Arno Gisinger is an artist and researcher. Born in 1964 in Austria, he lives and works in Paris since 2005. After studying history and German philology in Austria, he graduated from the “École nationale supérieure de la photographie” in Arles (1994, promotion Niépce). This double training leads him to work on the relations between memory, history and photographic representations. In the mid-1990s he began to develop a singular artistic practice that links photography and historiography in the form of surveys. Several of his works deal with exile, war, spoliation or the Shoah and attempt to the notion of so-called "documentary" practices. His practice tests the representation of the past and questions the status of photographic images. Arno Gisinger conducts theoretical research on questions related to the writing of history and the theorization of contemporary practices of the image. In a transversal approach, he regularly collaborates with researchers from other disciplines, thus creating a dialogue between art and humanities. His recent works are marked by a deep reflection on the architectural, institutional and political dimensions of images. Arno Gisinger is a teacher-researcher at the Université Paris Lumières in Saint-Denis (Paris 8) and attached to the EPHA research laboratory (AIAC).