# Nanténé Traoré: pays des merveilles

Nanténé Traoré's first solo show in a museum, presented in the MEP Studio in Le Marais. The photographer's intimate iconography draws on memory, attachment and disappearance. It is on view as part of Paris Art Week 2026.

- Type: Museum
- When: on view September 30 – November 29, 2026
- Where: MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Studio), 5/7 rue de Fourcy, 75004 Paris, Le Marais
- Artists: Nanténé Traoré
- Part of: [Paris Art Week 2026](https://artweekguide.com/weeks/paris-2026)
- Event's own page: https://www.mep-fr.org/event/nantene-traore-pays-des-merveilles/
- On Art Week Guide: https://artweekguide.com/events/nantene-traore-pays-des-merveilles

## From the organiser

First museum solo exhibition of photographer Nanténé Traoré in the MEP Studio, an intimate iconography meditating on memory, attachment and disappearance.

## Also on Wednesday 30 September

- **Until Jan 17, 2027** · [PENN & FASHION](https://artweekguide.com/events/penn-fashion) — Museum at MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Le Marais. An exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Le Marais, paying tribute to Irving Penn's fashion photography. It draws on his more than sixty years of work with Vogue and looks at how his pared-down style and command of composition shaped later generations of photographers.
- **Until Jan 24, 2027** · [« Je passe ma vie à peindre »: a Claude Monet route in the Impressionist gallery](https://artweekguide.com/events/je-passe-ma-vie-a-peindre-a-claude-monet-route-in-the-impressionist-gallery) — Museum at Musée d'Orsay – Impressionist gallery (rooms 29–35), Saint-Germain-des-Prés. A display in the Musée d'Orsay's Impressionist gallery, marking the centenary of Monet's death. It brings together five recently studied or restored paintings and letters, showing the deliberate working process behind his apparent spontaneity. Prepared with the C2RMF and restorer Bénédicte Trémolières.
- **Until Oct 31** · [Günther Uecker: Verletztes Feld](https://artweekguide.com/events/gunther-uecker-verletztes-feld) — Show at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais, Le Marais. A presentation at Thaddaeus Ropac's Marais gallery, as part of Paris Art Week 2026, centred on Günther Uecker's 1981 nail painting *Verletztes Feld* (Wounded Field), the earliest known work he split open with an axe. It is shown with 22 painted photographs, made with Swiss photographer Rolf Schröter, documenting its making.
- **Until Feb 15, 2027** · [Contrepoint contemporain: Vija Celmins](https://artweekguide.com/events/contrepoint-contemporain-vija-celmins) — Museum at Musée de l'Orangerie, Concorde / Tuileries. Part of the museum's "contemporary counterpoint" series, this exhibition shows Vija Celmins's drawings, paintings, prints and wood engravings from 1971 to 2000. Her subjects are oceans, deserts, night skies and snow. The works hang in the pronaos and contemporary room, in dialogue with Monet's Water Lilies.