September 2026
September at a glance: 13 exhibitions opening, 29 closing, and 22 more on view across the city.

Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette · Free
A Paris Design Week show pairing works from AlUla's design residency with pieces from the Lafayette Anticipations Collection, exploring relationships between objects, materials and uses across furniture, sculpture and hybrid installations.
Musée Jacquemart-André
The first comprehensive survey in France of the Venetian master Tintoretto, tracing his audacious compositions and dramatic light from the Renaissance to his influence on 19th-century French painting.

Musée d'Orsay
Marking 250 years of American independence, this exhibition and an accompanying VR experience trace how sculptor Auguste Bartholdi conceived and built the Statue of Liberty.

Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette
The 9th edition of this dance and performance festival transforms the foundation into a venue for shared encounters, with works exploring embodied memory, resistance and transgenerational narratives through dance, sound and theatrical performance.

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM)
First exhibition in France devoted to American painter Kerry James Marshall, around seventy works including eight new paintings, exploring Black representation and art history.

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM)
Major retrospective of Lebanese-American artist Simone Fattal, around one hundred works over fifty years, from early landscape paintings to ceramics and collages.

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.

Centre Pompidou
Some 180 works (70 by Cezanne) trace his profound influence on modern art from the 1880s to today, the 'father of us all' as Picasso put it. At the Grand Palais, co-produced with the Pompidou and Musee d'Orsay.

Grand Palais
Nearly 180 works tracing Cézanne's profound influence, from Gauguin, Matisse and Picasso to Mondrian, Joan Mitchell and Peter Doig, and the artists who claimed his legacy.

Centre Pompidou
Around thirty artists from Kupka to Jumana Manna, drawn from the Centre Pompidou's collections, fill the Pantheon's nave with quiet, intimate and anonymous lives - a counterpoint to the monument's great men. Free entry, part of the Constellation programme.

Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP)
A MEP Studio show pairing an analogue photographic project shot in Brittany in 2025 with expired 1990s film stock, and a film made during a 2026 Albania residency, exploring memory, dissociation and disorientation tied to the artist's childhood on the Breton coast.

Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP)
A chronological retrospective of Irving Penn's fashion photography from 1947 to 2008, spanning his Parisian haute couture images of the 1950s through collaborations with Issey Miyake, John Galliano and Chanel, drawn from the MEP and Nicola Erni collections.

Musée de l'Orangerie
Marking the centenary of Monet's death, this exhibition traces how his painting engaged with time — from the Cathedrals, Haystacks and Poplars series of the 1890s through to the Water Lilies — drawing largely on the Musée d'Orsay and Musée Marmottan Monet collections.

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
A look at the career of Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto (Almighty God), whose unusual work unites popular painting and spiritual commitment.

Grand Palais
Retrospective of the Argentine illusionist's fourteen monumental installations, where boats levitate, clouds float and a tilted Haussmann facade lets visitors bend reality.

Musée national Picasso-Paris
An immersive 15-minute VR experience tracing the history of Picasso's monumental Guernica (1937), from its commission for the 1937 World's Fair to its lasting global resonance. Narrated through the voices of Juan Larrea and Dora Maar. Co-produced with VIVE Arts.

Musée national Picasso-Paris
First French retrospective of contemporary American painter Henry Taylor, whose vivid figurative portraits engage with art history, including his own reworking of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon.

Palais de Tokyo
First French retrospective of British sculptor Cathy de Monchaux, gathering over fifty works from 1984 to today in velvet, metal and intricate detail.

Palais de Tokyo
Turner Prize winner Jesse Darling fills the great glass-roofed hall with illegible signage and a ghostly crowd of flag-topped lecterns, probing the fragility of power.

Palais de Tokyo
Drawing on hospitals and illness, Benoit Pieron builds a sparkling, strange world of shadow theater, glitter-filled lamps and abstract forms exploring intersexuality and disability.

Palais de Tokyo
A monographic show of video installations and sculpture in which Pauline Curnier Jardin probes bodily vulnerability, female representation and spirituality as departures from the straight line.

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.

Palais de Tokyo
Through drawing, painting and sculpture, Neila Czermak Ichti merges memory and dream to trace family histories, migrations and marginalized voices that endure.

Palais de Tokyo
Painter Lassana Sarre creates wall paintings and looped sound installations celebrating the overlooked routines and shared meals of the Palais de Tokyo's security staff.
Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP)
A lexicon-style group show marking photography's bicentennial, pairing 36 artists from the Neuflize OBC Corporate Collection with the MEP's own holdings in unexpected, alphabetical associations.
Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP)
The first retrospective of French photographer Camille Vivier, gathering around ten series and nearly 100 works that explore the body, still life and uncanny presences across 25 years of art and fashion photography.

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.
Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP)
A MEP Studio project by Martine Dawson on the houses of Butte, Montana, a former mining town, pairing contemporary images with archival material to frame dwellings as surfaces of memory.

Palais de Tokyo · Free
Table tennis as a medium of cultural exchange and social interaction, with works by Hugo Beheregaray, Rachael Woodson and Julius Koller, born from a partnership with Corbeil-Essonnes, a town known for its 303 public table tennis tables.

Musée d'Orsay
Hand-colored silver gelatin prints by Egyptian artist Youssef Nabil conjuring a nostalgic, borderless Mediterranean, staged for the Mediterranean Season and the Bicentennial of Photography.

Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection
Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya's fog sculpture Cloud #07156 shrouds the glass-domed Rotunda in a fleeting, ever-shifting veil of mist, a living landscape that forms and dissolves.

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.

Centre Pompidou
A retrospective of around 100 works by Raoul Dufy, one of the most popular French artists of the early 20th century, spanning painting, drawing, engraving, ceramics and textiles. At Les Franciscaines, Deauville.

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.

Palais de Tokyo
Babi Badalov's visual poetry spreads across textiles, collages and drawings, blending art brut, baroque and punk to explore exile, identity and freedom of expression.

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.
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.

Jeu de Paume
Over 300 photographs from one of the world's foremost private collections, spanning 1950 to today and more than 90 artists, exploring desire, celebrity, fashion, reportage and identity.

Jeu de Paume
The first retrospective of photographer Madeleine de Sinety (1934-2011), whose colour and black-and-white work documented rural communities and ways of life facing disappearance across Europe and the United States.

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
A retrospective of 100 works spanning 1926-2016 marking the centenary of geometric abstraction pioneer François Morellet, who systematically challenged the movement he helped define. At Centre Pompidou-Metz.

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
Galerie Valois companion display tracing Raymond Hains's web of associations around the name Cartier, from explorer Jacques Cartier to photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
Curated by Clement Cheroux, this show traces Daido Moriyama's lifelong, almost existential obsession with the photographic medium itself, rather than offering a conventional chronological retrospective.

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson
Ivorian artist Eboro investigates his uncle's 1986 death in Dakar, blending fine art, fashion and research to explore how imagination can heal transgenerational wounds. Created for the Hermes Latitudes program.

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
Works, archives, publications and graphic design trace the Mbari Club as an emblematic space of Nigerian and Pan-African cultural modernity and cross-continental intellectual exchange.

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.

Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
Installation reviving Raymond Hains's 1994 work, with photographs of the Grand Louvre renovation that reframe construction hoardings and public space as art.

Centre Pompidou · Free
Around 100 works from the Centre Pompidou's design collections by some 40 creators, showing how textiles underpin spaces and objects at the intersection of craftsmanship and technology. At Hotel des arts TPM, Toulon.

Centre Pompidou
Marking the 50th anniversary of the Fondation Vasarely, this show explores Victor Vasarely's architectural vision through his "Centre Architectonique" building and related projects merging art and architecture.

Centre Pompidou · Free
Maritime imagery in 20th- and 21st-century art through works by Robert Delaunay, Man Ray, Peter Doig and others, exploring the sea as an enduring source of artistic inspiration. At Abbaye Saint-Germain, Auxerre.

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
From the forests of New Guinea to the paintings of Northern School masters, a journey tracing five centuries of fascination with birds of paradise.

Musée de l'Armée (Les Invalides)
A season marking the 250th anniversary of American independence, with displays on key figures and Franco-American military ties, plus concerts, talks and film screenings.

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.
Louvre
Around 50 Islamic artworks from the 9th to 17th centuries set among European decorative arts, revealing how Eastern techniques of light, colour and sculpture inspired Western craft.

Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM) · Free
The German painter's first solo show in France: sixteen monumental, expressionistic canvases installed within the museum's permanent collection display, including previously unseen works.

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.

Louvre
Around one hundred pieces of precious French metalwork from the 16th to 20th centuries, donated by Michel Lacoste, showcasing the technical skill and refinement of French silversmiths.

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.

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.

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
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.

2 Oct · Centre Pompidou · Free

6 Oct · Musée d'Orsay

7 Oct · Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection

9 Oct · Fondation Louis Vuitton

9 Oct · Fondation Louis Vuitton

13 Oct · Musée de Cluny - musée national du Moyen Âge

14 Oct · Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris

20 Oct · Jeu de Paume

20 Oct · Musée d'Orsay

20 Oct · Centre Pompidou

21 Oct · Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette · Free

21 Oct · Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette · Free

21 Oct · Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette · Free

21 Oct · Palais de Tokyo

22 Oct · Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain

Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP)
The first French solo exhibition of American artist David Gilbert, gathering fifteen years of work at the intersection of photography, sculpture and installation — studio-built assemblages of paper, fabric and found objects photographed as fragile, twilight-lit tableaux.

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.
A short note now and then when something new opens worth your time.