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The City in Motion: Paris Ride Out
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceBeyond its monuments and boulevards, Paris is also a city of riders, gathering spots and improvised routes. TARSTREETSPORTS: Paris Ride Out captures one of those moments when movement becomes a way of inhabiting the city. Set in a hidden Paris location, the zine documents an evening where riders, DJs and spectators came together, transforming an […]
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When Letters Meet – Skript Letter Jam #4
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceIn a moment when graphic cultures increasingly overlap without fully meeting, Skript Letter Jam #4 explores what happens when the culture of the letter becomes a shared space rather than a separate practice. Typography, calligraphy, graffiti and letter painting are brought together not as a comparison, but as a live encounter between gestures, rhythms and […]
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Cut, Drawn, Printed — Flask × catcentcat
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceLe Grand Jeu hosts the launch of a collaboration between two Parisian practices that meet on cloth: the drawing of writer Flask — shaped by the most radical years of graffiti, from the metros to the tunnels — and the eye and press of catcentcat, analog photographer seen in the docuseries With One Eye Open […]
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Tilt – Never Ending Story: Throw-ups, Traces & Erasure
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceDuring lockdown, Tilt — the Toulouse graffiti artist known worldwide for his work — set himself one rule: a throw-up a day. More than 700 appeared across his city, only to vanish soon after under layers of buff paint. Never Ending Story grew out of that obsessive, ephemeral practice — a deep dive into the […]
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Thierry Maignan – Negroïde City
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceIn Paris, some presences are constant yet rarely centered — visible in everyday life, but still pushed to the margins of dominant narratives. Negroïde City begins from this tension. Through a series of black-and-white photographs, Thierry Maignan traces a lived city shaped by bodies, gestures, and movements that quietly redefine its landscape. Both intimate and […]
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Off the Rails — Graffiti, Trains & the Underground City
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceAfter a fifteen-year-old boy discovers a graffiti blackbook, his eyes are opened to an unseen city. As his interest in rugby league fades, he finds himself drawn to spray cans, a camera, and the abandoned buildings, rooftops and active train tunnels of Sydney. In its forgotten spaces, he encounters a community who see the city […]
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French Rap Tees — The Wardrobe of a Culture
Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris 19 211 avenue Jean Jaurès — 75019 Paris — Porte de Pantin, Paris, Île-de-France, FranceBefore it hangs in a frame, a scene lives on cotton. Long before French rap reached the museum, it moved through the streets on the backs of those who built it — concert tees, promo shirts, bootlegs, worn until they became documents in their own right. French Rap Tees, the book by Driss Dendoune produced […]
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TEK — Techno, Trance & Dance Music’s Hidden History
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceTEK — Une Histoire de la Techno is a traverse through the history of electronic dance music, spanning from the early experiments of the Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète in the 1950s through psytrance, jungle and the free party movement. Electronic music is everywhere now — in adverts, concert halls, supermarkets, woven into rock, […]
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Before It Dries While It Lasts — Writing, Water & Disappearance
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceBefore It Dries While It Lasts is an experiment in writing as a temporary act — stripped of its usual claim to permanence. Working with water, Edoardo Baraggioli creates wall interventions that evaporate over time, questioning mark-making, duration and disappearance within the field of graffiti. For this evening at Le Grand Jeu, Edoardo will present […]
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Le Premier Métro — Graffiti, Departure & the Search Elsewhere
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceH. is a graffiti writer. For years, his name — ANY1 — has marked the walls of Paris. But Parisian life starts to wear thin, and he sets off to see whether the grass is greener elsewhere: a one-way ticket to Australia, in search of new walls and new air. Le Premier Métro is a […]
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Out of Print — Two Days of Graffiti Print Culture
Hall of the Kinderschutzbund Hinter der Magnikirche 6A, Braunschweig, GermanyGraffiti has always lived in print. Long before it entered museums, the culture circulated on paper — magazines passed hand to hand, fanzines photocopied in small runs, catalogues that sold out and never came back. To collect these publications is to hold onto a history that was never really meant to last: printed cheaply, traded […]
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50/66 — Route 66, Film & the Art You’re Not Supposed to Find
Route 66 turns one hundred this year, and most of what made it famous is gone. Motels boarded up, gas stations rusting where they stand, whole towns bypassed by the interstate and left to hold their shape without a function. It is a road that survives largely as an idea — which is exactly the […]
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