On Saturday, June 6, 2026, the Nuit Blanche is back for a 25th edition in Paris and in Île-de-France. This grand, free public celebration shines a spotlight on contemporary creation, with hundreds of performances, installations, and exhibitions staged across the capital and the surrounding towns.
So we're getting ready for a long night of discovery and wonder, thanks to the many free artistic events that await us in the streets and cultural venues of the Paris region. Don't want to go to the center of the capital this evening? Don't worry: there's just as much going on near you!
Aubervilliers, in Seine-Saint-Denis, hosts a number of artists and installations for this year's Nuit Blanche. The town of 93, north of Paris, is easily accessible by public transport for the curious and adventurous.
Marked by its industrial past, the town of Aubervilliers is home to old factories and work centers converted into cultural spaces, but few museums. This doesn't stop the town from participating enthusiastically in the Nuit Blanche, offering a variety of events throughout the evening.
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DETAILED PROGRAM
START OF THE ROUTE
Meet at Porte Maillot to board the coach!
STAGE 1 → EMBA Manet | Gennevilliers (92)
Finissage of L. Camus-Govoroff’s exhibition, Le bruit des larmes
The artist’s first institutional solo show, with steel and glass installations, sculptures and stained glass filling the gallery space of the art center in a flow-driven layout. A physical and sensory work where water, fire and the body are at the heart of the project. For Nuit Blanche and the exhibition’s closing, multiple events will bring the artist’s work to life (reading-workshop: Morgane Ortin; performance: Roméo Dini; concert: Mélodie Blaison).
STAGE 2 → Le Houloc | La Courneuve (93)
Opening of the collective’s new spaces with a sound-walk and performances
After nine years in Aubervilliers, Le Houloc relocates to La Courneuve! The 33 artist members and the curator duo “Nous sommes au regret” (Laure Saffroy-Lepesqueur & Jeanne Mathas) celebrate this new chapter.
An evening of sharing and multidisciplinary creations: openings of the 33 artists’ studios, a sound-walk featuring performances, and neighborhood-centered mingling—inviting Courneuve associations to share hot, comforting dishes.
STAGE 3 → Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers (93)
Discover the dance performance Disparue (Marcela Santander Corvalan, with Aria De La Celle) in the Laboratoires’ garden
Nuit Blanche’s lineup draws from Bell Hooks’ book About Love, defining love “as an act, not a feeling.” So, what would our acts of love look like?
STAGE 4 → Centre d'art Ygrec - ENSAPC | Aubervilliers (93)
Visit the Through glass, darkly exhibition and see the artworks come alive through evening activations by the artists (dance, performance)
For one night, the Ygrec Art Center becomes a space of experimentation and encounter, where student works are shared in a group show. Through installations, sensorial forms and plays on transparency, participants explore the links between glass properties and emotional experiences.
Through a Glass, Darkly offers an immersive crossing, inviting visitors to discover an emergent scene within Nuit Blanche’s singular framework.
In partnership with EMBA Manet, Le Houloc, Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers and the Centre d'art Ygrec - ENSAPC.
With support from the Grand Paris Metropolis.
TRAM is a federation of 37 contemporary art venues across Île-de-France, a network since 1981. These centers, museums, art schools, artist collectives, foundations, and FRACs demonstrate the region’s vitality and richness of artistic creation. They engage in complementary actions around production, diffusion, collection, education, mediation, publishing, and amateur practices.
TaxiTram, a coach-based journey to a selection of several TRAM network art venues, inviting you to discover contemporary creation in Île-de-France and live unique moments with artists, curators, or their teams.
Through a Glass, Darkly is a research and creation workshop led by students from ENSAPC and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (AdBK), born of a European artistic exchange around glass as a medium. For one night, the Centre d’art Ygrec becomes a space of experimentation and encounter, where the students’ works are shared in a collective exhibition. Through installations, sensorial forms, and plays on transparency, the participants explore the links between the properties of glass and emotional experiences. Through a Glass, Darkly offers an immersive journey, inviting visitors to discover an emerging scene within the unique setting of Nuit Blanche.
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With: Pauline Alves Da Silva, Mandana Behdad, Bergerolle Aymeric, Nicole Caoduro, Rocco Dumont, Yolanda Geslin, Jiangyue Guo, Motong Huang, Hyeongyo Kim, Anastasiia Melnyk, Andreas Mockenhaupt, Pablo Moraga, Corentin Mornet, Luzie Münzer, Cécile Normand, Camilla Prey, Katja Rausch, Noa Robin, Marei Schleussinger, Evgenia Shepeleva, René Stiegler, Luis Strobl, Pauline Stroux, Felix Spirglas, Junjie Tu, Marie Vautrin, Jiri Willemen.
Curated by the teachers: Andrea Bütter, Thierry Boissel, Sophia Mainka, Maria Mulhe, Véronique Joumard, and Judith Perron
Renaudie Space
On the stage, six performers bring these words to life, bearing witness to the hurricane of feelings.
Accompanied by two multi-instrumental musicians, they punctuate every letter with a pop song that gently lampoons the volcanic temperament of this literature.
For that’s how humans are made: wild, we invented love to burn ourselves and to sing of passion, pain, and joy.
We are, and will always be, lovers of love. And what we feel—the lovers’ passion for one another—the marvelous irrational force that human beings can muster—will, the machine and Artificial Intelligence, forever be deprived of!
The Aubervilliers Laboratories
One day I was asked to come and do a reading on the theme of love, love stories. I launched a call to my network of writers—those who write about struggle, dissident bodies, marginalized experiences. Those who wield rage and revolution. I asked them to share, for once, their love letters. Many answered with great enthusiasm. We realized, by juxtaposing letters that speak of love, sex, and deep tenderness, that it had an almost magical effect." Sandra Calderan, director and actress
Sandra Calderan writes poetry, but poetry to be spoken, to be heard, to be lived. An actress and director, she treats her poetic writing as a physical gesture, a corporeal commitment that must be transmitted live. Poetry sits at the heart of her work, engaged and political, which tirelessly retraces the stories of forgotten, wounded, yet luminous lives. Parallel to her performances, she leads many cultural actions within the Compagnie des Hauts Parleurs. Sandra Calderan has also collaborated for several years with Cirque Queer as a writer and director, with the Compagnie Monstra / Lucia Soto, the Compagnie Eranos / Flor Paichard, Lou Trotignon in stand-up, and with Rébecca Chaillon and the Compagnie Dans Le Ventre.
Production credits
Director and actress: Sandra Calderan
Actress: Victoria Paulet
Musician: Mélo Lauret
Production and touring: Malaury Goutoule
List of read authors: Wendy Delorme, Maëlle Lecorre, Gorge Bataille, Star Finsh, Lélia, Marie Fortuit, Marcia Burnier, Aroun Mariadas, Lucia Etchart, Rébecca Chaillon, Etaïnn Zwer, Sabrina Calvo, Nathalie Sejean, Sandra Calderan, Elisa Monteil, Nelly Slim, Victoria Paulet.
Duration: 1h10
Warning: Erotic content
Full program of the evening at the Labos
19:30-20:40: I don't know how to write you, my love — Sandra Calderan
21:00-21:40: Disappeared — Marcela Santander Corvalán
21:00-21:25: SONGS OF GRIEF [LOVE ME TENDER] — Vanassay Khamphommala
22:00–00:00: Continuous projections in the garden
22:00-22:25: SONGS OF GRIEF [LOVE ME TENDER] — Vanassay Khamphommala
23:00-23:25: SONGS OF GRIEF [LOVE ME TENDER] — Vanassay Khamphommala
An event as part of Nuit Blanche 2026
With the support of the Métropole du Grand Paris
In partnership with the TRAM network
I am crouched. I’m on the ground. I’m looking at things from below. The hair, the breasts, the genitals, the legs and the face compose this “from below” dance. Immersed in this posture, I revisit the memory of the gestures that make it up. An ancient posture, a waiting posture, a working, magical one; a posture that can feel obscene, sometimes hard and uncomfortable, as if it might block movement. I can’t crumble, I can’t surge forward—my knees are bent, I walk, I jump, I dance. For this solo, I began with a posture drawn from the duo Époque, a piece created with Volmir Cordeiro in 2015, drawing on dances performed by women in the 20th century. We had been inspired at the time by a Japanese dance I’d heard about but never seen. A dance in which the dancer crouched.
This dance, still unknown to me, continued to intrigue. From that ignorance and the wish to see it one day, I took this posture and put it at the heart of a dance that would be mine, evoking that abundant source of inspiration. By exploring this crouching position, I travel through time—from the pre-Columbian Andes to its most current resurgences. Dances of a nightclub, of clubs, but also underground, in that very deep space, beneath the ground, unknown and mysterious. The posture becomes a fertile ground for study, a territory, a living archive, an active memory. Marcela Santander Corvalán, Choreographer
Marcela Santander Corvalán, Franco-Chilean, has built a career as performer, choreographer and educator on the international stage. She works with the history of archives and memory as tools for creation. The question of inclusion in art spaces sits at the heart of her concerns. Since January 2025, she has co-directed the Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers alongside Patricia Allio and Mara Teboul.
Complete program for the evening at the Labos
7:30-8:40 PM: I don’t know how to write you, my love — Sandra Calderan
9:00-9:40 PM: Disparue — Marcela Santander Corvalán
9:00-9:25 PM: SONGS OF GRIEF [LOVE ME TENDER] — Vanassay Khamphommala
10:00 PM–12:00 AM: Continuous projections in the garden
10:00-10:25 PM: SONGS OF GRIEF [LOVE ME TENDER] — Vanassay Khamphommala
11:00-11:25 PM: SONGS OF GRIEF [LOVE ME TENDER] — Vanassay Khamphommala
An event as part of Nuit Blanche 2026
With the support of the Métropole du Grand Paris
In partnership with the TRAM network
Vanasay Khamphommala (ວັນນະໄຊ ຄຳພົມມາລາ) is a playwright, performer, writer, translator and educator. She first trains in singing and music, then studies anglophone and theatrical disciplines (École normale supérieure, Harvard, Oxford, Paris-Sorbonne) and as an actress in the Classe Libre at Cours Florent. Since 2018, she has been creating with her company Lapsus chevelü performances and shows, including L’Invocation à la Muse, Écho, Je viens chanter chez toi toute nue en échange d’un repas or ສຽງຂອງຍ່າ (La voix de ma grand-mère). Her work interrogates European mythologies from a postcolonial and postgender perspective.
Dust
From Fauvettes City Club in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine to Villa Mais d’Ici in Aubervilliers, via Usine de Films Amateurs in Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine or Lil'Ô in L'Île-Saint-Denis, spend a night immersed in the fascinating world of Plaine Commune’s artistic and cultural ateliers. Performances, screenings, exhibitions, tastings, open studio doors… Twelve venues across the nine towns offer a diverse program to enjoy Nuit Blanche.
In Action
Les Poussières
7pm - Midnight
1, rue Sadi Carnot in Aubervilliers
During this White Night 2026, Les Poussières aims to offer a setting conducive to meeting, diverse and sensory, for anyone who glimpses the venue from the street or steps through the door. At the four corners of the building, visitors are invited to experience a varied program: like a playground, the entire 1 rue Sadi Carnot will be mobilized in the service of Love through the arts and encounter.
A collective, joyful, creative, and benevolent attempt.
with Les Poussières, Les Paillettes, Selma Missoum, Chouf, Marouane Dekaoui, Salma Jourani and Zando (curated by Léa DSN)
Poull
For Nuit Blanche 2026, POUSH’s Bureau of Dreams (Marie-Luce Nadal & Laurent Derobert) presents the evening In the End, centered on this “McCartney conjecture”: “And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” — the final words of The Beatles’ last track recorded on Abbey Road. From dusk to closing time: a razor-sharp open mic, drawn by this equation of love. A constellation of voices, remarks, testimonies, counterpoints, followed by concerts and DJ sets, weaving the invisible thread of the idea. An invitation to experience love in all its forms, in a festive, collective atmosphere, for a single night devoted to connection and sharing. For this unique night, POULL—the hub of exchange, programming, friendship, conviviality, and food—opens its doors to the public for the first time, from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Villa Mais d'Ici
In the show Logiques (quantiques) des attractions, we joyfully dissect the mythologies of couplehood, the scripts of love, and the gendered injunctions that shape our relationships. Between spectacular spectacle and the unveiling of social mechanisms, a sex‑show critique where the intimate becomes political and where alternative ways of meeting emerge.
Designed as a progressive nocturnal journey from the public space to the Villa, from 9pm to 4am, the evening spills far beyond the performance to occupy every corner of the venue. It’ll be everywhere!
Around this creation and Nuit Blanche, a constellation of artists orchestrated by the Brigade du Love: Frichti Concept, Fine Cie, Cie Méliadès, Les Anges Mi-Chus, Les Meuf3, Alice Nicolas & Gabrielle Taron-Rieussec, Louise Molière, Flore Marvaud, Suzan Brun, Clotilde Salmon, Lorraine Tarot Girl, Artists Nails, IonoLutReve, MaximeG-Shibari Artist bring forth forms, presences, situations, and moments of astonishment as the Villa knows how to conjure them.
A night to be traversed together, from public space to intimate, where love stories brush against one another, shift gears, and reinvent themselves.
Now the hard part is choosing where to start! And if you'd like to find out more, check out our guides to Nuit Blanche in Paris and the Ile-de-France region.
