Born in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jeanno Gaussi grew up across Kabul, Delhi, and Berlin.
Using a narrative concept as a starting point, she creates intimate installations about space and memory. Her work spans various media, including video, photography, objects, and texts.
A central theme of her practice is the exploration of the places where she has worked, traveled, and experienced meaningful encounters. Through these encounters, her work engages with questions of remembrance, the search for identity, and the social and cultural processes associated with them.
She developed many of her installation projects during residencies in Pakistan (International Diasporic Artists Residency, Karachi), Jordan (International Artist Workshop, Shatana), Turkey, and Palestine (Al-Mamal Art Residency, Jerusalem), among others.
Gaussi has participated in numerous exhibitions, film festivals, and symposia, including dOCUMENTA 13, the Havana Biennale, and TEDx Marrakesh.
In 2023, she held a fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Research Centre “Dis:connectivity in Processes of Globalisation” in Munich and received the Ann Wolff – Tutsek-Stiftung Foundation Scholarship. In 2025, she was awarded the Exile Visual Arts Special Award by the Köber Stiftung in Hamburg.
Jeanno Gaussi currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany, and Naxos, Greece.