T H E P I L L® is thrilled to host Austrian artist Gernot Wieland’s first solo exhibition in Paris between 24 April and 30 May 2026. Titled Minor Corrections, the exhibition follows the artist’s first monographic exhibition in France, Songs for the Unwanted, recently presented at MAMC Saint-Étienne, and launches the eponymously titled monographic book produced in partnership with JBE Editions with a talk and book signing.
Minor Corrections centers around two short films, alongside a selection of drawings, paintings, and ceramics interwoven with the films, displayed across two floors of the gallery. As the title suggests, the selection focuses on mistakes, omissions, slippages, and corrections as the space where the power of the unconscious can be reclaimed to destabilize dominant narratives around family, education, social life, mental health, as well as the history of Western thought and art.
A method often used by Gernot Wieland in his schematic drawings is the presence of half-written or incorrectly spelled words, barred with a strike-through and rewritten again, in a new manner - sometimes in a new form, other times in a new language. In doing so, he not only positions the mistake, the slip of the tongue, or the impulse to correct oneself, as the place where the unconscious makes itself accessible, but also, these “mistakes” and their attempted corrections are precisely where the underlying, patriarchal power structures become visible in the process of their failed internalisation. A minor correction becomes a precise artistic strategy in the hands of Gernot Wieland, deployed across film, drawing and sculpture: it is where all errors, misunderstandings and misplacements are revealed to analyze repression and embraced as unfaltering expressions of human creativity and humour.
Gernot Wieland (b. 1968, Horn, Austria) is a filmmaker and artist 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.
The Austrian Cultural Forum in Paris generously supports the exhibition Minor Corrections.
