Pauline Curnier Jardin (b. 1980, Marseille, France) is an artist working across installation, performance, film, and drawing. Her outstanding cinematic installations create unorthodox universes and tell stories, thus proposing alternative narratives. She is the winner of the 2019 German Preis der Nationalgalerie, the 2021 Villa Romana Prize in Firenze, and recipient of the 2019-2020 Villa Medici fellowship in Rome. Her work was included or commissioned over the last years in: Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2026, 2020 and 2013); M HKA, Antwerp (2025); NW – Open House for Contemporary Art and Film, Aalst (2025); Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz (2025 and 2020); Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto (2025); Kiasma, Helsinki (2024); MACRO, Rome (2024); Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur (2024); Centraal Museum, Utrecht (2023); Kunsthaus Pasquart, Bienne (2023); CRAC Occitanie, Sète (2022); FRAC Corsica (2022); Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin (2022); LIAF, Venice and Kabelvåg (2022); Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2021); INDEX – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm (2021); Manifesta 13, Marseille (2020); the Bergen Assembly, Bergen Biennial (2019); International Film Festival, Rotterdam (2018); the 57th Venice Biennale (2017); Tate Modern, London (2017); Performa 15, New York (2015).