ABOUT NUIT BLANCHE TAIPEI
“Nuit Blanche” is a global nighttime urban arts festival that originated in Paris, France, in 2002. Centered on urban innovation and the reimagining of public space, the festival invites people to experience the city after dark through three defining features: an all-night program, free admission, and public participation. By bringing art into streets and urban spaces, Nuit Blanche creates new ways for people to encounter both art and the city.
Taipei officially introduced Nuit Blanche in 2016 through the Department of Cultural Affairs. Its inaugural edition drew more than 200,000 visitors, with attendance later growing to over 500,000, making it one of Taipei’s most representative cultural events. Held annually from late October to early November, Nuit Blanche Taipei transforms urban spaces through art, turning the city into a large-scale, one-night-only museum.
In 2026, Nuit Blanche Taipei presents “NIGHT KA SHI” as its curatorial theme, taking inspiration from Taiwan’s familiar Nakashi culture to reconsider how urban culture moves, evolves, and continues within contemporary life. Long present in night markets, banquets, and streets, Nakashi is characterized by mobility, immediacy, sociability, and hybridity, and is deeply shaped by the places and relationships in which it takes form.
“NIGHT KA SHI” does not seek to recreate Nakashi as it once was. Instead, it translates its spirit of movement, spontaneity, and collective participation into new possibilities for a nighttime public art festival, inviting audiences to rediscover Taipei after dark through encounters between art, sound, people, and the city itself.
Recipient of the Best Planning Award at the 9th Public Art Awards presented by Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture. Chief Curator of Hi Story for Nuit Blanche Taipei 2025, No Language at MoCA Taipei, New Friends at the New Taipei City Art Museum, March of Stories at C-LAB, and the Electri City I, II, III series of Taipower Company's Public Art Festival.
Focus on collective collaboration and time-based media. Founder of inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival, with selected curatorial projects including Quiet Riot and No Cause for Alarm, co-curated with Ying Kwok at La MaMa Galleria. Former Senior Manager at the Yageo Foundation, with production experience on Capturing the Moment: A Journey Through Painting and Photography, a collaboration between Tate Modern and the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (KMFA). Director of the Taiwan Art Gallery Association and Art Taipei, 2007–2010.
Artistic Director of Zenyiproduction
,dedicated to contemporary dance, Interdisciplinary performance.She has served as a guest lecturer at Burapha University in Thailand and Kobe College in Japan, and was an artist-in-residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Her work Prisoner Under the Torch won the Grand Prize at the 7th Digital Arts Performance Awards. In recent years, she has developed the ""Baby Theater: Mama Series,"" continually exploring the relationship between textual narrative and the physical body. She serves as the Performing Arts Artistic Director for the 2025–2026 Nuit Blanche Taipei.
It is a space dedicated to artistic creation. Artists from around the world are welcomed here, both as residents to conceive and create their works, and to present their performances. Theater, dance, circus, music, visual arts: all forms of art and aesthetics come together here. With its shops, restaurants, organic market, and large, freely accessible spaces, it welcomes both neighborhood residents and visitors.Through its incubator, 104factory, the CENTQUATRE supports innovative projects at the intersection of art, culture, and new technologies. It supports entrepreneurs and fosters collaborations between artists, businesses, and researchers. Through its cultural engineering team, 104ingénierie, it develops artistic projects and advises cultural organizations in France and internationally.
For more than twenty-five years, Valérie Senghor has built a career in the cultural sector, at the intersection of artistic, development, and innovation issues. Valérie Senghor oversaw the launch of CENTQUATRE-PARIS from 2007 to 2018 as director of economic development, before becoming its deputy director. From 2018 to 2023, as Deputy Executive Director of the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, her responsibilities included overseeing the project to create the Cité internationale de la langue française. After a mission at the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs as Deputy Secretary-General of the Francophonie Summit and Commissioner of the associated international arts and culture festival, she resumed her duties at the CMN’s General Directorate. In September 2025, she was appointed Director of CENTQUATRE-PARIS, an arts institution of the City of Paris.
