Ma Kelu, Le souffle et le vide

You walk into the gallery of medieval wall paintings, saints set against flat painted skies, and opposite them hang abstract canvases of what look like clouds, gusts of wind and figures suspended in the air. They are by Ma Kelu, and this is his first exhibition in France.

Born in Shanghai in 1954, Ma was a founding member of the No Name group, painters who worked outside China's official art system in the 1970s, and he settled in New York in the late 1980s. The paintings are mostly one colour, sometimes two, built up from repeated gestures. The curator, Matthieu Poirier, hangs them among the frescoes, and the museum's text compares their drifting forms to Monet, Matisse and Hartung. They are the only clouds in Paris this winter that won't rain on you.

Use the Trocadéro entrance. Tickets are €13 (€10 reduced), the Cité is closed on Tuesdays and stays open until 21:00 on Thursdays.