29/04/2026
T H E P I L L®️ is thrilled to host Austrian artist 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐖𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝’s first solo exhibition in Paris on view from 24 April to 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 eponymous monograph.
𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 centers on two short films, 𝘍𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘈 𝘍𝘰𝘹 (2025) and 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘜𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘰 (2021), presented alongside a selection of drawings, paintings, and ceramics interwoven with the moving image works. As the title suggests, the exhibition foregrounds mistakes, omissions, slippages, and corrections as sites where the power of the unconscious can be reclaimed to destabilize dominant narratives surrounding family, education, social life, mental health, and the history of Western thought and art.
A recurring method in Wieland’s schematic drawings involves half-written or misspelled words, struck through and rewritten—sometimes in altered form, sometimes in another 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 “failures” 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 probe mechanisms of repression and embraced as unfaltering expressions of human creativity and humour.
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Courtesy of the artist & T H E P I L L®️
