Over 200 events, hundreds of French and international artists, and a whole night of festivities to enjoy in Paris and the surrounding départements... There's no doubt about it: Nuit Blanche is back! This event is the major cultural rendezvous forcontemporary art in Paris. For a whole evening, from dusk to dawn, exhibitions, shows, performances and events of all kinds take place in every corner of the capital.
For its new edition, Nuit Blanche invites us to mark our calendars for Saturday, June 6, 2026. Slip on your walking shoes: Nuit Blanche events pop up in every corner of the capital! From museums to parks and gardens, including churches, monuments, and art centers, you’re sure not to run out of things to do.
And among the venues taking part in this art festival are, of course, Paris's various town halls. In almost every arrondissement of the city, town halls open their doors to the public and to artists. Surprises, events for the whole family, unusual experiences... This 25th edition of Nuit Blanche promises to be a memorable one!
In the Paris Centre town hall :
Installation.
With Hello World, Fabien Léaustic offers a luminous installation that appears simple at first glance but is rich in meaning. The piece displays the message “HELLO WORLD” in large letters, a well-known refrain in the computer world. For decades, this phrase has served as the first test to verify that a program runs. It thus marks entry into the realm of digital technology.
But a detail unsettles this certainty: one of the “O”s begins to blink. The blink is not random. It follows a precise rhythm, inspired by Morse code, translating the entire latest IPCC report into light.
The message shifts. The original “HELLO WORLD” can be read differently: “HELL WORLD” (“hell on earth”). This almost imperceptible visual flip reveals a deep disconnect between two realities. On one side, a technocratic, often optimistic discourse oriented toward innovation and progress. On the other, the repeated warnings from scientists about the planet and the consequences of warming.
By translating a scientific report into light signals, the work highlights a real difficulty: making this information understandable and resonant for the general public. Morse, a code few people can decipher today, becomes a metaphor for this distance. The data exist, they are precise, but they remain hard to hear, hard to fully grasp.
Presented in public space and especially within the Nuit Blanche context, the installation plays with light and darkness. Visible from afar, it first attracts with its familiar, graphic look. Then, as the audience approaches, a second, more troubling reading emerges. The piece acts as a signal: both aesthetically striking and critically pointed, immediate yet profound.
With Hello World, Fabien Léaustic does not seek to provide answers but to open a space for reflection. He invites each of us to recognize the gap between what we know — thanks to scientific work — and what we actually do. Between a welcoming message and a warning signal, the installation confronts us with a simple yet essential question: what world are we building?
In partnership with Le Cube - Garges
Curated by Fabien Léaustic
With the support of the City of Paris Centre
In the 8th arrondissement town hall:
Music
In the auditorium of the City Hall of the 8th arrondissement, this recital offers a sensitive musical journey, at the crossroads of night and light.
Designed as a breath at the heart of Nuit Blanche, the program explores the contrasting states of the soul — between dream and wakefulness, surrender and drive, contemplation and inward fever.
Fueled by the refined colors of French melody and the expressive intensity of the German lied, the works of Gabriel Fauré, Francis Poulenc, Claude Debussy, Franz Schubert, Maurice Ravel and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sketch an emotional landscape in chiaroscuro. The soprano voice and the piano engage in a subtle dialogue, revealing suspended moments to the listener.
From “Après un rêve” to “Nuit d’étoiles,” from the ardor of love in “Les chemins de l’amour” to the inner torments of “Gretchen am Spinnrade,” up to the luminous lightness of Ravel’s Greek Mélodies, the program invites an immersive experience accessible to all audiences.
Program:
-Après un rêve - Fauré
-Les chemins de l'amour - Poulenc
-Au bord de l'eau - Fauré
-Deh vieni non tardar (Susanna) - The Marriage of Figaro - Mozart
-Nuit d'étoiles - Debussy
-Gretchen am Spinnrade - Schubert
-Extrait des 5 mélodies grecques - Ravel (Tout gai)
Clara Bellon, coloratura lyric soprano, was born in Réunion. In 2019, she joined the Opera Studio at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Charleroi as well as the CNSM in Paris. A finalist of the Voix des Outre-mer competition, she has appeared at numerous festivals and prestigious venues, including the Philharmonie de Paris, the Opéra Bastille, the Opéra de Nice and the Salle Cortot. Her repertoire includes Olympia (The Tales of Hoffmann), the Queen of the Night (The Magic Flute), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), as well as several Offenbach roles. Active in artistic and environmental projects, she also develops works that blend art and science.
Héloïse Bertrand-Oleari won her first piano and chamber-music prizes at fourteen at the Tours conservatory, and two years later joined the hypokhâgne at Lycée Fénelon and the École du Louvre. Holder of a humanities degree and a research master’s in musicology, as well as prizes for musical writing and analysis, she continued her studies at the Paris-Boulogne Higher Education cluster, where she earned the DNSPM and the DE in vocal accompaniment. Passionate about the vocal repertoire, she joined the studios of Anne Le Bozec and Erika Guiomar at the CNSM in Paris, where she simultaneously earned master’s degrees in vocal accompaniment and in vocal direction. A laureate of the Jeunes Talents association in duo with soprano Camille Chopin, they won the CNLB Prize at the twelfth Nadia and Lili Boulanger Competition and regularly perform, notably at the Petit Palais and at various festivals. Héloïse is also a laureate of the Kriegelstein Fund, of the Royaumont Foundation, and has served as pianist-chanteur at the Opéra-Comique Academy.
With the support of the City Hall of the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
At the 9th arrondissement town hall:
Nuit Blanche 2026: Giant diamonds are installed in the courtyard of Paris's 9th arrondissement town hall.
A monumental installation lands at the 9th arrondissement’s town hall for Nuit Blanche 2026. Produced in partnership with the Slovak Institute, Big Fat Diamond aims to surprise visitors this Saturday, June 6, 2026. [Read more]
In the 11th arrondissement town hall:
Music
The duo formed by Elise Dabrowski and Sébastien Béranger marks its 10th anniversary in 2025. To celebrate, the two artists are developing a new project built around madness, fragmentation, a exuberant and jubilant sonic schizophrénia. The language is fractured, laid bare, unveiled, pulled apart and offered, scattered through air and space (electroacoustic). Through meticulous deconstruction, it finds its purpose and its renewal. This “duet in two” — voice, electronics, and (meta)cello — is a celebration of the present moment. Its nature, like that of music in general, is fundamentally fleeting; reality resides in performance, immediacy, its bond with the listener and the live concert. It’s an exchange-driven experience based on crossing paths, experiments, surprise, and shared pleasure, where everyone becomes the other’s interpreter. The fusion of voice and electronics — from the most insolent noise to the most sublime singing — always signifies something beyond itself, evoking a broad spectrum of associations: cultural, musical, everyday, emotional, psychological, and more. The tension between acoustic instrumental sound and the computer’s acousmatic texture likewise expands the sonic palette toward unheard worlds.
With the support of the Mairie du 11ème arrondissement.
At the 14th arrondissement town hall:
Music
Eleonore Lemaire divides her activity between the European contemporary opera stage and personal projects centered on breaking down barriers and hybridization. She founded Renversements in 2022 to produce a variety of lyrical projects, wearing at different times the hats of director, librettist, scenographer or composer, depending on the collaborations and the nature of the project. She met Alex Cordo during the project “Switched-On Mozart” (in homage to Wendy Carlos) and proposed that they invent with him “Music 4 a While,” for which he writes the arrangements. On the occasion of Nuit Blanche 2026, she invites her percussion collaborator Richard Dubelski to join them for a dance-floor version of the project. The artists will perform the fixed hourly 30-minute sets of music ranging from the baroque to today, to dance through centuries of an assorted repertoire. During the breaks, young talents (including MAO students from the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud) will be invited to perform their electro creations, maintaining the link between scholarly music and contemporary music, under the guidance of seasoned composers like Kerwin Rolland.
On music by Mozart, Purcell, Pink Floyd, Haendel, Puccini, Rachmaninov, Britten, Joan Baez, Donizetti, Ravel, Fauré, the Beatles…
With Alex Cordo - guitarist; Richard Dubelski - percussionist; Eleonore Lemaire - soprano; and Vincent Lannuzel - sound engineer.
With the support of the Mairie du 14e arrondissement de Paris and the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud.
In the 15th arrondissement town hall:
Performance, Exhibition
Hungarian artist and performer Andi Kacziba will present one of her most intense and meaningful works, Crushing Destiny, inviting the audience into an emotional experience centered on the theme of “non-motherhood” and the marginalized role society assigns to women living this condition, beyond any rhetoric of apparent understanding.
During the performance, she lays out 500 emptied eggshells and fills them with gold on a white canvas, a number symbolically referencing the roughly 500 ovulations a woman's body can experience during its fertile life. Set to a rhythm driven by the hypnotic tempo of a metronome, the shells are gradually crushed, prompting reflection on biological time, vulnerability, and the temporality tied to the corporeal condition.
In the same space, the exhibition Fragilité Radicale is also presented, curated by Renata Bianconi. This project stands as a singular milestone in Andi Kacziba’s career: a retrospective bringing together a selection of performative and photographic works created over the years.
Crushing Destiny fully aligns with the trajectory of the show, serving as a living extension of the project. The exhibition is open on the day of the event, before and after the performance, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
Andi Kacziba (born 1974 in Dunaújváros, Hungary) is an artist and performer. Her practice blends autobiographical elements with social critique, exploring issues surrounding female identity in contemporary society. Her research highlights the invisible mechanisms of social pressure as well as the psychological and structural forms of conditioning that shape perceptions of the body and the female role.
Performance: 8:00 p.m.
In partnership with the Mairie du 15e arrondissement de Paris
With the support of the Liszt Institute - Hungarian Cultural Centre Paris
Curatorship of FRAGILITÉ RADICALE - Exhibition curated by Renata Bianconi
At the 17th arrondissement town hall:
Performance, Music
Metamorphoses is an immersive, cross-disciplinary work dedicated to the Metallophone, the instrument imagined by Bastien David. The six percussionists from the company Les Insectes perform this gestural and sonic ballet that blends musical virtuosity with choreographic performance.
20-minute concerts at 7pm, 8pm, 9pm and 10pm
Free admission subject to available seats, at the start time of each concert
Bastien David, musical director: born in 1990, he is passionate about the diversity of life. The core of his inspiration lies in the sensitive relationships that sounds forge with one another and their ability to move through time and space. Through his music, he invites audiences to experience reality. He envisions organic, volatile sound worlds and darkness, offering a view into the complexity of the universes that surround us. A laureate of the Ernst von Siemens Prize 2025, of the Hervé Dugardin Foundation, and of the Banque Populaire Foundation, he has been an artist-in-residence at Villa Medici in Rome, Villa Concordia in Bamberg, and the Casa de Velázquez - Académie de France in Madrid.
With the support of the Société Générale Corporate Foundation and the Caisse des Dépôts, as well as Spedidam, Adami, and SACEM.
At the 18th arrondissement town hall:
Nuit Blanche 2026: a playful, family-friendly artistic itinerary at the 18th arrondissement’s town hall
At the foot of Montmartre, the town hall of the 18th arrondissement is set to throw open its doors to a Nuit Blanche designed for curious minds of all ages. A family-friendly, artistic, and joyful night out to discover this Saturday, June 6, 2026. [Read more]
There's plenty of entertainment in store! Where will you start?
Dates and Opening Time
On June 6, 2026
Location
Town hall of the 8ᶱ arrondissement of Paris
3 Rue de Lisbonne
75008 Paris 8
Prices
Free
