TERRA 2026
Artistic Director Jenn Ellis
Executive Director Milena Berman
Joël Andrianomearisoa; Atong Atem; Desia Ava; Raffael Bader; Shaan Bevan; Morgane Baroghel-Crucq; Anna Blom; Kaanchi Chopra; Jess Cochrane; Kirsten Coelho; Elodie Elsenberger; Jaime Gili; Molly Grad; Daniel Greenfield-Campoverde; Charlotte Winifred Guérard; Jin Han; Yoona Hur; Sara Jensen; Bo Kim; Kim Lim; Alastair and Fleur Mackie; Alice Magne; Wayilkpa Maymuru; Matt McClune; Alex Mills; Marie-Luce Nadal; Emma Picard; Dawn Ng; Bundith Phunsombatlert; Lucia Pizzani; Dimitris Tampakis; Su-Mei Tse; Lee Ufan; Tomoyuki Ueno; Cassie Vaughan; Clémence Vazard; Jongsook Yoon and Stanislav Zábrodský.
23th October – 15th November, 2026. Burgundy, France.
TERRA 2026. Installation view at Hotel de Mare D’Aluze. Photography: James Retief.
TERRA is a monumental contemporary art exhibition with leading international artists and galleries set in the heart of the Burgundy’s UNESCO world heritage vineyards, unearthing dialogues between contemporary art, heritage, and winemaking.
TERRA 2026, an exhibition across cultural heritage sites in Burgundy, opens from October 23 to November 15 for its fourth edition showcasing internationally renowned artists alongside emerging talents. Conceived as a journey through historic sites of exceptional character in Beaune, Burgundy, this fourth edition of TERRA is led by Artistic Director Jenn Ellis and Executive Director Milena Berman and invites the public to discover site-responsive works and sites curated in dialogue with history, architecture, and the surrounding landscape. 2026 highlights include a first of its kind site-responsive commission by leading artist Dawn Ng at the historic Hospices de Beaune, an installation by Lee Ufan at La Folie located in the renowned Clos de Vougeot vineyards, as well as a multi-part installation by Golden Lion Award Winner Su-Mei Tse at the Tour Renard. At the crossroads of contemporary art, heritage, and terroir, the exhibition brings remarkable places, many of them rarely accessible to the public, to life as spaces for encounter, contemplation, and experimentation. This new edition emphasises a walking trail between historic sites in Beaune, explores the themes of ecology, ritual and mapping and launches its inaugural Forum at the Hospices de Beaune, welcoming distinguished speakers from around the world.
Ecology, Ritual, Mapping
At the heart of TERRA 2026 is an exploration of Ecology, Ritual and Mapping: three interconnected lenses through which to consider how people understand, cultivate, mark and inhabit places. Taking terroir beyond its traditional association with wine, the exhibition considers place as something simultaneously material and intangible: formed through geology and ecology, but also through repetition, memory, labour, ritual and human intervention. Across the exhibition, materials meet and transform; boundaries are drawn and dissolved; everyday acts of consumption and reuse become ecological gestures; and relationships between soil, seed, body, landscape and atmosphere emerge across different artistic practices. Rather than operating as neutral exhibition architecture, TERRA’s historic sites become active participants. Works are positioned in dialogue with spaces shaped by centuries of domestic life, agriculture, winemaking, craftsmanship and civic history, inviting audiences to move between contemporary artistic practices and the accumulated histories of Burgundy.
The afternoon began at the Hôtel-Dieu des Hospices de Beaune with the inaugural TERRA Forum, supported by LVMH Vins d’Exception, bringing together voices from across the worlds of art, culture, and wine for an afternoon of conversation and exchange. Guests also had the opportunity to discover Dawn Ng’s commissioned work, Fools Rush In. The programming continued with an opening reception at L’Hôtel de la Mare d’Aluze, one of this year’s exhibition sites, bringing together artists, collaborators, friends, and supporters. On Saturday, guests were invited to explore the exhibitions across Beaune at their own pace, discovering the works and the unique settings in which they are presented. The programme continued with a reception at Domaine Chanson, offering another opportunity to gather, exchange ideas, and experience the dialogue between contemporary art and Burgundy’s rich cultural and viticultural heritage. To our ever-growing TERRA community, thank you for being part of this journey. It was a joy to see familiar faces, welcome new ones, and share these first moments together. We look forward to continuing the conversations, discoveries, and encounters throughout the exhibition, open until 15 November 2026. Visits are available by appointment.
About the co-directors of TERRA
Jenn Ellis – Artistic Director of TERRA and Founder of Apsara Studio
She is an acclaimed international curator and founder of curatorial practice and project space Apsara Studio. From London to Hong Kong, Ellis’ focus is on the intersection of contemporary art, space and context, investigating themes of time, ecology, heritage and place through the lens of global artistic dialogue. Ellis has curated over 100 projects across the globe and facilitated knowledge exchange over the last decade with artists, institutions, galleries, residencies and foundations including Dawn Ng, Edgar Calel, Naminapu Maymuru-White, Tate, Michelangelo Foundation, Xenia, the Swiss Cultural Fund, Culture Ireland and Frieze. In 2024-2025, Ellis was appointed the Frieze x Breguet curator and commissioned four projects responding to ‘time’ through the lens of evolutionary change in Seoul, London and New York. In 2025, Ellis was appointed the curator of the Dean Group Art Programme, investigating the theme of ‘Stories of Place’.
Ellis is equally the co-founder and Artistic Director of TERRA, a monumental exhibition across the UNESCO heritage vineyards in Burgundy. Ellis’ projects have gained critical recognition in publications such as The Art Newspaper, Artforum, Frieze, Something Curated, BBC, Evening Standard and Vogue. Ellis guest lectures at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and from 2020-2025 was an Ambassador for the Tate. Ellis holds a Law Degree from King’s College London and a History of Art Degree from the University of Cambridge.
Milena Berman – Executive Director of TERRA
She is a cultural producer based in Burgundy, France. With years of professional experience in both the art and wine worlds, she is most interested in creating bridges between the two. She has worked with private collections, wineries, galleries, and cultural institutions globally, including in San Francisco, Napa Valley, Germany, and in Burgundy, where she has lived since 2013. In 2021 she co-founded the experiential travel and event production agency, Hautes Côtes, blending wine and culture to create exceptional moments across sectors.TERRA was created to bring international art and cultural dialogue to Burgundy in collaboration with curatorial voices. Her work has been featured in The Art Newspaper, The New York Times, Wine Enthusiast, Decanter, Rolling Stone among other publications.
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TERRA Circle Members: Julien Beaupré Ste-Marie, Lisa Botos, Phillip Collins, Annabel Downs, Monica Irani, Mathieu Jullien, Gregory Pelling, Jean-Marc Roulot and Guilhem Sadde.