Published on 10 September 2025
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L'atelier quantique : artistic insights into the infinitely small

Exhibition from October 8 2025 to January 8 2026

From October 8 2025 to January 8 2026, to mark the International Year of Quantum Physics, the exhibition "  L'atelier quantique : regards artistiques sur l'infiniment petit " at the Collège de France presents works from artist Caroline Delétoille's residency at the Laboratoire Kastler Brossel.

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From October 8 2025 to January 8 2026, to mark the International Year of Quantum Physics, the exhibition "  L'atelier quantique : regards artistiques sur l'infiniment petit " presents works from artist Caroline Delétoille's residency at the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel at the Collège de France.

Quantum physics challenges our intuitions about reality and our ability to know it. Highly abstract, it describes objects that are usually inaccessible to our senses, shaking up our imaginations. This exhibition offers a sensitive plunge into the infinitely small and its mysteries, at the heart of the Kastler-Brossel Laboratory, a major player in quantum physics research.

Instruments and historical documents are combined with works from artist Caroline Delétoille's residency at the laboratory. With a sense of humor, she explores their daily lives, revealing both the material and emotional dimensions of the construction of knowledge.

This subjective view also evokes the creative dimension shared by science and the arts, and the porosity between laboratory and workshop. The tour is enriched by a historical perspective tracing the major milestones in particle physics at the Collège de France, from Paul Langevin and Frédéric Joliot-Curie to the contemporary research of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Serge Haroche and Jean Dalibard.

The Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel - LKB (École normale supérieure, Collège de France, Sorbonne Université, CNRS) is a major player in the field of quantum physics. Several of its teams and facilities are based at the Institut de Physique du Collège de France, which has a long history of research in high-energy physics.

Practical information

The exhibition is open to all, free of charge, Monday to Friday, from 10  h to 19  h, except on public holidays. It takes place at the Marcelin-Berthelot site of the Collège de France, 11 place Marcelin-Berthelot - 75005 Paris.

A symposium on the theme : " Expressions quantiques : artistes et scientifiques en dialogue ", will be held in parallel with the exhibition on October 15 , at the Collège de France, from 2 h to 6 h 30 (free admission).

Credits and thanks  :

Production : Collège de France and Convergences Créations
Curators : Céline Boisserie-Lacroix, Caroline Delétoille, Aurore Young
Scenography and design : Kevin Lebouvier
Collège de France project team : Violette Batailley, Anne Chatellier, Lucie Robert

The exhibition L'Atelier quantique : regards sur l'infiniment petit continues at CENTQUATRE-PARIS as part of Némo - Biennale internationale des arts numériques de la Région Île-de-France, from October 11 2025 to January 11 2026, unveiling the artist's art-science approach alongside a physicist from the Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel and a philosopher. A poetic stroll weaves a link between atoms and memories, inviting us to slip into the shoes of the experimenters of the infinitely small.