Fondation Louis Vuitton to Host Nuit Blanche 2026 Video and Poetry Program
The Fondation Louis Vuitton presented the video and poetry program "Une brise d’amour dans la nuit a passé" on June 6, 2026, from 20h to 00h as part of Nuit Blanche 2026. The event, curated by invited artistic director Barbara Butch around the theme of love, screened video works from the foundation's collection in the Auditorium while the exhibition "Calder. Rêver en équilibre" remained closed. Featured artists included Valie Export with "Breath Text: Love Poem" (1970-1973), Tao Hui with "The Dusk of Tehran" (2014), Valérie Mréjen with "Capri" (2008) and "Leur histoire" (2014), Youssef Nabil with "You Never Left" (2010), Anri Sala with "Answer Me" (2008), and Ming Wong. Four poets—Selim-a Atallah Chettaoui, Rim Battal, Karim Kattan, and Nantene Traore—performed texts on love, relationships, and desire.
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The program underscores the foundation's strategy of activating its collection through live, thematic encounters that connect moving-image works with spoken word. For collectors and curators, it signals continued institutional emphasis on cross-disciplinary programming that broadens access to holdings by Export, Sala, and Nabil while testing how love as a curatorial lens can surface shared emotional registers across geographies and generations.
- Artists: Valie Export, Tao Hui, Valérie Mréjen, Youssef Nabil, Anri Sala, Ming Wong
- People: Barbara Butch, Selim-a Atallah Chettaoui, Rim Battal, Karim Kattan, Nantene Traore
- Museums: Fondation Louis Vuitton
- Locations: Paris
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