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Whitney Biennial — 2026
Andrea Fraser
Jordan Strafer
Julio Torres
And 54 others… Ends in 13 days: March 8 → August 23 The eighty-second edition of the Whitney Biennial, the oldest and one of the most prestigious events dedicated to contemporary art in the United States, brings together 56 artists, duos, and collectives whose works engage intensely with our present moment. This edition explores the many forms of relationships that sha…
Jordan Strafer
Julio Torres
And 54 others… Ends in 13 days: March 8 → August 23 The eighty-second edition of the Whitney Biennial, the oldest and one of the most prestigious events dedicated to contemporary art in the United States, brings together 56 artists, duos, and collectives whose works engage intensely with our present moment. This edition explores the many forms of relationships that sha…
Hilma af Klint
Ends in 20 days: May 6 → August 30
In spring 2026, the Grand Palais and the Centre Pompidou will dedicate an unprecedented exhibition to Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), an artist whose work disrupts the conventional chronology of modern art. Long before established figures of abstraction such as Kandinsky or Malevich, Hilma af Klint created, as early as 19…
Fabienne Gaston-Dreyfus — Tu hurles quelque chose à la mode
Fabienne Gaston Dreyfus
Ends in about 1 month: November 15, 2025 → September 21, 2026
This exhibition by Fabienne Gaston-Dreyfus invites us to discover and explore the vibrant, living work of the artist, on the occasion of the print created in 2024 in homage to the Roseraie du Val-de-Marne and now part of the MAC VAL collection.
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David Hockney — A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting
Ends in 13 days: March 12 → August 23
One of the most influential artists of our time, David Hockney invites viewers to slow down and notice the extraordinary within the everyday in his first exhibition at Serpentine. Created specifically for this presentation, Hockney’s new paintings extend his lifelong fascination with the act of looking, affirming his …
Jesse Darling — Les Ambassadeurs
Ends in about 1 month: April 3 → September 13
Conceived for the Palais de Tokyo, Jesse Darling’s immersive installation unfolds as a fragile landscape composed of symbols of authority stripped of their power. Altered by history, these evanescent remnants reflect the erosion of dominant narratives and question the need to renew values in a damaged world.
Joseph Grigely — This is where we are — Nous en sommes là
Ends in about 1 month: April 3 → September 13
The accessibility of a place is first revealed through its architecture: impassable steps, indirect routes, and specialized devices that must be activated. These obstacles shape how bodies move and expose structural inequalities within cultural spaces.
Invited by the Palais de Tokyo to intervene in a particularly i…
Pauline Curnier Jardin — Virages Vierges
Ends in about 1 month: April 3 → September 13
With Virgin Turns, Pauline Curnier Jardin explores the idea of deviation: the turn as a break from predetermined paths and an opening onto uncertainty. Her work unfolds in zones of disturbance where fiction, ritual, and documentary intertwine, producing fragmented and unruly narratives.
The figure of the virgin ref…
Tate Modern
Tracey Emin — A Second Life
Ends in 21 days: February 27 → August 31
This landmark exhibition traces 40 years of Emin’s groundbreaking practice, showcasing career-defining sensations alongside works never exhibited before. Through painting, video, textiles, neons, writing, sculpture, and installation, Emin continues to challenge boundaries, using the female body as a powerful tool to e…
Centre Pompidou Metz
Louise Nevelson — Mrs. N’s Palace
Ends in 21 days: January 24 → August 31
An icon with a unique style, Louise Nevelson is today recognised as one of the leading female sculptors of the 20th century. Her art is generally discussed in connection with the birth of Cubism, Constructivism, Schwitters, her imaginary grandfather featured by Arp in the poem he devoted to the artist in the periodica…
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Calder — Rêver en équilibre
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Ends in 6 days: April 15 → August 16
Fifty years after his death, the Fondation Louis Vuitton presents the exhibition Calder. Dreaming in Balance, one of the most important shows ever devoted to Alexander Calder.
Organized in collaboration with the Calder Foundation, the exhibition brings together nearly 300 works: mobiles and stabiles — terms coined …
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Bourse de Commerce
Clair-obscur
Laura Lamiel
Bill Viola
Jean Luc Moulène
And 24 others… Closing Ends in 6 days: March 4 → August 16 Through a selection of around twenty modern and contemporary artists from the Pinault Collection, the exhibition “Clair-obscur” explores the legacy of chiaroscuro from the sixteenth century to the present day, revealing its resonance with our own time. From Baroque tenebrism to contemporary practices, the exhibition l…
Bill Viola
Jean Luc Moulène
And 24 others… Closing Ends in 6 days: March 4 → August 16 Through a selection of around twenty modern and contemporary artists from the Pinault Collection, the exhibition “Clair-obscur” explores the legacy of chiaroscuro from the sixteenth century to the present day, revealing its resonance with our own time. From Baroque tenebrism to contemporary practices, the exhibition l…
SMITH — Ici grand ouvert
Ends in 6 months: May 23, 2026 → January 30, 2027
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_The Mac Val presents a solo exhibition by Smith, who has been shaping the French art scene for the past fifteen years through work that makes light and bodies pulse to the rhythm of reflections and dreams, ultimately dissolving boundaries. Terribly intelligent and possessed of …
Carré d'Art
Tursic & Mille — Dissonances à géométries variables
Ends in 2 months: April 25 → October 11
Carré d’Art — Museum of Contemporary Art is dedicating a major exhibition to Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille, whose collaborative practice, developed over more than twenty years, directly questions the conditions of painting’s existence in a world saturated with images. Their work seeks neither to preserve the medium nor …
Musée Denys Puech
Xie Lei — Double
Ends in 3 months: June 12 → October 25
he Denys-Puech Museum will be presenting an exhibition of the oeuvre of Xie Lei, a Chinese painter living and working in France and the winner of the 2025 Marcel Duchamp Prize. The show will exhibit a series of previously unseen works, specifically created with the spaces of the museum in mind and will be accompanied …
New Museum
New Humans: Memories of the Future
Camille Henrot
Jeremy Deller
Wangechi Mutu
And 228 others… Ends in 7 months: March 21, 2026 → March 22, 2027 New Humans will trace a diagonal history of the past one hundred years through the work of more than two hundred international artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers, highlighting key moments when dramatic technological and societal changes spurred new conceptions of humanity and new visions for its …
Jeremy Deller
Wangechi Mutu
And 228 others… Ends in 7 months: March 21, 2026 → March 22, 2027 New Humans will trace a diagonal history of the past one hundred years through the work of more than two hundred international artists, writers, scientists, architects, and filmmakers, highlighting key moments when dramatic technological and societal changes spurred new conceptions of humanity and new visions for its …
Anselm Kiefer — Nymphäum
Ends in 3 months: April 25 → October 25
Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin presents Nymphäum, an exhibition of new works by Anselm Kiefer. Across more than 20 monumental paintings, the artist orchestrates richly layered paint and collaged elements to reimagine narratives sourced from classical mythology. The title of the exhibition translates as ‘nymphaeum’, refe…
Henry Taylor — Where thoughts provoke
Ends in 27 days: April 8 → September 6
The Musée national Picasso-Paris will present an exhibition dedicated to Henry Taylor, one of the leading figures in contemporary American painting. Conceived in close collaboration with the artist, the exhibition will survey his entire body of work while continuing the museum’s exploration of the reception of Pablo P…
Virginie Barré — Absolue de rose
Ends in 3 months: June 6 → November 15
An active artist since the mid-1990s, Virginie Barré creates a universe where theatrical mise-en-scène is at the heart of her practice. Her work ranges from drawing to installation, comics, and film.
She explores themes such as dreams, danger, the fragile boundary between reality and fiction, the blending of histor…
Fondation Villa Datris
Yosra Mojtahedi — Isthme noir
Ends in 4 months: April 18 → December 13
À l’occasion de la Carte blanche qui lui est confiée, Isthme noir, Yosra Mojtahedi conçoit à la Fondation Villa Datris, espace Monte-Cristo un espace de passage où le corps se déploie comme un territoire sensible, traversé, habité, en perpétuelle métamorphose.
Cimetière parisien de Pantin
Demeure
Bianca Bondi
Julien Salaud
Gaëlle Choisne
And 17 others… Ends in 3 months: May 30 → November 15 From May 30 to October 15, 2026, the exhibition Demeure invites you to a contemplative trail in the heart of the Pantin Cemetery, exploring memory, heritage, and reflection. Under the guidance of co-curators Patrice Chazottes and Inès Massonie, 21 artists occupy the space with site-specific creations or works selected…
Julien Salaud
Gaëlle Choisne
And 17 others… Ends in 3 months: May 30 → November 15 From May 30 to October 15, 2026, the exhibition Demeure invites you to a contemplative trail in the heart of the Pantin Cemetery, exploring memory, heritage, and reflection. Under the guidance of co-curators Patrice Chazottes and Inès Massonie, 21 artists occupy the space with site-specific creations or works selected…
Les 20 ans des Moulins — Galleria Continua
Ends in 4 months: May 31 → December 20
To mark this anniversary, the gallery brings together a large number of its artists as well as figures from the art and cultural world who share a singular connection with Les Moulins. Join us on 31 May 2026.
The gallery’s first space in France, located in Boissy-le-Châtel near Coulommiers, this monumental 30,000 m…
Mo.Co
Kiki Smith — Être ici, Maintenant, Partout
Ends in 2 months: June 13 → October 11
In parallel with the group exhibition Under the skin, presented at MO.CO. Panacée that will explore monstrous and mutant forms in contemporary art, the MO.CO. presents this summer the great American artist Kiki Smith. After having dedicated its spaces to the works of contemporary women artists such as Berlinde De Bruy…
Frac Alsace
Laurent Le Deunff — Vous qui errez à travers le monde
Ends in about 1 month: June 5 → September 20
In the garden of FRAC Alsace, the artist Laurent Le Deunff brings wild animals into view as if by surprise. Barely visible, motionless, sometimes even hidden, they nevertheless seem to have always been part of the landscape. As they wander through the garden, visitors both young and old are invited to search for them …
Carré Sainte-Anne
Jaume Plensa — Mirage
Ends in 3 months: June 3 → November 1
Jaume Plensa s’inscrit dans la longue tradition des sculpteurs catalans, dont il est aujourd’hui le premier représentant, qui ont pensé leur œuvre dans un dialogue entre mémoire méditerranéenne et universalité. Le Carré Sainte-Anne de Montpellier présente une exposition pensée par l’artiste pour la verticalité de la nef et pour son histoire singulière.
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Augures & Frémissements — Anarkhé-exposition Interférence_s — Acte 6
Julien Poidevin
Kinda Hassan
Claire Williams
And 10 others… Closing Ends in 9 days: May 22 → August 19 Le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles présente le sixième acte de son Anarkhè-exposition dans le cadre d’Interférence_s, intitulé Augures & Frémissements. Consacrée aux langages mineurs et aux expérimentations sonores les artistes invités y explorent les perceptions et inventent une nouvelle langue autant qu’un mode d’être.
Kinda Hassan
Claire Williams
And 10 others… Closing Ends in 9 days: May 22 → August 19 Le Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles présente le sixième acte de son Anarkhè-exposition dans le cadre d’Interférence_s, intitulé Augures & Frémissements. Consacrée aux langages mineurs et aux expérimentations sonores les artistes invités y explorent les perceptions et inventent une nouvelle langue autant qu’un mode d’être.
Jonathas de Andrade — Ivresse d’une vie de bains de mer
Ends in about 1 month: June 12 → September 19
Galleria Continua présente Ivresse d’une vie de bains de mer, une exposition personnelle de Jonathas de Andrade. Puisant dans le Néo-Concrétisme brésilien, en particulier chez Hélio Oiticica, et dans l’abstraction géométrique de Kazimir Malevitch, Andrade traduit des formes vernaculaires en systèmes chromatiques et géométriques.
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À maintes reprises
Ends in about 1 month: May 23 → September 20
L’exposition À maintes reprises au Musée d’art et d’histoire de Melun propose de mettre en regard quelques facettes de la sculpture contemporaine représentée dans les collections du Frac Île-de-France avec les œuvres et les anecdotes de la vie du sculpteur Henri Chapu (1833 — 1891), Grand Prix de Rome en 1855.
Musée national Pablo Picasso
Pascale Marthine Tayou
Ends in 3 months: July 4 → November 23
Les objets, sculptures, installations, dessins et vidéos créés par Pascale Marthine Tayou partagent un thème commun : l’exploration de l’individu en mouvement à travers le monde, interrogeant la notion de village global. Le musée national Pablo Picasso de Vallauris invite l’artiste à présenter un projet spécialement conçu pour la chapelle.
Plein Soleil
JR
Ai Weiwei
Leandro Erlich
And 15 others… Ends in about 1 month: June 12 → September 19 Bringing together leading figures from the international art scene, Plein Soleil offers a summer meditation on time and space through a dual presentation across Galleria Continua’s Le Marais and Matignon venues.
Ai Weiwei
Leandro Erlich
And 15 others… Ends in about 1 month: June 12 → September 19 Bringing together leading figures from the international art scene, Plein Soleil offers a summer meditation on time and space through a dual presentation across Galleria Continua’s Le Marais and Matignon venues.
Galleria Continua / Paris Matignon
Plein Soleil
Hans Op de Beeck
Ai Weiwei
Pascale Marthine Tayou
And 6 others… Ends in 19 days: June 12 → August 29 Bringing together major figures from the international art scene, Plein Soleil offers a summer reflection on time and space through a dual presentation across Galleria Continua’s spaces in Le Marais and Matignon.
Ai Weiwei
Pascale Marthine Tayou
And 6 others… Ends in 19 days: June 12 → August 29 Bringing together major figures from the international art scene, Plein Soleil offers a summer reflection on time and space through a dual presentation across Galleria Continua’s spaces in Le Marais and Matignon.
Sterling Ruby — TILL DEATH DO US PART
Ends in 2 months: June 12 → October 13
Gagosian is pleased to announce Till Death Do Us Part, an exhibition of new works by Sterling Ruby opening at the rue de Castiglione gallery in Paris on June 12. This suite of collages and cast bronze sculptures continues Ruby’s use of flowers as both raw and iconographic material. Derived from his expanding studio ga…
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Louisa Babari — BBR
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Ends in 4 days: May 30 → August 14
Louisa Babari is an artist of Russo-Algerian origin, born in Moscow. Her work combines video, sound and photographic installations, graphic works, and sculptures. She explores family memories, struggles of resistance, social and architectural transformations, particularly in former socialist countries and across the A…
François Morellet — Morellet à Versailles
Ends in 3 months: June 30 → November 1
To mark the centennial of François Morellet’s birth (1926–2016), numerous institutions are joining forces to pay tribute to one of the leading figures of contemporary art, at the initiative of the Centre Pompidou. Morellet’s work is featured in France’s most prestigious public collections, as well as in many internati…
Carré d'Art
Alain Clément — Exposition d’une donation
Ends in 10 months: July 4, 2026 → June 1, 2027
La donation Elisabeth et Alain Clément d’un ensemble de peintures, sculptures et gouaches sur papier en 2024 est venue compléter un ensemble déjà présent dans les collections de Carré d’Art — Musée d’art contemporain. Alain Clément a choisi le Sud de la France comme terre d’élection.
Daniel Buren — Plantations, travaux in situ
Ends in 3 months: July 17 → November 1
For summer 2026, Daniel Buren has been invited to take over the spaces of the musée des impressionnismes Giverny. Born in 1938, Buren is an internationally renowned French contemporary artist. His in situ works feature his characteristic visual tool — alternating white and coloured vertical bands 8.7 cm thick — which …
Daniel Buren — Comme un jeu d’enfant, Travaux in situ, 2014 — 2026
Ends in 4 months: May 31 → December 20
Travail emblématique de Daniel Buren créé au Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg en 2014, Comme un jeu d’enfant déploie aux Moulins les principes essentiels de sa pratique : le travail in situ, le dialogue entre formes géométriques et architecture, la présence de la couleur ainsi qu’une réflexion sur l’expérience du visiteur.
La Realidad
Allen Ruppersberg, Rozenn Voyer — Trois œuvres
Ends in 12 days: August 5 → 22
La Realidad est le nom de la maison de Florence et Bruno. C’est aussi celui du village au Chiapas où iels se sont rencontré.es. Ces villages zapatistes sont administrés de manière autonome et horizontale, et portent le nom de caracol, qui signifie escargot en espagnol. Bruno Serralongue est un artiste photographe et F…
Domaine régional de Villarceaux Gallery
Premières vues — Frac Ile-de-France Hors-les-murs
Bruno Munari
François Curlet
Maëlle Labussière
And 3 others… Ends in 3 months: April 4 → November 11 Featuring works by: John Richard Ballard, Vincent Corpet, François Curlet, Maëlle Labussière, Bruno Munari et Julien Monnerie from the Frac Île-de-France collection. The exhibition With Premières vues, the Domaine régional de Villarceaux is partnering with Frac Île-de-France to entrust the curation of an exhibitio…
François Curlet
Maëlle Labussière
And 3 others… Ends in 3 months: April 4 → November 11 Featuring works by: John Richard Ballard, Vincent Corpet, François Curlet, Maëlle Labussière, Bruno Munari et Julien Monnerie from the Frac Île-de-France collection. The exhibition With Premières vues, the Domaine régional de Villarceaux is partnering with Frac Île-de-France to entrust the curation of an exhibitio…
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Cai Guo-Qiang — Radiance of Spring
Cai Guo Qiang
Ends in 21 days: May 29 → August 31
Originally from China and now based in New York, Cai Guo-Qiang has gained international acclaim for his gunpowder paintings, explosive art, and monumental installations. His practice also extends to other creative fields, including video, performance art, and emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. Thro…