August 22 & 23, 2026 | ccdMalvina, Saint-Malo | Free admission
What if a festival were less a place to simply view art, and more a place to step inside the creative process, meet the people making the work, and explore new ways of inhabiting the world?
On August 22 and 23, ccdMalvina presents the first edition of Festival Malvina: two afternoons of creation, experimentation and encounters in the heart of the Malvina landscape.
The culmination of Symbioses of Intelligences, the Festival opens to the public the living laboratory that has unfolded at Malvina throughout the summer. Artists, researchers and technology specialists bring human, artificial, environmental and collective intelligences into dialogue, asking how we might rethink our relationships with the body, the living world and the land.
When memory becomes material
On Saturday, Canadian sculptor Royden Mills will unveil The Malvina Horse, a life-size sculpture created during his residency at ccdMalvina.
Made of metal and wood, the work celebrates the essential role of the horse in the lives of the families who settled in Malvina and Saint-Malo. Names of ancestors shared by the community have been engraved into the wood and incorporated into the sculpture, bringing contemporary creation, collective memory and the history of the land together.
Vesalius meets artificial intelligence
The Festival will also unveil new works by Sean Caulfield, some created in collaboration with Isabelle Van Grimde.
An unexpected encounter between the anatomical representations of Andreas Vesalius, artificial intelligence, the artistic worlds of Caulfield and Van Grimde, and the vegetation and landscapes of Malvina. Anatomical forms shift and metamorphose, entering into new relationships with plant life and the land.
What if AI could become eco-responsible?
On Sunday, Hela Zahar, Professor of Digital Cultures at the Université de l’Ontario français, will present Generative AI and Environmental Visual Culture: Towards Eco-Responsible Practices?
A roundtable moderated by anthropologist Isabelle Lemelin will then bring together artists, researchers and specialists to explore the relationships between art, artificial intelligence, the environment and territory.
Throughout the weekend: outdoor art trails, virtual reality, guided tours, films, podcasts, workshops and artist encounters.
Two days to walk, create, experiment and exchange — and to discover Malvina as a place where art, memory, the living world and technology meet.
FESTIVAL MALVINA
📅 August 22 & 23, 2026 | 1–5 p.m.
📍 ccdMalvina — 309 chemin de Malvina, Saint-Malo, Quebec
🎟️ Free admission — everyone welcome