Le Grand Jeu
Events at this venue
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Itinéraire bis — A Hong Kong journey by Yucka & Jean Moner
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceOn Saturday, 17 October, Yucka and Jean Moner come up from Nantes to present Itinéraire bis, a book of film photographs taken in Hong Kong in February 2025. Both come from the graffiti scene, and that background shows in how they look at the city: side streets, details, places away from the usual routes. The […]
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Rideaux de Fer #2 — Paris shutters, special Lutes
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceOn Friday, 16 October, Nespo is back at Le Grand Jeu to launch the second volume of Rideaux de Fer, his zine devoted entirely to the painted shutters of Paris. The idea hasn't changed since issue one. When a shop closes for the night, its shutter becomes a wall, and graffiti writers have been using […]
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Fugace — Jean Sinelle’s last months as a student, in a zine
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceMost of what we keep from a period of our lives now sits on our phones: photos, but also screenshots, notes typed in a hurry, messages we never delete. In Fugace, his first zine, photographer and video journalist Jean Sinelle looks back at his last months as a student by putting those two archives side […]
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Oreall Pop-Up — Bathroom Problems in Paris
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceOn Saturday, 3 October, Le Grand Jeu hands the shop over to the rapper Oreall for a one-day pop-up. It's his first time meeting his Paris audience in person, and the format is deliberately simple. Come by, talk, listen, and leave with a piece of the project. On the table: his CD Bathroom Problems, a […]
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Philadelphia Graffiti Handstyles — Street Penmanship, from Gangster Prints to Wickeds
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FrancePhiladelphia has never had the mainstream aura of New York, and its writing has stayed largely off the record. Yet few cities have produced a scriptural texture of their own — a shared way of shaping letters that goes beyond the individual signature. Some local writers call this American metropolis "Whip City": in the sense […]
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Capuzzelle — Naming the Anonymous Dead
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceCapuzzelle are the anonymous skulls of Naples: for centuries, in the ossuaries and cemeteries of the city, the living would adopt one, give it a name and pray for its soul, in the hope that the favour might be returned. Andrea d'Avossa spent 2025 walking the Cimitero Monumentale di Poggioreale on that principle, though what […]
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Trente-Cinq — Three Letters from Namur
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceAn MC warms up a crowd, somewhere in Namur, some year in the nineties: three letters, a group you don't need introducing, NBS, make some noise. That tape still exists, and so does the crew. Namur Break Sensation have been at it for thirty-five years, which in b-boy terms is closer to a geological era […]
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La Chamba — Work, Travel & the Tourist’s Gaze
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceLa Chamba is what work is called across much of Latin America: the job, the hustle, the thing that fills the day and quietly organises everything around it — streets, houses, landscapes, and the very places tourism turns into scenery. Dorian André spent seven months between Mexico, Guatemala and Nicaragua photographing exactly that. A graphic […]
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Métamorphe — From Blackletter to Cholo
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceGothic script was never meant to travel. It was built for Northern European scribes, carried to Spain, then loaded onto ships — and once it reached Mesoamerica it stopped behaving like a European alphabet. Blackletter absorbed whatever it landed in: colonial signage, devotional imagery, tattoo culture, the walls of Mexico City and the barrios of […]
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Silly Little Projects Vol. II — D.I.Y. Trying
Le Grand Jeu 15, passage de Ménilmontant, Paris, FranceSome objects are impossible to throw away and useless to keep. A ticket stub, a broken earring, a key to a door that no longer exists. That is where Alisa Cayoo starts. The Paris-based designer builds one-of-a-kind chains out of found and sentimental objects — the name comes from cailloux, the pebbles you pick up and […]
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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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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 […]