Exhibitions in Paris

Centre Pompidou · Free

The four 2026 nominees for France's leading contemporary art prize - Joel Andrianomearisoa, Brognon Rollin, Laura Henno and Josefa Ntjam - present new work within the Musee d'Art Moderne de Paris's collections. Winner announced 22 October 2026.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection

Marking photography's bicentenary, this major group show gathers around 700 works by more than 70 artists from Gustave Le Gray to today, anchored by a Barbara Kruger commission in the Rotunda.

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.

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 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.

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.