Exhibitions in Paris

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

The life of the singer and anti-apartheid activist, exiled from South Africa in 1959, who became a world star with Pata Pata and a voice for civil rights and Pan-Africanism.

Jeu de Paume

Two large installations on the ground floor by the Franco-Colombian artist (2024 Aware Prize), including a new work co-produced with La Criée in Rennes.

Jeu de Paume

First large-scale French retrospective of the American photojournalist (d. 2017): five decades of reportage, from San Francisco punk to environmental stories and the conflicts of Russia's former satellites.

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 du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

Ten centuries and twenty kingdoms of sub-Saharan Africa: crowns, thrones, sceptres, royal masks and contemporary works on how art expressed and legitimised power. First shown at the Louvre Abu Dhabi.

Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette · Free

Spring 2027 show across the whole foundation: installation, video, sculpture and music by the London/Los Angeles artist on the political and technological forces that shape bodies.

Musée d'Orsay

Traces how the family, regulated by the Civil Code and reshaped by first-wave feminism and shifting notions of the couple, became a key subject for 19th-century artists depicting modern society.

Grand Palais

The photojournalist Gilles Caron (1939-1970, lost in Cambodia) speaks in his own words, among his images and archives, on his life, craft and doubts. Part of the Bicentenary of Photography.

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM)

A selection from the 2026 donation of 218 works by more than 70 artists from the Mennour gallery, including Buren, Kapoor, Lee Ufan, Camille Henrot and Philippe Parreno.

Musée d'Orsay

The first exhibition in France devoted to Édouard Vuillard in almost 25 years, focusing on his lifelong fascination with the theater, from the early 1890s to the late 1930s.

Grand Palais

Retrospective with the most Duchamp works shown in France since 1977, with major loans from MoMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, co-produced with the Centre Pompidou.

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 d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM)

The first French monograph on the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski (1896-1993): about 80 works on the places that inspired him, with the National Museum in Warsaw.

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM)

A retrospective of about 200 works by Leonor Fini (1907-1996), the painter of sphinxes and witches often linked to Surrealism, organised with the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

Musée de l'Orangerie

With the Centre Pompidou closed, its works made in a single year, 1927 (paintings, sculpture, photography, design and film), mark the Orangerie's centenary.

Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris

Over 200 mostly unseen works on Paris and its environment, from the Paris Basin underground to the industrial city, with an interactive lab and contemporary artists.

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.

Grand Palais

180 emblematic works from the Fondation Bemberg, Toulouse, from Veronese and Cranach to Bonnard, shown as the taste of one collector (working title).

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

A display in the Boîte arts graphiques of the museum's Nepal photographs, from 19th-century royal portraits to contemporary photographer Prasiit Sthapit, on how images shaped the country's visibility.

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.

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac

The hidden conservation work behind the collections: identifying materials, protecting objects, and the limits of restoration, shown with before-and-after objects and scientific images.