Exhibitions in Paris

Musée national Picasso-Paris

First Kurt Schwitters retrospective in France in over thirty years: 300+ works and documents, from Merz collages to the Ursonate, set beside his affinities with Picasso's assemblage.

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

The four 2026 nominees for France's leading contemporary art prize (Andrianomearisoa, Brognon Rollin, Henno, Ntjam) show work within the MAM's collections. Winner announced 22 October 2026.

Musée d'Orsay

A "Bicentennial of Photography" retrospective on Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884), the painter-turned-photographer and technical innovator, featuring newly surfaced acquisitions shown for the first time.

Palais de Tokyo

A group exhibition of individual and collective artistic practices rooted in non-urban territories across France, including Limousin, the Cevennes and Corsica.

Palais de Tokyo

Sonia Gomes's textile-based sculptures draw on Afro-Brazilian heritage, transforming fabric and craft into vehicles of memory, care and resistance.

Palais de Tokyo

Valerie John explores indigo blue as material, memory and artistic gesture, with assemblages of paper, textiles and objects tracing cultural ties between Martinique and West Africa.

Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris

A retrospective marking the centenary of Jacques Villeglé, tracing his practice of collecting torn Parisian street posters and reworking them into art that documents the city's changing urban and cultural landscape.

Palais de Tokyo

French-Lebanese artist Ali Cherri presents the film "La Sentinelle" and a new installation on military service and its psychological effects, following a soldier suspended between destiny and self-abandon.

Palais de Tokyo

Filmmaker Rose Lowder's fifty-year research into visual perception through nature observation, centred on her film "La Source de la Loire" (2019-2021) alongside twenty one-minute films shot on organic farms in southern France.

Musée de l'Orangerie

The museum's 17th Contemporary Counterpoint: Vija Celmins's precise studies of ocean, desert, sky and snow surfaces, made 1971-2000 in drawing, painting, printmaking and wood engraving, shown in the pronaos and contemporary gallery in dialogue with Monet's Water Lilies.

Musée d'Orsay

A museum-wide activation by American artist Jenny Holzer: LED installations, facade projections and carved stone benches drawing text from Orsay's 1848-1914 collection.

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.

Grand Palais

The rapper Oli (Bigflo & Oli) stages his inner museum: about a hundred works and new installations, laid out as a coming-of-age journey with sound as the thread.

Centre Pompidou

The BnF and Centre Pompidou combine their Louise Bourgeois holdings for the first time - some 200 drawings, prints and artist's books - in the artist's first Paris public-institution show since 2008. At the BnF Richelieu, Galerie Mansart.

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama's first major French show, with nine associate artists, reactivating African independence-era utopias through monumental installations made from salvaged materials.

Musée d'Orsay

A Room 33 display of recent Vuillard gifts, including two overdoor panels completing the Public Gardens series and pieces from the Schopfer dinner service.

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

Mostly unpublished photographs by Martine Franck of 1970s feminist movements, mainly in Paris: protests and the feminist press. Curated by Angèle Ferrere.

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

Meiselas's 1978-79 Sandinista revolution photographs and how they took on a life of their own on objects and murals: 100+ works, documents and film clips, curated by Clément Chéroux.

Fondation Louis Vuitton

Rediscovery of Gustave Fayet (1865-1925), pioneering collector of van Gogh, Gauguin and Picasso and a prolific designer, drawing on loans from 64 institutions and 71 private collections.

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

An unprecedented European exhibition of Japanese visual artist Mika Ninagawa's work alongside her creative collective EiM, exploring beauty, transience and the interplay of light and shadow through photography, video and installations.

Grand Palais

Artists, designers, photographers and filmmakers challenge traditional representations of teenage girls through multidisciplinary works spanning fashion, photography, film and contemporary art.

Jeu de Paume · Free

An online commission in which Paolo Cirio investigates non-consensual AI-generated sexual imagery, turning 15,000 collected deepfakes into an anonymised visual database.

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

Artist Romeo Mivekannin uses mirror effects and metal sculptures to examine the history of colonial exhibitions and human zoos, reinterpreting historical ethnographic photographs from the museum's collection.

Louvre

Over 300 photographs tracing the Louvre's own history, from the invention of photography to today, showing the museum as subject, model and source of inspiration.

Jeu de Paume

The Brazilian artist's relationship to the image, through key projects of the past decade in photography, video and installation.

Jeu de Paume

Klein's 1954-55 New York photographs, drawn from his studio's documents: icons of 20th-century photography and many images the tight layout of the 1956 book hid, with the first full reading of this body of work.

Musée de l'Armée (Les Invalides)

Charles de Gaulle's early military and literary career, 1909 to 1940, before his famous June 1940 appeal, told through letters, manuscripts, photographs and personal objects.

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

The first exhibition by a French national museum on the Ainu, Indigenous people of northern Japan. Contemporary Indigenous art links past and present, with loans from Japan's national Ainu museum.

Musée des Arts et Métiers

An immersive look at how the Statue of Liberty was built in 1880s Paris, tracing the copper, iron and ingenuity, including Gustave Eiffel's internal frame, behind the Franco-American monument.

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

The Centre Pompidou hangs works by several generations of artists inside the museum's permanent route, setting formal echoes and critical reinterpretations of tradition against the collections.

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.

Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris · Free

A free display in the 1977-to-today room on how Paris has changed since its first elected mayor, with recent acquisitions by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, JR and others.