Artistic Experience

Art won’t change the world. But it changes people, and people change the world.

The Artistic Experience

We believe in the power of art and artists to speak to our hearts and imaginations, to paint the unthinkable, to put into music what is speechless. These poets, prophets, researchers, activists unfold the horizon of what is possible.

That’s why, at ChangeNOW, more and more space is given each year to art and culture professionals, and to a variety of practices: visual artists, photographers, dancers, musicians…

Thanks to the cultural and financial partners of the ChangeNOW Communities association, we invite them to exhibit, perform and intervene on stage as ambassadors of a sensitive relationship with human and non-human living beings.

An Art exhibition

A Conference program

A Networking session

Take part in the Artistic Experience

Meetings

With artists of all practices and cultures, professionals from around the world

Resources

Examples of eco-designed works with minimal environmental impact and immense evocative powers

Discoveries

New ways of looking at the world, and surprising questions raised by artists

Sensations

Interacting with the works and experiencing them in the flesh, to leave ChangeNOW a little different

2026 Theme: Landscape is a choice

A landscape is not an immutable backdrop, but a shared cultural heritage, a reflection of human economy.

Landscapes are passed down from generation to generation; they are the result of close contact between humans and their biome, evidence of love or contempt, regeneration or destruction. Landscapes are constantly evolving. They are alive.

In this edition of ChangeNOW, the artists, designers and collectives who are honouring us with their works, are sharing not only geographical and biological landscapes, but also intimate, utopian and even soundscapes, opening one’s senses to new horizons.

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Artworks to discover

The artists you’ll discover in 2026

Pinaffo Pluvinage

Fanions & Carillons

The Pinaffo & Pluvinage duo spans several fields such as toys, interactive installations, objects, and scenography. Whatever the scale or context, their work consistently revolves around the search for an aesthetic of manipulation and interaction.
Their graphic sensibility and their taste for simple materials have led them to create surprising yet accessible works, allowing the public to observe and manipulate phenomena that may initially seem complex.

Their work has been exhibited in France and internationally like Centre Pompidou (FR), MAD Paris (FR), Hangar Y (FR), Triennale di Milano (IT), MUDAC (CH). They have received several prestigious awards, including the Audi Talents Award (2017), the Hublot Design Prize (2019), and were part of the recent “Mondes Nouveaux” program (2023).

Dorian Étienne

« Pays’Âges » de la Pointe de Guilben

Designer-traveller Dorian Étienne (École Boulle) combines art and craft through a humanistic and eco-responsible design approach, rooted in local techniques, materials, cultures and histories. Following this lead thread, braided of Human and Nature, he creates sensible and meaningful projects: the “crossbred objects”.

After five years, the studio has been rewarded with over twenty international design, art and architecture prizes (New York, Paris, Berlin, London, Barcelona, Seoul, Bombay, …).

Fondation Carmignac

Musée-valise : The Imaginary Sea

This traveling miniature museum, designed by Stephan Zimmerli as a contemporary “cabinet of curiosities”, is a four-wheeled blue chest which opens like a choreography to reveal authentic works, sounds and images in a theater of sensory intimacy.
Designed for audiences unable to visit museums, it travels from hospitals to prisons and cultural events.

Artists: Bianca Bondi, Julian Charrière, Julien Discrit, Hubert Duprat, Nicolas Floc’h, David Horvitz, Jean Painlevé, Yves Klein, Micha Laury, Dora Maar, Michel Redolf, Lin May Saeed, Michael E. Smith, Shimabuku.

This project was founded by the Carmignac Foundation

Valentine Huyghues-Despointes

The Wreck Desk (in partnership with Le Mobilier National)

From a common Empire-style desk, Valentine Huyghues-Despointes conjures up a teeming underwater wreck. Wood, recycled plastics, and leather scraps make up a marine landscape modeled by hand with the help of 23 volunteers. Through a play on mirrors, the work evokes the fate of the “Aliénés” of the Mobilier National: furniture removed from the national collections.

A saddler and leatherworker trained at the Ateliers Grégoire, who has worked for Dior, Vuitton and Baccarat, Valentine Huyghues-Despointes has been developing a sculptural universe since 2014 in which leather becomes a narrative and poetic material.

Photographie © Isabelle Bideau

Elsa Mroziewicz & Cécile Palusinski

La forêt universelle

Elsa Mroziewicz, visual artist, and Cécile Palusinski, author and sound designer, travel the world to listen to it, observe it and recreate its colourful and vibrant beauty through a variety of art and craft objects.

They have shared a passion for trees since childhood. In this forest embroidered in India (Kalhath Institute), where audio-visual content is accessible in augmented reality, immersion works to weave strong ties between humans and non-humans.

Photo credit : elsamro.com

Meg O’Hara

Greenland

Meg O’Hara is an artist and environmentalist dedicated to polar ocean conservation. Artist-in-Residence on multiple Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, she collaborates with scientists to translate climate research into visual storytelling.

Aboard a 75-foot sailboat along Greenland’s west coast during a science expedition in partnership with 11th Hour Racing, she engaged directly with snow, ice, and frigid waters. Back in her studio, these observations became a series of paintings that highlight the fragile Arctic ecosystem.

Environmental Photography Award

Change Makers: Reasons for Hope (In partnership with La Fondation Prince Albert II)

The Environmental Photography Award, launched in 2021 by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, honours photographers raising awareness of environmental protection. Across five categories, it celebrates the planet’s beauty and humanity’s impact. We are showing a selection of laureates from the “Changemakers” category, the “heroes of change” that we celebrate at ChangeNOW.

IAMPIÔ

They Host us (inpartnership with Jane Goodall Institute France)

IAMPIÔ is the artistic name of Emma Piau, a multidisciplinary creator whose work explores ecology, feminism, multiculturalism, spirituality, and the power of words. With a background in graphic design and experience in civic participation projects, she develops participatory installations where audiences become active contributors, opening spaces for dialogue around contemporary social and political issues.

At the core of her practice, the project They Host Us reflects her belief that art can communicate desirable futures and spark dialogue. The project transforms spoken and written contributions into large-scale emotional paintings, where pigments, colors, and textures become vehicles for empathy, joy, and collective action. Through this process, she builds shared narratives that connect individual experiences with collective imagination.

Lorenzo Naccarato

Murmurations

Pianist and composer Lorenzo Naccarato created Murmurations – The Birds’ Tour, a project linking music, ecology and education, travelling with his piano along a migration route from Germany to Senegal.
At ChangeNOW he presents his “piano cassette” a hybrid instrument where analog tape loops interact with the piano, inspired by starling murmurations.
He will perform two pieces written for the tour: Hawai‘i ‘Ō‘ō, offering a piano response to the last recorded mating call of this species, extinct in 1986, and Anorak, a piece for piano and rescue blanket reflecting a shared fragility between birds and artists. Over three days: bird-song playback and live loops.

April 1st: musical reading with author Nelly Pons (Le grand épuisement, Actes Sud).

Janina Rossiter

Totem, Lecacy Stage, Ocean wall

Janina Rossiter is a French-German environmental artivist, children’s book author, and illustrator committed to protecting the oceans. At ChangeNOW, she returns for the third consecutive year to present the Totem and the Legacy Stage, as well as a mini ocean expo that engages schools and inspires young minds through the ChangeNOW Family Programme. She has also designed the official ChangeNOW posters. Since 2018, her work has combined illustration, design, and environmental advocacy, making complex issues like marine pollution, biodiversity loss, and climate change accessible and engaging.

Macabéo³

Le chant du Xylème

Rodolphe, Lucas and Sonia Macabéo are two brothers—a visual and a sound artist—and their mother, a ceramicist. Together they blend sculpture, design and bioacoustic experimentation. They explore the subtle vibrations of the living world through porcelain and immersive listening devices like stethophones, ultrasonic sensors or electromagnetic transducers. Exhibited internationally, their collaborative projects reflect a shared sensitivity to fragility, intimacy and environmental awareness.

Benjamin Marquette

Change Paris NOW

Benjamin Marquette, also known as Benji and the Afterproject, is an artist and landscape urbanist. He illustrates the (im)possible worlds of tomorrow to question the future of our cities and rethink their emblematic forms.

Through his “Macro-illustrations”, large urban drawings filled with detail at the scale of a neighborhood or a town, he makes complex issues accessible. His works go beyond simple foresight: they propose tangible transformations rooted in real territories, explored through different SCENARIOS. Drawing thus becomes a tool for design, discussion, and education for city stakeholders and citizens.

Maxime Mergalet

Un souffle de vie

Maxime Mergalet is an explorer, photographer and founder of the association 4 Earth, supported by the Fondation de la Mer. His work is guided by a simple belief: we protect through attachment. This documentary was born from an encounter in the heart of the Pacific, hosted by Natoo and accompanied by Océania. It highlights the link between the ocean, humans and the invisible, inviting us to reconnect with these guardians of life.

Meet the visionary speakers of ChangeNOW 2026

Samuel Rubin

Co-Founder, Director of Impact and Partnerships, Entertainment + Culture Pavillon

Hervé Lemoine

Président of the Manufactures nationales of France

Frédéric Jousset

President and founder, Art Explora

Thomas Jolly

Artistic Director of the Paris 2024 Olympic Ceremonies and actor

Rachel Marks

Artist

Meg O’hara

Artist

Hedwige Gronier

Director of cultural patronage, Fondation Bettencourt Schuller

Kumi Naidoo

President, Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative

The Art exhibition is sustainable and circular in a number of ways

Eco-Design

The artworks, the exhibition design and the signage use sustainable or recycled materials.

Eco-Production

A cradle-to-cradle (C2C) waste management policy is in place. We also reduce the shipping and transportation footprint throughout the exhibition’s life cycle.

Network

Various institutions help us build this circular exhibition, from material sourcing to post-exhibition management (works are sold, re-exhibited or recycled).

Education

The themes addressed in the exhibition are the subject of an open conversation with all our stakeholders, including suppliers, sponsors, partners and the public, through guided tours, learning expeditions (LEX) and workshops.