What's on in Paris

Fondation Louis Vuitton

Major retrospective marking the centenary of Alexander Calder's arrival in France, gathering nearly 300 mobiles, stabiles, wire portraits, paintings and the legendary Cirque Calder across 3,000 sq m.

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

Inaugural show of the new Palais-Royal venue: a sweeping survey of 40 years of the Fondation's collection, with 600 works by 100-plus artists across art, architecture, nature and technology.

Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris

Marking the 400th anniversary of the marquise de Sévigné's birth, over 200 works and objects explore her Parisian life and her celebrated 17th century correspondence.

Musée de l'Orangerie

The museum's 16th Contemporary Counterpoint: painter Alexandre Lenoir (b. 1992) unveils four new, dreamlike landscape paintings in dialogue with the collection.

Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection

Around a hundred works from the Pinault Collection, including modernist pieces for the first time, trace the legacy of chiaroscuro across galleries staged in an interplay of light and shadow.

Centre Pompidou

First major French show for Swedish abstraction pioneer Hilma af Klint, presenting her 'Paintings for the Temple' cycle (1906-15) and the monumental Ten Largest series. At the Grand Palais, co-produced with the Pompidou.

Fondation Louis Vuitton

Iranian-born artist Armineh Negahdari's first solo show in a French institution presents a new body of intuitive charcoal, oil-pastel and graphite drawings in Gallery 8's Open Space program.

Grand Palais

The first major French exhibition of the Swedish abstraction pioneer, presenting her monumental, symbol-laden "Paintings for the Temple" series, co-organised with the Centre Pompidou.

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

A look at the career of Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto (Almighty God), whose unusual work unites popular painting and spiritual commitment.

Grand Palais

Retrospective of the Argentine illusionist's fourteen monumental installations, where boats levitate, clouds float and a tilted Haussmann facade lets visitors bend reality.

Musée national Picasso-Paris

An immersive 15-minute VR experience tracing the history of Picasso's monumental Guernica (1937), from its commission for the 1937 World's Fair to its lasting global resonance. Narrated through the voices of Juan Larrea and Dora Maar. Co-produced with VIVE Arts.

Musée national Picasso-Paris

First French retrospective of contemporary American painter Henry Taylor, whose vivid figurative portraits engage with art history, including his own reworking of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Palais de Tokyo

First French retrospective of British sculptor Cathy de Monchaux, gathering over fifty works from 1984 to today in velvet, metal and intricate detail.

Palais de Tokyo

Turner Prize winner Jesse Darling fills the great glass-roofed hall with illegible signage and a ghostly crowd of flag-topped lecterns, probing the fragility of power.

Palais de Tokyo

Drawing on hospitals and illness, Benoit Pieron builds a sparkling, strange world of shadow theater, glitter-filled lamps and abstract forms exploring intersexuality and disability.

Palais de Tokyo

A monographic show of video installations and sculpture in which Pauline Curnier Jardin probes bodily vulnerability, female representation and spirituality as departures from the straight line.

Palais de Tokyo

Joseph Grigely turns accessibility into an artistic medium, inserting an architectural prosthesis into the Palais de Tokyo and reframing disabled bodies as enabled bodies.

Palais de Tokyo

Curated by Lucie Camous and Etienne Chosson, this tribute to disabled performance artist Cheryl Marie Wade (1948-2013) pairs archival footage with artists of the Berkeley crip community.

Palais de Tokyo

Through drawing, painting and sculpture, Neila Czermak Ichti merges memory and dream to trace family histories, migrations and marginalized voices that endure.

Palais de Tokyo

Painter Lassana Sarre creates wall paintings and looped sound installations celebrating the overlooked routines and shared meals of the Palais de Tokyo's security staff.

Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP)

A lexicon-style group show marking photography's bicentennial, pairing 36 artists from the Neuflize OBC Corporate Collection with the MEP's own holdings in unexpected, alphabetical associations.

Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP)

The first retrospective of French photographer Camille Vivier, gathering around ten series and nearly 100 works that explore the body, still life and uncanny presences across 25 years of art and fashion photography.

Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris · Free

A free contemporary photography display within the permanent collections, gathering French and international artists' portraits of Parisians and their ever-changing faces.

Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP)

A MEP Studio project by Martine Dawson on the houses of Butte, Montana, a former mining town, pairing contemporary images with archival material to frame dwellings as surfaces of memory.

Palais de Tokyo · Free

Table tennis as a medium of cultural exchange and social interaction, with works by Hugo Beheregaray, Rachael Woodson and Julius Koller, born from a partnership with Corbeil-Essonnes, a town known for its 303 public table tennis tables.

Musée d'Orsay

Hand-colored silver gelatin prints by Egyptian artist Youssef Nabil conjuring a nostalgic, borderless Mediterranean, staged for the Mediterranean Season and the Bicentennial of Photography.

Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection

Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya's fog sculpture Cloud #07156 shrouds the glass-domed Rotunda in a fleeting, ever-shifting veil of mist, a living landscape that forms and dissolves.

Jeu de Paume · Free

An online commission by artist Veronique Caye, a travel journal probing French Polynesia and possible links between the 1966 nuclear tests and health issues affecting her family.

Centre Pompidou

A retrospective of around 100 works by Raoul Dufy, one of the most popular French artists of the early 20th century, spanning painting, drawing, engraving, ceramics and textiles. At Les Franciscaines, Deauville.

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

How African and Oceanic objects met avant-garde works in 1910s-20s Paris, reshaping the modern Western vision of art through dealers, artists and collectors.

Palais de Tokyo

Babi Badalov's visual poetry spreads across textiles, collages and drawings, blending art brut, baroque and punk to explore exile, identity and freedom of expression.

Musée Cognacq-Jay

A six-room collaboration with the Palais Galliera tracing femininity through 18th-century fashion: court dresses, portraits and gallant scenes in dialogue with contemporary haute couture.

Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection

French artist Laura Lamiel fills the Passage display cases and the Machine Room with sensory installations of found objects and steel lit by fluorescent tubes, revealing what usually stays invisible.

Jeu de Paume

Over 300 photographs from one of the world's foremost private collections, spanning 1950 to today and more than 90 artists, exploring desire, celebrity, fashion, reportage and identity.

Jeu de Paume

The first retrospective of photographer Madeleine de Sinety (1934-2011), whose colour and black-and-white work documented rural communities and ways of life facing disappearance across Europe and the United States.

Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris · Free

A free display within the permanent collections tracing two and a half centuries of Franco-American ties, from the 1776 War of Independence to the Statue of Liberty and the World Wars.

Centre Pompidou

A retrospective of 100 works spanning 1926-2016 marking the centenary of geometric abstraction pioneer François Morellet, who systematically challenged the movement he helped define. At Centre Pompidou-Metz.

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

Galerie Valois companion display tracing Raymond Hains's web of associations around the name Cartier, from explorer Jacques Cartier to photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

Curated by Clement Cheroux, this show traces Daido Moriyama's lifelong, almost existential obsession with the photographic medium itself, rather than offering a conventional chronological retrospective.

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

Ivorian artist Eboro investigates his uncle's 1986 death in Dakar, blending fine art, fashion and research to explore how imagination can heal transgenerational wounds. Created for the Hermes Latitudes program.

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

Works, archives, publications and graphic design trace the Mbari Club as an emblematic space of Nigerian and Pan-African cultural modernity and cross-continental intellectual exchange.

Centre Pompidou

Nine themed sections trace how landscape art transformed across the 20th and 21st centuries, drawing on the Centre Pompidou's collections of painting, photography, cinema, design and new media. At West Bund Museum Project, Shanghai.

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

Installation reviving Raymond Hains's 1994 work, with photographs of the Grand Louvre renovation that reframe construction hoardings and public space as art.

Centre Pompidou · Free

Around 100 works from the Centre Pompidou's design collections by some 40 creators, showing how textiles underpin spaces and objects at the intersection of craftsmanship and technology. At Hotel des arts TPM, Toulon.

Centre Pompidou

Marking the 50th anniversary of the Fondation Vasarely, this show explores Victor Vasarely's architectural vision through his "Centre Architectonique" building and related projects merging art and architecture.

Centre Pompidou · Free

Maritime imagery in 20th- and 21st-century art through works by Robert Delaunay, Man Ray, Peter Doig and others, exploring the sea as an enduring source of artistic inspiration. At Abbaye Saint-Germain, Auxerre.

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

From the forests of New Guinea to the paintings of Northern School masters, a journey tracing five centuries of fascination with birds of paradise.

Musée de l'Armée (Les Invalides)

A season marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, with displays on key figures and Franco-American military ties, plus concerts, talks and film screenings.

Centre Pompidou · Free

Inaugural show at Maison Pompidou (50 rue Rambuteau) on the Centre's now-iconic colour-coded palette, and the gold, blue and brown that nearly won, told through architecture documents, photos and design objects.

Louvre

Around 50 Islamic artworks from the 9th to 17th centuries set among European decorative arts, revealing how Eastern techniques of light, colour and sculpture inspired Western craft.

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM) · Free

The German painter's first solo show in France: sixteen monumental, expressionistic canvases installed within the museum's permanent collection display, including previously unseen works.

Musée des Arts et Métiers · Free

A monumental metallic horse sculpture from the 2024 Paris Olympics opening ceremony, installed on the museum's forecourt with free public access.

Louvre

Around one hundred pieces of precious French metalwork from the 16th to 20th centuries, donated by Michel Lacoste, showcasing the technical skill and refinement of French silversmiths.

Centre Pompidou

For Centre Pompidou-Metz's 15th birthday, hundreds of collection works (Breton's studio wall, Duchamp's chess table) and pieces by Cattelan riff on the idea of 'Sunday' across 27 thematic rooms.

Centre Pompidou

At Centre Pompidou Malaga, a thematic journey through 20th- and 21st-century art from the Musee National d'Art Moderne collection, in six interconnected sections about how artists make us see differently.

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

An installation by Yo-E Ryou in the music box of the Collections Plateau, unfolding through sound, breath and duration to explore resonance between bodies, water and memory.

Louvre

An exploration of ancient Mesopotamia's relationship with water, tracing early canals and aqueducts and the environmental consequences of humanity's first great hydraulic engineering.

Grand Palais

Inaugural show of the new Palais des enfants: a playful, sensory journey where artworks and science experiments play with light to spark the curiosity and wonder of very young visitors.

Musée national Picasso-Paris

A site-specific installation by Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca in the chapel of the Hôtel Salé, where his "cubistoid" intersecting lines are painted directly onto the walls to form a new pictorial space.