Migrations and Climate

For the first time, the Palais de la Porte Dorée is hosting a global exhibition, Migrations & Climate, throughout its museum and aquarium spaces.

More than 200 items, including documentary photographs, works of art (some of which have never been seen before), testimonials, videos, infographics and immersive installations are curated in order to offer a rich, immersive and deeply human visitor experience.  

The creations of international artists such as Lucy + Jorge Orta, Inès Katamso, Margaret Wertheim, Ghazel and Quayola interact with the testimonies and stories of populations affected by these changes around the world, from Senegal to the Pacific Islands, Greenland and France.  

The result of rigorous work carried out with a scientific advisory board made up of international experts, Migrations & Climate brings to light and gives voice to often overlooked realities in all their diversity, highlighted by data from specialist organisations and long-term exchanges with witnesses and activists from the areas concerned.

By bringing together artistic, scientific and citizen perspectives, Migrations & Climate sheds light on a major social debate, inviting us to put people and living beings back at the heart of climate, cultural and social concerns. In short, it is an invitation to rethink together how we inhabit the planet. 

Exhibition curator

• Bruno Girveau, Emeritus General Conservator of Heritage, Chief Curator
• Élisabeth Jolys Shimells, Chief Conservator of Heritage, Curator
• Gabriel Picot, rHead of Cultural and Educational Programming of the Tropical Aquarium, Curator
• Assisted by Olivier Bedoin, Curatorial Assistant
   

Scientific Committee

• Sylvie Dufour, CNRS Emeritus Research Director, CNRS, Marine Affairs Manager, National Museum of Natural History (MNHN)
• François Gemenne, Professor, HEC Paris / FNRS Senior Research Associate and Director, The Hugo Observatory

^{Cover photo: Nick Brandt, "Petero by Cliff, Fiji", 2023 © Nick Brandt / Courtesy Polka Galerie}