Miu Miu has announced its role as Public Program Official Partner of Art Basel Paris 2025 with the unveiling of a new commission, 30 Blizzards. by British artist Helen Marten.
The project will be staged at the Palais d’Iéna, headquarters of France’s Economic, Social and Environmental Council, from 22 to 26 October 2025, with a preview on 21 October.
The initiative continues Miu Miu’s commitment to exploring narratives of femininity and women’s histories through cultural projects that intersect with fashion and the arts. For Marten, known for working across sculpture, painting, drawing, video and writing, the commission represents her first foray into performance.
30 Blizzards. examines how different disciplines interact when placed in close proximity. The exhibition is built around a dialogue between five new sculptures and five videos, each relating to stages of life, including childhood, community, sexuality, interiority and loss. These paired works are punctuated by five monologues, which form part of a wider libretto structure.
The title refers to the thirty performers who embody the work, each with their own “emotional weather”. They move through the space with song and speech, their roles informed by archetypes, gestures, weather systems and animals. Every performer carries a symbolic “tool”, connecting language, image, text and music.
The performance has been developed with theatre and opera director Fabio Cherstich, with music composed by Beatrice Dillon. A fixed line of sculptural platforms and an industrial track structure the staging, creating a shifting arena of movement, sound and interaction.
At the centre of the Palais d’Iéna, the project introduces a civic space described as part theatre, part auditorium and part filmic set. Performers move around this environment, engaging in choreographed actions that highlight the tension between individual and collective expression.
