Tilda Swinton is to carry out a brand new dwell work on the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao this June, created in collaboration with Dom Pérignon and co-created with the French vogue historian and curator Olivier Saillard. The 2-day occasion, going down on 5 and 6 June 2026, staged within the museum’s Frank Gehry-designed atrium, marks the Champagne home’s most formidable foray into dwell efficiency so far. Tickets can be found from 21 Could from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao web site.
Tilda Swinton at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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Titled ‘Home of Gestures’, the efficiency centres on Swinton shifting via and inhabiting area, utilizing bodily motion and costume modifications as a approach of evoking character, reminiscence and place. Gesture turns into the only real technique of expression; with out script or speech, there’s solely Swinton’s physique and what it wears, with clothes worn and changed earlier than the viewers, as a approach of conjuring tales from an in any other case empty stage.
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The piece was developed in shut dialog with Dom Pérignon’s chef de cave Vincent Chaperon, whose personal interested by the connection between wine and panorama runs via the work’s conceptual framework. As he explains: ‘An excellent wine is the place of the soul. It’s each panorama and portrait.’
For Swinton, the parallels between efficiency and champagne are greater than merely figurative. ‘With efficiency, we prefer to create a free zone the place one thing trustworthy and authentic can happen and turn out to be a shared expertise in actual time,” she says. “An excellent Champagne has a lot in frequent with this concept. Each are rooted in area and genuine presence, not illustration or interpretation..’
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The Bilbao performances coincide with the disclosing of Dom Pérignon’s 2018 classic. The brand new launch is the primary to be produced completely beneath the stewardship of Chaperon, who took sole cost of the cellars following the departure of his predecessor Richard Geoffroy in 2019.
The collaboration is the newest in an extended line of artistic partnerships that Dom Pérignon has cultivated since 2005, when the maison started working with artists and cultural figures together with Karl Lagerfeld, David Lynch, Lenny Kravitz and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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These initiatives took the type of limited-edition bottle and packaging designs. Lagerfeld created a studded case for the 1998 classic, Lynch contributed chiaroscuro-inflected designs for the 2003 classic, Kravitz utilized hammered goldsmith metalwork to the protect of the 2008, whereas the more moderen Basquiat collaboration, realised with the artist’s property, positioned his 1983 portray ‘In Italian’ on a particular version of the 2015 classic.
The Swinton fee marks a decisive shift from pure product to one thing extra experiential, involving dwell artwork staged inside one of many world’s most recognisable museum buildings.
(Picture credit score: ©FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa – Photograph Erika Barahona-Ede)
Swinton is amongst a number of new collaborators, together with Zoë Kravitz, Iggy Pop and Takashi Murakami, introduced into Dom Pérignon’s present artistic programme, launched in 2025 beneath the ethos ‘Creation is an everlasting journey’. Swinton’s strategy as an actress, artist and performer has lengthy centred on the physique as a automobile for which means, maybe most famously in ‘The Perhaps’ – first staged on the Serpentine in 1995 and reprised at MoMA in 2013 – wherein she lay asleep in a glass vitrine, noticed by the general public with none rationalization.
(Picture credit score: ©FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa – Photograph Erika Barahona-Ede)
Swinton’s creative considerations resonate with the themes Chaperon has articulated round terroir and time, not least in the way in which her efficiency displays Dom Pérignon’s relationship with the idea of place. On the home’s vineyards at Hautvillers, close to Épernay, the grapes for every classic are harvested from plots of land with particular person names, corresponding to Côte à Bras, Chant de Linotte and Prières. The thought of a named, storied panorama because the supply of each wine and which means is central to what ‘Home of Gestures’ units out to discover and articulate.
Tickets for the general public performances on 5 and 6 June can be found from 21 Could from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao web site
