Gisèle Vienne’s works for the past ten years ; the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne (Switzerland) ; and the Schauspielhaus Zürich, which will host the world premiere of Gisèle Vienne’s next creation. The company has also performed several of its works in Munich (Kammerspiele), Düsseldorf (Tanzhaus NRW), and Frankfurt (Künstlerhaus Mousonturm). L’Étang, one of the company’s most recent productions, will even enter the repertoire of the Volksbühne in Berlin in 2026.

 

This cross-border foundation is further strengthened at the national level through partnerships with various institutions : from 2017 to 2026 with the Théâtre National de Bretagne in Rennes ; from 2023 to 2025 with MC2 Grenoble ; in 2021 and 2022 with the Centre National de la Danse ; and from 2022 to spring 2026 with the Théâtre National de Chaillot. Since 2023, Gisèle Vienne has also been an associate artist at Le Volcan – Scène Nationale du Havre.

 

The company’s regional, national, and international reach is built on a strong and loyal network of partners, which continues to expand each new season. DACM produces Gisèle Vienne’s creations and presents both new works and repertory pieces (with approximately three to five different productions on tour each year). In partnership with theatres and higher education institutions, the company develops outreach and training programs for a wide range of audiences. DACM also supports Gisèle Vienne’s visual arts projects, including international exhibitions (photography and dolls), in collaboration since 2025 with the Berlin-based Isabella Bortolozzi gallery, as well as the publication of books.

• Télérama
  La chorégraphe Gisèle Vienne : “Mon art participe d’un combat contre la violence sociale”
• Les Inrockuptibles
  Gisèle Vienne : 20 ans (de création), le bel âge