Luma Foundation in Arles - Exhibitions summer 2025

📍Luma Foundation, Arles

▪️ iDzia Installation: sound, video, and audiovisual

A summer of contemporary art has begun at Luma Foundation in Arles, a major destination for artistic creation and contemporary reflection, located at the heart of the Parc des Ateliers. This unique site continues to establish itself as an interdisciplinary platform where art, science, ecology, and architecture converge. For summer 2025, Luma presents a thought-provoking program that immerses visitors in powerful works by internationally renowned artists, each questioning our world through visual, sonic, and environmental narratives. In the Grande Halle, Egyptian artist Wael Shawky unveils Je suis les hymnes, a monumental installation combining performance, chant, video, and historical storytelling. The piece explores the connections between identity, collective memory, and political mythology through a striking mise-en-scène filled with choirs, costumed figures, and symbolic imagery inspired by Middle Eastern history. The work, both theatrical and introspective, invites audiences to challenge dominant narratives and rethink cultural legacies. At the Magasin Électrique, Belgian landscape designer Bas Smets presents Climates of Landscape, an exhibition that questions our relationship with climate, water, light, and the transformation of natural spaces. Through models, videos, maps, and interactive displays, Smets reveals the natural forces that shape our environment and proposes a new, sensitive reading of the landscape, echoing the very park he designed at Luma. In La Mécanique Générale, Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen presents Strange Tales, a sensory journey through hybrid narratives that blend Asian legends, speculative fiction, and spectral memory. Using immersive video, 3D animation, and fragmented storytelling, he examines how myths and stories influence our understanding of reality and imagination. Other major artists also enrich this dynamic summer program. Inside the iconic Luma Tower, Swiss artist Peter Fischli exhibits People, Planet, Profit, a sharp and ironic critique of global capitalist logic and its planetary impact. Meanwhile, a moving retrospective is dedicated to American photographer David Armstrong, a key figure of the 1980s queer scene in New York, whose intimate portraits and quiet urban scenes capture a sense of beauty and melancholy on society’s margins. The entire Luma site – from its refurbished industrial buildings to the Tower’s galleries and landscaped gardens – becomes a space of artistic exploration, where each corner offers a new idea, a sound, a story, or an emotion. This ambitious yet accessible summer program reaffirms Luma as a vibrant space, constantly in dialogue with its time and surroundings.

Free entry with reservation. Open every day this summer.

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