Exhibitions in Paris

Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection · Past

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.

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.

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.

Musée de Cluny - musée national du Moyen Âge · Past

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.

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.

Musée d'Orsay · Past

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.

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.

Centre Pompidou · Past

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 · Past

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

Musée de l'Orangerie · Past

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

Musée de l'Orangerie · Past

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

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.

Musée Jacquemart-André · Past

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.

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac · Past

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

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac · Past

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

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac · Past

Photographs by Bernard Plossu from a long journey across the Sahel in 1975-1976, shown in the Boite Arts Graphiques.

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

A focused display of nine works from a recent donation spanning some sixty years of Max Wechsler's practice, from figuration to conceptual abstraction.

Crypte archéologique de l'île de la Cité · Past

Nearly 150 objects recovered from the Seine, from prehistory to today, shown amid the crypt's remains to trace Parisians' enduring relationship with their river.

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain · Past

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 · Free

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.