This month of February reveals a selection of compelling exhibitions focused on issues related to the fragility of plants, underwater worlds, the earth, and more. The artists invite us to shift our perspective in order to consider what we share with the animal and plant kingdoms. Let us take the title L’Écologie des relations at the Frac Sud as a starting point, encouraging us to move toward meaningful connections between ourselves and all forms of life.
Tara, naviguer pour créer
Group exhibition
With: Yann Bagot, Antoine Bertin, Samuel Bollendorff, collectif ENSADERS, Nicolas Floc’h, Cécile Fouillade-Siqou, Giulia Grossmann, Elsa Guillaume, Manon Lanjouère, Ariane Michel, Aurore de la Morinerie, Malik Nejmi.
Galerie du Faouëdic, Lorient
Until May 17, 2026
On board the schooner Tara, artists take part in expeditions alongside scientists. The works created during these deeply enriching experiences reflect the beauty of underwater and coastal worlds while raising awareness of the threats they face.
Embracing Grounds
Group exhibition
With: Kicsy Abreu Stable, Beau Disundi, Otobong Nkanga, Angyvir Padilla.
Galerie In Situ – Fabienne Leclerc, Paris
Until February 28, 2026
Through various media—drawing, painting, poetry, sculpture, sound pieces, and performance—Otobong Nkanga explores our relationship with the earth and natural resources. For her third exhibition at the gallery, she invites three artists whose practices resonate with her own to engage in dialogue within an open display designed to encourage fluid encounters.
© Pauline Assathianyn, Courtesy des artistes & Galerie In Situ – fabienne leclerc, Grand Paris
Contraste et indifférence
Group exhibition
With: Larissa Fassler, Cécile Hartmann, Isabelle Hayeur, Capucine Vever.
Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris
Until May 16, 2026
Co-produced by the Grantham Foundation for Art and the Environment (Canada) and the Canadian Cultural Centre, this exhibition brings together artists committed to field-based research. Their works place human, social, environmental, and political issues into perspective.
Isabelle Hayeur, Cumuloninbus Flammagenitus (de la série Wildtimes), 2021, impression couleur montée sur aluminium Dibond, 168 x 168 cm
L’état sauvage.
L’Animal dans les collections du MAMCS et du Musée Zoologique de Strasbourg
Until July 12, 2026
The exhibition creates a dialogue between natural history specimens and artworks by artists who adopt a decentered view of animals. It highlights the richness of biodiversity and reflects on what connects us to other species, emphasizing that humans are part of the living world.
Chères créatures
Group exhibition
Frac Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Limoges
Until May 23, 2026
This exhibition presents works in a variety of media—textile, photography, video, sculpture, and painting—in which the body appears fragmented. It invites reflection on the concept of “becoming-animal,” theorized by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The artists encourage us to coexist with other life forms and to recognize what humans share with animals and other creatures.
Tetsulmi Kudo, Fossil in Hiroshima, 1976, Estampe et aérographe, 70,5 x 54,5. Frac-Arcothèque Nouvelle Aquitaine, collection Artothèqye. ©,Adagp, Paris 2025
L’Écologie des relations – La Forêt amante de la mer
Group exhibition
Frac Sud, Marseille
Until November 15, 2026
The second chapter of an exhibition first presented at the Maison de la Culture du Japon in Paris, this show brings together Japanese artists from different generations who seek to rekindle our awareness of the importance of an ecology of relationships with our environments.
Hissons les frondaisons
Duy Anh Nhan Duc
Maison des Arts et de la Culture – Villa Médicis, Saint-Maur-des-Fossés
Until March 15
The artist presents works resulting from patient experimentation and meditative research into the colors of urban trees: pigments derived from leaves, bark imprints, sculptures, lichen embroidery, and vegetal lace. An exhibition that invites close attention to the vegetation encountered in everyday life.
Duy Anh Nhan Duc Feuilles de platane 90 x 90 x 8 cm
Deep Fields
Group exhibition
Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris
Until March 23, 2026
Curated by Félicie d’Estienne d’Orves and Olivier Schefer, this exhibition explores distant and desert-like landscapes and invites visitors to imagine new discoveries—from astrophysics to quantum physics, from the infinitely large to the infinitely small.
“Landform”, Video Still © Cecile Hartmann Studio
Plants and People
Group exhibition
Musée d’arts de Nantes (until January 3, 2027)
FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou (until April 26, 2026)
Opening with the herbarium collections of the Jardin des Plantes in Nantes, the exhibition examines the tensions between fragility and resilience, disappearance and memory within the plant world.
The Song Trapper
Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Until March 2, 2026
In this immersive, multisensory video installation, Jakob Kudsk Steensen stages the character Song Trapper, who travels through various environments in search of voices and sounds across desert, marshland, and saline landscapes.
Selection by Alice Audouin, Pauline Lisowski, Juliette Soulez et Eloi Salmon
Text : Pauline Lisowski
Cover image : Landscapes, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy, 2023 © Evan Roth
Art of Change 21 Journal
February 2026
