HES-SO
Twenty years of shared complicity, innovation and experimentation.
For 20 editions already, HES-SO has accompanied Paléo Festival as its innovation partner!
Each year, HES-SO joins forces with Paléo as part of an artistic programme. The passionate commitment of around a hundred students makes this ambitious project possible. On the agenda: a musical programme focused on the artists of tomorrow, spectacular scenography, stands and interactive activities… A place to live, meet, discover and celebrate, whose heart beats day and night alike.
In 2026, students from some twenty HES-SO schools are taking over Paléo with the project Enigmatik.
Between mystery and vertigo, they invite the public to explore what eludes rational thought — what intrigues, what resists understanding. Unexplained phenomena, unsettling behaviours, unpredictable mechanics: so many enigmas approached through the intersecting perspectives of health, social work, engineering, management and the arts.
This year again, the Face Nord stage will welcome emerging talent from HES-SO's music schools. It will offer audiences a varied musical selection — from fragile vocals to powerful sonorities — in a space designed to command attention and deep listening.
Day
Musical style
No artists match the selected filters.
The scenography of "Enigmatik" draws on science-fiction imaginaries. Its structure evokes a spacecraft and houses five interactive installations. The public will wander through a world where plays of light and intriguing forms converge. A sensory, immersive environment where everyone is free to interpret signs from elsewhere. At times, familiar landmarks will seem to slip away — as though the stage itself might break free from the ground and invite bodies to rise.
