Drawing Lab is taking part in Nuit Blanche for the first time with Une fenêtre contre le temps, a collaborative exhibition blending drawing, video, installation and performance, open to the public free of charge on June 6, 2026.
At the Drawing Lab, the evening of the Nuit Blanche 2026 unfolds as an exceptional opening around Une fenêtre contre le temps, a collective exhibition curated by Claire Luna, on Saturday, June 6, 2026. The contemporary drawing center in the 1st arrondissement of Paris welcomes art lovers free of charge from 7 to 10 p.m. For its first participation in Nuit Blanche, the venue presents a fresh take on an exhibition where drawing converses with video, installation, and performance.
Rather than cutting the public off from the outside world, Une fenêtre contre le temps invites audiences to engage at a different tempo. The exhibition investigates what quiet can yield—not as cold detachment, but as a way to notice the world’s sounds in a new way. The works unfold in a particular setting: after a residency at the Drawing Factory, the artists relocate part of their practice to the Drawing Hotel, where the lobby, the courtyard, the circulation routes, and even the basement become exhibition spaces. The hotel’s everyday rhythms mingle with the artworks, blurring the line between a passageway and a studio.
For this evening, the program is enriched by two offerings. Visitors can experience the exhibition in an activated form, notably Inlevarium by Camila Eslava, as well as a brand-new performance by Boryana Petkova, conceived from one of the rooms at the Drawing Hotel. Moving into the room lends a more intimate tone to the event: you don’t just wander through a gallery, you enter a lived-in space, threaded with usages, thresholds, and presences. That’s also what makes this proposition compelling—a blend of contemporary art and ordinary spaces slightly unsettled.
In keeping with that momentum, the Drawing Lab joins Nuit Blanche — the free cultural event that every year invites people to discover Paris in a different way, with installations, performances, and artistic routes staged in museums, public spaces, or sometimes in more unexpected venues. For its 2026 edition, the event is led by Barbara Butch, with a program focused on love and collective bonds. Around 300 artistic projects are slated for Paris and the Greater Paris Metropolis, among other locations.
At the Drawing Lab, this brief stop reframes Nuit Blanche in a tighter, almost interior scale. Visitors come to see how an exhibition can shift, extend, and even slip into the rhythms of a nearby hotel. A subtle reminder that a window, at times, serves less to escape than to alter the way we look at what’s already there.
- “A Window Against Time” at the Drawing Lab
Saturday, June 6, 2026, from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.Drawing, Video, Installation, Performance, Exhibition
For A Window Against Time, Claire Luna threads three strands: a distance from the world’s noise—not to turn away from it, but to relate to it from a different mode of attention, where calm becomes a position, braided with intensities that can be far livelier; a displaced cohabitation—after six months of residence at the Drawing Factory, the artists partially relocate and move into the Drawing Hotel, whose lobby, patio, bookstore, circulation routes and basement host forms that often infiltrate everyday use; a porosity between private and public—from the residence to the hotel, something persists and moves: modes of living, neighborhoods, passages, where the intimate is shared and the public is unsettled.
On the occasion of its first Nuit Blanche participation, the Drawing Lab will exceptionally stay open until 10 p.m. for a special evening around the exhibition A Window Against Time.
Schedule: a renewed look at the show with the activation of Camila Eslava’s Inlevarium installation, as well as a new, original performance by Boryana Petkova imagined from one of the Drawing Hotel’s rooms.
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