For the 2025 edition, from May 23 to June 22, Le Nouveau Printemps moves to the Saint-Sernin neighborhood with partner artist Kiddy Smile.

In so doing, Le Nouveau Printemps reaffirms its new model and consolidates bonds forged with the city and artists from here and elsewhere.

The festival advocates for locally rooted, artistically challenging, avant-garde art for all, and supports collective artistic creations or experiences with a global outlook that are environmentally responsible.

In dialogue with the neighborhood’s arts spaces or one-off venues, Kiddy Smile and his guest artists will devise an exhibition circuit that showcases multiple artistic practices to present once more, after Alain Guiraudie in 2024 and matali crasset in 2023, a new perspective on art.

At Kiddy Smile’s instigation, a constellation dedicated to love, bonds and families is already in gestation, ready to be unveiled from venue to venue, with invitations extended to artists and pieces that speak of a desire to be one together, with respect and pride.

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« Since my different identities are simultaneously not consecutively embodied they are as many sources of inspiration and motivation to challenge the established order. They drive my desire and need to roll back the boundaries of constrictive realities. In this sense, it seems vital to me today to reclaim spaces conducive to giving and redistributing platforms to those who have rarely been heard.

If I cannot see myself, I cannot imagine myself, and if I cannot imagine myself, I cannot fulfill myself. Then, I do not exist in the present, or in the past, and even less so in the future. That is why the question of the multiplicity of beings and their bodies is so important.

I am honored and delighted to participate in the adventure that is Le Nouveau Printemps, and to put together an unprecedented, inclusive, generous and surprising edition for 2025 brimming with kindliness!

As an intersectional multidisciplinary artist, I am passionate about opening doors for anyone who relates to my message and my way of expressing myself artistically.

Through music, video, dance and fashion, I question the dichotomy between my Blackness, sexual identity and gender, and my social origins. Looking for my place in society, the question I ask myself, which is the thread running through my artistic practice, is, “What does it mean to be French? The different media that I explore allow me to approach this question from various angles and amplify what I have to say thanks to the reactions that my presence provokes in spaces where racial, social and gender diversity is not the rule. »

Kiddy Smile