Paris Art Week 2026

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7 œuvres qui méritent votre attention

Until Oct 24

Galerie Arnoux · Le Marais

Seven works by post-war abstract painters of the Second School of Paris - Étienne Beothy, Roger Bissière, Oscar Gauthier, Jacques Germain, Alfred Manessier, André Marfaing and Gérard Schneider - shown privately as the gallery moves from Saint-Germain to the Marais.

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Anthony Caro: The Kenwood Series

Until Oct 24

Templon, Grenier Saint-Lazare · Le Marais

Thirteen sculptures from Anthony Caro's late Kenwood Series (2003–04), combining stoneware, stone and steel, shown together in Paris for the first time, including the monumental Witness (2003–04).

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Au temps des plantes

Until Oct 24

Galerie écho 119 · Le Marais

Photography group show on the plant world as a mirror of our times, with Grégoire Eloy, Rinko Kawauchi, Rieko Koga, Anaïs Tondeur and Jesse Wallace.

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Eloïse Van der Heyden: MUE(S)

Until Oct 24

Galerie Catherine Putman · Le Marais

Solo exhibition of Eloïse Van der Heyden with monotypes on Korean paper, drawings, ceramics and a lost-wax bronze.

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Group exhibition: Schwitters, Vantongerloo, Tal-Coat, Asker, Laget, Murphy, Joseph

Until Oct 24

Galerie Bernard Bouche · Le Marais

Group exhibition bringing together works by Kurt Schwitters, Georges Vantongerloo, Pierre Tal-Coat, Curt Asker, Denis Laget, John Murphy and Peter Joseph.

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Jean Moral: Autoportrait(s), 1926-1936

Until Oct 24

Galerie Gilles Peyroulet & Cie · Le Marais

Retrospective of French photographer Jean Moral (1909-1999) with about thirty vintage prints, from his late-1920s images of Paris and Lacanau to his fashion photographs for Harper's Bazaar.

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Jean-Gabriel Lopez: En attendant Batut

Until Oct 24

Galerie Sit Down · Le Marais

Jean-Gabriel Lopez in dialogue with photography pioneer Arthur Batut (1846-1918), in partnership with the Musée Arthur Batut, for the Bicentenary of Photography.

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Per Kirkeby: Le Petit Salon

Until Oct 24

Galerie Catherine Putman · Le Marais

Small presentation of monotypes, etchings and lithographs by Danish artist Per Kirkeby.

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Qi Zhuo: On ne peut empêcher les oiseaux de malheur de voler au-dessus de nos têtes, mais peut-être pouvons-nous les empêcher d'y faire leur nid

Until Oct 24

Les filles du calvaire (21 rue Chapon) · Le Marais

New solo exhibition by Chinese-born, France-based artist Qi Zhuo at the gallery's rue Chapon space.

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Sarah Tritz: Je suis une économie du désir

Until Oct 24

Galerie Florence Loewy · Le Marais

New exhibition by French artist Sarah Tritz staging incongruous encounters of motifs and figures - model trucks, faience dinosaurs, drawn aeroplanes on yellowed paper.

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Sungi Mlengeya: Earth and Sky

Until Oct 24

Les filles du calvaire · Le Marais

First solo exhibition in France of Tanzanian painter Sungi Mlengeya, a new body of work on how bodies relate to land and sky.

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Une Semaine en Galerie 2026 (CPGA gallery week)

Until Oct 24

163 participating galleries (Paris, Île-de-France and regions) · Le Marais

The Comité Professionnel des Galeries d'Art's autumn gallery week (successor to Starting Sunday / Galeries Mode d'Emploi): 163 galleries present 182 exhibitions and more than 100 events (openings, talks, signings, guided tours), free and open to all, organised in geographic routes (Marais, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Matignon, 10e & Nord-Est).

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Osama Al Rayyan

Until Oct 25

Galerie Sultana · Le Marais

Solo exhibition of paintings by Damascus-born, Basel-based painter Osama Al Rayyan (b. 1995), whose thin layers of orange, yellow and grey-blue let indistinct figures and landscapes emerge. Closing date not yet announced.

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Ribal Molaeb: Le Futur Proche

Until Oct 25

Galerie Esther Woerdehoff · Le Marais

Exhibition of oil paintings by Ribal Molaeb, a painter and violist whose restrained compositions draw on the landscapes around his studio near Beirut. The photography gallery presents it as a new chapter in its history, in its new Marais space.

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Charles Le Hyaric: Le soleil moins la nuit

Until Oct 31

Galerie Papillon · Le Marais

Solo exhibition of works by French artist Charles Le Hyaric at Galerie Papillon.

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Chiachio & Giannone: La familia elegida

Until Oct 31

Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain · Le Marais

First solo exhibition at the gallery of the Argentine artist duo Chiachio & Giannone, whose sewn and embroidered textile self-portraits make queer domestic life and self-representation a political act.

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Claude Nori: La Dolce Vista

Until Oct 31

Polka Galerie · Le Marais

Large retrospective of photographer, writer and publisher Claude Nori (77), accompanied by a book, playing on Fellini's 'La Dolce Vita' and his luminous, nostalgic way of looking at the world.

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Clément Cogitore: Ferdinandea

Until Oct 31

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Cloître Saint-Merri · Le Marais

Clément Cogitore's first solo exhibition with the gallery: a 16mm film, videos, archival documents and engraved photographs about Ferdinandea, a volcanic island that emerged in the Strait of Sicily in 1831 and vanished months later.

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Drew Dodge: Earth-Pourers

Until Oct 31

Semiose (42 rue Quincampoix) · Le Marais

Third solo show at Semiose by New York painter Drew Dodge: new oil paintings built around the spiral of the seashell, with hybrid figures, swirling skies and aquatic, mirage-like landscapes.

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Günther Uecker: Verletztes Feld

Until Oct 31

Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais · Le Marais

Presentation of Günther Uecker's 1981 nail painting Verletztes Feld (Wounded Field), the earliest known work he cleft open with an axe, shown with 22 painted photographs made with Swiss photographer Rolf Schröter documenting its making.

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Hervé Yamguen: Nos géographies intimes

Until Oct 31

AFIKARIS · Le Marais

Second solo show at the gallery of Cameroonian artist Hervé Yamguen: drawings, paintings, bronze sculptures and wooden masks on the visible and invisible forces that shape identity.

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Hyejeong Ko: Silver Shadows

Until Oct 31

Galerie Maria Wettergren · Le Marais

Sterling-silver sculptures by South Korean artist Hyejeong Ko, inspired by natural forms of her native volcanic island of Jeju - dandelions, pebbles, sea urchins and streams.

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Ignasi Aballí: date et lieu incorrects

Until Oct 31

Galerie Martine Aboucaya · Le Marais

Second solo exhibition at the gallery of Spanish conceptual artist Ignasi Aballí, built around time, displacement, perception and dust as recurring materials of his work.

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Jin Ham: MICROmégas – 2nd part – SATURN

Until Oct 31

Galerie Dohyang Lee · Le Marais

Solo exhibition of microscopic sculptures by South Korean artist Jin Ham, made from ordinary materials such as polymer clay and aluminium thread.

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José Loureiro: Les commensaux

Until Oct 31

Galerie Maubert · Le Marais

Solo exhibition of Portuguese painter José Loureiro.

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Julien Discrit: Pluie Fossile

Until Oct 31

Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou · Le Marais

Solo exhibition of French artist Julien Discrit, including new marble sculptures from his 'Embrace' series (2026).

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Katia Kameli: We haven't felt anything from the love – Part II

Until Oct 31

Traits Libres Gallery · Le Marais

Textile works and ceramics by French-Algerian artist Katia Kameli inspired by the poem of Majnun and Leila.

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L'Envers du visible

Until Oct 31

Galerie XII · Le Marais

Group show confronting contemporary photography with painting, sculpture, textile and drawing, with Jean-Baptiste Brueder, Anne Commet, Charlotte Mano, Patrizia Mussa, Audrey Schaditzki, Wesley Stringer, Antoni Taulé, Susanne Wellm and Sophie Zénon.

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LoVid: Fréquence Tissée

Until Oct 31

Galerie Charlot · Le Marais

Twenty years of work by the duo LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus), who build their own audio-video synthesisers and carry glitch imagery from the screen into printed, embroidered and sewn textiles.

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Marie Losier: Arrière-train fantôme

Until Oct 31

Galerie Anne Barrault · Le Marais

Exhibition by filmmaker and artist Marie Losier bringing together drawings, costumes, sculptures and film around her circle of friends, whom she turns into figures of a home-made mythology.

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Mathieu Cherkit: Tendrement

Until Oct 31

Semiose (44 rue Quincampoix) · Le Marais

First exhibition at Semiose by painter Mathieu Cherkit: fifteen new canvases all set in or around his house-studio, exploring shifting points of view on domestic space.

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Mémoire Matérielle: Gaëlle Choisne, Joana Choumali, Andile Dyalvane, Carla Gueye

Until Oct 31

193 Gallery · Le Marais

Group exhibition curated by Azu Nwagbogu and Nkhensani Mkhari that takes Paulette Nardal's idea of memory as labour into artistic practice, gathering artists for whom patient, repetitive handwork is the main instrument.

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Philippe Chancel: Cactusmania

Until Oct 31

Polka Galerie · Le Marais

New series by photographer Philippe Chancel on the cactus, developed from a collective project begun by the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech in 2024.

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Rejouer, revivre sans fin

Until Oct 31

Galerie Olivier Waltman · Le Marais

Group show on the metamorphosis of the portrait with Anaïs Prouzet, Gastineau Massamba, Richard Butler, Tsuki Garbian, Jérôme Borel, Julien-Arnaud Corongiu, Mykolas Sauka and Ange Arthur Koua.

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Robert Frank: View from Mabou / John Cohen: Pull My Daisy

Until Oct 31

Les Douches la Galerie · Le Marais

Two bodies of work around Robert Frank: prints from his late, intimate 'Mabou' series made in Nova Scotia, and John Cohen's photographs from the set of Frank's 1959 Beat film 'Pull My Daisy'.

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Robert Kushner: Summer Sun: Open my Heart

Until Oct 31

Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Cloître Saint-Merri · Le Marais

Twelve works from 2019–2025 by Pattern and Decoration co-founder Robert Kushner, mostly on Japanese paper with gold leaf, depicting wild plants and flowers, several begun in Sérignan in the south of France.

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Robin Kid: Permanent Display

Until Oct 31

Templon, Beaubourg · Le Marais

Robin Kid's fourth solo exhibition with Templon, premiering works from his new LIFE series of silkscreened aluminium cereal boxes and layered paintings alongside works from the past decade, on how media and AI turn memory into consumable nostalgia.

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Romain Bernini: The Stargazers

Until Oct 31

Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve · Le Marais

Solo exhibition of new paintings by French painter Romain Bernini, with a text by philosopher Tristan Garcia.

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Tiphaine Calmettes: Faire fleurir le salon

Until Oct 31

Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve (Project Room) · Le Marais

Project-room exhibition by French artist Tiphaine Calmettes.

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Monika Emmanuelle Kazi

Until Nov 1

Centre culturel suisse Paris · Le Marais

Monika Emmanuelle Kazi turns the CCS into an architecture of memory with mobile picture walls evoking domestic spaces and family stories between Pointe-Noire and Paris, and the colonial history of materials such as cement. Free.

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Selection of works (Tarek Atoui, Roberto Cuoghi, Pierre Huyghe, Amy Sillman, Haegue Yang)

Until Nov 4

Galerie Chantal Crousel · Le Marais

Group presentation of works by gallery artists Tarek Atoui, Roberto Cuoghi, Pierre Huyghe, Amy Sillman and Haegue Yang.

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Isidore Bishop-Sauve: Solo Show

Until Nov 6

Sobering Galerie · Le Marais

First solo exhibition of 25-year-old painter Isidore Bishop-Sauve, whose new figurative paintings take Joseph Losey's film 'The Go-Between' (1971) as a starting point for themes of lost innocence, masculinity and intimacy.

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Malik Jeannet, with Ali Cherri: For Those Who Might Arrive

Until Nov 6

Galerie C – Paris · Le Marais

Exhibition by Malik Jeannet with the participation of Ali Cherri built around the figure of the bird and the devices through which birds are observed, preserved, represented or welcomed - furniture, containers and architectural elements.

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Imagetexte 8

Until Nov 7

Topographie de l'art · Le Marais

Eighth edition of a series of group exhibitions on artists who play with the limits between written and pictorial language, held in a former Marais warehouse of glass and iron; artists include Georges Rousse, Damien Deroubaix, Frédérique Loutz and Horst Haack.

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Maria Zahle: Le mur vert bouteille (The bottle green wall)

Until Nov 7

Galerie Maria Lund · Le Marais

First exhibition in France of Danish artist Maria Zahle, exploring longing as a diffuse, particularly feminine state of desire and nostalgia.

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Cy Twombly: Sperlonga 1959

Until Nov 10

Galerie Karsten Greve Paris · Le Marais

A rare group of Cy Twombly's Sperlonga Drawings, works on paper made in summer 1959 in the coastal village of Sperlonga in Lazio, a turning point that introduced a new landscape-like pictorial space into his work.

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Artur Grucela: Whispers from the undergrowth

Until Nov 14

Galerie Paris-B · Le Marais

Oil paintings by Artur Grucela of naturalistic, dreamlike landscapes populated by solitary male figures amid exuberant flora and fauna.

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Helena Minginowicz: OUT OF ORDER

Until Nov 14

Galerie Prima · Le Marais

New paintings by Polish artist Helena Minginowicz (b. 1984), and for the first time in France her works on paper towels, on ordinary gestures, intimacy, vulnerability and the body.

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Leandro Erlich: Entre temps

Until Nov 14

Xippas Paris · Le Marais

Leandro Erlich shows his installation Classroom for the first time in France, a dusty life-size 1970s classroom in which visitors see their own ghostly reflections at the desks, alongside a suspended uprooted house and sand-covered typewriters; presented with Galleria Continua.

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Leonardo Devito: fast asleep in a room somewhere

Until Nov 14

Ciaccia Levi · Le Marais

Solo exhibition of Italian painter Leonardo Devito at Ciaccia Levi's Paris gallery.

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Maurice Denis: « La première période de ma peinture, c'est l'amour... »

Until Nov 14

Pavec · Le Marais

Exhibition of family scenes by Nabi painter Maurice Denis (1870-1943), centred on his wife Marthe and domestic life, alongside his formal explorations.

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Vestiges du sacré – 15 ans de mor charpentier

Until Nov 14

mor charpentier · Le Marais

Anniversary group show for the gallery's 15 years on the sacred as repair, political gesture or reconnection with nature, with Kader Attia, Guadalupe Maravilla, Carlos Motta, Malo Chapuy, Sacha, Rosângela Rennó, Bianca Bondi, Charwei Tsai, Teresa Margolles, Daniel de la Barra, Carlos Garaicoa, Mateo López and Claudia Comte.

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Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff: A Song for Europe

Until Nov 21

Andréhn-Schiptjenko Paris · Le Marais

Second solo exhibition at the Paris gallery of Swedish photographer Annika Elisabeth von Hausswolff, whose staged images address patriarchal structures, criminology, capitalism and the photographic image itself.

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Aysha E Arar: Shahrazad / شهرزاد

Until Nov 21

Sans titre · Le Marais

Second solo show at the gallery by Aysha E Arar, taking the storyteller of the Thousand and One Nights as a starting point to explore storytelling as a space of survival, freedom and transformation.

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Chaz Guest: The Sugars at the Bottom

Until Nov 21

RX&SLAG · Le Marais

Solo exhibition of American artist Chaz Guest: new paintings conceived as a visual diary of his childhood in Niagara Falls and youth in 1960s Philadelphia - gospel churches, neighbourhood streets and family gatherings.

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Court of Public Opinion

Until Nov 21

Galerie Hussenot · Le Marais

Upcoming exhibition at Galerie Hussenot opening at the start of Paris Art Week.

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Elias Loudiyi

Until Nov 21

Galerie Bremond Capela · Le Marais

Solo exhibition of paintings by Elias Loudiyi, who works from family photo archives, isolating and enlarging figures in charcoal and paint to confront memory.

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Fahamu Pecou: b(EYE)rth r(EYE)ght

Until Nov 21

Galerie Backslash · Le Marais

Exhibition by American painter Fahamu Pecou, whose work deconstructs dominant narratives about Black identity; the title asserts vision as an inalienable birthright through a genesis-like narrative of contemporary figures.

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Gaétan Vaguelsy: Une épopée singulière

Until Nov 21

Galerie Polaris · Le Marais

Twelve paintings in which Gaétan Vaguelsy casts his circle of friends as heroes of a contemporary epic, bridging classical history painting and devotional iconography with youth and pop culture.

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Giovanni Bosco: dottore di tutto #3

Until Nov 21

Galerie Christian Berst – Art Brut · Le Marais

Third monographic exhibition at the gallery devoted to Sicilian art brut artist Giovanni Bosco (1948-2009), with about a dozen previously unseen works featuring his vocabulary of hearts, robots and blades.

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Jean Gfeller: Partition du deuxième étage

Until Nov 21

Dilecta · Le Marais

Second solo show at the gallery of Jean Gfeller: about twenty new works conceived with curator Thomas Fort as a para-cinematic experience, in reference to Roy Andersson's film 'Songs from the Second Floor'.

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Jean-Claude Silbermann: De Pays des Mères

Until Nov 21

Galerie Sator · Le Marais

Exhibition of new cut-out paintings by French Surrealist-affiliated artist Jean-Claude Silbermann at Galerie Sator's new space near the Arsenal.

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Jutta Koether: ŒuVreS réCEnteS

Until Nov 21

Galerie Chantal Crousel · Le Marais

Jutta Koether's first solo exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel: a new body of paintings built around her fascination with La Chasse spirituelle, an apocryphal text long attributed to Arthur Rimbaud, and marking her return to Paris.

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Nick Mauss: In This Time

Until Nov 21

Galerie Chantal Crousel (2nd floor) · Le Marais

Nick Mauss's second exhibition at the gallery, on the second floor of 10 rue Charlot: reverse paintings on mirrored glass folded onto closed volumes, shown with works in etched, double-dyed silk velvet.

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Nicolas Henry: Cabanes imaginaires, 20 ans de mise en scène autour du monde

Until Nov 21

H Gallery · Le Marais

Photographer Nicolas Henry shows emblematic works and new images from twenty years of staged photographic 'theatres' built with communities around the world, after a family journey through the Himalayas and Japan.

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Pascal Convert

Until Nov 21

Galerie Christophe Gaillard · Le Marais

First solo exhibition of French artist Pascal Convert in the gallery's Paris space.

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Tatiana Andreeva: Sources et œuvres

Until Nov 21

Galerie Alina Pinsky · Le Marais

Exhibition of Moscow-born artist Tatiana Andreeva (b. 1951), including design sketches from the 1970s such as projects for Moscow's Central House of Tourism.

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Tatjana Doll: Why?

Until Nov 21

Droste Galladé · Le Marais

Exhibition of large-format paintings by German painter Tatjana Doll (b. 1970), who transposes everyday objects, brands, vehicles and political signs into a direct, physical pictorial language.

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Théâtre des possibles – le masque dans tous ses états

Until Nov 21

Galerie Dix9 Hélène Lacharmoise · Le Marais

Group exhibition on the mask as a device for revealing and transforming identity, with Yasmina Benabderrahmane, Shiva Lynn Burgos, Smaïl Kanouté, Esmeralda Kosmatopoulos, Dmitry Kostyukov, Peter Lökos, Jorge Rosano Gamboa, Sebastian Riemer, Anila Rubiku, Louis Salkind, Julien Vignikin and Yang Yi.

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Tim Eitel: Solo Show

Until Nov 21

Jousse Entreprise · Le Marais

Third solo show at the gallery of German painter Tim Eitel, a leading figure of the New Leipzig School, whose paintings stage figures, light and architecture as moments without beginning or end. Accompanied by an essay by Nicolas Marbeau of the Louvre.

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À l'intérieur (curated by Marc Donnadieu)

Until Nov 21

Galerie Christian Berst – Art Brut · Le Marais

Exhibition on confinement for the bicentenary of photography: late-19th/early-20th-century police, medical and judicial photographs shown alongside drawings by art brut artists made in prisons, internment centres and hospitals, including Madge Gill, Josef Karl Rädler and Leopold Strobl.

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Hugo et l'architecture: De la pierre à la plume

Until Nov 22

Maison de Victor Hugo – Hôtel de Rohan-Guéménée · Le Marais

Exhibition on Victor Hugo's relationship with architecture in his writing and graphic work, from his defence of heritage ('Guerre aux démolisseurs', 1825) to Notre-Dame de Paris and his drawings.

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Arcangelo: Sanniti

Until Nov 28

Galerie Placido · Le Marais

Paintings from Italian painter Arcangelo's 'Sanniti' cycle (2001-2005), linking his native region near Avellino with the history of the ancient Samnites of central-southern Italy.

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Laurence Aëgerter: Les Diachroniques

Until Nov 28

Galerie Binome · Le Marais

Solo exhibition of Laurence Aëgerter, whose photography-based work reuses archives and moves between media such as lithophanes, tapestry and artist's books. Exhibition text by Sylvain Besson of the musée Nicéphore Niépce; part of the Bicentenaire de la Photographie programme.

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Léonard Bourgois Beaulieu: Les vestiges indociles

Until Nov 28

Galerie Alain Gutharc · Le Marais

Photographs by Léonard Bourgois Beaulieu made at the Villa Medici in 2012 using his lichen-based 'lychenotype' process; the negatives, lost for over ten years and rediscovered in 2025, became the basis of this body of work.

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Milène Sanchez: Alone together

Until Nov 28

Galerie Claire Gastaud · Le Marais

Second solo show in the gallery's Paris space by Milène Sanchez: new oil-glaze paintings made after a trip to New York to see works by women Abstract Expressionists such as Joan Mitchell, Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler.

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Nino Kapanadze: Inertia

Until Nov 28

Galerie Michel Rein · Le Marais

First solo exhibition at Michel Rein Paris of French-Georgian painter Nino Kapanadze: new paintings in which abstraction and figuration coexist along a single trajectory.

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Pietro Moretti: Sete

Until Nov 28

Romero Paprocki · Le Marais

Solo exhibition of Italian painter Pietro Moretti at Romero Paprocki's Paris gallery.

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Rita Ackermann: Vivre Sa Vie

Until Nov 28

Galerie Allen · Le Marais

Solo exhibition of Hungarian-born, New York-based artist Rita Ackermann at Galerie Allen.

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Shadow of a Doubt, curated by Bill Cournoyer

Until Nov 28

Galerie Balice Hertling · Le Marais

Group exhibition curated by Bill Cournoyer with Antonio López, Barbara Goldmann, Chaeheun Park, Jean-François Lauda, Michael Kennedy Costa, Minh Lan Tran, Mona Welch and Wilson Miller.

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Stephen Newton: Trapped in Amber

Until Nov 28

Galerie Ariane C-Y · Le Marais

First exhibition in France of English painter Stephen Newton (b. 1948): thickly painted oils of bare, dreamlike interiors inhabited by a small repertoire of recurring objects.

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Nanténé Traoré: pays des merveilles

Until Nov 29

MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Studio) · Le Marais

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

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Katarzyna Wiesiołek: Aussi longtemps que les mirages

Until Dec 5

Galerie Éric Dupont · Le Marais

Exhibition of dry-pigment works on paper by Polish-born artist Katarzyna Wiesiołek, exploring the horizon line and landscapes poised between ruin and an untouched elsewhere.

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Martine Mougin & Louve Delfieu: La Mousse et la Main

Until Dec 5

Galerie Papiers d'Art · Le Marais

Experimental photography by Louve Delfieu (b. 1985) and Martine Mougin (b. 1945), combining ink, glass, metal and plant matter with old and current photographic techniques, for the Bicentenary of Photography.

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Paris Humaniste

Until Dec 12

La Galerie Rouge · Le Marais

Photography show on humanist Paris for the Bicentenary of Photography, with Édouard Boubat, Jean-Philippe Charbonnier, Robert Doisneau, Willy Ronis, Louis Stettner and Sabine Weiss, plus Martine Barrat's images of the Goutte d'Or.

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Elmgreen & Dragset: Les Fous d'En Face

Until Dec 16

Galerie Max Hetzler Paris · Le Marais

Elmgreen & Dragset's first exhibition in Max Hetzler's Paris space, spread across both galleries at 46 and 57 rue du Temple, with three new installations: a hyperreal exhausted boxer in a full-size ring, a steel clown-nose sphere titled The Optimist, and a monumental figure strapped to a vintage Fiat 500.

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Alma Allen

Until Dec 19

Perrotin Paris Marais (impasse Saint-Claude) · Le Marais

Solo exhibition of sculptures by American artist Alma Allen, whose works in stone, wood and metal begin as hand-worked models in string, clay or wax.

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Garden of Love (guest curator Guillaume Logé)

Until Dec 19

Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger (Marais) · Le Marais

Group exhibition on the theme of the garden of love, mixing historic and contemporary works by artists including Pierre Bonnard, André Breton, Raoul Dufy, Max Ernst, Fernand Léger, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Yang Jiechang, Evi Keller and Guillaume Barth, alongside African, Egyptian and Indian art.

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Lee Bae: Attending

Until Dec 19

Perrotin Paris Marais · Le Marais

Solo exhibition of Korean artist Lee Bae, known for his work with charcoal, at Perrotin's main Marais gallery.

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Oscar Murillo: Unfinished thinking: Paintings and Social Maps

Until Dec 19

David Zwirner Paris · Le Marais

Exhibition of paintings by Oscar Murillo at David Zwirner's Paris gallery.

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Rosana Paulino: Bloom in the Sunlight, Dream in the Moonlight

Until Dec 19

Mendes Wood DM Paris · Le Marais

Exhibition of work by São Paulo-based artist Rosana Paulino, whose practice addresses race, gender and the legacy of slavery in Brazil, at Mendes Wood DM's gallery on place des Vosges.

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Serge Najjar: À l'instant T

Until Dec 19

Galerie Lahumière · Le Marais

First photography exhibition at Galerie Lahumière, devoted to Beirut-born Serge Najjar (b. 1973), whose geometric images of the city read almost as abstraction.

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Tacita Dean and Bruce Nauman

Until Dec 19

Marian Goodman Gallery Paris · Le Marais

First presentation of Drawing Blind Drawing (2026), a collaborative 35mm film diptych by Tacita Dean and Bruce Nauman showing their hands making gold- and silverpoint drawings, one artist drawing blind while guided by the other. Nauman's collage used to make the film masks is also shown.

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Jordan Casteel: Winter Sun

Until Dec 23

Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais · Le Marais

New paintings by American artist Jordan Casteel, her first exhibition in France and the most significant showing of her work in Europe to date. The portraits and still lifes, made in the first half of 2026, use a cool, earthy palette inspired by winter light.

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Rick Owens: Five Easy Pieces

Until Dec 23

Carpenters Workshop Gallery · Le Marais

Exhibition of furniture and functional design by fashion designer Rick Owens at Carpenters Workshop Gallery's Paris space.

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Klodin Erb (first solo exhibition in France)

Until Dec 24

Centre culturel suisse Paris · Le Marais

First solo show in France of Swiss painter Klodin Erb, winner of the Grand Prix suisse d'art / Prix Meret-Oppenheim: monumental paintings under the glass roof, inspired by images of the birth of Venus and Roman Baroque ceilings, in a theatrical, sensual and burlesque take on art history. Free.

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La Bataille des couleurs (Maison Pompidou)

Until Dec 24

Maison Pompidou · Le Marais

Inaugural exhibition of the Maison Pompidou, next to the closed Centre Pompidou, retracing the 1971–1977 controversies over the building's colour palette – it was nearly gold and blue, brown or all yellow – between President Pompidou, architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, curators and artists. Free entry.

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Kunié Sugiura: Ubiquitous Conjunction (curated by Ryo Sawayama)

Until Dec 31

galerie frank elbaz · Le Marais

First solo exhibition at the gallery of New York-based Japanese artist Kunié Sugiura, curated by critic Ryo Sawayama, with works from across her career combining photography with painting and sculpture through photograms, montage and solarization.

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Salle-dossier: Pablo Picasso through the lens of Cahiers d'Art

Until Jan 3, 2027

Musée national Picasso-Paris · Le Marais

Focus display for the centenary of Christian Zervos's review Cahiers d'Art (founded 1926), which championed Picasso alongside Braque, Laurens and the Surrealists and built a 'cubist genealogy of surrealism'.

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Détour photographique

Until Jan 9, 2027

Galerie Papillon (1st floor) · Le Marais

Group presentation for the bicentenary of photography, with images that push perception beyond the visible by Cathryn Boch, Céline Cléron, Erik Dietman, Hreinn Friðfinnsson, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou, Raphaëlle Peria, Linda Sanchez, Didier Trénet and VOID.

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Hommage à Gilles Caron

Until Jan 9, 2027

Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard · Le Marais

Tribute exhibition to French photojournalist Gilles Caron (1939-1970), co-founder of the Gamma agency, known for his images of May 1968, Biafra and Vietnam.

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Faire place au monde (group exhibition of resident artists)

Until Jan 16, 2027

Cité internationale des arts · Le Marais

Sixteen artists from fifteen countries, all former or current residents (1992 to today), reflect on the promises, contradictions and legacies of cultural internationalism – hospitality, displacement, mobility and its asymmetries – in the institution founded after the Second World War as an international 'city within the city'.

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To Make Space for the World

Until Jan 16, 2027

Cité internationale des arts - Marais site (Galerie) · Le Marais

Group exhibition of 16 artists from 15 countries, all former or current residents of the Cité internationale des arts, reflecting on the promises and contradictions of cultural internationalism; curated by Chương-Đài Võ, Charles Esche and Federica Chiocchetti, with talks at the Fondation Cartier's Parliament of Ghosts.

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PENN & FASHION

Until Jan 17, 2027

MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie · Le Marais

Tribute to Irving Penn's fashion photography, shaped by more than sixty years of collaboration with Vogue, showing how his pared-down aesthetic and mastery of composition influenced generations of photographers.

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GW Bot: Glyphmaker – La métamorphose des signes

Until Jan 23, 2027

Galerie Arts d'Australie • Stéphane Jacob · Le Marais

Monographic exhibition of Canberra-based Australian artist GW Bot (b. 1954), whose prints, drawings and sculptures turn the Australian landscape into a personal vocabulary of glyphs.

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Robert Indiana: Alchemy

Until Jan 23, 2027

Almine Rech Paris · Le Marais

Robert Indiana's first monographic exhibition with Almine Rech, organized with The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative and focused on his transformation of found materials into paintings and word sculptures. A monumental LOVE WALL sculpture is shown concurrently in Art Basel Paris' public program.

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Kurt Schwitters: Le chaos-monde 1918–1948

Until Feb 7, 2027

Musée national Picasso-Paris · Le Marais

Major retrospective of Kurt Schwitters, the first in France since 1994, with more than 300 works and documents – paintings, sculptures, assemblages, collages, drawings, notebooks, photographs and books – spanning Merz, Dada and constructivism, and drawing parallels with Picasso's experiments with everyday materials.

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Salle-dossier: André Malraux and Pablo Picasso – the Imaginary Museum

Until Feb 7, 2027

Musée national Picasso-Paris · Le Marais

Focus display on André Malraux's encounter with Picasso's personal collection at Notre-Dame-de-Vie after the artist's death in 1973, at the invitation of Jacqueline Roque.

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Paris à l'arraché: Jacques Villeglé et l'art urbain

Until Feb 14, 2027

Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris · Le Marais

Jacques Villeglé's torn posters taken from the walls of Paris since the 1950s, shown with photographs, sound archives, films and many unpublished documents, and in dialogue with contemporary urban artists; organised as a walk through four neighbourhoods where he collected, from Porte Maillot to the Marais.

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Lionel Sabatté: Ce qui reste

Until Feb 21, 2027

Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature · Le Marais

Lionel Sabatté takes over the whole museum with paintings, drawings, sculptures and tapestries, mostly new, made from dust, rust, wool, nail clippings, dead skin and cement – reimagining the museum's emblematic animals as figures of loss and transformation. Curated by Amélie Adamo.

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Georges Kars, 1880–1945: Un Bohémien à Paris

Until Mar 14, 2027

Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme (mahJ) · Le Marais

First major Paris retrospective since 1945 of Czech-born School of Paris painter Georges Kars, with more than 150 paintings, drawings and archive documents tracing his resolutely European career.

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Frederik Molenschot: Legenda

Until Mar 15, 2027

Carpenters Workshop Gallery Paris · Le Marais

Large-scale hand-forged metal sculptures and lighting works by Dutch designer Frederik Molenschot, conceived as abstract topographies of light, material and landscape.

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Stefan Sagmeister: Finally, Something Good.

Until Apr 18, 2027

La Gaîté Lyrique · Le Marais

Designer Stefan Sagmeister turns more than a century of data on health, food, democracy and migration into sculptures, projections, installations and paintings across 800 m², an optimistic 'antidote' to the idea that things were better before.