Miu Miu will return as the official partner of the Art Basel Paris public art program in 2025. As part of its contribution, the fashion house will debut 30 Blizzards, a new performance-based commission by British artist Helen Marten.
The work will be staged at the Palais d’Iéna, located less than a block from the Seine, from October 22nd to 26th. Conceived in collaboration with theater and opera director Fabio Cherstich and composer Beatrice Dillon, 30 Blizzards will mark Marten’s first live performance. The piece will feature sculpture, video, and movement work to form an immersive choreography.
Marten, born in Macclesfield, United Kingdom in 1985, is known for a practice that spans sculpture, painting, and video. Her work grapples with language systems and ideas of perception, often incorporating rough material, such as wood, steel, and clay, with domestic items. Currently based in London, she studied at Central Saint Martins and the University of Oxford.
Marten was awarded the Turner Prize in 2016 for a series of intricately constructed sculptures made of found objects and mixed materials. She has exhibited extensively, including at the 2013 and 2015 Venice Biennales and the 2016 Biennale of Sydney. Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate in London, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, among others. She is also the author of The Boiled in Between (2020) and has two forthcoming books: Broken Villas, a collection of essays, and Mud Physics, a volume of theoretical writings.
Last year, as part of its inaugural public program for Art Basel 2024, Miu Miu presented “Tales & Tellers,” a project by artist Goshka Macuga. There, the fashion brand showed footage from its runways since spring/summer 2022, alongside a series of films commissioned by Miu Miu. These films were created as part of the initiative “Women’s Tales,” by filmmakers like Agnès Varda and Miranda July.