The program of the event, which will take place in Paris and its region on the night of June 6th to 7th, was made public this Tuesday.
The 2026 Nuit Blanche, orchestrated like last year by Barbara Butch, will feature over 120 events across the capital. 14 concerts and exhibitions will be organized as part of 9 “official” routes. 109 other artistic projects will take place in partner institutions.
This year’s cultural and festive event celebrates tenderness and tolerance, especially in the face of otherness. “What we really need today,” emphasized the mayor of Paris, Emmanuel Grégoire, recalling the wave of homophobic hate directed at the artistic director of Nuit Blanche since her participation in the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in July 2024.
At the heart of the event, Barbara Butch will deploy a fleet of mobile vans equipped with screens on the streets. These vehicles will roam the city from 5 p.m. to midnight, broadcasting love declarations recorded by hundreds of Parisians.
Installations participatives This participatory aspect will be found in Marie-Luce Nadal’s installation, a vast digital platform archiving love messages left by citizens on a voicemail (at 01 59 58 00 99). This work will be installed in the heart of the Church of Saint-Laurent (Paris 10th). Titled “Under the Skin of the Sky,” it will provide an immersive sound experience.
Love will also be expressed in a choreographic manner at the Carreau du Temple (Paris 3rd), where Mickaël Phelippeau will invite passersby to a “yellow party,” an inclusive dance conceived as an act of brotherhood. A ballet by Léa Ka, featuring 26 dancers and titled “It’s you we adore,” will also be showcased. Meanwhile, the Polish artist Milosh Luczynski will present a luminous “Grand Cœur” at the Grand Palais (Paris 8th).
Fifteen students from the Fine Arts, associated with Nuit Blanche, will exhibit their works in a collective exhibition entitled “Talking about love” at the Niemeyer space (Paris 19th). Annette Messager will be invited to showcase her work at the Museum of Hunting and Nature (Paris 3rd), including representations of mermaids in the pool of Château-Landon (Paris 10th) which has just reopened after seven years of renovation.
Immersive shows Among the partner institutions, the Fondation Cartier (Paris 1st) will offer themed tours “Love at first sight” within its collections. L’Oréal will host Valentin Ranger and Inès Cherifi at the company’s headquarters (Paris 8th). The Fondation Louis-Vuitton (Paris 16th) will organize video projections and readings echoing Arthur Rimbaud’s poem, “Sun and Flesh,” which describes the disruptions in our lives caused by the “breeze of love in the past night.”
Lesser-known, the collective Reflet Machine will perform in the walls of a former brothel in Le Marais (Paris 4th), recalling the controversial history of the place and questioning the perception of bodies. The program will also include giant karaoke sessions dedicated to the greatest romantic anthems and artistic speed dating in thirty suburban cities of the Grand Paris Metropolis.
The Communist elected official Raphaëlle Primet, vice-president of the Grand Paris Metropolis, who recently participated in a controversial flotilla for Gaza and called for a boycott of the Israeli state at Eurovision, had no objections to the participation of Israeli David Mottahedeh in this 25th Nuit Blanche.
