Gernot Wieland’s films combine personal and historical narratives with scientific facts as well as fictional and real elements with tragicomic events. They attempt to conjure a sense of the uncanny, oftentimes in ironic or absurd forms. Infused with sober, poetic tension, they follow associative narrative structures. Thievery and Songs (2016) and Bird in Italian is Uccello (2022) include stories about the Town Musicians of Bremen, a dancer, psychotherapy sessions, the history of poverty, theater productions in Italian psychiatric wards in the 1970s, political events, and childhood memories.

Program

Gernot Wieland,
Bird in Italian is Uccello, 2022, 14 min
Thievery and Songs, 2016, 23 min

Presented by Gernot Wieland, followed by a conversation with Aurélie Voltz

Aurélie Voltz is a curator and has been the director of Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMC+) in Saint-Étienne since 2017. Between 2004 and 2011, she worked as an independent curator in Berlin and directed the Musées de Montbéliard until 2017. She is the curator of the first solo show of Gernot Wieland in France, Songs for the Unwanted (until March 15, 2026).

Gernot Wieland is a filmmaker and artist whose work spans short films, drawings, installations, and lecture-performances. His works have been presented recently at the Berlin Biennale, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Diagonale and steirischer herbst in Graz, and currently at MAMC+ Saint-Étienne (all 2025).