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The World's Highest Regenerative Art Biennale on Climate, Culture and Community. 'Signals from Another Star', Ladakh () Returns this August.

Curated by Vishal K Dar () with Tsering Motup Siddho () as Associate Curator, the sā Ladakh biennale () brings together 12 international and Ladakhi artists and artist duos exploring themes of land, ecology, memory and climate.

Meaning “soil” in Ladakhi, sā reflects the biennale’s focus on regeneration and its relationship with place. Positioned as the world’s highest regenerative art biennale, the programme unfolds across a 230-kilometre route at over 3,000 metres, activating villages and landscapes along a historic Silk Route corridor.

The festival also includes special projects and the Ladakhi Artist Fellowship Program, featuring exhibitions, residencies, workshops and community-ledig initiatives.

🔗 Learn More https://www.prazzlearts.com/exhibitions/411/s_ladakh_inaugural_biennale_2026_signals_from_another_star_at_ladakh_india

Images courtesy of sā Ladakh Biennale.

For more than thirty years, has occupied a distinctive place within the world of international performing arts, bringing together artists working across theatre, dance, performance, and visual culture while transforming the city of Brussels into a temporary site of artistic experimentation.

As the curtain falls on the final edition of Kunstenfestivaldesarts under outgoing artistic directors Daniel Blanga Gubbay and Dries Douibi, attention is gradually turning toward the festival’s next chapter. That chapter will be shaped by Corinna Humuza and Silvia Bottiroli, who will assume artistic leadership of the Brussels-based festival ahead of its 2027 edition.

🔗 Read more on Corina’s perspective on the future of festivals https://www.prazzlearts.com/editorial/festivals-must-be-places-where-coexistence-remains-possible--corinna-humuza-incoming-artistic-director-kunstenfestivaldesarts-2027

Fossil Opera by Théo Mercier
Place Graslin, Nantes. On view through September 6, 2026.

For this large-scale installation, Mercier sculpted 600 tonnes of sand into giant ammonite forms rising 4.5 metres across Place Graslin, splitting the square with rubble pulled from construction sites around Nantes and half buried cars left over from before the space went pedestrian.

Created for Le Voyage à Nantes 2026 under the theme of Earth, the work turns the city’s neoclassical square into a kind of open excavation, staged directly in front of the opera house it faces. The cars run their headlights and play opera excerpts, answering the singers performing across the square, while the rubble stands in for the city’s constant construction and renovation. Every material is on loan: once the installation closes, the sand, rubble, and cars return to where they came from, leaving the square as it was.

🔗 Learn More https://www.prazzlearts.com/exhibitions/405/tho_merciers_fossil_opera_a_monumental_sand_installation_at_place_graslin_for_le_voyage__nantes_festival

Images: Théo Mercier, Fossil Opera, Le Voyage à Nantes 2026 © Martin Argyroglo, courtesy of Le Voyage à Nantes.