For the second consecutive year, Miu Miu partners with Art Basel Paris as an official sponsor of its Public Program, and this time, it’s bringing a storm. The fashion house, long a champion of cultural experimentation and feminine narratives, will unveil 30 Blizzards., a major new commission by British artist Helen Marten. The project marks Marten’s first foray into performance and will take place at the Palais d’Iéna in Paris from October 22 to 26, 2025.
Best known for her intricately layered sculptures and conceptual rigor, Marten—recipient of the Turner Prize and Hepworth Prize for Sculpture—ventures into new terrain with 30 Blizzards., a choreographic and multimedia performance that fuses sculpture, video, text, and live movement. Developed in collaboration with theatre and opera director Fabio Cherstich and composer Beatrice Dillon, the work unfolds as a poetic investigation into identity, structure, and transformation.

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As the title suggests, the performance invokes a sense of fragmentation, turbulence, and accumulation. Marten constructs a metaphorical landscape of time and language, one where bodies and images appear and reappear, reshaped through libretto and motion. Created in collaboration with theatre and opera director Fabio Cherstich, experimental animator Adam Sinclair, and London-based electronic composer Beatrice Dillon, the work unfolds as an immersive choreography of text, sound, and surreal imagery. While Sinclair’s animation layers in surreal rhythm, Dillon’s score anchors the performance with dissonant tension.
Hosted within the neoclassical architecture of the Palais d’Iéna, the work contemplates systems of governance—cultural, bodily, and institutional—mirroring Marten’s wider fascination with the tension between control and fluidity. For Miu Miu, whose creative direction under Miuccia Prada consistently explores femininity and multilayered storytelling, 30 Blizzards. represents another step in aligning contemporary art with its brand philosophy.
Through its continued engagement with Art Basel’s Public Program, the house reinforces its role as a patron of conceptual and performance-based art. This commitment is exemplified in 30 Blizzards., a work in which coherence gives way to sensation. The piece invites viewers to surrender to the storm—both literal and metaphorical—and to follow its fragmented paths of meaning as they unfold in real time.
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