Julius Von Bismarck

Irma to come in earnest

November 7th, 2025 to March 1st 2026

As part of the exhibition Sous la pluie. Peindre, vivre et rêver, the German artist Julius Von Bismarck, born in 1983, takes over the Salle Blanche with the projection of a video retracing the passage of Hurricane Irma along the Florida coast in 2017.

  • Contemporary art
  • Contemporary art
  • White room

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  • The exhibition

    German artist Julius von Bismarck's Irma to Come in Earnest traces the hurricane's passage along the US coast of Florida in 2017. It questions the violence of rain and its impact in a world turned upside down by climate issues.

    By opting for extreme slow motion, the video artist stretches and prolongs the moment. Plunged into the midst of the cataclysm, then confronted with the eerily calm, disaster-stricken landscape that follows, the viewer is invited to live a hypnotic experience, caught between anguish and fascination. Using photography, video, sculpture and performance, Julius von Bismarck questions man's relationship with his environment.

    His works, shaped by experience and inspired by research, build bridges between the fields of physics, technology and the social sciences.

Scientific curator: Marie-Anne du Boullay, in charge of the 19th-century collections at the Musée d'arts de Nantes, based on an idea by Jean-Rémi Touzet, curator at the Musée d'Orsay, assisted by Anouck Sberro, exhibition assistant.