Discover the programming of the Nuit Blanche at the Shoah Memorial news

Saturday, June 6, 2026

For this 2026 edition of the Nuit blanche, the proposals by artists Tami Notsani and Emmanuel Régent explore what links contemporary art to memory and archive, but also to objects, sometimes ordinary, hoisted as symbols and sublimated by artistic gesture. Gestures tying together the past, present and future, the need for vigilance, hope and eternity.

To open the Nuit blanche, the documentary Le Dernier Soleil will be presented at the Auditorium. It retraces the creative process of Emmanuel Régent in the preparation of the exhibition and accompanies him, from Rivesaltes to Drancy up to Auschwitz, on the last traces of the sun.

“La Veille” with Tami Notsani

On the forecourt, La Veille, a participatory performance specifically designed for the Memorial and orchestrated by Tami Notsani, focuses on the interpretation dimension of the archive image.

In a scenography reminiscent of a reception desk, Tami Notsani and her assistants will receive visitors, invite them to choose an image and describe, with their words and their cultural and symbolic interpretations as varied as their looks, what they will have under the eyes.

The restitution of this performance will take the form of an installation presented in the crypt during the Heritage Days, on September 19 and 20, 2026.

Free entry 

Photo: Tami Notsani – Truchement – View of the performance at the Musée des Archives Nationales, Paris, 2025 – Copyright: Tami Notsani – Adagp, 2026

Emmanuel Régent’s "The Last Sun"

At the Wall of Names and in the crypt unfolds The Last Sun, a new exhibition designed by the artist Emmanuel Regent for the Memorial, combining its practice and aesthetic, which are at once conceptual, poetic, and parabolic, with the memory of places of genocide.

The exhibition, composed of drawings, large-format watercolors, and sculptural "interventions" (Les nuits du jour, Raïssa), is based on the symbolic thickness of objects, the links between the ephemeral and the eternal, the bruises of history, and hope, questioning the unrepresentable and giving free rein to multiple interpretations.

Curator of the Nuit blanche and the exhibition: Marie Deparis-Yafil.

Scenography: Marie Deparis‐Yafil, Tami Notsani, Emmanuel Régent.

A visitor guide will be made available to the public (texts: Marie Deparis-Yafil).

The evening in the crypt will be punctuated by a performance around texts of deportees, carried by the young comedian Tom Levy Watson.

Visible exhibition from June 6 to July 31, 2026 

Photo: Emmanuel RÉGENT – Le Dernier Soleil – Rivesaltes 7. Adagp, 2026.

Exceptionally! Opening on Saturday, June 6, 2026, at 7 p.m. in the auditorium, and closing at 2 a.m.