LUMA Arles is an interdisciplinary creative campus where, through exhibitions, conferences, live performances, architecture and design, thinkers, artists, researchers, and scientists question the relationships between art, culture, environment, human rights, and research. The cultural center is located on the Parc des Ateliers, a former railway wasteland covering 11 hectares. The landscape garden, park, and pond surrounding the campus are the work of landscape architect Bas Smets.

Parc des Ateliers, LUMA Arles, France © Adrian Deweerdt
Parc des Ateliers, LUMA Arles, France © Adrian Deweerdt
Parc des Ateliers, LUMA Arles, France © Adrian Deweerdt
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LUMA Arles is an interdisciplinary creative campus where, through exhibitions, conferences, live performances, architecture and design, thinkers, artists, researchers, and scientists question the relationships between art, culture, environment, human rights, and research. The cultural center is located on the Parc des Ateliers, a former railway wasteland covering 11 hectares. The landscape garden, park, and pond surrounding the campus are the work of landscape architect Bas Smets.

Programme

Maria Lassnig, Frühstück mit Ohr (Breakfast with Ear), 1967, huilesur toile, 130 x 194.8, © Maria Lassnig Foundation. Courtesy Maria Lassnig Foundation
Maria Lassnig, Frühstück mit Ohr (Breakfast with Ear), 1967, huilesur toile, 130 x 194.8, © Maria Lassnig Foundation. Courtesy Maria Lassnig Foundation
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Maria Lassnig, Frühstück mit Ohr (Breakfast with Ear), 1967, huilesur toile, 130 x 194.8, © Maria Lassnig Foundation. Courtesy Maria Lassnig Foundation

Archives Hans Ulrich Obrist Chapitre 5 : Maria Lassnig « Vivre avec l’art empêche de se faner ! »

Venue: La Tour / Galerie des Archives, Niveau -2 / Galerie du Cerisier, Niveau -2

The 5th chapter of the Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives, the first major exhibition in over twenty-five years in France devoted to Maria Lassnig (1919–2014).

Vue d’installation, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Bâle, 2024. Precious Okoyomon, the sun eats her children, 2024. Fleurs, papillons, son et animatronique. Courtesy de l’artiste Precious Okoyomon, Beloved, 2023. Courtesy de l’artiste, Sant’Andrea de Scaphis et Gladstone Gallery © Precious Okoyomon
Vue d’installation, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Bâle, 2024. Precious Okoyomon, the sun eats her children, 2024. Fleurs, papillons, son et animatronique. Courtesy de l’artiste Precious Okoyomon, Beloved, 2023. Courtesy de l’artiste, Sant’Andrea de Scaphis et Gladstone Gallery © Precious Okoyomon
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Vue d’installation, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Bâle, 2024. Precious Okoyomon, the sun eats her children, 2024. Fleurs, papillons, son et animatronique. Courtesy de l’artiste Precious Okoyomon, Beloved, 2023. Courtesy de l’artiste, Sant’Andrea de Scaphis et Gladstone Gallery © Precious Okoyomon

Dance with Daemons

Venue: La Tour / Galerie Principale

A major experimental exhibition that explores the interconnections between art and reality and the ways in which artists’ works relate to each other. Through immersive installations, as well as paintings, sculptures, photographs, and new technologies, the exhibition brings together a diverse network of more than fifty contemporary artists who have defined the development of current cultural practices.

E.A.T.'s Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70, Osaka, Japan, 1970, March 18, Shunk-Kender, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Don de la Roy Lichtenstein, Foundation en mémoire de Harry Shunk et Janos Kender © J. Paul Getty Trust
E.A.T.'s Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70, Osaka, Japan, 1970, March 18, Shunk-Kender, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Don de la Roy Lichtenstein, Foundation en mémoire de Harry Shunk et Janos Kender © J. Paul Getty Trust
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E.A.T.'s Pepsi Pavilion at Expo '70, Osaka, Japan, 1970, March 18, Shunk-Kender, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Don de la Roy Lichtenstein, Foundation en mémoire de Harry Shunk et Janos Kender © J. Paul Getty Trust

Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.)

Venue: La Tour / Galerie des Archives Vivantes, Niveau - 2

The first exhibition in France to focus on this landmark mid-twentieth century initiative, which brought together hundreds of key avant-garde artists and the engineers who ushered in the information age.

Wael Shawky, I Am Hymns of the New Temples (still image), 2023. 4k video, sound, color, VFX, Arabic, 57 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and the Ministry of Culture—Archaeological Park of Pompeii. © Wael Shawky. Commissioned by the Pompeii Archaeological Park as part of Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters. Winner of the public notice PAC 2020- sponsored by DGCC and MiC.
Wael Shawky, I Am Hymns of the New Temples (still image), 2023. 4k video, sound, color, VFX, Arabic, 57 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and the Ministry of Culture—Archaeological Park of Pompeii. © Wael Shawky. Commissioned by the Pompeii Archaeological Park as part of Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters. Winner of the public notice PAC 2020- sponsored by DGCC and MiC.
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Wael Shawky, I Am Hymns of the New Temples (still image), 2023. 4k video, sound, color, VFX, Arabic, 57 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and the Ministry of Culture—Archaeological Park of Pompeii. © Wael Shawky. Commissioned by the Pompeii Archaeological Park as part of Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters. Winner of the public notice PAC 2020- sponsored by DGCC and MiC.

I Am Hymns of the New Temples, Wael Shawky

Venue: La Grande Halle

Wael Shawky is a leading Egyptian contemporary artist, known for blending fact and fiction through diverse media including drawing, painting, performance, music and film. I Am Hymns of the New Temples is a site-specific exhibition that entirely transforms La Grande Halle of LUMA Arles into an immersive experience that blurs the lines between the metaphysical and the real.

KOO JEONG A [KANGSE SpSt], 2024 Bronze, plywood, metal, pigment paint, scent diffuser, perfume (ODORAMA CITIES) sensor Installation view of ODORAMA CITIES, Korean Pavilion 2024, La Biennale di Venezia. Courtesy of the ARTIST © Mark Blower
KOO JEONG A [KANGSE SpSt], 2024 Bronze, plywood, metal, pigment paint, scent diffuser, perfume (ODORAMA CITIES) sensor Installation view of ODORAMA CITIES, Korean Pavilion 2024, La Biennale di Venezia. Courtesy of the ARTIST © Mark Blower
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KOO JEONG A [KANGSE SpSt], 2024 Bronze, plywood, metal, pigment paint, scent diffuser, perfume (ODORAMA CITIES) sensor Installation view of ODORAMA CITIES, Korean Pavilion 2024, La Biennale di Venezia. Courtesy of the ARTIST © Mark Blower

Land of Ousss [Kangse], Koo Jeong A

Venue: La Tour - Glassroom, Niveau - 2 - Galerie Est, Niveau 0

The largest presentation of KOO JEONG A’s work in France to date, the exhibition brings together a major body of works spanning from 2007 to the present. Showcasing sculptures, an olfactory installation, and a series of phosphorescent paintings, as well as more intimate ink drawings, the exhibition extends KOO’s enduring exploration of movement, weightlessness, levitation, and voids.

Ho Tzu Nyen, Phantoms of Endless Day, 2025. Commissioned by LUMA Foundation. Courtesy of the artist and Kiang Malingue
Ho Tzu Nyen, Phantoms of Endless Day, 2025. Commissioned by LUMA Foundation. Courtesy of the artist and Kiang Malingue
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Ho Tzu Nyen, Phantoms of Endless Day, 2025. Commissioned by LUMA Foundation. Courtesy of the artist and Kiang Malingue

Phantom Day and Stranger Tales, Ho Tzu Nyen

Venue: La Mécanique Générale

Phantom Day and Stranger Tales features five immersive multimedia installations spanning two decades, alongside a new commission, Phantoms of Endless Day that draws from an unfinished film—now resequenced, re-constructed, and narrated through Artifi cial Intelligence processes—to raise the spectre of the last days of the Second World War in his homeland, with Japanese and British soldiers and Communist Guerrilas trapped in the jungle with mystical creatures, including a Shamanesque weretiger

Untitled, 2022, digital photograph © Peter Fischli
Untitled, 2022, digital photograph © Peter Fischli
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Untitled, 2022, digital photograph © Peter Fischli

People Planet Profit, Peter Fischli

Venue: Parc des Ateliers - Les Forges

Encompassing sculpture, installation, video, and sound, spanning 2018 to the present, People Planet Profit explores how the signifiers, symbols, and infrastructures of capitalism vie for our attention, endlessly circulating, choreographing our movements, shaping our perceptions, and emotions.

LUMA Arles Parc des Ateliers, Arles 2024 Model: Bureau Bas Smets © Iwan Baan
LUMA Arles Parc des Ateliers, Arles 2024 Model: Bureau Bas Smets © Iwan Baan
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LUMA Arles Parc des Ateliers, Arles 2024 Model: Bureau Bas Smets © Iwan Baan

Climates of Landscape, Bas Smets

Venue: Le Magasin Électrique

Bas Smets is a globally recognised landscape architect whose practice redefines what can be done in the face of climate change. Climates of Landscape, his first exhibition at LUMA Arles, brings together landscape architecture, design, and ecological thinking to demonstrate how urban ecologies can be conceived and constructed. The exhibition invites us to rethink ecosystems and our relationship to the environment. A selection of three major projects shows the ways in which landscape architecture can address the challenges of climate crises.

David Armstrong, Cookie at Bleecker St., NYC, 1977 Courtesy of the Estate of David Armstrong
David Armstrong, Cookie at Bleecker St., NYC, 1977 Courtesy of the Estate of David Armstrong
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David Armstrong, Cookie at Bleecker St., NYC, 1977 Courtesy of the Estate of David Armstrong

David Armstrong

Venue: La Tour - Underground, Niveau - 3

More than a simple portraitist, Armstrong, who died in 2014, captured the essence of a generation and a particular attitude in the face of life, which he immortalized in a series of images as intimate as they are striking. The exhibition shows how, from the outset, Armstrong depicted not only people, but also an attitude in the face of life and its disappointments–an attitude that is at once heady and exuberant, disenchanted and idle.

7th edition of the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents, LUMA Arles, 2024 © Andrea Cenetiempo
7th edition of the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents, LUMA Arles, 2024 © Andrea Cenetiempo
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7th edition of the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents, LUMA Arles, 2024 © Andrea Cenetiempo

Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents

Venue: La Lampisterie

The 8th edition of the Dior Photography and Visual Arts Award for Young Talents, initiated in 2018 by Christian Dior Parfums, in partnership with LUMA Arles and the ENSP, is hosted as a guest program at La Lampisterie. Around the theme « Face to Face », the exhibition presents the work of 10 finalists from eminent art and photography schools, selected by a jury of experts chaired by the photographer Yuriko Takagi.

Access

LUMA Arles
Parc des Ateliers
35, avenue Victor-Hugo
13200 Arles
luma-arles.org

Wednesday to Sunday, 10am-6pm.
From 5 May, Wednesday to Monday, 10am-6pm.
From 7 July, daily, 10am-7.30pm.

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PLACES TO STAY

L’Arlatan : the place to be in Arles! A total work of art by Jorge Pardo. A colourful universe to sleep in, eat or enjoy a cocktail.
Le Cloître : a place designed by India Mahdavi. Located on a small place in the heart of Arles.
Le Nord-Pinus : on its terrace, at the bar or in the bedrooms, this hotspot of the Arlesian life welcomed Hemingway, Cocteau, Picasso, Inès de la Fressange or Kate Moss.
Mas de Chabran : The Domaine de Chabran and its 18th-century Mas Provençal stand in the middle of huge formal gardens, not far from the village of Maussane-les-Alpilles.

PLACES TO EAT

La Chassagnette : a tribute to the richness of the vegetables combined with local producers’ meat and fish by Chef Armand Arnal. One Michelin star.
Le Chardon : this living space welcomes Chefs in residence.
Bazar Café : coffee shop, brunch, healthy, tasty, organic and seasonal cuisine.
Infini Café : organic coffee beans, hot chocolate prepared with chocolate pieces and homemade cakes.
Le Tambourin : traditional and Provençal cuisine to enjoy on a terrace, under the majestic plane trees of the Place du Forum.
Monstre : gallery, café, restaurant, olive oil, salt, pepper.
Le Gibolin : bistrot, wine bar and organic cuisine in the uncommon district of la Roquette.
Le Galoubet : refined recipes to enjoy on a beautiful terrace, in the heart of the old town.
Mon Bar : orovençal specialties, brasserie meals and Creole recipes. A must-go terrace.
Restaurant-Hôtel Le Voltaire : a 5-minute walk from the train station, in the old centre, near the Rhône docks, at the foot of the Arenas.

PLACES TO DISCOVER

L’Aire, petit centre d’art : restaurant and art gallery (artistic director Cyrille Putman).
La Croisière : ephemeral space in the heart of Arles with restaurant, juice bar, open-air cinema, bookstore, grocery store, exhibitions, yoga classes, petanque field, music, well-being...
Musée Reattu : museum created around the artworks of the Arles painter Jacques Réattu and a collection of drawings by Picasso; the place is also devoted to photography and architecture.
Georges Selz : antique stores.
Maison Fragonard : the famous perfumer from Grasse has chosen to set up shop just a stone's throw from the famous Roman amphitheater and the ancient theater.

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