# Museum shows at Paris Art Week 2026 140 museum shows during Paris Art Week 2026 (October 19 – 25, 2026) at Centre culturel canadien, Musée du Luxembourg and Palais de Tokyo and more, with times, venues and a map. - Dates: October 19 – 25, 2026 - Where: Paris, France - Times: local (CEST) - Listed: 16 events, plus 124 exhibitions on view - Page with map, search and favourites: https://artweekguide.com/weeks/paris-2026/museum-shows - Part of: [Paris Art Week 2026](https://artweekguide.com/weeks/paris-2026) ## Monday 19 October 2026 - **5:00 PM** · [MaSH evening at the Centre culturel canadien – late opening and curator tours of 'Grands Lacs'](https://artweekguide.com/events/mash-evening-at-the-centre-culturel-canadien-late-opening-and-curator-tours-of-grands-lacs) — Museum at Centre culturel canadien, Champs-Élysées / Matignon. The Centre culturel canadien stays open late as one of 16 venues linked to MaSH, the joint vernissage of 38 Matignon Saint-Honoré galleries that opens Paris Art Week. Robert Burley's exhibition *Grands Lacs* is on show, with tours led by curator Catherine Bédard at 18:00 and 19:30. RSVP needed. - **7:00 PM** · [Andy Warhol: La ligne et l'image – Monday late opening](https://artweekguide.com/events/andy-warhol-la-ligne-et-l-image-monday-late-opening) — Museum at Musée du Luxembourg, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The Musée du Luxembourg keeps its Andy Warhol exhibition, *La ligne et l'image*, open until 22:00 on Monday evening. ## Wednesday 21 October 2026 - **12:00 PM** · [Opening: Palais de Tokyo autumn season 'Tous les feux, les fleurs' – free entry day 1](https://artweekguide.com/events/opening-palais-de-tokyo-autumn-season-tous-les-feux-les-fleurs-free-entry-day-1) — Museum at Palais de Tokyo, Trocadéro. The Palais de Tokyo launches its autumn season, *Tous les feux, les fleurs*, with free admission to every new exhibition. The line-up includes *Toi et ta bande* and shows by Ali Cherri, Sonia Gomes, Valérie John, Rose Lowder, Paul Kodjo and Céleste Richard-Zimmermann. No booking is required. - **6:00 PM** · [Louvre late opening (nocturne)](https://artweekguide.com/events/louvre-late-opening-nocturne) — Museum at Musée du Louvre, Palais-Royal / Louvre. The Louvre stays open on Wednesday evenings for its permanent collections and temporary exhibitions, among them *Zurbarán* and *Sculpter la couleur*. Short guided tours come with the ticket. Last admission is at 20:00, and an RSVP is needed. ## Thursday 22 October 2026 - **All day** · [Prix Marcel Duchamp 2026: announcement of the winner](https://artweekguide.com/events/prix-marcel-duchamp-2026-announcement-of-the-winner) — Museum at a private location. Paris Art Week includes the announcement of this year's Prix Marcel Duchamp winner at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris. The shortlist is Joël Andrianomearisoa, Brognon Rollin, Laura Henno and Josèfa Ntjam, judged by an international jury chaired by Xavier Rey. The prize totals €90,000, with €35,000 to the laureate. - **12:00 PM** · [Palais de Tokyo autumn season – free entry day 2](https://artweekguide.com/events/palais-de-tokyo-autumn-season-free-entry-day-2) — Museum at Palais de Tokyo, Trocadéro. The Palais de Tokyo opens its new autumn exhibitions for a second free day as part of Paris Art Week 2026. No booking is required. The museum closes early on this day, at 17:00. - **6:00 PM** · [Musée Marmottan Monet Thursday late opening](https://artweekguide.com/events/musee-marmottan-monet-thursday-late-opening) — Museum at Musée Marmottan Monet, Trocadéro. The Musée Marmottan Monet in Trocadéro stays open late on Thursday evenings, with last entry at 20:00. Visitors can see the exhibition *Histoires de paysages. De Monet à Hockney* and the museum's Monet collection. The opening is part of Paris Art Week 2026. - **6:00 PM** · [Musée d'Orsay Thursday late opening](https://artweekguide.com/events/musee-d-orsay-thursday-late-opening) — Museum at Musée d'Orsay, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The Musée d'Orsay stays open late as part of its weekly Thursday evening schedule, with the permanent collections and three exhibitions on view: Jenny Holzer, Mary Cassatt and Bartholdi. This evening is also the last night of Holzer's projections on the museum's façade. - **7:00 PM** · [Opening: Soleil et Lune. Andreas Eriksson in dialogue with Ivan Aguéli](https://artweekguide.com/events/opening-soleil-et-lune-andreas-eriksson-in-dialogue-with-ivan-agueli) — Museum at Institut suédois, Le Marais. The Swedish Institute in Le Marais opens *Soleil et Lune*, an exhibition that sets the contemporary painter Andreas Eriksson alongside Ivan Aguéli (1869–1917), a Swedish painter. The opening reception is part of Paris Art Week 2026, and access is free. ## Friday 23 October 2026 - **6:00 PM** · [Éternel Tintoret – Friday late opening](https://artweekguide.com/events/eternel-tintoret-friday-late-opening) — Museum at Musée Jacquemart-André, Monceau. The Musée Jacquemart-André in Monceau stays open into the evening for its Tintoretto exhibition, *Éternel Tintoret*, as part of Paris Art Week 2026. RSVP is needed. - **6:00 PM** · [Petit Palais late opening – Eva Gonzalès](https://artweekguide.com/events/petit-palais-late-opening-eva-gonzales) — Museum at Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Champs-Élysées / Matignon. The Petit Palais keeps its Eva Gonzalès exhibition open into the evening, with last entry at 18:45. The museum sits across the avenue from the Grand Palais, which hosts Art Basel Paris this week. An RSVP is needed for this late opening. - **6:00 PM** · [Musée de l'Orangerie Friday late opening – Monet, peindre le temps](https://artweekguide.com/events/musee-de-l-orangerie-friday-late-opening-monet-peindre-le-temps) — Museum at Musée de l'Orangerie, Concorde / Tuileries. The Musée de l'Orangerie stays open late for this Paris Art Week 2026 evening, with the Monet exhibition *Monet, peindre le temps* on view. Tickets are timed and priced at €10, with free admission for under-18s and EU residents under 26. Last entry is 20:15, and RSVP is required. - **6:00 PM** · [Louvre late opening (nocturne)](https://artweekguide.com/events/louvre-late-opening-nocturne-musee-du-louvre) — Museum at Musée du Louvre, Palais-Royal / Louvre. The Louvre stays open on Friday evenings, as it does every week, with the permanent collections and temporary exhibitions on view, among them *Zurbarán* and *Sculpter la couleur*. Short guided tours come with the ticket. RSVP is required, and last admission is at 20:00. - **6:00 PM** · [Palais Galliera Friday late opening – Un vestiaire à soi](https://artweekguide.com/events/palais-galliera-friday-late-opening-un-vestiaire-a-soi) — Museum at Palais Galliera – Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, Trocadéro. The Palais Galliera, Paris's fashion museum in Trocadéro, keeps its doors open until 21:00 on Fridays. The late opening centres on the exhibition *Un vestiaire à soi. Féminités dissidentes au 19e siècle*, part of Paris Art Week 2026. - **7:00 PM** · [Large – Friday late opening (Moteur imaginaire)](https://artweekguide.com/events/large-friday-late-opening-moteur-imaginaire) — Museum at Large, cultures contemporaines (Île Seguin), Boulogne-Billancourt. Large, a new art centre on Île Seguin in Boulogne-Billancourt, opens late on Fridays, staying open until 21:00. The evening takes in its inaugural exhibition, *Moteur imaginaire*, as part of Paris Art Week 2026. - **7:30 PM** · [Cezanne et nous – Friday late opening at the Grand Palais](https://artweekguide.com/events/cezanne-et-nous-friday-late-opening-at-the-grand-palais) — Museum at Grand Palais – Galeries 3 & 4, Champs-Élysées / Matignon. The *Cezanne et nous* exhibition stays open until 22:00 in Galeries 3 and 4 of the Grand Palais, as it does every Friday. This evening coincides with the public opening of Art Basel Paris in the same building. RSVP is needed. ## Saturday 24 October 2026 Still on from an earlier day: - **Last day** · [Petit Palais late opening – Eva Gonzalès](https://artweekguide.com/events/petit-palais-late-opening-eva-gonzales) — Museum at Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Champs-Élysées / Matignon. The Petit Palais keeps its Eva Gonzalès exhibition open into the evening, with last entry at 18:45. The museum sits across the avenue from the Grand Palais, which hosts Art Basel Paris this week. An RSVP is needed for this late opening. ## On view - **Opens Wed, Oct 21 · until Oct 25** · [Alice Diop – Geste de Consolation (presented by Miu Miu)](https://artweekguide.com/events/alice-diop-geste-de-consolation-presented-by-miu-miu) — Museum at Palais d'Iéna (CESE), Trocadéro. Filmmaker Alice Diop's first exhibition, commissioned by Miu Miu, leads visitors through four spaces on acts of consolation by Black women artists. It combines film, photography, sculpture, readings, dance and music, with Diop's video installation and Simone Leigh's bronze *Sentinel (Mami Wata)*. Admission is free. - **Until Jan 17, 2027** · [Cezanne et nous (Cezanne and Us)](https://artweekguide.com/events/cezanne-et-nous-cezanne-and-us) — Museum at Grand Palais – Galeries 3 & 4, Champs-Élysées / Matignon. An exhibition of nearly 180 works at the Grand Palais, following how Paul Cezanne's art was discovered, interpreted and transformed from the late 19th century to the present. Artists range from Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso and Mondrian to Joan Mitchell, Bridget Riley and Peter Doig. RSVP is needed. - **Until Jan 24, 2027** · [Kerry James Marshall: The Histories](https://artweekguide.com/events/kerry-james-marshall-the-histories) — Museum at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Trocadéro. A museum exhibition marking the first showing in France devoted to the American painter Kerry James Marshall. It brings together about seventy works from 1980 to the present, arranged in eleven groups and including eight new paintings made for the show. Organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, with the Kunsthaus Zürich. - **Until Jan 25, 2027** · [Zurbarán (1598–1664)](https://artweekguide.com/events/zurbaran-1598-1664) — Museum at Musée du Louvre – Hall Napoléon, Palais-Royal / Louvre. A retrospective of the Spanish Golden Age painter Francisco de Zurbarán, organised with the National Gallery, London and the Art Institute of Chicago. It covers his large monastic commissions, portraits and still lifes, with works by his son Juan. It shares its space with *Sculpter la couleur*, on one ticket. RSVP needed. - **Opens Tue, Oct 20 · until Feb 21, 2027** · [Louise Bourgeois: Extrême tension](https://artweekguide.com/events/louise-bourgeois-extreme-tension) — Museum at BnF Richelieu – Galerie Mansart / Galerie Pigott, Palais-Royal / Louvre. Louise Bourgeois's drawings and prints fill two galleries at the BnF's Richelieu site. The show combines the library's holdings, over a hundred prints and eight artist's books largely donated by her in 1995, with 91 works from the Centre Pompidou. It is her first Paris public-institution show since 2008. RSVP needed. - **Opens Thu, Oct 22 · until Feb 28, 2027** · [Ibrahim Mahama: Le Temps des récoltes (The Time of Harvest)](https://artweekguide.com/events/ibrahim-mahama-le-temps-des-recoltes-the-time-of-harvest) — Museum at Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Palais-Royal / Louvre. Ibrahim Mahama's first Paris exhibition, at the Fondation Cartier, fills the whole building with new site-specific works. These include *Things Fall Apart*, a reconstruction of a 1960s Ghanaian glass-bottle factory, and a version of *Parliament of Ghosts* that hosts talks and performances. A textile installation covers the façade arcades. RSVP needed. - **Until Mar 8, 2027** · [Gustave Fayet, Collector – Creator. Icons of Modern Art](https://artweekguide.com/events/gustave-fayet-collector-creator-icons-of-modern-art) — Museum at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Bois de Boulogne. An exhibition across the whole Fondation Louis Vuitton building on Gustave Fayet (1865–1925), collector, artist and decorative-arts designer. It brings together over 250 works from his dispersed collection, including Van Gogh, Gauguin and Redon, plus 325 of Fayet's own creations. RSVP needed. - **Until Oct 20** · [Libye, patrimoine révélé](https://artweekguide.com/events/libye-patrimoine-revele) — Museum at Institut du monde arabe – Musée, Latin Quarter. An exhibition at the Institut du monde arabe's museum in the Latin Quarter, shown as part of Paris Art Week 2026. Photographs and videos record nearly fifty years of the French archaeological mission in Libya, covering prehistoric to medieval sites including Leptis Magna and Apollonia, and the work of preserving them. - **Opens Tue, Oct 20 · until Oct 23** · [PASSAGES – Pas sages (Quai d'Orsay, on the occasion of Art Basel Paris)](https://artweekguide.com/events/passages-pas-sages-quai-d-orsay-on-the-occasion-of-art-basel-paris) — Museum at Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères – Quai d'Orsay, Invalides / Eiffel Tower. An exhibition in the historic salons of the Quai d'Orsay, home of the French foreign ministry, set alongside Art Basel Paris. It mixes historical and contemporary art, design, crafts, heritage objects and diplomatic archives. Co-produced by Thierry Lemaire and Harry Nuriev; entry is free, by reservation. - **Until Oct 24** · [Pulsions: Jean Dubuffet, les dernières années (1974–1985)](https://artweekguide.com/events/pulsions-jean-dubuffet-les-dernieres-annees-1974-1985) — Museum at Fondation Dubuffet, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. An exhibition at the Fondation Dubuffet in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, with more than 150 works by Jean Dubuffet from his final decade, 1974 to 1985. It covers the years after the Hourloupe cycle, when he made over 1,500 paintings and 1,000 drawings in some twenty series, moving between figuration and abstraction. - **Until Oct 25** · [Barbara Kruger: The History of Tears](https://artweekguide.com/events/barbara-kruger-the-history-of-tears) — Museum at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection (Rotunda), Les Halles. Barbara Kruger's installation at the Bourse de Commerce fills the Rotunda and its 24 display cases. It features large quotations from Orwell's *1984* and Aimé Césaire's *Notebook of a Return to the Native Land* on Tadao Ando's curved walls, light-box texts in the Passage vitrines and two videos. RSVP needed. - **Opens Tue, Oct 20 · until Oct 25** · [Cosima von Bonin – Dollys & Beaux](https://artweekguide.com/events/cosima-von-bonin-dollys-beaux) — Museum at Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Champs-Élysées / Matignon. Cosima von Bonin's plush menagerie *Dollys & Beaux* (2026) is installed among the Petit Palais's historic sculpture galleries. It features a St Bernard, scallops, a bulldog, an octopus, a whale and hermit crabs, first commissioned for Loewe's Fall/Winter 2026 show, now with new tartan and silk accessories. Admission is free. - **Opens Tue, Oct 20 · until Oct 25** · [Kutluğ Ataman: Küba (Art Basel Paris Public Program)](https://artweekguide.com/events/kutlug-ataman-kuba-art-basel-paris-public-program) — Museum at Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Kutluğ Ataman's video installation *Küba* (2004) is shown at the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins as part of the Art Basel Paris Public Program, the fifth such project with the Beaux-Arts de Paris. Forty residents of a former informal settlement near Istanbul give testimonies on 40 television screens, set among mismatched armchairs and salvaged furniture. Admission is free. - **Opens Tue, Oct 20 · until Oct 25** · [Musée Zadkine reopens with a new free collection display](https://artweekguide.com/events/musee-zadkine-reopens-with-a-new-free-collection-display) — Museum at Musée Zadkine, Montparnasse. The studio-museum of sculptor Ossip Zadkine in Montparnasse reopens after a period of closure, with a new route through its collections. The display brings together works not seen before and recent acquisitions. Entry is free, and the reopening forms part of Paris Art Week 2026. - **Until Oct 25** · [Éloge du trait – in the agnès b. collection](https://artweekguide.com/events/eloge-du-trait-in-the-agnes-b-collection) — Museum at La Fab. – Fonds de dotation agnès b., 13e / Paris Rive Gauche. An exhibition of works from the agnès b. collection at La Fab., in Paris's 13th arrondissement. Taking its cue from Henri Michaux, it treats the line as a primary gesture, setting geometric rigour against organic impulse in drawings and other works that structure space and perception. - **Until Oct 26** · [Raymond Hains: l'œuvre en chantier. Du Grand Louvre aux 3 Cartier](https://artweekguide.com/events/raymond-hains-l-oeuvre-en-chantier-du-grand-louvre-aux-3-cartier) — Museum at Place du Palais-Royal (Fondation Cartier outdoor installation), Palais-Royal / Louvre. An outdoor installation on the Place du Palais-Royal marking a hundred years since Raymond Hains's birth. The Fondation Cartier revives a piece from its 1994 exhibition: Hains's photographs of the Grand Louvre building site, mounted on advertising-hoarding structures. Free to visit. - **Until Oct 31** · [Gianni Versace Retrospective](https://artweekguide.com/events/gianni-versace-retrospective) — Museum at Musée Maillol, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. A retrospective of designer Gianni Versace's career and inspirations, with nearly 450 items: original garments, accessories, sketches, decorative objects, photographs and rare videos. Nathalie Crinière designed the pop-style staging. Produced by Dreamrealizer, with no affiliation to the Versace company or family. RSVP is required. - **Until Oct 31** · [Over the top, undercover](https://artweekguide.com/events/over-the-top-undercover) — Museum at Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard, Opéra / Grands Boulevards. A group exhibition at the Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard, bringing together three prize-winning artists. Their films, sound pieces, assemblages and interventions expose the staging that steers perception, desire and language. Salomé Burstein curates. - **Until Nov 1** · [Giacometti surréaliste: Des objets comme des sculptures](https://artweekguide.com/events/giacometti-surrealiste-des-objets-comme-des-sculptures) — Museum at Institut Giacometti, Montparnasse. An exhibition at the Institut Giacometti on Alberto Giacometti's Surrealist years, 1929 to 1935. His Surrealist sculptures hang alongside the lamps, andirons and vases he made in the same period for the decorator Jean-Michel Frank. RSVP is needed. - **Until Nov 1** · [La Mode en majesté: Haute couture and tradition at the Thai court](https://artweekguide.com/events/la-mode-en-majeste-haute-couture-and-tradition-at-the-thai-court) — Museum at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais-Royal / Louvre. An exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs of more than a hundred outfits and accessories from the Thai royal collection. It features the eight traditional costume formats devised by Queen Sirikit, and work from her thirty-year collaboration with Pierre Balmain. Organised with the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles. - **Until Nov 1** · [La Palestine photographiée par Joss Dray](https://artweekguide.com/events/la-palestine-photographiee-par-joss-dray) — Museum at Institut du monde arabe – Bibliothèque Leïla Shahid, Latin Quarter. An exhibition of Joss Dray's photographs of everyday Palestinian life, its faces and places, taken on reportages between 1987 and 2001. Many of the images have not been published before. It is shown in the Institut du monde arabe library, which has just been renamed after Leïla Shahid. - **Until Nov 1** · [Monika Emmanuelle Kazi](https://artweekguide.com/events/monika-emmanuelle-kazi) — Museum at Centre culturel suisse Paris, Le Marais. An exhibition at the Centre culturel suisse in Le Marais, where Monika Emmanuelle Kazi uses mobile picture walls to build an architecture of memory. The work evokes domestic spaces and family stories between Pointe-Noire and Paris, and the colonial history of materials such as cement. Free. - **Until Nov 8** · [Plumes du paradis: Journeys of an extraordinary bird from New Guinea](https://artweekguide.com/events/plumes-du-paradis-journeys-of-an-extraordinary-bird-from-new-guinea) — Museum at Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Invalides / Eiffel Tower. An exhibition at the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac following the birds of paradise of New Guinea across five centuries and through Oceania, Asia and Europe. Nearly 190 works are on show: adornments, paintings by Northern masters, specimens, fashion pieces and illustrated books. - **Until Nov 14** · [Des gestes de nos mondes](https://artweekguide.com/events/des-gestes-de-nos-mondes) — Museum at Frac Île-de-France – Les Réserves, Romainville. An exhibition at Frac Île-de-France's Les Réserves in Romainville, combining works from the Frac collection with new pieces by artists based in Tunisia or from the southern Mediterranean. Photographs, videos, sculptures, textiles and archives address memory, migration and inheritance. Made with 32bis in Tunis, it travels there in 2027. - **Until Nov 14** · [Five Views – La photographie japonaise émergente](https://artweekguide.com/events/five-views-la-photographie-japonaise-emergente) — Museum at Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris, Invalides / Eiffel Tower. An exhibition at the Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris presenting five emerging Japanese photographers, each treating a theme as a "world in miniature": memory of the 2011 disaster, family life around the dining table, social structures, the body and performance, and image reproduction. It forms part of the bicentenary of photography. - **Until Nov 14** · [Robert Burley: Grands Lacs – L'horizon commun des mers intérieures](https://artweekguide.com/events/robert-burley-grands-lacs-l-horizon-commun-des-mers-interieures) — Museum at Centre culturel canadien, Champs-Élysées / Matignon. An exhibition at the Centre culturel canadien of Robert Burley's photographs of the Great Lakes basin, which spans the Canada–US border. The work looks at the lakes as a source of drinking water and as a place of trade, work, leisure, exploitation and vulnerability. Part of the bicentenary of photography. - **Until Nov 22** · [Hugo et l'architecture: De la pierre à la plume](https://artweekguide.com/events/hugo-et-l-architecture-de-la-pierre-a-la-plume) — Museum at Maison de Victor Hugo – Hôtel de Rohan-Guéménée, Le Marais. An exhibition at the Maison de Victor Hugo in the Marais, tracing the writer's relationship with architecture. It draws on his writing and graphic work, from his 1825 defence of heritage, "Guerre aux démolisseurs", to *Notre-Dame de Paris* and his drawings. - **Opens Fri, Oct 23 · until Nov 22** · [Walid Raad: Festival of (in)gratitude](https://artweekguide.com/events/walid-raad-festival-of-in-gratitude) — Museum at CENTQUATRE-PARIS (Écuries), La Villette / 19e. An exhibition of recent works by Walid Raad in the Écuries at CENTQUATRE-PARIS, co-produced with the Festival d'Automne as part of Saison Méditerranée 2026. It looks at the resonances of the 1982-1983 events in Lebanon and at the history of art in the Arab world, from Beirut and Tunis to Ljubljana. - **Until Nov 29** · [Eaux Vives – Caroline Desnoëttes](https://artweekguide.com/events/eaux-vives-caroline-desnoettes) — Museum at Collège des Bernardins, Latin Quarter. An exhibition at the Collège des Bernardins in the Latin Quarter, centred on a monumental polyptych of five bas-reliefs in hand-dyed mulberry-fibre paper. A sound and light piece, made with scientists, accompanies it and looks at water as the source of life, across art, science and theology. - **Opens Wed, Oct 21 · until Nov 29** · [Mungo Thomson: Monument](https://artweekguide.com/events/mungo-thomson-monument) — Museum at Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Le Marais. An exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations in the Marais of two works by Californian artist Mungo Thomson. *Snowman* is a monumental bronze tower, modelled on cardboard shipping tubes, in the courtyard. The stop-motion film *Time Life Volume 15. Monument to a Period of Time in Which I Lived* is made from thousands of book images of candles. - **Until Nov 29** · [Nanténé Traoré: pays des merveilles](https://artweekguide.com/events/nantene-traore-pays-des-merveilles) — Museum at MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Studio), Le Marais. 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. - **Until Nov 29** · [Rester vivant(e) – with Plateforme 10](https://artweekguide.com/events/rester-vivant-e-with-plateforme-10) — Museum at Fondation Fiminco, Romainville. A group exhibition at Fondation Fiminco in Romainville, organised with Lausanne's Plateforme 10. It brings together French and Swiss artists and looks at resistance, transformation and the vitality of the living, favouring robustness over performance. Part of Paris Art Week 2026. - **Until Nov 29** · [Rémi Marcel – Carte blanche, Prix Rubis Mécénat (Beaux-Arts de Paris hors les murs)](https://artweekguide.com/events/remi-marcel-carte-blanche-prix-rubis-mecenat-beaux-arts-de-paris-hors-les-murs) — Museum at Église Saint-Eustache, Les Halles. An installation by Rémi Marcel, winner of the 2026 Prix Rubis Mécénat for Beaux-Arts de Paris graduates, shown inside Saint-Eustache church in Les Halles. The work responds to the church's architecture and its link to the history of the city's food markets. Curated by Oulimata Gueye. Free. - **Until Dec 6** · [Affinités: Wonders of Islamic Art in the Decorative Arts Galleries](https://artweekguide.com/events/affinites-wonders-of-islamic-art-in-the-decorative-arts-galleries) — Museum at Musée du Louvre – Richelieu wing, rooms 502-503, Palais-Royal / Louvre. An exhibition in the Louvre's Richelieu wing, rooms 502-503, placing around fifty objects from the Department of Islamic Art among the Decorative Arts galleries. It follows technical and aesthetic innovations in the Islamic world and their reception in Europe through light, colour and sculpture. RSVP needed. - **Until Dec 13** · [Hashigakari: Matsutani Takesada](https://artweekguide.com/events/hashigakari-matsutani-takesada) — Museum at Musée Cernuschi – Musée des arts de l'Asie de la Ville de Paris, Monceau. A display in the museum's painting gallery marks sixty years since Gutai artist Matsutani Takesada settled in France. It centres on three of his works, which the museum has received as a gift. - **Until Dec 13** · [Pedro Barateiro: Mano manca](https://artweekguide.com/events/pedro-barateiro-mano-manca) — Museum at Le Crédac – Centre d'art contemporain d'Ivry, Ivry-sur-Seine. An exhibition at Le Crédac in Ivry-sur-Seine by the Portuguese artist Pedro Barateiro. It grows out of his research on Vicente Lusitano, a 16th-century composer, and brings together animation, installation, video, performance, sculpture and drawing that question Western thought and its imaginaries. - **Until Dec 14** · [Les Hôtes du Louvre: Kader Attia and Elizabeth Peyton](https://artweekguide.com/events/les-hotes-du-louvre-kader-attia-and-elizabeth-peyton) — Museum at Musée du Louvre – Salle de la Chapelle (Sully wing), Palais-Royal / Louvre. An exhibition in the Louvre's Salle de la Chapelle, in the Sully wing, presenting work from the museum's 2024–2026 artists-in-residence. Kader Attia shows film and installation; Elizabeth Peyton shows paintings and drawings reinterpreting Louvre works. RSVP is needed. - **Opens Tue, Oct 20 · until Dec 18** · [Gina Pane. A Hot Afternoon](https://artweekguide.com/events/gina-pane-a-hot-afternoon) — Museum at Beaux-Arts de Paris, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. An exhibition at the Beaux-Arts de Paris of Gina Pane's 'constat' for *A Hot Afternoon*, the action she made for Documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977. It comprises 19 photographs and 10 preparatory drawings, recently acquired by the school, shown with works from its collection and student contributions. RSVP needed. - **Until Dec 20** · [Robert Capa: Photographe de guerre](https://artweekguide.com/events/robert-capa-photographe-de-guerre) — Museum at Musée de la Libération de Paris – Musée du général Leclerc – Musée Jean Moulin, Montparnasse. An exhibition at the Musée de la Libération de Paris in Montparnasse, organised with Magnum Photos. It brings together over sixty vintage press prints by Robert Capa, alongside magazines, books, documents and personal objects, 160 items in all, following how a young Hungarian immigrant created the figure of the war photographer. - **Until Dec 24** · [Klodin Erb (first solo exhibition in France)](https://artweekguide.com/events/klodin-erb-first-solo-exhibition-in-france) — Museum at Centre culturel suisse Paris, Le Marais. This is the first solo exhibition in France by Swiss painter Klodin Erb, winner of the Grand Prix suisse d'art / Prix Meret-Oppenheim. Monumental paintings hang under the glass roof of the Centre culturel suisse. They draw on images of the birth of Venus and Roman Baroque ceilings, taking a theatrical, sensual and burlesque approach to art history. Entry is free. - **Until Dec 24** · [La Bataille des couleurs (Maison Pompidou)](https://artweekguide.com/events/la-bataille-des-couleurs-maison-pompidou) — Museum at Maison Pompidou, Le Marais. The inaugural exhibition at Maison Pompidou, beside the closed Centre Pompidou in Le Marais, traces the 1971–1977 disputes over the building's colour scheme. President Pompidou, architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, curators and artists clashed over options including gold and blue, brown or all yellow. Entry is free. - **Until Jan 3, 2027** · [François Morellet, traits d'esprit](https://artweekguide.com/events/francois-morellet-traits-d-esprit) — Museum at Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Trocadéro. An exhibition marking a hundred years since François Morellet's birth, set among the museum's permanent collections. Around forty works, three of them monumental, show how he used architectural and public space for geometric abstraction. Organised with the Centre Pompidou and the CNAP; RSVP required. - **Opens Wed, Oct 21 · until Jan 3, 2027** · [Hélène Fauquet: Vivresse](https://artweekguide.com/events/helene-fauquet-vivresse) — Museum at Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Le Marais. Hélène Fauquet's first institutional exhibition in France, *Vivresse*, fills the top floor of the foundation in Le Marais. It shows sculptures in which shells cover her photographs inside ornate frames, alongside recent works on the bubble motif, set between ornament and conceptual art. - **Until Jan 3, 2027** · [Kennedy Yanko – Ce qui nous rassemble (What brings us together)](https://artweekguide.com/events/kennedy-yanko-ce-qui-nous-rassemble-what-brings-us-together) — Museum at Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine – Galerie des moulages, Trocadéro. New sculptures by American artist Kennedy Yanko, combining salvaged metal with poured and cut "skins" of acrylic paint, are placed among the plaster casts of French monumental sculpture in the Galerie des moulages. Part of the Art Basel Paris Public Program, the series draws on the legend of Mary Magdalene's journey to the south of France. - **Until Jan 3, 2027** · [L'Espace entre nous – the Wilson Centre for Photography collection](https://artweekguide.com/events/l-espace-entre-nous-the-wilson-centre-for-photography-collection) — Museum at Le BAL, Pigalle / 9e. Le BAL's first exhibition drawn from a collection, marking the bicentenary of photography. It presents 120 mostly vintage prints from the Wilson Centre for Photography, founded by Michael and Jane Wilson, dating from the 1920s to today and examining the bond between photographer and subject. - **Until Jan 3, 2027** · [Patrimoines en résistance, de Tombouctou à Odessa](https://artweekguide.com/events/patrimoines-en-resistance-de-tombouctou-a-odessa) — Museum at Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, Trocadéro. An exhibition at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine on heritage targeted in armed conflicts, with sites ranging from Timbuktu and Bamiyan to Gaza and Odessa. It brings together graphic documents, contemporary artworks and digital replicas of lost sites, looking at resistance and repair. - **Until Jan 3, 2027** · [Salle-dossier: Pablo Picasso through the lens of Cahiers d'Art](https://artweekguide.com/events/salle-dossier-pablo-picasso-through-the-lens-of-cahiers-d-art) — Museum at Musée national Picasso-Paris, Le Marais. A focus display at the Musée national Picasso-Paris marking 100 years since Christian Zervos founded the review *Cahiers d'Art* in 1926. It looks at how the review championed Picasso alongside Braque, Laurens and the Surrealists, and built a "cubist genealogy of surrealism". - **Until Jan 3, 2027** · [Tenter l'art pour soigner: at the Blida-Joinville psychiatric hospital in the 1960s](https://artweekguide.com/events/tenter-l-art-pour-soigner-at-the-blida-joinville-psychiatric-hospital-in-the-1960s) — Museum at Institut du monde arabe – Musée, Latin Quarter. An exhibition at the Institut du monde arabe's museum drawing on social-therapy workshops held at Blida-Joinville psychiatric hospital in Algeria, the institution associated with Frantz Fanon. It shows painted ceramics, gouache drawings and archives from the late 1960s, donated to the museum in 2021. - **Opens Wed, Oct 21 · until Jan 3, 2027** · [Yu Nishimura: Towards a Sea](https://artweekguide.com/events/yu-nishimura-towards-a-sea) — Museum at Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation Galeries Lafayette, Le Marais. A solo exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations in the Marais, and the first institutional monograph in France devoted to Japanese painter Yu Nishimura. It brings together around fifty drawings and large paintings from the past decade, some made for the show, of sea-haunted landscapes with blurred, dreamlike figures. - **Until Jan 4, 2027** · [Daniel Dezeuze](https://artweekguide.com/events/daniel-dezeuze) — Museum at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Trocadéro. A museum presentation of twenty recently acquired works by Daniel Dezeuze, born 1942 and a co-founder of Supports/Surfaces. The works follow his output from 1982 onwards and include assemblages made from reused doors, panels and skis. - **Until Jan 4, 2027** · [Florian Krewer: woven thin](https://artweekguide.com/events/florian-krewer-woven-thin) — Museum at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Trocadéro. A museum exhibition marking the first solo show in France by Florian Krewer, a German painter based in New York. It brings together sixteen recent monumental canvases, some never shown before, hung among the collection galleries after the artist gave works to the museum. - **Until Jan 4, 2027** · [Jean-François Bauret](https://artweekguide.com/events/jean-francois-bauret) — Museum at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Trocadéro. A single room at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris shows portraits of artists by the French photographer Jean-François Bauret (1932–2014). The prints come from a 2017 gift of 80 photographs, and every sitter is an artist represented in the museum's collection. - **Until Jan 4, 2027** · [Le savoir en trompe-l'œil: Corée, 18e–20e siècle](https://artweekguide.com/events/le-savoir-en-trompe-l-oeil-coree-18e-20e-siecle) — Museum at Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, Trocadéro. An exhibition at the Guimet on Korean chaekgeori, screens painted in trompe-l'œil with bookshelves and scholars' objects. It follows the genre from the court of King Jeongjo in the late 18th century into the 20th, tracing Chinese collecting culture and European perspective that reached Korea via Beijing. - **Until Jan 4, 2027** · [Mariella Simoni](https://artweekguide.com/events/mariella-simoni) — Museum at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Trocadéro. The museum shows its newly acquired paintings by Mariella Simoni, an Italian artist born in 1948. Her work moves between conceptual art and abstraction. The paintings hang in the collection galleries, and admission is free. - **Until Jan 4, 2027** · [Portraits de famille (Jean-Jacques Henner)](https://artweekguide.com/events/portraits-de-famille-jean-jacques-henner) — Museum at Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner, Monceau. An exhibition at the Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner in Monceau, devoted to the portraits Henner made of his relatives: his mother, sister, brothers and their children. The family supported him after his father's death and were his first and last models. - **Until Jan 4, 2027** · [Stéphane Bordarier](https://artweekguide.com/events/stephane-bordarier) — Museum at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Trocadéro. A museum exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, part of Paris Art Week 2026. It brings together five paintings by Stéphane Bordarier (born 1953) acquired by the collection in 2026 with loans from his studio, among them works from the Noires series, made with pigment and warm rabbit-skin glue. - **Until Jan 9, 2027** · [Archives des invisibles – a project by Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige](https://artweekguide.com/events/archives-des-invisibles-a-project-by-joana-hadjithomas-khalil-joreige) — Museum at KADIST Paris, Montmartre / 18e. An exhibition at KADIST Paris conceived by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. It brings together filmmakers and artists mainly from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine and France. Talks, screenings and tours run alongside it, as part of the Saison Méditerranée 2026. - **Until Jan 10, 2027** · [Andy Warhol: La ligne et l'image](https://artweekguide.com/events/andy-warhol-la-ligne-et-l-image) — Museum at Musée du Luxembourg, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. An exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg devoted to Andy Warhol's drawing. It follows the medium from his training in illustration through his whole career, presenting it as a constant field of experiment alongside the silkscreens and celebrity portraits. - **Until Jan 10, 2027** · [Animalia: Bestiary from the Al Thani Collection](https://artweekguide.com/events/animalia-bestiary-from-the-al-thani-collection) — Museum at Hôtel de la Marine – The Al Thani Collection, Concorde / Tuileries. An exhibition at the Hôtel de la Marine of more than 120 works from the Al Thani Collection, many of them on show in Paris for the first time. It looks at how cultures across four continents have portrayed real and imaginary creatures and drawn on the animal kingdom. - **Opens Wed, Oct 21 · until Jan 10, 2027** · [Céleste Richard-Zimmermann: Toutes les colonnes n'ont pas un cœur de pierre](https://artweekguide.com/events/celeste-richard-zimmermann-toutes-les-colonnes-n-ont-pas-un-coeur-de-pierre) — Museum at Palais de Tokyo, Trocadéro. A solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo by Céleste Richard-Zimmermann, winner of the Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo 2025–2026. Works in stone, plaster, copper and polystyrene rework the vocabulary of official statuary and architectures of power. Horya Makhlouf curated it. - **Until Jan 10, 2027** · [Le monde selon Penn (The World According to Penn)](https://artweekguide.com/events/le-monde-selon-penn-the-world-according-to-penn) — Museum at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection (Galerie 2), Les Halles. An exhibition of nearly 450 photographs by Irving Penn, all from the Pinault Collection, at the Bourse de Commerce in Galerie 2. The work runs from the 1940s to the early 2000s and covers portraits, fashion, ethnographic studies, nudes, still lifes and flowers. It forms part of *Remember Me*. - **Opens Tue, Oct 20 · until Jan 10, 2027** · [Soleil et Lune. Andreas Eriksson en dialogue avec Ivan Aguéli](https://artweekguide.com/events/soleil-et-lune-andreas-eriksson-en-dialogue-avec-ivan-agueli) — Museum at Institut suédois, Le Marais. An exhibition at the Institut suédois pairing large-scale paintings by contemporary Swedish artist Andreas Eriksson with about ten small landscapes by the painter and mystic Ivan Aguéli (1869-1917). Eriksson chose the Aguéli works himself. Sara Arrhenius, the Institute's director, curated. - **Opens Tue, Oct 20 · until Jan 10, 2027** · [Stan Douglas: Parallax](https://artweekguide.com/events/stan-douglas-parallax) — Museum at Jeu de Paume, Concorde / Tuileries. A museum exhibition of Vancouver-based artist Stan Douglas, the largest of his work in France in over 30 years. It brings together photographic series and film and video installations on how history is constructed, represented and transmitted, including *Disco Angola* and *Birth of a Nation*. RSVP needed. - **Until Jan 11, 2027** · [The Michel Lacoste Donation: French Silver from Mangot to Puiforcat](https://artweekguide.com/events/the-michel-lacoste-donation-french-silver-from-mangot-to-puiforcat) — Museum at Musée du Louvre – Sully wing, room 605, Palais-Royal / Louvre. An exhibition at the Louvre of one hundred pieces of French silverware from the 16th to 18th century, given to the museum by collector Michel Lacoste in 2025. The pieces are shown together with the Louvre's own silver and ceramics. RSVP is needed. - **Until Jan 16, 2027** · [Faire place au monde (group exhibition of resident artists)](https://artweekguide.com/events/faire-place-au-monde-group-exhibition-of-resident-artists) — Museum at Cité internationale des arts, Le Marais. A group exhibition at the Cité internationale des arts in Le Marais, part of Paris Art Week 2026. Sixteen artists from fifteen countries, all current or former residents since 1992, address cultural internationalism, including hospitality, displacement and unequal mobility, in an institution founded after the Second World War. - **Until Jan 16, 2027** · [To Make Space for the World](https://artweekguide.com/events/to-make-space-for-the-world) — Museum at Cité internationale des arts - Marais site (Galerie), Le Marais. A group exhibition in the gallery of the Cité internationale des arts' Marais site. Sixteen artists from 15 countries, all current or former residents of the Cité, reflect on the promises and contradictions of cultural internationalism. Talks accompany the show at the Fondation Cartier's Parliament of Ghosts. - **Until Jan 17, 2027** · [Mes chers amis: Drawings in the collections of 19th-century French artists](https://artweekguide.com/events/mes-chers-amis-drawings-in-the-collections-of-19th-century-french-artists) — Museum at Fondation Custodia – Collection Frits Lugt, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. An exhibition at the Fondation Custodia on drawings that 19th-century French artists gathered from friends and fellow artists, out of friendship or admiration. It looks at artists' social circles and at the artist-collectors themselves, and marks the reopening of the foundation's Paris galleries after renovation. - **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 17, 2027** · [Premières Nations: Arts and cultures of the American Northwest Coast](https://artweekguide.com/events/premieres-nations-arts-and-cultures-of-the-american-northwest-coast) — Museum at Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Invalides / Eiffel Tower. An exhibition at the Musée du quai Branly on the First Nations of the North American Northwest Coast. It covers totem poles, house fronts, masks, garments and everyday objects featuring spirit beings such as Raven, across some forty languages and 1,800 km of coastline. - **Until Jan 18, 2027** · [Open Space \#19: Mohammad Alfaraj – I'd rather be a dragonfly than a lion](https://artweekguide.com/events/open-space-19-mohammad-alfaraj-i-d-rather-be-a-dragonfly-than-a-lion) — Museum at Fondation Louis Vuitton – Gallery 8, Bois de Boulogne. Mohammad Alfaraj, a Saudi artist born in 1993 who lives in the Al Ahsa oasis, has his first solo show in a French institution in Gallery 8. It presents new stop-motion animated videos of fables he writes and performs, set within an installation of objects, photographs and drawings. Entry is with a ticket for the Gustave Fayet exhibition. - **Until Jan 18, 2027** · [Remember Me](https://artweekguide.com/events/remember-me) — Museum at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Les Halles. A group exhibition at the Bourse de Commerce marking two hundred years of photography, drawn from the Pinault Collection. Around 700 works by more than 70 artists are arranged by the theme of memory rather than chronology. RSVP is needed. - **Until Jan 24, 2027** · [Eva Gonzalès: Parcours d'une artiste libre](https://artweekguide.com/events/eva-gonzales-parcours-d-une-artiste-libre) — Museum at Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Champs-Élysées / Matignon. An exhibition at the Petit Palais, part of Paris Art Week 2026, and the first monographic show devoted to the Impressionist-era painter Eva Gonzalès (1847–1883). It travels to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in February 2027. RSVP is needed. - **Until Jan 24, 2027** · [L'étoffe de l'artiste: De Rosa Bonheur à Sonia Delaunay](https://artweekguide.com/events/l-etoffe-de-l-artiste-de-rosa-bonheur-a-sonia-delaunay) — Museum at Musée Bourdelle, Montparnasse. An exhibition at Musée Bourdelle on how artists from the late 19th to mid-20th century presented themselves through dress. It brings together over 50 garments, accessories and objects worn by Gustav Klimt, Rosa Bonheur, Foujita and Sonia Delaunay, shown with photographs, paintings, drawings and sculptures. It follows the 2020 rediscovery of Antoine Bourdelle's own clothes. - **Until Jan 24, 2027** · [Nicolas Flamel: Alchimiste de papier](https://artweekguide.com/events/nicolas-flamel-alchimiste-de-papier) — Museum at Musée de Cluny – Musée national du Moyen Âge, Latin Quarter. An exhibition at the Musée de Cluny that sets the legend of Nicolas Flamel, portrayed as an immortal magician who guarded universal secrets, against the historical figure: a Parisian bourgeois of the 14th century. It forms part of Paris Art Week 2026. - **Until Jan 24, 2027** · [Simone Fattal: Des villes au fond d'un lac (Cities at the Bottom of a Lake)](https://artweekguide.com/events/simone-fattal-des-villes-au-fond-d-un-lac-cities-at-the-bottom-of-a-lake) — Museum at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Trocadéro. The first Paris museum exhibition of Lebanese-American artist Simone Fattal, born in 1942, at the Musée d'Art Moderne. Around a hundred works span more than fifty years, from early landscape paintings and ceramic figures inspired by Mediterranean myth to collages, watercolours and ink drawings, arranged non-chronologically. - **Opens Tue, Oct 20 · until Jan 24, 2027** · [Visionnaires: Carte blanche à Prune Nourry](https://artweekguide.com/events/visionnaires-carte-blanche-a-prune-nourry) — Museum at Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, Champs-Élysées / Matignon. Prune Nourry has been given carte blanche at the Petit Palais, where her sculpted portraits of eighteen overlooked women sculptors from the late 19th and early 20th centuries appear across the museum. The works draw on a year of research by three art historians and sit within the permanent collections. - **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 Jan 24, 2027** · [Éternel Tintoret](https://artweekguide.com/events/eternel-tintoret) — Museum at Musée Jacquemart-André, Monceau. An exhibition at the Musée Jacquemart-André in Monceau, part of Paris Art Week 2026. It surveys the whole career of the Venetian Renaissance painter Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoretto (1518/19–1594), and his influence on 19th-century French painting. It is the first such survey in France. RSVP required. - **Until Jan 25, 2027** · [Monet, peindre le temps (Monet, Painting Time)](https://artweekguide.com/events/monet-peindre-le-temps-monet-painting-time) — Museum at Musée de l'Orangerie, Concorde / Tuileries. An exhibition at the Musée de l'Orangerie marking a hundred years since Claude Monet's death. It follows his approach to time, from the quick impressions of the 1870s through the 1890s series (Cathedrals, Haystacks, Poplars) to the Water Lilies. It travels to Tate Modern in 2027. - **Until Jan 25, 2027** · [Nan Goldin: Stendhal Syndrome](https://artweekguide.com/events/nan-goldin-stendhal-syndrome) — Museum at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection (Auditorium), Les Halles. A slideshow by Nan Goldin, screened in the Auditorium of the Bourse de Commerce as part of *Remember Me*. It sets Renaissance, Baroque and classical masterpieces, photographed in major museums, beside portraits of her friends and lovers, and takes its inspiration from Ovid's *Metamorphoses*. - **Until Jan 25, 2027** · [Raymond Depardon: La France](https://artweekguide.com/events/raymond-depardon-la-france) — Museum at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection (Galerie 3), Les Halles. Around fifty photographs from Raymond Depardon's long-running series on the French landscape, taken with a view camera from his van. The works come from the Pinault Collection and are shown in Galerie 3 at the Bourse de Commerce, as part of *Remember Me*. - **Until Jan 25, 2027** · [Sculpter la couleur – Masterpieces from the Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid](https://artweekguide.com/events/sculpter-la-couleur-masterpieces-from-the-museo-nacional-de-escultura-valladolid) — Museum at Musée du Louvre – Hall Napoléon, Palais-Royal / Louvre. An exhibition at the Louvre's Hall Napoléon of seventeenth-century Spanish polychrome wood sculpture, lent by the Museo Nacional de Escultura in Valladolid. It includes a complete processional paso by Gregorio Fernández and shares a scenography with the Zurbarán retrospective. RSVP is needed. - **Until Jan 31, 2027** · [Auguste Bartholdi: La Liberté éclairant le monde](https://artweekguide.com/events/auguste-bartholdi-la-liberte-eclairant-le-monde) — Museum at Musée d'Orsay, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. An exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay on sculptor Auguste Bartholdi and the making of the Statue of Liberty. It follows the work from a Suez Canal project through construction with Viollet-le-Duc and Gustave Eiffel to its 1886 inauguration in New York. Organised with the Musée Bartholdi, Colmar; a separate VR experience runs in the Galerie Amont. - **Until Jan 31, 2027** · [Histoires de paysages: De Monet à Hockney (1890–2026)](https://artweekguide.com/events/histoires-de-paysages-de-monet-a-hockney-1890-2026) — Museum at Musée Marmottan Monet, Trocadéro. A joint exhibition with the Musée de Grenoble following landscape painting from 1890 to the present, from its 19th-century triumph through its 20th-century retreat to contemporary reinventions. Monet and Hockney mark its two ends. Pierre Wat curates, and the show moves to Grenoble in March 2027. - **Until Jan 31, 2027** · [Mary Cassatt: L'indépendante](https://artweekguide.com/events/mary-cassatt-l-independante) — Museum at Musée d'Orsay, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. An exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay marking the centenary of Mary Cassatt's death. It is the first major show of her work at a French national museum, with nearly 80 paintings, pastels and prints from across her career, viewed through the idea of independence and drawing on unpublished letters and rarely lent American and European works. - **Until Jan 31, 2027** · [Monet / Soriano: Cartographie du Mont Kolsås](https://artweekguide.com/events/monet-soriano-cartographie-du-mont-kolsas) — Museum at Musée Marmottan Monet, Trocadéro. The eleventh show in the museum's *Dialogues inattendus* series, this exhibition pairs Claude Monet with French-American artist Peter Soriano. Soriano has made a monumental wall drawing that revisits Monet's winter trip to Norway in 1895 and the snowy Mount Kolsås landscapes that inspired him. - **Until Jan 31, 2027** · [Nadar: Inventer Paris, des profondeurs au ciel](https://artweekguide.com/events/nadar-inventer-paris-des-profondeurs-au-ciel) — Museum at Les Catacombes de Paris, Montparnasse. An exhibition at the Catacombs of Paris marking the bicentenary of photography. It looks at Nadar as an inventor who documented Paris from the underground ossuaries, where he made pioneering artificial-light photographs, up to the sky. - **Until Jan 31, 2027** · [Photographies japonaises de la BnF: Scènes, signes, sensations](https://artweekguide.com/events/photographies-japonaises-de-la-bnf-scenes-signes-sensations) — Museum at BnF François-Mitterrand – Galerie 2, 13e / Paris Rive Gauche. An exhibition drawn from the BnF's own collections, following 80 years of Japanese photography through about 300 works: 250 mostly black-and-white prints and around fifty rare photobooks. It forms part of the library's marking of photography's bicentenary. RSVP is needed. - **Until Jan 31, 2027** · [SMITH: Ici grand ouvert](https://artweekguide.com/events/smith-ici-grand-ouvert) — Museum at MAC VAL – Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine. A survey of nearly twenty years of work by SMITH (born 1985) at MAC VAL, in Vitry-sur-Seine. It brings together photography, installation, performance and moving image, exploring altered states of consciousness where art, science and spirituality meet. It forms part of the official programme for photography's bicentenary. - **Until Jan 31, 2027** · [Vies minuscules (Centre Pompidou at the Panthéon)](https://artweekguide.com/events/vies-minuscules-centre-pompidou-at-the-pantheon) — Museum at Panthéon, Latin Quarter. An exhibition in the nave of the Panthéon, drawing on the Centre Pompidou collection. Some thirty artists look at how art has made room for lives on the margins of grand history. It takes its title from Pierre Michon's 1984 book and is co-produced with the Centre des monuments nationaux. RSVP needed. - **Until Jan 31, 2027** · [Voir Tahiti: First photographs 1859–1870](https://artweekguide.com/events/voir-tahiti-first-photographs-1859-1870) — Museum at Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Invalides / Eiffel Tower. An exhibition at the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac of the earliest photographs of French Polynesia, which the museum acquired in 2023. It shows paper negatives made in 1859–1862 by naval surgeon Gustave Viaud, elder brother of Pierre Loti, and images by naval officer Paul Émile Miot. - **Until Feb 7, 2027** · [Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust: From Rasht](https://artweekguide.com/events/darius-dolatyari-dolatdoust-from-rasht) — Museum at Institut des Cultures d'Islam (ICI), Montmartre / 18e. An exhibition at the Institut des Cultures d'Islam, and Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust's first solo show in Paris. About fifty woven, sewn and drawn works, along with new pieces, trace his father's family story from Rasht, uprooted after the 1979 Iranian revolution, and an Iranian diaspora. The scenography draws on his performances. - **Until Feb 7, 2027** · [Kurt Schwitters: Le chaos-monde 1918–1948](https://artweekguide.com/events/kurt-schwitters-le-chaos-monde-1918-1948) — Museum at Musée national Picasso-Paris, Le Marais. A retrospective of Kurt Schwitters at the Musée national Picasso-Paris, the first in France since 1994. More than 300 works and documents range from paintings, sculptures and assemblages to collages, notebooks, photographs and books, covering Merz, Dada and constructivism, with parallels drawn to Picasso's use of everyday materials. - **Until Feb 7, 2027** · [Prix Marcel Duchamp 2026 – exhibition of the nominees](https://artweekguide.com/events/prix-marcel-duchamp-2026-exhibition-of-the-nominees) — Museum at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Trocadéro. The four nominees for the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2026 show work at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris: Joël Andrianomearisoa, Brognon Rollin, Laura Henno and Josèfa Ntjam. It is staged among the museum's collection galleries, in partnership with the Centre Pompidou. Admission is free. - **Until Feb 7, 2027** · [Salle-dossier: André Malraux and Pablo Picasso – the Imaginary Museum](https://artweekguide.com/events/salle-dossier-andre-malraux-and-pablo-picasso-the-imaginary-museum) — Museum at Musée national Picasso-Paris, Le Marais. A focus display at the Musée national Picasso-Paris, in the Marais, as part of Paris Art Week 2026. It looks at André Malraux's encounter with Picasso's personal collection at Notre-Dame-de-Vie, which came after the artist's death in 1973 at the invitation of Jacqueline Roque. - **Until Feb 8, 2027** · [Seulgi Lee: DAL DARI, La Lune et les Jambes](https://artweekguide.com/events/seulgi-lee-dal-dari-la-lune-et-les-jambes) — Museum at Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet, Trocadéro. Seulgi Lee has made a monumental installation that runs across the museum's façade and through its interior. It draws on a Korean belief that crossing a bridge under the year's first full moon strengthens the legs, and marks 140 years of diplomatic relations between France and Korea. - **Opens Wed, Oct 21 · until Feb 14, 2027** · [Ali Cherri: Today Is OK](https://artweekguide.com/events/ali-cherri-today-is-ok) — Museum at Palais de Tokyo, Trocadéro. An exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo by French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri, growing out of his new feature film *La Sentinelle*, which the museum co-produced and which screened at Cannes 2026. It brings together sets, sculptures and installations, including a monumental sculpture inspired by military monuments, and addresses war and its effects on bodies and imaginations. - **Until Feb 14, 2027** · [Lassana Sarre: Globale Inversion Inversion](https://artweekguide.com/events/lassana-sarre-globale-inversion-inversion) — Museum at Palais de Tokyo, Trocadéro. An exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo of murals, canvases and a sound piece that Lassana Sarre painted on site. Sarre first shared the daily life of the museum's security teams, and the work portrays these often unseen people who guard artworks and visitors. - **Until Feb 14, 2027** · [Le Cirque, fabrique de l'art moderne](https://artweekguide.com/events/le-cirque-fabrique-de-l-art-moderne) — Museum at Musée de Montmartre – Jardins Renoir, Montmartre / 18e. An exhibition at the Musée de Montmartre treating the circus as a testing ground for modern art. It looks at the Cirque Fernando, later Medrano, in Montmartre, and the artists it inspired, among them Degas, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Chagall, Rouault and Léger. - **Until Feb 14, 2027** · [Paris à l'arraché: Jacques Villeglé et l'art urbain](https://artweekguide.com/events/paris-a-l-arrache-jacques-villegle-et-l-art-urbain) — Museum at Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris, Le Marais. An exhibition at the Musée Carnavalet in the Marais, presenting Jacques Villeglé's torn posters taken from Parisian walls since the 1950s. They appear with photographs, sound archives, films and many unpublished documents, alongside contemporary urban artists. The show follows four neighbourhoods where he collected, from Porte Maillot to the Marais. - **Opens Wed, Oct 21 · until Feb 14, 2027** · [Paul Kodjo: Photoromance](https://artweekguide.com/events/paul-kodjo-photoromance) — Museum at Palais de Tokyo, Trocadéro. A solo exhibition of work by Ivorian photographer Paul Kodjo (1939–2021), who documented Côte d'Ivoire's transformations in the 1970s. Co-produced with Les Rencontres d'Arles, where it was first shown in summer 2026. Amandine Nana curates. - **Opens Wed, Oct 21 · until Feb 14, 2027** · [Rose Lowder: La Source de la Loire et autres films](https://artweekguide.com/events/rose-lowder-la-source-de-la-loire-et-autres-films) — Museum at Palais de Tokyo, Trocadéro. A museum exhibition of recent 16mm work by experimental filmmaker Rose Lowder at Palais de Tokyo. It features a projection of *La Source de la Loire* (2019–2021) and twenty one-minute "bouquet" films shot in biodiversity-preserving gardens in southern France and northern Italy. François Piron curated it. - **Opens Wed, Oct 21 · until Feb 14, 2027** · [Sonia Gomes: Cœur sauvage](https://artweekguide.com/events/sonia-gomes-coeur-sauvage) — Museum at Palais de Tokyo, Trocadéro. A solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, in Trocadéro, devoted to Brazilian artist Sonia Gomes. It brings together sculptures, wall works and installations made from found and donated textiles, rope and embroidery. Her work draws on Afro-Brazilian traditions and addresses colonial legacies, race and gender. - **Opens Wed, Oct 21 · until Feb 14, 2027** · [Toi et ta bande](https://artweekguide.com/events/toi-et-ta-bande) — Museum at Palais de Tokyo, Trocadéro. A group exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo, forming part of its autumn season *Tous les feux, les fleurs*. It brings together artists and collectives working outside cities, in rural areas, mountains and islands including the Cévennes, Corsica, Guadeloupe and the Basque Country. Around twenty works are shown, many newly produced. - **Until Feb 14, 2027** · [Un vestiaire à soi: Féminités dissidentes au 19e siècle](https://artweekguide.com/events/un-vestiaire-a-soi-feminites-dissidentes-au-19e-siecle) — Museum at Palais Galliera – Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, Trocadéro. An exhibition at the Palais Galliera, Paris's fashion museum, on women in the 19th century who took up the male dress codes of their time. It treats this little-known practice as a form of dissident femininity. Part of Paris Art Week 2026. - **Opens Wed, Oct 21 · until Feb 14, 2027** · [Valérie John: I telman nwè ki i blé (So black it turns blue)](https://artweekguide.com/events/valerie-john-i-telman-nwe-ki-i-ble-so-black-it-turns-blue) — Museum at Palais de Tokyo, Trocadéro. A solo exhibition at Palais de Tokyo devoted to Valérie John, an artist based in Martinique. It looks at indigo blue as material, memory and gesture, through textiles, paper works and book assemblages made since the 1990s between the Caribbean and West Africa. - **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. - **Until Feb 15, 2027** · [Éclats d'amour – carte blanche à Laurent Pernot](https://artweekguide.com/events/eclats-d-amour-carte-blanche-a-laurent-pernot) — Museum at Musée de La Poste (Musée postal), Montparnasse. An exhibition at the Musée de La Poste in Montparnasse, in which artist Laurent Pernot draws on the museum's collections, notably old letters, to explore love in wartime. It brings out fragments of intimate words exchanged across conflicts, from the Siege of Paris to the present. - **Opens Tue, Oct 20 · until Feb 21, 2027** · [Jenny Holzer: J'ai vu (I Saw)](https://artweekguide.com/events/jenny-holzer-j-ai-vu-i-saw) — Museum at Musée d'Orsay, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Jenny Holzer has conceived an exhibition for the Musée d'Orsay, built around texts from the museum's archives, including artists' letters, and literary and political writings of the period. It includes a site-specific LED installation, gold- and platinum-leaf paintings, stone engravings and façade projections. - **Until Feb 21, 2027** · [Lionel Sabatté: Ce qui reste](https://artweekguide.com/events/lionel-sabatte-ce-qui-reste) — Museum at Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Le Marais. Lionel Sabatté fills the whole Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature with paintings, drawings, sculptures and tapestries, most of them new. Made from dust, rust, wool, nail clippings, dead skin and cement, the works recast the museum's emblematic animals as figures of loss and transformation. - **Until Feb 21, 2027** · [Rayane Mcirdi: Joyeuse retraite papa](https://artweekguide.com/events/rayane-mcirdi-joyeuse-retraite-papa) — Museum at Frac Île-de-France – Le Plateau, La Villette / 19e. An exhibition at Frac Île-de-France – Le Plateau, marking video artist Rayane Mcirdi's first institutional show in Paris. His films sit between documentary and fiction, drawing on stories and memories from family and neighbours in Asnières-sur-Seine and Gennevilliers, between Algeria and France. - **Until Feb 28, 2027** · [Vive la mariée! Algérie, Maroc, Tunisie](https://artweekguide.com/events/vive-la-mariee-algerie-maroc-tunisie) — Museum at Institut du monde arabe, Latin Quarter. An exhibition at the Institut du monde arabe on weddings in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. It presents bridal costumes and adornments never before shown in France, alongside works by 27 contemporary artists from the Maghreb and its diasporas. It forms part of the Saison Méditerranée 2026. RSVP needed. - **Until Mar 7, 2027** · [Artistes au Muséum](https://artweekguide.com/events/artistes-au-museum) — Museum at Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle – Grande Galerie de l'Évolution, Latin Quarter. An exhibition at the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution marking the Muséum's 400th anniversary. More than 300 works from its art collections range from imagery of scientific expeditions to pieces by contemporary artists inspired by natural history, tracing links between art and science. - **Opens Wed, Oct 21 · until Mar 7, 2027** · [Martine Franck: Images, presse et luttes féministes](https://artweekguide.com/events/martine-franck-images-presse-et-luttes-feministes) — Museum at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Le Marais. An exhibition at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Le Marais, mostly of previously unpublished photographs by Martine Franck (1938–2012) documenting feminist struggles in 1970s Paris. They are shown alongside the feminist press of the period and her later commissioned series *Des femmes et la création* and *Des métiers et des femmes*. - **Until Mar 7, 2027** · [Moteur imaginaire (Imaginary Engine): From masterpieces of the Collection Renault to artists of today](https://artweekguide.com/events/moteur-imaginaire-imaginary-engine-from-masterpieces-of-the-collection-renault-to-artists-of-today) — Museum at Large, cultures contemporaines (Île Seguin), Boulogne-Billancourt. The opening exhibition of Large, a new contemporary art centre founded by Emerige and Laurent Dumas on the former Renault factory site, in a building by RCR Arquitectes with CALQ. Cecilia Alemani curates about 120 works by 55 artists, including 17 new commissions, on humans, factories and machines. - **Opens Wed, Oct 21 · until Mar 7, 2027** · [Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua, Histoire, Mémoire](https://artweekguide.com/events/susan-meiselas-nicaragua-histoire-memoire) — Museum at Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Le Marais. An exhibition at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Le Marais, showing Susan Meiselas's photographs of the 1978–79 Nicaraguan revolution, including Molotov Man. It also follows her return visits over four decades, tracing how the images reappeared on murals, T-shirts and stamps, and finding the people pictured. - **Until Mar 14, 2027** · [Georges Kars, 1880–1945: Un Bohémien à Paris](https://artweekguide.com/events/georges-kars-1880-1945-un-bohemien-a-paris) — Museum at Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ), Le Marais. A retrospective at the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme in the Marais, devoted to Czech-born School of Paris painter Georges Kars. It brings together more than 150 paintings, drawings and archive documents following his European career, and is the first major Paris retrospective of his work since 1945. - **Until Mar 15, 2027** · [L'Eau primordiale: Lessons from Mesopotamia](https://artweekguide.com/events/l-eau-primordiale-lessons-from-mesopotamia) — Museum at Musée du Louvre – Richelieu wing, room 230, Palais-Royal / Louvre. An exhibition and trail through the Louvre's Near Eastern Antiquities galleries, looking at how ancient Mesopotamia managed water, from irrigation to canals and aqueducts, and at the environmental lessons that follow. All works come from the museum's own collections. RSVP is required. - **Until Apr 4, 2027** · [Look! 40 ans de mode au musée](https://artweekguide.com/events/look-40-ans-de-mode-au-musee) — Museum at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais-Royal / Louvre. An exhibition marking forty years of the fashion museum within the Arts Décoratifs. It presents 40 silhouettes from the museum's collections, staged in the central nave alongside sketches, patterns and embroidery. - **Until Apr 18, 2027** · [Delacroix, chevaux et autres animaux](https://artweekguide.com/events/delacroix-chevaux-et-autres-animaux) — Museum at Musée national Eugène-Delacroix, Saint-Germain-des-Prés. A museum display on the animals in Eugène Delacroix's work, from horses to lions and tigers. It was prompted by the museum's acquisition of two restored studies of stallions, which are shown at the museum for the first time. - **Until Apr 18, 2027** · [Stefan Sagmeister: Finally, Something Good.](https://artweekguide.com/events/stefan-sagmeister-finally-something-good) — Museum at La Gaîté Lyrique, Le Marais. An exhibition at La Gaîté Lyrique in Le Marais, spread over 800 m². Designer Stefan Sagmeister draws on more than a century of data about health, food, democracy and migration, presenting it as sculptures, projections, installations and paintings. It is framed as an optimistic answer to nostalgia. - **Until Apr 25, 2027** · [Hassan Hajjaj + Acid Arab: My Rock Stars](https://artweekguide.com/events/hassan-hajjaj-acid-arab-my-rock-stars) — Museum at Philharmonie de Paris – Musée de la musique, La Villette / 19e. An installation of Hassan Hajjaj's *My Rock Stars* portraits at the Musée de la musique, with sitters including Billie Eilish, Madonna, Rachid Taha, Lee 'Scratch' Perry and gnawa master Babohot. The band Acid Arab created an electronic soundtrack for the show. - **Until May 2, 2027** · [Rafael Pavarotti, photographe](https://artweekguide.com/events/rafael-pavarotti-photographe) — Museum at Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais-Royal / Louvre. The first exhibition in France of Brazilian photographer Rafael Pavarotti, born in Pará in 1993, brings together more than 200 prints. They include magazine covers, portraits of Rihanna, Harry Styles and Beyoncé, and fashion-house campaigns, shown alongside photographs from the museum's own collection. - **Until Jul 31, 2027** · [Art Brut Ressourcé: La « S » Grand Atelier](https://artweekguide.com/events/art-brut-ressource-la-s-grand-atelier) — Museum at Halle Saint Pierre, Montmartre / 18e. An exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre in Montmartre, part of Paris Art Week 2026. It presents La « S » Grand Atelier, the art brut and contemporary art centre in Vielsalm, Belgium, known for its collaborative workshops, and its rethinking of art brut in the 21st century. --- From Art Week Guide (https://artweekguide.com/), a free, hand-picked guide to the events of art weeks and cities worldwide. Check each event's own page before you go.