GERNOT WIELAND

Gernot Wieland (b. 1968, Horn, Austria) is an artist and a filmmaker whose work spans short films, drawings, photographs, installations, and lecture-performances. His narratives are constructed through idiosyncratic and often absurd combinations of images and language, blending autobiographical and fictional elements into poetic, dreamlike spaces. Wieland constructs a deeply emotional and singular world where memories hover between truth and fiction. His first-person narratives weave together the personal with the political and slowly develop into a humorous analysis of social norms and repressive dynamics.

Gernot Wieland’s selected recent solo exhibitions include Gernot Wieland: Landscapes, Phileas, Vienna (Austria, 2026); Songs For The Unwanted, MAMC+ / Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Saint-Etienne (France); You do not leave traces of your presence, just of your acts, Künstler:innenhaus Bremen, (Germany, 2024); Square, Circle, Square, Argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels (Belgium, 2023); Halb Nackt, Belmacz, London (UK, 2023); Turtleneck Phantasies, Kindl – Centre for Contemporary Art – M 1 VideoSpace, Berlin (Germany, 2022), Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen (Switzerland, 2020) and Salzburger Kunstverein (Austria, 2020). He has participated in recent group shows in institutions such as the 13th Berlin Biennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin, 2025); Torrance Art Museum (Los Angeles, 2022); SCCA Center for Contemporary Art Ljubljana (Slovenia, 2022) ; Kunstmuseum Bonn (Germany, 2021); Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei (Taiwan, 2020); BIENALSUR - 3rd International Biennial of Contemporary Art of South America, Buenos Aires (Argentina, 2021);  Centre d´art Pasquart, Biel/Bienne (Switzerland, 2018); Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel (Germany, 2018); Latvian Center for Contemporary Art, Riga (Latvia, 2017); 9th Norwegian Sculpture Biennial, Vigeland Museum, Oslo (Norway, 2017) and  Musée du chateau des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard (France, 2016). Gernot Wieland’s work was the subject of a monographic publication in 2026 in partnership with MAMC+ – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Saint-Étienne Métropole, JBE Editions and THE PILL. His work is featured in Phaidon’s Survey Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art, 2025.