Tilda Swinton fronts Dom Pérignon performance
Champagne house Dom Pérignon will stage a two-day public performance at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao next month, co-created by actor Tilda Swinton and fashion curator Olivier Saillard.
Dom Pérignon has announced a new performance project with Tilda Swinton and Olivier Saillard, developed in partnership with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Called House of Gestures, the performance will take place at the museum’s Atrium on 5 and 6 June 2026. The public will be able to register for the performances through the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao website from today (Thursday 21 May).
The project follows the launch of Dom Pérignon’s 2025 creative platform, “Creation is an eternal journey”, which continues the Champagne house’s collaborations with artists and cultural figures.
Gesture, presence and transformation
Swinton developed the original work in response to an invitation from Dom Pérignon. According to the Maison, the performance is conceived around “gesture, presence, and transformation”.
Saillard co-created the performance, which will include a series of presentations inspired by Dom Pérignon.
Swinton said: “With performance, we like to create a free zone where something honest and original can occur and become a shared experienced in real time. A great champagne has much in common with this idea. Both are rooted in space and authentic presence, not representation or interpretation.”
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The performance also draws on Dom Pérignon’s long-running relationship with the arts. Since 2005, the brand has collaborated with figures including Karl Lagerfeld, David Lynch, Lenny Kravitz and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Inspired by ‘place’
The Maison said the new performance was inspired by its relationship with “place”, rooted in the Benedictine Abbey in Hautvillers, regarded as the birthplace of Champagne.
Vincent Chaperon, chef de cave at Dom Pérignon, said: “A great wine is the place of the soul, it is both landscape and portrait.”
The release described each Dom Pérignon vintage as existing “at the crossroads of space and time”, shaped by vineyard parcels including “Côte à bras”, “Chant de Linotte”, and “Prières”.
According to the Maison, Swinton’s “scenic language unfolds through rhythmic gesture acts as a form of writing”, with garments used to reveal “situations and portraits whose stories — whether real or imagined — the performer reveals through the garments she wears and changes in real time”.
The production team for House of Gestures includes artistic collaborators Zoé Guedard and Guy Chassaing, technical coordinator Jean-Paul Moissette, and producer Aymar Crosnier of Studio Olivier Saillard.
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