Exhibitions in Paris

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'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 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'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.

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Mostly unpublished photographs by Martine Franck of 1970s feminist movements, mainly in Paris: protests and the feminist press.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