By Night "The Fall of the Moon" by Frédéric Bruly-Bouabré

By Night is a tribute to the eponymous exhibition held at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in 1996. In May 2025, the Fondation Cartier closed the doors of its iconic building on Boulevard Raspail in Paris, to reopen—after a night lasting several months—in the new spaces designed by architect Jean Nouvel at 2 Place du Palais Royal.

By Night presents a selection of works by artists from several continents, all of whom share a fascination with the night. The works in this selection reflect the creative emotion that night inspires in their authors—whether wild nights, urban nights, celestial and starry nights, dreamlike nights, sleepless nights, nocturnal wanderings, nights of waiting, of longing—all these nights captured through the eyes of artists, in the silence and darkness of nature or in the luminous chaos of cities.

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
The earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light.
God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.
God called the light ‘day,’ and the darkness He called ‘night.’
And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.”
Book of Genesis

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