Solo show
Exhale/Inhale – kaufmann repetto, Milan (2025-2026)Inhale/Exhale – kaufmann repetto, NYC (2025-2026)
Temple of Love. Cœur – Scuola Piccola Zattere (2025)
L’Ère du Verseau – Marcel Duchamp Prize, Centre Pompidou (2024-2025)
Temple of Love – To Hide, KfW Stiftung (2024)
Maât and the tears of God – Aware Prize (2024)
Lorna Simpson & Gaëlle Choisne – Mentorship, Reiffers Art Initiatives (2023)
Immortelles – A SUD (2023)
Blue Lights in the Basement, Nicoletti Contemporary (2022)
Temple of Love — To Hide, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (2022)
Temple of Love — Atopos, MAC VAL (2022)
Mondes Subtiles, Air de Paris (2021)
Défixion, Musée Henri-Prades and MO.CO, Panacée (2020)
Hybris, galerie Untilthen (2018)
The Sea Says Nothing, openstudio Rijksakademie (2018)
Openstudio, Rijksakademie (2017)
C R I C C R A C, Centrale Gallery Powerhouse (2015)
Cric Crac (2015)
Group show
Reinventing Photography – Hangar (2026)Mémoire Matérielle – 193 Gallery (2026)
Demeures – POUSH (2026)
Copysts – Centre Pompidou-Metz (2025-2026)
Magical Realism: Imagining Natural Dis/order – WIELS (2025)
FEMMES, Perrotin Gallery (2025)
The Last Place They Thought of, Kunsthal Mechelen (2024-2025)
Siren Songs, Villa Medici (2024-2025)
This is the time of sweet sweet change for us all, C-A-L-M Centre d’art la Meute (2024)
Van Gogh and the Stars, Fondation Van Gogh (2024)
Ritual in transfigured time – NW, Aalst (2024)
Temple of Love — Love To Love, New Museum (2021-2022)
Les moyens du bord, La Villette x Centre Pompidou (2020)
Le fil d’alerte, Fondation Ricard Prize (2019)
Culture Pop Marauders, Mains d’Oeuvres (2016)
Potomitan, Tour Panorama (2014)
Temple of Love
Temple of Love. Cœur – Scuola Piccola Zattere (2025)Temple of Love – Tutti Sistemati, Toronto Biennial (2024)
Temple of Love – To Hide, KfW Stiftung (2024)
Temple of Love — To Hide, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (2022)
Temple of Love — Atopos, MAC VAL (2022)
Temple of Love — Love To Love, New Museum (2021-2022)
Temple of Love — Affirmation, ROHM Theatre, Kyoto (2021)
Temple of Love – To Be Ascetic (Tolalito), Göteborg Biennial (2021)
Temple of Love – Affirmation, MAM Paris (2020)
Les moyens du bord, La Villette x Centre Pompidou (2020)
Temple of Love – Absence – La Biennale de Lyon (2019-2020)
Biennial
Fortune cookies – 14th Taipei Biennial (2025-2026)Temple of Love – Tutti Sistemati, Toronto Biennial (2024)
Stèles, (Haïti, Port-au-Prince) – 15th Gwandju Biennale (2024)
Temple of Love – To Be Ascetic (Tolalito), Göteborg Biennial (2021)
Temple of Love – Absence – La Biennale de Lyon (2019-2020)
An unpredictable expression of human potential, Sharjah Biennial (2017)
Performance
AURA / ARUA – Luma, Arles (2025)Monument aux Vivant·e·s – FESTIVAL DÉPRESSION, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris (2023)
Monument aux Vivant·e·s – DÉNI, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris (2023)
Monument aux Vivant·e·s – CHOC, Palais de la Porte Dorée, Paris (2022)
Temple of Love — Affirmation, ROHM Theatre, Kyoto (2021)
Temple of Love – Affirmation, MAM Paris (2020)
Sculptures and more
Je suis son, je suis esprit (2025)Astral Luggage (2025)
Black Feminist Modulor (2025)
Ruche (2024)
Tears of God (2024)
Transitional object of desire (2023)
Potomitan (2023)
Conquête et Carnaval_ Marchandage (2023)
Marchandage (2023)
Screen Telluric ascension (2023)
Forget the appearances 5D (2023)
Luggage_astral_crystal (2023)
Sun City (2023)
Linea de amore (2023)
Madonna de l’abondanzia (2023)
Liberation (2023)
Inner earth (2023)
Backroom (2023)
AURA/ARUA (2023)
Frequencies (2023)
Paul Gilroy my bro (2022)
Purple water-wishes and more foreva1111illimited love.) period. (2022)
My devotion for you (2022)
Fucking strong pyramid power (2022)
L’éveil du Cosmos (2022)
Lie close to your ancestors (2022)
Penelopes (2022)
Love is healing – Yeshua (2022)
Entre chien et loup (2015)
Nous Carl Brouard (2015)
Le pied d’Alep (2015)
Sequin + Vodou + Abstract (2015)
Vase à loup-garou (2015)
Fontaine est puits, l’or noir (2014)
CROCODILE HUNTERS (2013)
DIORAMA (2013)
Series
BoudoirsWishes vases
Third Eye
Le Monde Plissé / Le Monde Troué
I hear my heart in your ear
Safe Space for a passing History
Pause-Clope
Stèles (Port-au-prince, Haïti)
Bye bye memory
Zentray
Map of heart
Affectives documents
Peau de chagrin
Digital Venus for digital dreams
Videos
CREOLE GARDEN IN NORMANDIE (2024)PERMANENT STATE OF LIVING (2024)
AURA/ARUA (2023)
ACCUMULATION PRIMITIVE / PRIMITIVE AMNÉSIA (2021)
ALTÉRATION (2019)
VERTIÈRE N’EXISTE PAS (2018)
LANGUAGE OF BIRDS (2018)
N.E.V.A.Q.N.A.L.A. (2017)
THE SEA SAYS NOTHING (2015)
S’ABÎMER (2015)
CRIC CRAC – ÉPILOGUE (2015)
GUARAPERA (2015)
QUAND JE SERAI MORTE (2015)
CRIC CRAC (2014)
CRIC CRAC – PROLOGUE (2013)
DIORAMA (2013)
CROCODILE HUNTERS (2013)
Musique ! La Philharmonie at Collège de France
La nuit du Ramadan – France TV
Artist Gaëlle Choisne in One Word, One Gesture and One Silence • RFI
Nouvelles têtes – France Inter
Paris-Caraïbes, Paris+ by Art Basel
Symposium des Grands Sages – COLÈRE, PARDON ?
Podcast PRÉSENT.E by Camille Bardin
Paul Gilroy my bro, 2022
Sports jersey, chains, keys, dried flowers240 x 50 x 15 cm
Image Credits: Installation view „Gaëlle Choisne. Temple of Love - To Hide” at KfW Stiftung, Villa 102, 2024, © KfW Stiftung, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photos: Jens Gerber
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As a tribute to the theorist and cultural critic Paul Gilroy (*1956), a sports jersey bearing his name hangs from a gold chain adorned with keys and dried flowers. Gilroy is renowned for his incisive analysis of racism and his studies of the Black diaspora that was shaped by the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism. His concept of the “Black Atlantic” (1993) proposes a transnational Black identity. He investigated how the vast movements of enslaved people across the Atlantic along various trade routes – connecting Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas – forged a dynamic intercultural identity that transcended national and ethnic lines. Gilroy detailed how diverse cultural influences, shaped by enslaved individuals under racist oppression and exclusion from dominant cultures, blended to create new hybrid cultures. Choisne draws on this concept to suggest that in every society, nothing emerges in isolation; everything is mixed, combined, infused and hybridised. In a playful act of juxtaposition, she uses a T-shirt made in China and printed with Paul Gilroy’s name in Mexico to include the theorist within the canon she references in her Temple of Love.
