LUMA Arles
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.
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
Delta, Verena Paravel
A newly commissioned film by artist and filmmaker Verena Paravel, developed as part of her research project Cosmofonia. Shot within the singular ecosystem of the Rhône delta, the work explores the fragile and often invisible lives of the many species that inhabit the wetlands of the Camargue. Paravel extends her radical exploration of cinema as a means of entering into relation with a plural and polyphonic world, shaped by diverse ways of inhabiting the Earth.
Overpainted Photographs, Gerhard Richter
By intervening directly on photographic snapshots with oil paint, Richter dismantles photography’s supposed authority as a reliable record of reality. The image is neither fully revealed nor entirely obscured; it becomes a contested surface where representation and abstraction confront one another.
In the Veins, Camille Henrot
Conceived as an immersive moving-image work, the film explores the invisible circulations that shape human experience—emotions, beliefs, desires, and inherited narratives that pass through individuals and generations, binding them to broader systems of meaning. Henrot approaches these forces as both intimate and systemic, revealing how inner lives are inseparable from the social, cultural, and symbolic structures that surround them.
Archives Hans Ulrich Obrist Chapitre 6 : Zaha Hadid « Je pense que l’expérimentation ne devrait pas avoir de fin »
The sixth chapter of the Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives marks the tenth anniversary of the passing of Dame Zaha Hadid (born 31 October 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq – died 31 March 2016 in Miami, Florida, USA). This exhibition looks back on the long-standing dialogue between the curator and the legendary architect, which began in the late 1990s, when Obrist invited Hadid to create Meshworks at the Villa Medici in 2000.
100 ans de Cahiers d’Art et LUMA Arles
In 2026, Cahiers d’Art celebrates its centenary with an international programme of exhibitions in prestigious museums, a jubilee publication, conferences, and public talks. These initiatives pay tribute to the publication’s lasting influence while reaffirming its founding ambition: to create a forum in which the past, present, and future of art enter into dialogue.
In Search of Incredible, Julianknxx
Working across film, sound, and performance, Julianknxx has developed a singular practice that brings poetry and the moving image into dialogue, creating works in which memory is carried, spoken, and continually reformulated. His work explores the resonances of migration and diaspora, weaving intimate narratives into collective histories and giving presence to voices and experiences too often absent from dominant narratives.
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 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.
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 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.
• Mas Cicada B&B : at the foot of the Alpilles, in Paradou, this Provençal farmhouse houses guest rooms with a carefully curated décor. The owner, a passionate collector, has created a subtle dialogue between 20th-century design and contemporary art.
