Un Eté au Havre 2025

The A Summer in Le Havre adventure began in 2017 to mark the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the founding of the city and port. This grandiose anniversary, celebrated over several months, welcomed more than two million visitors.

“Beyond an “art route through the city”, I wanted art itself to travel through the city and cross it like an adventure. Let it transcend the border between private and public spaces, extend to new regions and delicately spill over into the summer season.

“Metamorphoses”, the laboratory of urban forms, where many stakeholders come and give us their vision of art in the city of tomorrow, is the first gathering in February. Continuing the many experiences of previous editions, the coming seasons will reveal all the fields artists are involved in today. They will show us that art in the public space can enlighten us about the omnipresence of digital technologies in our daily lives, bring video art to light where we least expect it, and increase the opportunities to encounter art, from painting and sculpture to fashion and the performing arts.

The artists will help us perceive this common language of the city, this energy which brings us together because it relates to everyone, whatever their background. Thus inspired, the city isn’t just the setting for our daily lives, but the constantly renewed possibility of transforming itself and looking towards the worlds of tomorrow.”

Gaël Charbau, Curator since 2023