Le brunch de fin d'année Ruinart

CONVERSATIONS WITH NATURE


2025 EDITION

Conversing and connecting with nature has always been essential to the oldest champagne house. For almost three centuries, Ruinart has been listening to and learning from living things. The flora and soil have inspired the Maison’s chardonnay experts who carefully observe and respect them.


The Maison continues its Conversations with Nature art series by inviting artists whose work echo this commitment to share their vision. With the ability to connect us with ourselves and others, to enlighten and transform us, art can carry messages fostering biodiversity to audiences around the world. This year, Franco-Swiss artist Julian Charrière, French artist Lelia Demoisy and American artist Sam Falls join the 2025 cycle of Conversations with Nature.

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SAM FALLS

Sam Falls, born in 1984 and raised in Vermont, is an artist currently based in California, where his work is deeply intertwined with nature. His art explores the connection between the viewer and the natural world, drawing inspiration from flora and fauna. Falls seamlessly blends photography, sculpture, and painting, employing a conceptual approach informed by his extensive knowledge of art history. His canvases, shaped by the environments in which they are created, evoke a strong sense of place while serving as universal memento mori.


His work has been showcased in museums and international biennales and is part of major public collections, including the Centre Pompidou (Paris), Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Kadist Art Foundation, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles). He is represented by Galerie Eva Presenhuber (Zurich), 303 Gallery (New York), and Jessica Silverman Gallery (San Francisco).

LÉLIA DEMOISY

Born in 1991, Lélia Demoisy lives and works in the Yvelines region near Paris. Her sculptures and installations examine our relationship with nature. Often associated with steel, the tree occupies a fundamental place in her work, which is almost exclusively based on natural materials. Passionate about the plant kingdom and scientific advances that enhance our understanding of it, she aims to share new experiences of and with nature. She has created several monumental permanent and ephemeral installations in the Parc National des Forêts, Parc de la Villette in Paris and Potager du Roi in Versailles.


Since last year, her sculpture Between Us (Entre Nous, 2024) has been on display at 4 RUE DES CRAYÈRES in Reims. Together with Christophe Gautrand, the garden’s landscape artist, Lélia Demoisy chose two old maples growing on the site and wrapped them with white steel wire, highlighting the invisible connections between them, as well as the idea that an ecosystem is richer and more diverse than the sum of its parts. As a guest artist for Conversations with Nature in 2025, Lélia Demoisy has created a series of artworks echoing the Maison’s commitment to biodiversity.

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JULIAN CHARRIÈRE

Julian Charrière is a Franco-Swiss artist based in Berlin, whose work blends performance, video, sculpture, and photography. His art has been showcased globally in prestigious institutions and biennials. Many of his projects involve an exploratory field phase, taking him to remote and often abandoned locations such as volcanoes, ice fields, and radioactive sites. Through his work, he challenges our cultural perceptions of nature and its transformation, from the Romantic era to the Anthropocene.


Julian Charrière frequently collaborates with scientists, engineers, art historians, and philosophers, integrating interdisciplinary perspectives into his research. His work encourages reflection on how we inhabit the world and the imaginary representations we create. He is represented by Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Perrotin, Sean Kelly, Sies + Höke, OMR, and Galerie Tschudi.