Solo show
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
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 Vilette 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 1 octobre 2021
Temple of Love – To Be Ascetic (Tolalito), Göteborg Biennial (2021)
Temple of Love – Absence – La Biennale de Lyon (2019-2020)
Biennial
Temple of Love – Tutti Sistemati, Toronto Biennial (2024)PANSORI: A Soundscape of the 21st Century – 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
Monument aux Vivant·e·s – FESTIVAL DÉPRESSION 10 mai 2023Monument aux Vivant·e·s – DÉNI (2023)
Monument aux Vivant·e·s – CHOC 10 mai 2022
Temple of Love — Affirmation, ROHM Theatre Kyoto 1 octobre 2021
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Independent Art Fair, New York City (2023)Frieze London (2022)
Union poisson hallal (2021)
Eat me softly – If you come softly (2021)
Sculptures and more
Ruche (2024)Tears of God (2024)
Transitional object of desire (2023)
Potomitan (2023)
Conquête et Carnaval_ Marchandage (2023)
Liberation (2023)
Forget the appearances 5D (2023)
Luggage_astral_crystal (2023)
Sun City (2023)
Linea de amore (2023)
Screen Telluric ascension (2023)
Madonna de l’abondanzia (2023)
Frequencies (2023)
Inner earth (2023)
Backroom (2023)
AURA/ARUA (2023)
Love is healing – Yeshua (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)
Paul Gilroy my bro (2022)
Lie close to your ancestors (2022)
Penelopes (2022)
Vase à loup-garou (2015)
Sequin + Vodou + Abstract (2015)
Le pied d’Alep (2015)
Nous Carl Brouard (2015)
Entre chien et loup (2015)
Fontaine est puits, l’or noir (2014)
CROCODILE HUNTERS (2013)
DIORAMA (2013)
Series
Safe space for a passing HistoryPause-Clope
Stèles (Port-au-prince, Haïti)
Bye bye memory
Zentray
Map of heart
Affectives documents
Peau de chagrin
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)
Metal Magazine – 2025
bio
Gäelle Choisne (1985, FR) lives and works in Paris and Fougères (FR).
Sensitive to contemporary issues, Gaëlle Choisne’s practice considers the complexity of the world, its political and cultural disorder, whether it be the over-exploitation of nature, its resources, or the vestiges of colonial history, where Creole esoteric traditions, myths and popular cultures mingle.
Her projects are conceived as ecosystems of sharing and collaboration, pockets of «resistance» where new possibilities are created, notably with the «Temple of Love» project. Initiated from Roland Barthes’ original essay on love, «Fragments d’un discours amoureux» (1977), Gaëlle Choisne adds a political dimension to the concept of love by paying homage to invisible bodies, minority and fragile souls, and dispossessed hearts. «Temple of love » is an evolutionary project defining itself through its modes of appearance and genesis according to its invitations and its location.
The works/installations of Gaëlle Choisne have been exhibited in many institutions: MAC VAL (Vitry-sur-Seine), Centrale Powerhouse (Montreal), CAFA Museum (Beijing), Pera Museum (Istanbul), MAM - Musée d’art moderne de Paris, Musée Fabre (Montpellier), Zacheta Gallery (Warsaw), The Mistake Room (Los Angeles), Bétonsalon (Paris), Gr_und project space (Berlin), MAMO - Centre d’art de la Cité radieuse de Marseille, La Villette x Pompidou (Paris), Centre d’art contemporain La Halle des bouchers (Vienne), Musée archéologique Henri-Prade (Lattes), Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon etc.
She has also participated in several biennials and triennials: 14th Taipei Biennial (2025-2026), 15th Gwandju Biennial (2024), 3rd Toronto Biennial of Art (2024), 5th New Museum Triennial (2021), 11th International Biennial of Contemporary Art (GIBCA), 13th International Biennial of Lyon (2015), 12th Havana Biennial (2015), Sharjah Biennial 13 (2017) and 14th Curitiba Biennial (2017).
She has been part of many residency programs in France and internationally such as “Meeting Points collaboration” with CCA -Campus Caraïbéen des Arts (Martinique), Bethanian-KW (Berlin), the Rijksakademie (Amsterdam), Atelier Van Lieshout (Rotterdam), the Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris and OPTICA & Art3 Valence (Montreal).
In 2024, Gaëlle Choisne won the Marcel Duchamp Prize and, in 2021, the AWARE Prize. In 2019, she is nominated for the Ricard Foundation Prize and the Sam Art Project.
Gaëlle Choisne is represented by the gallery Nicoletti Contemporary (UK) and Kaufmann Repetto (NYC & Milan).
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portfolio
Pause-Clope, soma/sema, 2024
Russian cigarette, glazed ceramic, ‘Ron Miel’ bottle and various gris-gris that attract good luck
Russian cigarette, glazed ceramic, ‘Ron Miel’ bottle and various gris-gris that attract good luck
Pause-Clope-Gold, 2018
Chinese and Russian cigarettes and glazed ceramics
Chinese and Russian cigarettes and glazed ceramics
Pause-Clope-Napoléon, 2024
Chinese cigarette, glazed ceramic, ‘Napoleon’ bottle, amethyst and various gris-gris to attract good luck
Chinese cigarette, glazed ceramic, ‘Napoleon’ bottle, amethyst and various gris-gris to attract good luck
Pause-Clope-Doudou, 2018
Chinese cigarette, glazed ceramic and ‘doudou retouné’ bottle
Chinese cigarette, glazed ceramic and ‘doudou retouné’ bottle
Pause-Clope, 2024
Pause-Clope is a series that began in 2018. This Pause-Clope series was exhibited at the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2024 exhibition, where Gaëlle Choisne was the winner.Courtesy of the artist and Air de Paris, Romainville, Grand Paris
Credit: Marc Domage
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The ‘Pause-Clope’ series begins when the artist stops smoking. Each work explores the ritual of the ‘fag break’ as a relational act, underlining the authoritarian aspect of the fragmentation of working time and breaks in our bureaucratic world. These creations take the form of small altars or mausoleums evoking cigarettes as a symbol of addiction, a colonial and slave heritage, and a Freudian, sexual and erotic dimension. Through this diversion, the artist establishes a link with the spirits and ancestors who enjoyed smoking and drinking, thus fuelling a reflection on the impact of this addiction on our societies.
