Listening session with Jacques Ferrandez

To mark the 100th anniversary of Miles Davis’s birth and the 45th edition of the Jazz à Vienne festival, the Musée d’Histoire de Vienne – église Saint-Pierre will host the exhibition “Miles Davis, 100 ans d'influence” from June 25 to July 11, 2026, from 2 pm to 7 pm. A major figure in the festival’s history and an absolute legend of jazz, Miles Davis will be celebrated through an immersive and evocative journey designed to explore his body of work and his era.

The exhibition features a section titled “Miles en musique”. Every day at 2 pm, a guest speaker will invite the audience to immerse themselves in the artist’s musical world.

On 26th of June, discover “Miles en BD” with Jacques Ferrandez!

Jacques Ferrandez was born in 1955 in Algiers. After attending the National School of Decorative Arts in Nice, he turned to illustration and comics, and his first works appeared in the magazine “(À suivre)” as early as 1978. In 1987, he began “Carnets d’Orient”, an epic series chronicling the 132 years of French presence in Algeria, from the conquest to independence. An undisputed expert on Algerian affairs, he adapted Albert Camus’s work for Gallimard BD with “L’Hôte” in 2009, before masterfully adapting “L’Étranger” in 2013 and “Le Premier Homme” in 2017.

His books have been the subject of numerous exhibitions in France and Algeria, notably at Les Invalides in 2012, marking the 50th anniversary of the end of the Algerian War. He received the 2012 Historia Special Jury Prize for his “Carnets d’Orient”.

In “Suites algériennes”, Jacques Ferrandez explores the contemporary history of Algeria from 1962 to the present day.