Regulars know it well: the Nuit Blanche may be the wackiest night in Paris and the Île-de-France. And for those who haven’t yet experienced it, how to describe it... ? It’s a night when you might stumble upon a concert by giant moles. And Sufi dancing at the Petit Palais. And multicolored foam spewing out of the Centre Pompidou. Or fashion shows, sound-and-light performances, giant karaoke, wrestling bouts, xylophone concerts…
As you'll have guessed, the Nuit Blanche is a major celebration ofcontemporary artthat transforms Paris and the surrounding area into an open-air museum. During this exceptional evening, anything can happen! The participating artists are determined to surprise us with every new edition...
What bold surprises are in store for 2026? Nuit Blanche returns on Saturday, June 6 for its 25th edition. And if you’re hunting for your next thrill, you can already add the Maison Populaire de Montreuil to your evening itinerary.
The 93 district's popular art and culture venue has prepared some surprising and exciting events, which are sure to appeal to many contemporary art enthusiasts.
As part of their curatorial residency, Line Gigs and Fanny Testas invite you to Je est une autre, a lineup for Nuit Blanche 2026 featuring the artist·x·s: Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens, Vava Dudu, H·Alix Sanyas and Cuco Cuca. For Nuit Blanche 2026, Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens are invited to present a talk that explores the links between love, sexuality, ecology, and social engagement. Through collective rituals, including a series of symbolic weddings, the artists invite us to celebrate our connections with human·x·s, non-human·x·s, the elements, and the planet. Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens. After turning her experience as a sex worker and actress into radical art performances in the 1980s-1990s, artist, performer and activist Annie Sprinkle develops with her partner Beth Stephens — artist and professor at the University of Santa Cruz — an ecofeminist theory they call ecos sexuality. In 2008 they publish the Ecosex Manifesto.
Emerging in the early 2000s, ecosex becomes both an ecological and erotic practice, taking a critical stance toward anthropocentrism—the view that places humans at the center of everything. It challenges norms of gender, sexuality, and nature by mobilizing pleasure, humor, and joy as political tools. In this framework, Earth is no longer a “mother”—a figure traditionally associated with patriarchy—but a beloved partner. A screening of their film Water Makes Us Wet—An Ecosexual Adventure will deepen their approach to loving the planet!
This event offers a chance to delve into Vava Dudu's work through the theme of love, understood as a field of artistic and social experimentation. A singular figure on the contemporary scene, Vava Dudu develops a multidisciplinary practice that questions norms around the body, identity, and affective relationships. Her approach to love sits within a broader reflection on marginality, individual expression, and the construction of subjectivities. A selection of Vava Dudu’s textile works will be hung in the gardens of the Maison Populaire, and people who wish to wear her messages and drawings on their own clothing will have them painted live during a performance by the artist. The event highlights how the artist approaches notions of attachment, transformation, and self-representation. Vava Dudu was born in 1970 in Paris, where she lives and works. From 2012 to 2018, she resided in Berlin. In 1985 she left school at 15 to join a preparatory art class at the Grandes Terres Academy, then the Fleuri Delaporte fashion school. Since then she has pursued textile creation, drawing, poetry, and music, making clothing and works that testify to her plurdisciplinary practice. An independent stylist, she has worked as an accessory designer for Jean-Paul Gaultier and collaborated with Björk, Lady Gaga, Marilyn Manson, Neneh Cherry, Kate Moss, and John Galliano. In 2001, Vava Dudu and Fabrice Lorrain won the ANDAM prize (National Association for the Development of Fashion Arts). They organized a show in the backrooms of the gay club Les Docs, on Rue Saint-Maur. Her work has been presented in exhibitions and performances, notably at Le Confort Moderne (Poitiers, France), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France), the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (France), Lafayette Anticipations (Paris, France), and Komplot (Brussels, Belgium). Vava Dudu asserts her position as an outsider in contemporary art, declaring that she “prefers extremes to middle ground.” Her work as a stylist and artist runs alongside her activity as the singer in the group La Chatte, founded in 2003 with Stéphane Argillet and Nicolas Jorio, with whom she released five albums. Her artistic universe—playfully blending text and drawings—unfolds across a variety of media. Together, Cuco Cuca and H·Alix Sanyas will perform the piece Do List, a radical invitation to two-person collaboration. Cuco Cuca. Cuco Cuca is a transgender hacker-dreamer, born in 2011. Between protests, clandestine parties, and nocturnal interventions, he turns the city into a laboratory for political and artistic experimentation. His work fuses pirate projections, altered voices, lighting devices, and digital deconstructions to question surveillance, social norms, and fixed identities. In his world, queerness is not just an aesthetic but a way of blurring codes, making bodies and stories unstable, free, and elusive. The night holds a central place in his practice: an space for escape, encounter, and resistance. In marches and in clubs, Cuco Cuca seeks that moment of collective glitch, the instant when control systems falter and new forms of community emerge. H. Alix Sanyas. H·Alix Sanyas is an artist, filmmaker, graphic designer, and trainer in graphic design. Her practice focuses on crafting tools of resistance and rallying signs for transfeminist communities. H·Alix has been an active member—both as an activist and a graphic designer—of numerous collectives. She also collaborates with many feminist colleagues in the field of graphic design. In 2018 she co-founded the post-binary typography collective Bye Bye Binary, which supports and develops post-binary type design, operates within the free movement, and organizes exhibitions, talks, and publications. This event is organized in partnership with our friends at MABA Notent-sur-Marne to celebrate their 20th anniversary and the 60th anniversary of the Maison Populaire in the spirit of friendship.
Le programme est mis à jour en fonction des annonces officielles.
Happy Nuit Blanche to all!
Dates and Opening Time
On June 6, 2026
Location
Maison populaire de Montreuil
9 Rue Dombasle
93100 Montreuil
Prices
Free
Official website
www.paris.fr
