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
Temple of Love – Absence – La Biennale de Lyon, 2019
Temple of love - AbsencemacLYON - Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon
Part of the Biennale de Lyon, Là où les eaux de mêlent (Where water comes together with other water)
With the support of Pixopolitan
In collaboration with Gaillard & Claude
© Blaise Adilon
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The artist Gaëlle Choisne chooses to create a temple of love as a kind of apparition. An entire room of the MAC Museum is occupied by this multifaceted work. The main element, a large greenhouse, houses a device from her exhibition Hybris showing printed panels of images of plants from Haiti, bathed in electrically powered water fountains.
The surrounding part of the greenhouse features large, thick velvet sheets and paintings on the walls on which are sewn or hung various small objects and poor materials – shells, packs of chewing gum, cigarettes, lighter, Malabar tattoos, small pictures, coins, padlocks, condoms, medicines… like a giant coin box. A sculpture of bluish hands with long claws is placed on a table. On the floor, in a corner of the room, a multitude of white fortune cookies made of ceramic contain secret messages. On the floor, in a corner of the room, there is a bar-bed on which various small ceramic glasses and a jug of rum are displayed, and on the different walls, small objects are fixed with a glue gun. The installation is accompanied by the projection of her 25-minute film entitled S’abîmer (to be engulfed) which brings together documentary images of Haiti, television news and an interview with the reading of passages from Fragments d’un discours amoureux de Roland Barthes by the artist herself. The video is in French with French subtitles.
The artist mobilizes the vocabulary of architecture, organic influences, permaculture teachings and an abundance of textile materials to shape a common habitat. Without wanting to literally recreate the material environment in which the poor part of the Haitian population lives, they aim to bring to the viewer’s consciousness condensed images of these living conditions. The big one poses the question of our relationship to nature.
Here, the artist reappropriates the attributes of the temple as well as of the exhibition space: a place of congregation, a place of speech, a place of refuge where the gaze and the discourse are created and shared. This composite, fluid, complex universe, which like a landscape, offers a wealth of details, allowing the visitor to live his own unique experience of the place.
Curators: Matthieu Lelièvre and Palais de Tokyo
