The house returns to Art Basel Paris with Helen Marten’s “30 Blizzards.”
Miu Miu partners with Art Basel Paris for a second year as an official Public Program partner, presenting a newly commissioned performance work by Helen Marten. The piece, titled “30 Blizzards,” marks the Turner Prize-winning artist’s first foray into live performance and will run at the Palais d’Iéna from October 22nd to 26th.
Known for her materially complex and conceptually layered practice, Marten has developed 30 Blizzards as an immersive environment blending sculpture, video, choreography, and sound. Created in collaboration with theatre and opera director Fabio Cherstich and composer Beatrice Dillon, the piece unfolds as a sequenced, live performance. It promises an immersive choreography of text, image, and presence, animating a poetic landscape that navigates themes of human identity, time, language, structure, and transformation.
Through the piece, there’s a spotlight on Miuccia Prada’s enduring approach of engaging with narratives of femininity and women’s histories, reflecting these concepts through diverse explorations across fashion and culture. Marten has likewise long defied disciplinary boundaries. Known for her works spanning sculpture, painting, drawing, and writing, she consistently investigates how individuals exist within and interpret the world. Her work is held in prestigious public collections globally, including MoMA, Tate, and the Guggenheim. With 30 Blizzards, she extends her reach into performance, bringing her abstract linguistic and sculptural vocabulary into physical motion for the first time.
As fashion brands seek more integrated roles within cultural institutions, Miu Miu’s sustained presence at Art Basel Paris signals a strategic focus on cross-disciplinary storytelling. Marten’s 30 Blizzards positions the brand not only as a patron but further as an active conversationalist in the evolving dialogue between art, performance, and identity.
