What's on in Paris

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.

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.

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.

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

Two decades of African fashion, from the catwalks of Johannesburg to the global stage, celebrating its energy, creativity and influence.

Musée de Cluny - musée national du Moyen Âge

A sweeping exploration of the unicorn myth across art, from medieval tapestries to 21st-century works, co-organised with the GrandPalaisRmn and Potsdam's Museum Barberini.

Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP)

An immersive MEP Studio installation by Winnie Mo Rielly in which the body is fragmented, displaced and recomposed; the artist's first solo show in a Parisian museum.

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM)

First Parisian museum retrospective of experimental artist Brion Gysin, over 140 works across painting, poetry, performance and sound, tracing his role in the 20th-century avant-garde.

Musée d'Orsay

Co-organised with London's National Gallery and Boston's MFA, this show explores Renoir's luminous scenes of modern love and leisure painted between 1865 and 1885.

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

First French museum exhibition devoted to three Estonian artists, spanning the mid-20th century to today, with the human body as a unifying theme across generations.

Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette · Free

Diego Marcon's first Paris solo show turns the foundation into a hybrid cinema, screening four films made with animation and figurines that explore how cinema manufactures emotion.

Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette · Free

Ladji Diaby builds an installation from reclaimed and second-hand furniture, each piece transformed to echo his mother's spiritual decoration, questioning value and arguing for collective action.

Louvre

Two sculptural masters meet across the centuries, exploring how Michelangelo and Rodin made the human body the vehicle for intense inner life through marble, bronze and plaster.

Louvre

A rare gathering of drawings, engravings and nearly all the known paintings of Martin Schongauer, the late-medieval Germanic master whose prints inspired European artists for generations.

Musée de l'Orangerie

Retrospective co-organised with the Barnes Foundation, gathering around fifty works by Henri Rousseau, including The Sleeping Gypsy on loan from MoMA, New York.

Palais de Tokyo

A short run tracing the revolutions that have shaped the Milanese jeweller Pomellato since 1967 through style, craftsmanship, color and women's empowerment.

Centre Pompidou

Co-produced with the Grand Palais (the venue), this show traces Matisse's final, radically inventive years: gouache cut-outs, the Jazz album, textiles and stained glass. Part of the Pompidou's off-site programme.

Grand Palais

Over 230 works from Henri Matisse's final years, centred on his revolutionary cut-out gouaches alongside paintings, drawings, illustrated books and stained glass.

Grand Palais

A monumental immersive installation in the Nave combining video, sculpture, sound, scent and light, drawing on quantum physics to plunge visitors to an atomic scale.

Grand Palais · Free

A film-opera in eight parts exploring Ahmed Urabi's 1882 revolt against colonial rule in Egypt, blending theatrical performance, operatic music and cinematic storytelling filmed in a historic Alexandria theatre.

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM)

Major retrospective of photographer Lee Miller, around 250 vintage and modern prints from her Surrealist New York work to her WWII war correspondence and the liberation of the camps.

Musée Jacquemart-André

Some forty Spanish Golden Age masterpieces from New York's Hispanic Society, with works by Velázquez, El Greco and Zurbarán alongside 17th-18th-century Latin American painting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.