Paris Art Week 2026

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Alice Diop – Geste de Consolation (presented by Miu Miu)

Until Oct 25

Palais d'Iéna (CESE) · Trocadéro

Geste de Consolation is filmmaker Alice Diop's first exhibition, commissioned by Miu Miu as Art Basel Paris Public Program Official Partner: a guided path through four spaces centred on acts of consolation by Black women artists, mixing film, photography, sculpture, readings, dance and music. It includes contributions by Zanele Muholi and Mary Lee Bendolph, a video installation by Diop, performances by Nadia Beugré, Angel Bat Dawid and Sistazz of the Nitty-Gritty, and Simone Leigh's bronze Sentinel (Mami Wata). Free admission.

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Cezanne et nous (Cezanne and Us)

Until Jan 17, 2027

Grand Palais – Galeries 3 & 4 · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

Nearly 180 works tracing how Paul Cezanne's art was discovered, interpreted and transformed from the late 19th century to today, by artists from Gauguin, Matisse, Picasso and Mondrian to Joan Mitchell, Bridget Riley and Peter Doig. Co-produced by GrandPalaisRmn, the Centre Pompidou and the Musée d'Orsay/Orangerie.

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Kerry James Marshall: The Histories

Until Jan 24, 2027

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris · Trocadéro

The first exhibition in France devoted to American painter Kerry James Marshall: some seventy works from 1980 to today, including eight new paintings made for the show, organised in eleven groups. Organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, with the Kunsthaus Zürich.

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Zurbarán (1598–1664)

Until Jan 25, 2027

Musée du Louvre – Hall Napoléon · Palais-Royal / Louvre

Retrospective of the Spanish Golden Age painter Francisco de Zurbarán, co-organised with the National Gallery, London and the Art Institute of Chicago, with monumental monastic commissions, portraits and still lifes, plus works by his son Juan. Shown in the same space as 'Sculpter la couleur'; one ticket gives access to both.

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Louise Bourgeois: Extrême tension

Until Feb 21, 2027

BnF Richelieu – Galerie Mansart / Galerie Pigott · Palais-Royal / Louvre

Louise Bourgeois's drawings and prints, uniting for the first time the BnF's holdings (over a hundred prints and eight artist's books, largely donated by the artist in 1995) with the Centre Pompidou's 91 works; the first exhibition devoted to her in a Paris public institution since 2008. Co-organised by the BnF and the Centre Pompidou.

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Gustave Fayet, Collector – Creator. Icons of Modern Art

Until Mar 8, 2027

Fondation Louis Vuitton · Bois de Boulogne

Building-wide exhibition on Gustave Fayet (1865–1925), the collector, artist and decorative-arts designer, reuniting over 250 works from his dispersed collection – including 10 paintings by Van Gogh (among them Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear), 78 works by Gauguin and 88 by Odilon Redon – alongside 325 of his own creations. The latest in the Fondation's 'Icônes de l'art moderne' series after Shchukin, the Morozovs and Courtauld.

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PASSAGES – Pas sages (Quai d'Orsay, on the occasion of Art Basel Paris)

Until Oct 23

Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères – Quai d'Orsay · Invalides / Eiffel Tower

Exhibition in the historic salons of the Quai d'Orsay, co-produced by artist-designers Thierry Lemaire and Harry Nuriev and curated by Krystyna Winckler, combining historical and contemporary art, design, crafts, heritage objects and diplomatic archives. Organised by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs with the Manufactures nationales (Sèvres & Mobilier national), Cnap and Institut français on the occasion of Art Basel Paris; free, by reservation.

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Pulsions: Jean Dubuffet, les dernières années (1974–1985)

Until Oct 24

Fondation Dubuffet · Saint-Germain-des-Prés

More than 150 works from Jean Dubuffet's last decade (1974–1985), after the Hourloupe cycle, when he produced over 1,500 paintings and 1,000 drawings in some twenty series moving freely between figuration and abstraction.

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Barbara Kruger: The History of Tears

Until Oct 25

Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection (Rotunda) · Les Halles

Installation by Barbara Kruger conceived for the Rotunda and the 24 display cases of the Bourse de Commerce: monumental 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 injunctions in the Passage vitrines, and two video works. Shown alongside Remember Me on the same ticket. Closing date not yet announced.

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Cosima von Bonin – Dollys & Beaux

Until Oct 25

Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

Cosima von Bonin's plush menagerie Dollys & Beaux (2026) – a St Bernard, scallops, a bulldog, an octopus, a whale and hermit crabs first commissioned for the Loewe Fall/Winter 2026 show – staged with new tartan and silk accessories among the Petit Palais's historic sculpture galleries. Presented by Petzel, Gaga and Neu; free admission.

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Kutluğ Ataman: Küba (Art Basel Paris Public Program)

Until Oct 25

Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, Beaux-Arts de Paris · Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Kutluğ Ataman's 40-screen video installation Küba (2004), presented by Niru Ratnam: testimonies of forty residents of Küba, a former informal settlement on the outskirts of Istanbul, played on television sets among mismatched armchairs and salvaged furniture. The fifth Art Basel Paris Public Program project with the Beaux-Arts de Paris; free admission.

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Musée Zadkine reopens with a new free collection display

Until Oct 25

Musée Zadkine · Montparnasse

After a closure, the studio-museum of sculptor Ossip Zadkine reopens on 20 October 2026 with a new route through the collections, including previously unseen works and new acquisitions. Free entry. Closing date not yet announced.

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Éloge du trait – in the agnès b. collection

Until Oct 25

La Fab. – Fonds de dotation agnès b. · 13e / Paris Rive Gauche

Exhibition drawn from the agnès b. collection on the line as a primary gesture, after Henri Michaux, setting geometric rigour against organic impulse in drawings and works that structure space and perception.

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Raymond Hains: l'œuvre en chantier. Du Grand Louvre aux 3 Cartier

Until Oct 26

Place du Palais-Royal (Fondation Cartier outdoor installation) · Palais-Royal / Louvre

For the centenary of Raymond Hains's birth, the Fondation Cartier reactivates on the Place du Palais-Royal an installation from its 1994 exhibition: Hains's photographs of the Grand Louvre building site, mounted on advertising-hoarding structures. Free, outdoors.

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Gianni Versace Retrospective

Until Oct 31

Musée Maillol · Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Nearly 450 pieces – original garments, accessories, sketches, decorative objects, photographs and rare videos – tracing Gianni Versace's career and inspirations, in a pop scenography by Nathalie Crinière. A Dreamrealizer production not affiliated with the Versace company or family.

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Over the top, undercover

Until Oct 31

Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard · Opéra / Grands Boulevards

Group exhibition of three prize-winning artists – Jonathan Martin, Rosa Moreno and Clémence de La Tour du Pin – whose films, sound pieces, assemblages and interventions expose the staging that steers perception, desire and language. Curated by Salomé Burstein.

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Giacometti surréaliste: Des objets comme des sculptures

Until Nov 1

Institut Giacometti · Montparnasse

Exhibition on Alberto Giacometti's Surrealist period (1929–1935), setting his Surrealist sculptures alongside the decorative objects – lamps, andirons, vases – he made at the same time for the decorator Jean-Michel Frank. Curated by Laura Braverman.

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La Mode en majesté: Haute couture and tradition at the Thai court

Until Nov 1

Musée des Arts Décoratifs · Palais-Royal / Louvre

More than a hundred outfits and accessories from the Thai royal collection, including the eight traditional costume formats devised by Queen Sirikit and the fruits of her thirty-year collaboration with Pierre Balmain, organised with the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles.

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La Palestine photographiée par Joss Dray

Until Nov 1

Institut du monde arabe – Bibliothèque Leïla Shahid · Latin Quarter

Photographs of everyday Palestinian life, faces and places, many unpublished, from reportages made by Joss Dray between 1987 and 2001, shown in the IMA library newly renamed after Leïla Shahid.

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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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Plumes du paradis: Journeys of an extraordinary bird from New Guinea

Until Nov 8

Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac · Invalides / Eiffel Tower

Nearly 190 works – adornments, paintings by Northern masters, specimens, fashion pieces and illustrated books – tracing five centuries of fascination with New Guinea's birds of paradise across Oceania, Asia and Europe.

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Des gestes de nos mondes

Until Nov 14

Frac Île-de-France – Les Réserves · Romainville

Works from the Frac Île-de-France collection and new pieces by artists based in Tunisia or from the southern Mediterranean – photographs, videos, sculptures, textiles and archives – on memory, migration and inheritance; a collaboration with 32bis in Tunis, where it travels in 2027.

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Five Views – La photographie japonaise émergente

Until Nov 14

Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris · Invalides / Eiffel Tower

Five rising figures of contemporary Japanese photography explore today's Japan – memory of the 2011 disaster, family life around the dining table, social structures, the body and performance, image reproduction – each as a 'world in miniature'. Part of the bicentenary of photography.

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Robert Burley: Grands Lacs – L'horizon commun des mers intérieures

Until Nov 14

Centre culturel canadien · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

Photographs of the Great Lakes basin straddling the Canada–US border by Canadian photographer Robert Burley, exploring the lakes as a vast source of drinking water and a place of trade, work, leisure, exploitation and vulnerability. Part of the bicentenary of photography; curated by Catherine Bédard.

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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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Eaux Vives – Caroline Desnoëttes

Until Nov 29

Collège des Bernardins · Latin Quarter

Immersive installation by Caroline Desnoëttes – a monumental polyptych of five bas-reliefs in hand-dyed mulberry-fibre paper – with a sound and light creation developed with scientists, inviting reflection on water as the source of life, between art, science and theology.

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Mungo Thomson: Monument

Until Nov 29

Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation Galeries Lafayette · Le Marais

Two works by Californian artist Mungo Thomson: Snowman, a monumental bronze tower modelled on cardboard shipping tubes erected in the courtyard, and the stop-motion film Time Life Volume 15. Monument to a Period of Time in Which I Lived, made from thousands of book images of candles.

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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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Rester vivant(e) – with Plateforme 10

Until Nov 29

Fondation Fiminco · Romainville

Group exhibition with Lausanne's Plateforme 10 bringing together French and Swiss artists – Sophie Ballmer & Tarik Hayward, Séverin Guelpa, Johanna Hullár, Santiago Martinez Benedetti, Julie Semoroz and Stephan Zimmerli – on forms of resistance, transformation and vitality of the living, favouring robustness over performance.

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Rémi Marcel – Carte blanche, Prix Rubis Mécénat (Beaux-Arts de Paris hors les murs)

Until Nov 29

Église Saint-Eustache · Les Halles

Installation by Rémi Marcel, 2026 winner of the Prix Rubis Mécénat for Beaux-Arts de Paris graduates, in dialogue with the architecture of Saint-Eustache church and its place in the history of Paris's food markets; curated by Oulimata Gueye. Free.

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Affinités: Wonders of Islamic Art in the Decorative Arts Galleries

Until Dec 6

Musée du Louvre – Richelieu wing, rooms 502-503 · Palais-Royal / Louvre

Around fifty objects from the Department of Islamic Art shown among the Decorative Arts galleries, tracing technical and aesthetic innovations in the Islamic world and their reception in Europe through the themes of light, colour and sculpture.

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Hashigakari: Matsutani Takesada

Until Dec 13

Musée Cernuschi – Musée des arts de l'Asie de la Ville de Paris · Monceau

For the sixtieth anniversary of Gutai artist Matsutani Takesada's settling in France, the museum receives three of his works as a gift and devotes a display in its painting gallery to him.

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Pedro Barateiro: Mano manca

Until Dec 13

Le Crédac – Centre d'art contemporain d'Ivry · Ivry-sur-Seine

Exhibition by Portuguese artist Pedro Barateiro starting from his research on Vicente Lusitano, the first published composer of mixed race in 16th-century Europe, whose 'Guidonian hand' gives the show its title ('left hand'); animation, installation, video, performance, sculpture and drawing questioning Western thought and its imaginaries.

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Les Hôtes du Louvre: Kader Attia and Elizabeth Peyton

Until Dec 14

Musée du Louvre – Salle de la Chapelle (Sully wing) · Palais-Royal / Louvre

Kader Attia and Elizabeth Peyton, the Louvre's invited artists-in-residence from 2024 to 2026, show the results of their two years at the museum: film and installation by Attia, paintings and drawings reinterpreting Louvre works by Peyton. Curated with the artists by Donatien Grau and Nicolas Marbeau.

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Gina Pane. A Hot Afternoon

Until Dec 18

Beaux-Arts de Paris · Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Exhibition of Gina Pane's 'constat' of A Hot Afternoon, the action she created for Documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977 (19 photographs and 10 preparatory drawings), recently acquired by the Beaux-Arts de Paris and shown with works from the school's collection and contributions by students.

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Robert Capa: Photographe de guerre

Until Dec 20

Musée de la Libération de Paris – Musée du général Leclerc – Musée Jean Moulin · Montparnasse

With Magnum Photos, more than sixty vintage press prints by Robert Capa shown with magazines, books, documents and personal objects – 160 items tracing how a young Hungarian immigrant invented the figure of the war photographer.

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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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François Morellet, traits d'esprit

Until Jan 3, 2027

Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine · Trocadéro

For the centenary of François Morellet's birth, around forty works – three of them monumental – installed within the permanent collections show how the artist turned architectural and public space into a playground for geometric abstraction. In partnership with the Centre Pompidou and the CNAP.

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Hélène Fauquet: Vivresse

Until Jan 3, 2027

Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation Galeries Lafayette · Le Marais

First institutional exhibition in France of Hélène Fauquet, on the foundation's top floor: sculptures in which shells obliterate her photographs inside glamorous frames, and recent works on the motif of the bubble, between ornament and conceptual art.

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Kennedy Yanko – Ce qui nous rassemble (What brings us together)

Until Jan 3, 2027

Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine – Galerie des moulages · Trocadéro

New sculptures by American artist Kennedy Yanko, made from salvaged metal and poured, cut 'skins' of acrylic paint, shown among the plaster casts of French monumental sculpture in the Cité's Galerie des moulages as part of the Art Basel Paris Public Program. Curated by Matthieu Poirier; the series draws on the legend of Mary Magdalene's journey to the south of France.

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L'Espace entre nous – the Wilson Centre for Photography collection

Until Jan 3, 2027

Le BAL · Pigalle / 9e

For the bicentenary of photography, Le BAL devotes its first collection show to Michael and Jane Wilson's Wilson Centre for Photography: 120 mostly vintage prints from the 1920s to today – by John Gutmann, Dorothea Lange, Shōji Ueda, Tomoko Sawada and others – exploring the relationship between photographer and subject.

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Patrimoines en résistance, de Tombouctou à Odessa

Until Jan 3, 2027

Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine · Trocadéro

Graphic documents, contemporary artworks and digital replicas of lost sites examine heritage targeted in armed conflicts – from Timbuktu and Bamiyan to Gaza and Odessa – and forms of resistance and repair.

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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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Tenter l'art pour soigner: at the Blida-Joinville psychiatric hospital in the 1960s

Until Jan 3, 2027

Institut du monde arabe – Musée · Latin Quarter

Painted ceramics, gouache drawings and archives from late-1960s social-therapy workshops at the Blida-Joinville psychiatric hospital in Algeria – the institution associated with Frantz Fanon – donated to the IMA museum in 2021.

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Yu Nishimura: Towards a Sea

Until Jan 3, 2027

Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation Galeries Lafayette · Le Marais

First institutional monographic exhibition in France of Japanese painter Yu Nishimura: around fifty drawings and large paintings from the past decade, some made for the show, exploring landscapes haunted by the sea with blurred, dreamlike figures drawn from photographic and cinematic principles.

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Daniel Dezeuze

Until Jan 4, 2027

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris · Trocadéro

Presentation of twenty recent works acquired from Supports/Surfaces co-founder Daniel Dezeuze (born 1942), tracing his work since 1982 with assemblages of reused doors, panels and skis.

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Florian Krewer: woven thin

Until Jan 4, 2027

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris · Trocadéro

First solo exhibition in France of New York-based German painter Florian Krewer: sixteen recent monumental canvases, some never shown before, hung within the collection galleries following a gift of his works to the museum.

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Jean-François Bauret

Until Jan 4, 2027

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris · Trocadéro

A room of portraits of artists by French photographer Jean-François Bauret (1932–2014), drawn from a 2017 gift of 80 prints, all depicting artists represented in the museum's collection.

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Le savoir en trompe-l'œil: Corée, 18e–20e siècle

Until Jan 4, 2027

Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet · Trocadéro

Exhibition on Korean chaekgeori – trompe-l'œil screens of bookshelves and scholars' objects – from the court of King Jeongjo in the late 18th century to the 20th century, at the crossroads of Chinese collecting culture and European perspective learned via Beijing.

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Mariella Simoni

Until Jan 4, 2027

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris · Trocadéro

Newly acquired paintings by Italian artist Mariella Simoni (born 1948), whose work moves between conceptual art and abstraction, shown in the collection galleries. Free admission.

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Portraits de famille (Jean-Jacques Henner)

Until Jan 4, 2027

Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner · Monceau

Exhibition on the portraits Jean-Jacques Henner painted of his family – his mother, sister, brothers and their children – who supported him after his father's death and were his first and last models.

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Stéphane Bordarier

Until Jan 4, 2027

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris · Trocadéro

Five paintings by Stéphane Bordarier (born 1953) that entered the collection in 2026, shown with loans from the studio, including works from his Noires series made with pigment and warm rabbit-skin glue.

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Archives des invisibles – a project by Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige

Until Jan 9, 2027

KADIST Paris · Montmartre / 18e

Exhibition conceived by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige bringing together filmmakers and artists mainly from around the Mediterranean (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine) and France, with talks, screenings and tours; part of the Saison Méditerranée 2026.

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Andy Warhol: La ligne et l'image

Until Jan 10, 2027

Musée du Luxembourg · Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Exhibition on Andy Warhol's drawing, showing how the medium – from his training in illustration onwards – remained a constant field of experimentation throughout his career, alongside the silkscreens and celebrity portraits.

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Animalia: Bestiary from the Al Thani Collection

Until Jan 10, 2027

Hôtel de la Marine – The Al Thani Collection · Concorde / Tuileries

More than 120 works from the Al Thani Collection, many shown in Paris for the first time, exploring how cultures on four continents have depicted real and imaginary creatures and drawn inspiration from the animal kingdom.

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Céleste Richard-Zimmermann: Toutes les colonnes n'ont pas un cœur de pierre

Until Jan 10, 2027

Palais de Tokyo · Trocadéro

Solo show by the winner of the Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo 2025–2026, whose stone, plaster, copper and polystyrene works rework the vocabulary of official statuary and architectures of power. Curated by Horya Makhlouf.

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Le monde selon Penn (The World According to Penn)

Until Jan 10, 2027

Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection (Galerie 2) · Les Halles

Nearly 450 photographs by Irving Penn from the Pinault Collection, spanning the 1940s to the early 2000s – portraits, fashion, ethnographic studies, nudes, still lifes and flowers – shown in Galerie 2 as part of Remember Me.

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Soleil et Lune. Andreas Eriksson en dialogue avec Ivan Aguéli

Until Jan 10, 2027

Institut suédois · Le Marais

The Swedish Institute's autumn exhibition sets monumental paintings by contemporary Swedish artist Andreas Eriksson against about ten small landscapes by painter and mystic Ivan Aguéli (1869-1917), selected by Eriksson; curated by director Sara Arrhenius.

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Stan Douglas: Parallax

Until Jan 10, 2027

Jeu de Paume · Concorde / Tuileries

The largest monographic exhibition of Vancouver-based artist Stan Douglas in France in more than 30 years, bringing together photographic series and film and video installations that question how history is constructed, represented and transmitted, from Crowds and Riots and Disco Angola to Penn Station's Half Century and Birth of a Nation.

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The Michel Lacoste Donation: French Silver from Mangot to Puiforcat

Until Jan 11, 2027

Musée du Louvre – Sully wing, room 605 · Palais-Royal / Louvre

One hundred pieces of French silverware from the 16th to 18th century, donated to the Louvre by collector Michel Lacoste in 2025, displayed together alongside the museum's own silver and ceramics.

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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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Mes chers amis: Drawings in the collections of 19th-century French artists

Until Jan 17, 2027

Fondation Custodia – Collection Frits Lugt · Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Exhibition on the drawings that 19th-century French artists collected from their friends and peers out of friendship or admiration, exploring artists' circles of sociability and the personalities of artist-collectors; it marks the reopening of the Fondation Custodia's Paris galleries after renovation.

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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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Premières Nations: Arts and cultures of the American Northwest Coast

Until Jan 17, 2027

Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac · Invalides / Eiffel Tower

Exhibition on the First Nations of the North American Northwest Coast, whose art – totem poles, house fronts, masks, garments and everyday objects populated by spirit beings such as Raven – forms a sacred visual language across some forty languages and 1,800 km of coastline.

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Open Space #19: Mohammad Alfaraj – I'd rather be a dragonfly than a lion

Until Jan 18, 2027

Fondation Louis Vuitton – Gallery 8 · Bois de Boulogne

First solo show in a French institution by Saudi artist Mohammad Alfaraj (born 1993), who lives in the Al Ahsa oasis: new stop-motion animated videos telling poetic fables he writes and performs himself, within an installation of objects, photographs and drawings. Access with a ticket for the Gustave Fayet exhibition.

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Remember Me

Until Jan 18, 2027

Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection · Les Halles

Major group exhibition marking the bicentenary of photography, with around 700 works by more than 70 artists from the Pinault Collection, from Gustave Le Gray and Julia Margaret Cameron to Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans and Zanele Muholi, arranged without chronology around the theme of memory. Curated by Matthieu Humery.

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Eva Gonzalès: Parcours d'une artiste libre

Until Jan 24, 2027

Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

First monographic exhibition devoted to the Impressionist-era painter Eva Gonzalès (1847–1883), presented at the Petit Palais before travelling to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in February 2027.

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L'étoffe de l'artiste: De Rosa Bonheur à Sonia Delaunay

Until Jan 24, 2027

Musée Bourdelle · Montparnasse

Exhibition on how artists from the late 19th to the mid-20th century staged themselves through their clothes, bringing together more than 50 garments, accessories and objects worn by artists such as Gustav Klimt, Rosa Bonheur, Foujita and Sonia Delaunay with photographs, paintings, drawings and sculptures; prompted by the 2020 rediscovery of Antoine Bourdelle's own clothes.

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Nicolas Flamel: Alchimiste de papier

Until Jan 24, 2027

Musée de Cluny – Musée national du Moyen Âge · Latin Quarter

Exhibition separating the myth of the alchemist Nicolas Flamel – immortal magician and keeper of universal secrets – from the historical reality of the 14th-century Parisian bourgeois.

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Simone Fattal: Des villes au fond d'un lac (Cities at the Bottom of a Lake)

Until Jan 24, 2027

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris · Trocadéro

First Paris museum exhibition of Lebanese-American artist Simone Fattal (born 1942), with around a hundred works spanning more than fifty years – early landscape paintings, ceramic figures inspired by Mediterranean myth, collages, watercolours and ink drawings – arranged non-chronologically.

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Visionnaires: Carte blanche à Prune Nourry

Until Jan 24, 2027

Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris · Champs-Élysées / Matignon

Artist Prune Nourry takes over the whole museum with sculpted portraits of eighteen overlooked women sculptors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries – among them Käthe Kollwitz, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Hélène Bertaux, Jane Poupelet and Sarah Bernhardt – based on a year of research by three art historians. Free, within the permanent collections.

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« Je passe ma vie à peindre »: a Claude Monet route in the Impressionist gallery

Until Jan 24, 2027

Musée d'Orsay – Impressionist gallery (rooms 29–35) · Saint-Germain-des-Prés

For the centenary of Monet's death, a display of five recently studied or restored paintings and letters in the Impressionist gallery reveals the deliberate working process behind his apparent spontaneity, prepared with the C2RMF and restorer Bénédicte Trémolières.

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Éternel Tintoret

Until Jan 24, 2027

Musée Jacquemart-André · Monceau

The first exhibition in France to survey the whole career of the Venetian Renaissance painter Jacopo Robusti, known as Tintoretto (1518/19–1594), and his legacy as a reference for 19th-century French painting.

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Monet, peindre le temps (Monet, Painting Time)

Until Jan 25, 2027

Musée de l'Orangerie · Concorde / Tuileries

For the centenary of Claude Monet's death, an exhibition on the painter's relationship to time, from the quick 'impressions' of the 1870s through the series of the 1890s (Cathedrals, Haystacks, Poplars) to the continuum of the Water Lilies. It travels to Tate Modern in 2027.

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Nan Goldin: Stendhal Syndrome

Until Jan 25, 2027

Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection (Auditorium) · Les Halles

Nan Goldin's slideshow pairing Renaissance, Baroque and classical masterpieces photographed in major museums with portraits of her friends and lovers, inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses; screened in the museum's Auditorium as part of Remember Me.

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Raymond Depardon: La France

Until Jan 25, 2027

Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection (Galerie 3) · Les Halles

Around fifty images from Raymond Depardon's long-term series on the French landscape, made with a view camera from his van, drawn from the Pinault Collection and shown in Galerie 3 as part of Remember Me.

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Sculpter la couleur – Masterpieces from the Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid

Until Jan 25, 2027

Musée du Louvre – Hall Napoléon · Palais-Royal / Louvre

Seventeenth-century Spanish polychrome wood sculpture from Valladolid's national sculpture museum, including a complete processional paso by Gregorio Fernández. Staged jointly with the Zurbarán retrospective in a shared scenography.

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Auguste Bartholdi: La Liberté éclairant le monde

Until Jan 31, 2027

Musée d'Orsay · Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Exhibition on sculptor Auguste Bartholdi and the creation of the Statue of Liberty, from its origins in a project for the Suez Canal to its construction with Viollet-le-Duc and Gustave Eiffel and its inauguration in New York in 1886, organised with the Musée Bartholdi in Colmar. A separate VR experience in the Galerie Amont accompanies it.

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Histoires de paysages: De Monet à Hockney (1890–2026)

Until Jan 31, 2027

Musée Marmottan Monet · Trocadéro

Joint exhibition with the Musée de Grenoble tracing landscape painting from 1890 to today – from its 19th-century triumph through its 20th-century retreat to contemporary reinventions, from Monet to Hockney. Curated by Pierre Wat; travels to Grenoble in March 2027.

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Mary Cassatt: L'indépendante

Until Jan 31, 2027

Musée d'Orsay · Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Marking the centenary of her death, the first major French national-museum exhibition devoted to Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) brings together nearly 80 paintings, pastels and prints across her whole career, examined through the lens of independence and drawing on unpublished letters and rarely lent American and European works.

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Monet / Soriano: Cartographie du Mont Kolsås

Until Jan 31, 2027

Musée Marmottan Monet · Trocadéro

For the 11th 'Dialogues inattendus', French-American artist Peter Soriano creates a monumental wall drawing revisiting Monet's winter trip to Norway in 1895 and the snowy Mount Kolsås landscapes that inspired him.

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Nadar: Inventer Paris, des profondeurs au ciel

Until Jan 31, 2027

Les Catacombes de Paris · Montparnasse

For the bicentenary of photography, the Catacombs show a lesser-known side of Nadar: the prolific inventor who documented Paris from its underground ossuaries – where he made pioneering artificial-light photographs – to the sky.

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Photographies japonaises de la BnF: Scènes, signes, sensations

Until Jan 31, 2027

BnF François-Mitterrand – Galerie 2 · 13e / Paris Rive Gauche

Some 300 works – 250 mostly black-and-white prints and about fifty rare photobooks from the BnF collections – tracing 80 years of Japanese photography, part of the BnF's celebrations of the bicentenary of photography.

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SMITH: Ici grand ouvert

Until Jan 31, 2027

MAC VAL – Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne · Vitry-sur-Seine

Immersive survey of nearly twenty years of work by the artist SMITH (born 1985), spanning photography, installation, performance and moving image and exploring altered states of consciousness at the crossroads of art, science and spirituality; part of the official programme for the bicentenary of photography.

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Vies minuscules (Centre Pompidou at the Panthéon)

Until Jan 31, 2027

Panthéon · Latin Quarter

In the nave of the Panthéon, some thirty artists from the Centre Pompidou collection – from František Kupka, Kees Van Dongen and Germaine Richier to Mathieu Pernot, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Mohamed Bourouissa and Jumana Manna – explore how art has given room to lives on the margins of grand history. Title borrowed from Pierre Michon's 1984 book; co-produced with the Centre des monuments nationaux.

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Voir Tahiti: First photographs 1859–1870

Until Jan 31, 2027

Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac · Invalides / Eiffel Tower

The earliest photographs of French Polynesia, acquired by the museum in 2023: paper negatives made in 1859–1862 by naval surgeon Gustave Viaud (Pierre Loti's elder brother) and images by naval officer Paul Émile Miot.

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Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust: From Rasht

Until Feb 7, 2027

Institut des Cultures d'Islam (ICI) · Montmartre / 18e

First Paris solo show of Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust: some fifty woven, sewn and drawn works, plus new pieces, reconstructing the family story of his father from Rasht, uprooted after the 1979 Iranian revolution, and an Iranian diaspora, in a scenography inspired by his performances.

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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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Prix Marcel Duchamp 2026 – exhibition of the nominees

Until Feb 7, 2027

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris · Trocadéro

Exhibition of the four artists nominated for France's leading contemporary art prize – Joël Andrianomearisoa, Brognon Rollin, Laura Henno and Josèfa Ntjam – presented within the museum's collection galleries in partnership with the Centre Pompidou. Free admission.

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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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Seulgi Lee: DAL DARI, La Lune et les Jambes

Until Feb 8, 2027

Musée national des arts asiatiques – Guimet · Trocadéro

Monumental installation by Korean artist Seulgi Lee spanning the museum's façade and interior, inspired by the Korean belief that crossing a bridge under the first full moon of the year strengthens the legs; made for the 140th anniversary of France–Korea diplomatic relations.

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Ali Cherri: Today Is OK

Until Feb 14, 2027

Palais de Tokyo · Trocadéro

French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri extends his new feature film La Sentinelle (Cannes 2026, co-produced by the Palais de Tokyo) into an exhibition of sets, sculptures and installations, including a monumental sculpture inspired by military monuments, on war and its effects on bodies and imaginations.

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Lassana Sarre: Globale Inversion Inversion

Until Feb 14, 2027

Palais de Tokyo · Trocadéro

Murals, canvases and a sound piece painted in situ by Lassana Sarre after sharing the daily life of the Palais de Tokyo's security teams, portraying the often unseen people who guard artworks and visitors.

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Le Cirque, fabrique de l'art moderne

Until Feb 14, 2027

Musée de Montmartre – Jardins Renoir · Montmartre / 18e

Exhibition on the circus as a laboratory of modern art in Montmartre, where the Cirque Fernando (later Medrano) inspired Degas, Seurat, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso, Chagall, Rouault, Léger and others.

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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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Paul Kodjo: Photoromance

Until Feb 14, 2027

Palais de Tokyo · Trocadéro

Rare solo presentation of Ivorian photographer Paul Kodjo (1939–2021), witness to Côte d'Ivoire's transformations in the 1970s, co-produced with Les Rencontres d'Arles where it was first shown in summer 2026. Curated by Amandine Nana.

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Rose Lowder: La Source de la Loire et autres films

Until Feb 14, 2027

Palais de Tokyo · Trocadéro

Exhibition of experimental filmmaker Rose Lowder's recent 16mm work, including a film 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. Curated by François Piron.

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Sonia Gomes: Cœur sauvage

Until Feb 14, 2027

Palais de Tokyo · Trocadéro

Solo exhibition of Brazilian artist Sonia Gomes, whose sculptures, wall works and installations made from found and donated textiles, rope and embroidery draw on Afro-Brazilian traditions and address colonial legacies, race and gender. Curated by Daria de Beauvais.

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Toi et ta bande

Until Feb 14, 2027

Palais de Tokyo · Trocadéro

Group show at the heart of the Palais de Tokyo's autumn season 'Tous les feux, les fleurs', bringing together artists and collectives working away from cities – in rural areas, mountains and islands such as the Cévennes, Corsica, Guadeloupe and the Basque Country – with some twenty works, many newly produced. Curated by Liza Maignan.

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Un vestiaire à soi: Féminités dissidentes au 19e siècle

Until Feb 14, 2027

Palais Galliera – Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris · Trocadéro

Exhibition on a little-known phenomenon: 19th-century women's appropriation of the male dress codes of their time, as a form of dissident femininity.

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Valérie John: I telman nwè ki i blé (So black it turns blue)

Until Feb 14, 2027

Palais de Tokyo · Trocadéro

Monographic exhibition of Martinique-based artist Valérie John, exploring indigo blue as material, memory and gesture through textile, paper and book assemblages made since the 1990s between the Caribbean and West Africa. Curated by Amandine Nana.

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Contrepoint contemporain: Vija Celmins

Until Feb 15, 2027

Musée de l'Orangerie · Concorde / Tuileries

Works made between 1971 and 2000 by Vija Celmins – drawings, paintings, prints and wood engravings of oceans, deserts, night skies and snow – shown in the pronaos and contemporary room in dialogue with Monet's Water Lilies, as part of the museum's 'contemporary counterpoint' series.

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Éclats d'amour – carte blanche à Laurent Pernot

Until Feb 15, 2027

Musée de La Poste (Musée postal) · Montparnasse

Drawing on the museum's collections, notably old letters, artist Laurent Pernot creates an exhibition on 'love in wartime', bringing out fragments of intimate words exchanged across conflicts from the Siege of Paris to the present.

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Jenny Holzer: J'ai vu (I Saw)

Until Feb 21, 2027

Musée d'Orsay · Saint-Germain-des-Prés

Exhibition conceived by Jenny Holzer for the Musée d'Orsay, drawing on texts from the museum's archives – artists' letters – and literary and political writings of the period: a site-specific LED installation among the history, naturalist and symbolist paintings, gold- and platinum-leaf paintings, stone engravings and façade projections.

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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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Rayane Mcirdi: Joyeuse retraite papa

Until Feb 21, 2027

Frac Île-de-France – Le Plateau · La Villette / 19e

First Paris institutional exhibition of video artist Rayane Mcirdi, whose films, between documentary and fiction, are built from stories and memories gathered from his family and neighbours in Asnières-sur-Seine and Gennevilliers, between Algeria and France.

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Vive la mariée! Algérie, Maroc, Tunisie

Until Feb 28, 2027

Institut du monde arabe · Latin Quarter

Exhibition on weddings in the Maghreb, with a selection of bridal costumes and adornments never before shown in France, set against works by 27 contemporary artists from the Maghreb and its diasporas. Part of the Saison Méditerranée 2026.

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Artistes au Muséum

Until Mar 7, 2027

Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle – Grande Galerie de l'Évolution · Latin Quarter

For the Muséum's 400th anniversary, more than 300 works from its art collections – from the imagery of scientific expeditions to contemporary artists inspired by natural history – explore the links between art and science.

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Martine Franck: Images, presse et luttes féministes

Until Mar 7, 2027

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson · Le Marais

Mostly unpublished photographs by Martine Franck (1938–2012) of 1970s feminist struggles in Paris, shown with the feminist press of the period, and her later public-commission series 'Des femmes et la création' and 'Des métiers et des femmes'.

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Moteur imaginaire (Imaginary Engine): From masterpieces of the Collection Renault to artists of today

Until Mar 7, 2027

Large, cultures contemporaines (Île Seguin) · Boulogne-Billancourt

Inaugural exhibition of Large, the new contemporary art centre founded by Emerige and Laurent Dumas on the former Renault factory site, in a building by RCR Arquitectes with CALQ. Curated by Cecilia Alemani, it brings together about 120 works by 55 artists – masterpieces from the Collection Renault and 17 new commissions from artists including Théo Mercier, Sara Sadik, Bianca Bondi, Clément Cogitore, Bertrand Lavier and Oliver Beer – on humans, factories and machines.

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Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua, Histoire, Mémoire

Until Mar 7, 2027

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson · Le Marais

Susan Meiselas's photographs of the Nicaraguan revolution (1978–79), including Molotov Man, and her four decades of returns to the country to trace how her images were reused on murals, T-shirts and stamps and to find the people who appear in them.

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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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L'Eau primordiale: Lessons from Mesopotamia

Until Mar 15, 2027

Musée du Louvre – Richelieu wing, room 230 · Palais-Royal / Louvre

Exhibition and trail through the Near Eastern Antiquities galleries examining ancient Mesopotamia's early mastery of water, from irrigation to canals and aqueducts, and its environmental lessons, drawn solely from the Louvre's collections.

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Look! 40 ans de mode au musée

Until Apr 4, 2027

Musée des Arts Décoratifs · Palais-Royal / Louvre

Celebration of the 40th anniversary of the fashion museum within the Arts Décoratifs through 40 iconic silhouettes from its collections, staged in the central nave with sketches, patterns and embroidery.

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Delacroix, chevaux et autres animaux

Until Apr 18, 2027

Musée national Eugène-Delacroix · Saint-Germain-des-Prés

New display exploring Eugène Delacroix's animal world – horses, lions and tigers – prompted by the acquisition of two newly restored studies of stallions shown for the first time at the museum.

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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.

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Hassan Hajjaj + Acid Arab: My Rock Stars

Until Apr 25, 2027

Philharmonie de Paris – Musée de la musique · La Villette / 19e

Installation of Hassan Hajjaj's 'My Rock Stars' portraits – from Billie Eilish and Madonna to Rachid Taha, Lee 'Scratch' Perry and gnawa master Babohot – with an electronic soundtrack created by the band Acid Arab.

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Rafael Pavarotti, photographe

Until May 2, 2027

Musée des Arts Décoratifs · Palais-Royal / Louvre

First exhibition in France of Brazilian photographer Rafael Pavarotti (born 1993 in Pará): more than 200 prints – magazine covers, portraits of stars such as Rihanna, Harry Styles and Beyoncé, and fashion-house campaigns – shown alongside photographs from the museum's collection.

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Art Brut Ressourcé: La « S » Grand Atelier

Until Jul 31, 2027

Halle Saint Pierre · Montmartre / 18e

The Halle Saint Pierre invites La « S » Grand Atelier, the art brut and contemporary art centre in Vielsalm (Belgium) known for its collaborative workshops, to rethink art brut in the 21st century.