Exhibitions

In the streets of Strasbourg:
departure from Atelier Demi-Douzaine / arrival at Menuiserie Coop

Forty micronations, created by as many illustrators, will parade through the streets of Strasbourg at the opening of this 16th edition of the Festival. 
Alongside them is a new kakemono created by children from the Foyer Charles Frey in Strasbourg with illustrator Alice Jouan and the help of the Tôt ou t’art association. The parade passes through various exhibitions at the Festival, ending at the Port du Rhin for the opening of the Dialogue de dessins exhibition and the inauguration of the Rencontres de l’illustration.

Menuiserie Coop — 4 rue de la coopérative
tram d : Starcoop / bus 2 : Capitainerie

Opening reception > Wednesday, 4 March at 6 p.m.
Meeting > Friday, 27 March at 7 p.m.

The artists engage in a playful and highly conceptual experiment. The key character: the dog.

The first element of the exchange is a grid proposed by one person to another, on which to embroider localised indications, here a ‘dog’, there a “spy”, from this place to that one a ‘catastrophe’. An exploration of the very principle of illustration in a structuralist game with a very carnal result.

Violette Le Gendre

Born in Paris in 1999, she lives and works in Strasbourg. After attending the Renoir School, she went on to study visual education at HEAR. In 2023, she founded the La Fourrière workshop with fellow illustrators and tattoo artists. In 2023, she founded the La Fourrière studio with her illustrator and tattoo artist friends. She targets a young audience, notably with L’Homme de fer, based on a text by Thibault Bérard published by Albin Michel Jeunesse. Her first comic book will be released there in 2026, while L’École des loisirs will publish two more of her books.

Vincent Pianina

Born in 1985 in Lyon, he lives and works in Quimperlé. While studying at Émile Cohl in Lyon, he co-founded the Arbitraire collective in 2005. He gained experience by publishing several small books and magazines, and began to be published externally. Today he works on various comic strips and children’s books, draws for the press, and creates animated clips, posters and window displays. He eats everything except Brussels sprouts.

Every month, Épique Époque brings together scientists from various disciplines at the Jardin des Sciences Planetarium to discuss a social issue.

Hélène Bléhaut illustrated these exchanges during the 2024–2025 academic year. This exhibition looks back on seven editions through a technique known as graphic facilitation. Its aim is to summarise the scientists’ words through illustration: declining birth rates, inclusive language, cognitive biases, the mechanisms of cancer, and more.

A comprehensive retrospective of Blutch’s disciple and master of the new western. A key figure in the revival of adventure comics in France (Isaac le Pirate, Gus), Blain also excels at depicting reality with the comical diplomatic memoirs of Quai d’Orsay, or the ecological discourse of J.-P. Jancovici in Un monde sans fin (An Endless World), including his pro-nuclear ravings.