2026
THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY
6 June 2026 at Ygrec-ENSAPC art Centre
6pm – 11pm
Group show and performances program, as part of Nuit Blanche 2026 with Love as the overall theme. (Artistic Director: Barbara Butch)
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.
Teachers supervision: Andrea Bütter, Thierry Boissel, Sophia Mainka, Maria Mulhe, Véronique Joumard and Judith Perron.
On the occasion of Nuit Blanche 2026, Ygrec Art Center presents Through a Glass, Darkly, a collective exhibition emerging from an artistic research project developed jointly by ENSAPC (École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy) and the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München.
Conceived as a site of experimentation and critical inquiry, the project approaches glass as a sensitive and unstable material — at times transparent and reflective, at others opaque or matte — suspended between memory and illusion, visibility and disappearance. Both fragile and sharp, glass becomes a medium through which sculpture, installation, image, and light intersect.
Since November 2025, around twenty French and German students have participated in workshops, collaborative research, and shared artistic practices between Munich and Paris, generating a dialogue grounded both in glassmaking techniques and in the circulation of contemporary references, experiences, and forms of collective production.
ROOM FOR MUTATION
Group show with : Reem Alnatsheh, Nicole Caoduro, Delphine Contet, Elias Haddad, Ceva Ipatov, Araya Luna Melia Bianco, Lara Pels, Luna Pinazo et Mariam Sguiri. Sur une proposition de Chương-Đài Võ en collaboration avec Guillaume Breton.
From the 7th to the 31st of May at Ygrec-ENSAPC art Centre
Opening on the 7th of May from 5pm to 9pm
Conceived specifically for Centre d’art Ygrec-ENSAPC, the exhibition explores the relationship between a school, its art space, and the immediate environment in which it is situated. The students developed proposals inspired by Aubervilliers—its communities, architecture, and public spaces—through a collaborative research and creation process with their partners and the art centre. The scenography comprises evolving, playful, and ephemeral forms that are metaphors for movement, migration, and temporality. The exhibition prioritises process over fixed outcomes, leaving room for the unexpected and the emergence of new forms of reciprocity.
SIDE QUEST
Solo exhibition by Elouan Le Bars at the Ygrec Art Centre
Curator: Guillaume Breton
February 6 to April 11, 2026
Secondary missions, side quests, games are riddled with them: players can indulge in the leisurely collection of shimmering stars or opt for the systematic smashing of sturdy crates. In the world of video games, this term refers to all the secondary missions which, while they do not directly advance the game’s progress, nevertheless allow for more thorough exploration. By extension, it has come to describe those suspended moments in real-life that are lived like a video game. Life would then be organized by distinguishing two orders of magnitude. First, there would be the main quest, which is imposing and compelling, the pursuit of which requires everyone to be highly performative and competitive at all times. And then there are a multitude of other more fluid moments, which are more conducive to wandering, to drifting, or, more prosaically, to recovering one’s labor power. The porosity between the video game industry and the labor market is at the heart of Elouan Le Bars’ exhibition “Side Quest”.
