SANS RÉSERVE 2026 – EXHIBITION

EXHIBITION

Once again this year, the thirteen artists shortlisted for the 2026 Prix COAL and Prix COAL Étudiant will take over the museum’s galleries for a month, inviting visitors to explore the many facets of the night. A territory of freedom, a refuge for thriving biodiversity, a space of resistance and a source of dreams, the worlds of darkness provide the guiding thread for a rich and thought-provoking artistic programme.

Through a diversity of media and artistic approaches, the works highlight the essential role of darkness in sustaining the balance of the living world – from biological rhythms and cycles of rest and regeneration to habitats and ecological corridors – while revealing the growing pressures that threaten these environments: light pollution, disruption of natural behaviours and cycles, the unchecked expansion of astro-capitalism, the proliferation of surveillance technologies, and the tyranny of the gaze and transparency. By celebrating the sensory, ecological and political power of the night, the exhibition invites us to recognise it as a common good to be protected.

Featuring artists: Elena Bajo, Amélie Bouvier, Marielle Chabal, G&K (Stéphane Guiran & Katarzyna Kot), Lou Le Forban, ámbar luna, Marie-Luce Nadal, nomasmetaforas, Dana Sherwood, Chang-Ching Su, Alexandre-Esteban Hernandez, Épiphanie Martin and Marli Simons.

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KEY EVENT

The exhibition is accompanied by a special programme on 4 and 5 December.

On 4 and 5 December, two special days of talks, performances, workshops and participatory experiences will mark the opening of the exhibition. An artistic and collective invitation to relearn how to make space for the night, and to keep watch together over the starry sky and the moonlight.

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WHAT IS SANS RÉSERVE?

To create a shared space and time in which to express ourselves freely, at a moment when the reserves on which our present and future ways of life depend are being depleted. To explore new forms of creative practice beyond the traditional confines of art, capable of challenging conservationist approaches and imagining new ways of protecting living territories: this is the ambition behind Sans Réserve, a gathering for artistic creation committed to ecology, conceived by COAL.

Held annually at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, the event showcases the artists nominated for that year’s COAL Prize and COAL Student Prize.