Jen Cardini Curates ‘Tokyo Waves’ Summer Music Series At Palais de Tokyo

Jen Cardini

Electronic music pioneer Jen Cardini has unveiled ‘Tokyo Waves’, a new summer music programme taking over Paris' Palais de Tokyo with five afternoons of DJ sets and live performances running alongside the venue's ‘Normes Corps’ exhibition season.

Designed to connect contemporary electronic music with visual art, the series transforms the museum into a meeting point for club culture, experimentation and community. Every ticket also includes access to the exhibitions, encouraging visitors to experience both the performances and the wider artistic programme in a single visit.

Cardini, one of the most respected figures in European electronic music, has curated a lineup that reflects the breadth of today's underground scene, combining established names with emerging artists spanning techno, bass, experimental club music and global electronic sounds.

The programme opens on 12th July with performances from Ehua and Flore alongside DJ sets from GLITTER55, ZAATAR and sensit1ve. On 18th July, Cardini joins Munich-born selector BASHKKA for a special double bill, before TTristana headlines the following week with additional guests still to be announced.

The series resumes in August with Erna and VANILLE appearing back-to-back on 22nd August before concluding on 29th August with Beatrice M, Amsterdam experimental artist Upsammy and New York electronic music icon Kim Ann Foxman.

For more than three decades, Cardini has remained one of electronic music's defining curatorial voices, performing at venues including Berghain, Bassiani and Basement while also bringing club culture into institutions such as MoMA PS1, Centre Pompidou and Guggenheim Bilbao. Through projects including Correspondant and Nightclubbing, they have consistently championed emerging artists and queer voices within electronic music.

‘Tokyo Waves’ continues that vision, positioning Palais de Tokyo as a space where contemporary art and underground electronic music meet through carefully curated programming that celebrates diversity, experimentation and creative exchange throughout the summer.

OPENING HOURS

Palais de Tokyo is open every day,

except on Tuesdays

From 12pm noon to 10pm

Late opening on Thursdays until midnight

DIRECTIONS

Metro : Line 9, Iéna and Alma Marceau stations

Bus : Lines 32, 42, 63, 72, 80, 82, 92

RER : Line C, Pont de l’Alma station

Vélib’

Vélib’ stations near Palais de Tokyo:

n° 16007: 4, rue de Longchamp

n° 8046: 2, rue Marceau

n° 7023: Quai Branly