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Jenny Holzer exhibition, "I Saw," at the Musée d'Orsay: our photos and our review

MUSÉE D’ORSAY
From October 20, 2026 to February 21, 2027

From October 20, 2026 to February 21, 2027, the Musée d'Orsay invites Jenny Holzer to create a dialogue between her texts and 19th-century masterpieces: light strips, engraved stone benches and censored paintings.

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MaSH 2026: our photos from the night event and the exhibitions to see in the 8th arrondissement

MASH – MATIGNON SAINT-HONORÉ
Late-night event on October 19, 2026

On October 19, 38 galleries in the Matignon Saint-Honoré district will open Paris Art Week under the patronage of Jacques Grange. Our selection of exhibitions, from Flemish painting at De Jonckheere to Lee Krasner at Gagosian, all with free admission.

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Tracey Emin exhibition at White Cube Paris: our photos from the visit

WHITE CUBE PARIS
From October 20 to December 18, 2026

White Cube Paris is exhibiting Tracey Emin from October 20 to December 18, 2026, on Avenue Matignon: her first solo exhibition in the Parisian gallery, featuring paintings and small bronzes, following the retrospective at Tate Modern.

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Lee Krasner exhibition at Gagosian: our photos and our review

GAGOSIAN
From October 19 to December 18, 2026

Gagosian is dedicating its first solo exhibition in France to Lee Krasner, from October 19 to December 18, 2026. Paintings and works on paper from the 1960s, a decisive decade for this figure of American abstraction, to be discovered with free admission.

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Stan Douglas exhibition at the Jeu de Paume: our photos

JEU DE PAUME
From October 20, 2026 to January 10, 2027

From October 20, 2026 to January 10, 2027, the Jeu de Paume is dedicating its most important French monograph in thirty years to Stan Douglas with "Parallax." Between photography and cinema, the Canadian artist recreates vanished scenes—riots, ballrooms, or street corners—with the precision of an archivist.

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Salon OFFSCREEN 2026 à la Salpêtrière : nos photos et notre avis

CHAPELLE SAINT-LOUIS DE LA SALPÊTRIÈRE
Du 20 au 25 octobre 2026

Du 20 au 25 octobre 2026, OFFSCREEN réunit vingt-neuf artistes sous la voûte de la chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, 75013. Sa cinquième édition met à l'honneur Ana Mendieta, dont six films sont projetés dans le chœur.

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GOD HATES SPACE: GENER8ION's free installation at the Grand Palais

GRAND PALAIS
October 22-25, 2026

Surkin and Romain Gavras are taking over the Rotonde d'Antin at the Grand Palais with a twelve-meter double-sided screen, from October 22 to 25, 2026. Art Basel and Live Nation are joining forces for the first time, and admission is free.

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• Unavoidable

The best contemporary art exhibitions to see in Paris

PARIS
Right now

Art Basel, galleries open to all and the week's major openings: contemporary art occupies Paris, and some of it can be visited without paying.

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Kennedy Yanko at the City of Architecture and Heritage: our images

City of Architecture and Heritage
From October 16, 2026 to January 3, 2027

Kennedy Yanko pours acrylic paint directly onto the studio floor, lets it dry, then cuts it into sheets. She calls them paint skins. Supple, thick, and heavy, they bend and retain the imprint of the floor. These skins are placed on frames of…

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Ma Kelu exhibition at the Cité de l'architecture: our images

City of Architecture and Heritage
From October 16, 2026 to January 3, 2027

For his first exhibition in France, Chinese painter Ma Kelu, a member of the No Name group, hangs his abstract canvases amidst the medieval frescoes of the Cité de l’architecture. An unexpected dialogue.

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Paris International Fair, 12th edition, Quai de Valmy

PARIS INTERNATIONALE
October 20-24, 2026

From October 20 to 24, 2026, Paris Internationale celebrates its 12th edition at 187 quai de Valmy, 75010. Founded by galleries to stand up to the big fairs, it brings together around sixty brands from nineteen countries.

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Big names in art to see for free in Parisian galleries

PARISIAN GALLERIES
From October 18 to November 15, 2026

Calder, Tracey Emin, Lee Krasner, Anish Kapoor: during the most expensive week of the year for art, Parisian galleries line up museum-quality signatures and don't ask for a single euro.

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Tacita Dean and Bruce Nauman exhibition at the Marian Goodman Gallery

MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY
From October 19 to December 19, 2026

Bruce Nauman returns to drawing after nearly twenty years of hiatus, and Tacita Dean films him. From their sessions in New Mexico came Drawing Blind Drawing, a diptych film projected at Marian Goodman's home on a screen over seven meters wide.

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Stefan Oláh Exhibition, Construction Site, at La Sphère

THE SPHERE
From October 7, 2026 to January 23, 2027

La Sphère, a new venue in the Marais district dedicated to the arts, philosophies, and spiritualities of the world, opens by showcasing its own work. Its inaugural exhibition features the work of Austrian photographer Stefan Oláh, who has been documenting the transformation of cultural spaces for years.

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Frank Horvat Exhibition, Fashion Reinvented, at the Maison des Arts in Antony

ANTONY ARTS HOUSE
From October 27, 2026 to January 10, 2027

Frank Horvat brought fashion out of the studio in the 1950s, and fashion photography never recovered. The Maison des Arts in Antony is bringing together some forty prints from his work with the Frank Horvat Studio.

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Gerard Malanga exhibition at the Galerie du Jour agnès b.

GALERIE DU JOUR AGNÈS B., LA FAB.

From November 4, 2026 to January 10, 2027

Gerard Malanga was twenty years old when the poet Charles Henri Ford introduced him to Andy Warhol. More than twenty years after Bande à part, the Galerie du Jour agnès b. is re-hanging his photographs of New York from the 1960s and 1970s, with the Bel Œil collection.

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Wooden Cross, Iron Cross Exhibition, by CAC Brétigny in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois

CAC BRÉTIGNY, ESPACE JACQUES-BREL
From December 5, 2026 to February 3, 2027

Anaïs Fontanges and Matteo Louisy-Ravel, both born in 1998, collect skeletons, recumbent figures, and toy soldiers that have been echoed in art history and pop culture for centuries. The CAC Brétigny, whose space is currently under renovation, is hosting their exhibition off-site in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois.

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Exhibition Behind the Scenes at the Museum at the Avelines Museum

MUSEUM OF THE AVELINES, SAINT-CLOUD
From October 15, 2026 to February 21, 2027

The Musée des Avelines opens its reserves and reveals what the public never sees: the inventory, the management, the restoration. It also displays works never before exhibited, including a bust of Flaubert by Clésinger, which is still awaiting its inventory number.

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Brandon Gercara and Maïssane Alibrahimi exhibition at La Ferme du Buisson

CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER OF LA FERME DU BUISSON
From October 10, 2026 to January 24, 2027

Brandon Gercara blends Réunion maloya and New York voguing, and invents a word for it: vogoya. La Ferme du Buisson dedicates Destin Vogoya to him, and presents alongside it his first solo exhibition to Maïssane Alibrahimi.

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Exhibition "At the Frontiers of the Imaginary" at the Pavillon Vendôme in Clichy

PAVILLON VENDÔME ART CENTER, CLICHY
From October 14, 2026 to January 9, 2027

Alexis Tricoire suspends a grove of trees from the ceiling of the Pavillon Vendôme, upside down, and its reflection on the floor rights it. The Clichy art center brings together seven artists around the themes of plants and ecological awareness.

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Thomas Houseago and Théo Mercier exhibition at Reiffers Art Initiatives

REIFFERS ART INITIATIVES
From October 23 to December 12, 2026

Thomas Houseago spent several weeks working under the glass roof of Reiffers Art Initiatives, then left everything as it was. Théo Mercier occupies the ground floor. This year, the foundation's mentorship program is offering two studios to visit instead of an exhibition.

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Pinuccio Sciola exhibition, Sculpted Nature, at the Italian Cultural Institute

Italian Cultural Institute
From September 30, 2026 to March 30, 2027

Ten years after the death of Pinuccio Sciola, the Italian Cultural Institute installed in the garden of the Hôtel de Galliffet one of his monumental sound stones and two other works among the most representative of the Sardinian sculptor.

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Vanel, Du Mesnildot, Jan K. Exhibition at the Taylor Foundation

TAYLOR FOUNDATION
From November 26 to December 19, 2026

The Taylor Foundation takes no commission: the proceeds from sales go entirely to the artists. To close out the year, its studio-home in Nouvelle Athènes is exhibiting bronzes by Éric Vanel, charcoal drawings by Mathilde Du Mesnildot, and paintings by Jan K.

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Pierre Jahan exhibition, retrospective, at the Jean-François Cazeau gallery

JEAN-FRANÇOIS CAZEAU GALLERY
From October 24 to December 23, 2026

Around forty prints are all the Jean-François Cazeau gallery needs to showcase Pierre Jahan's two lives as a photographer. Awarded the label by the Ministry of Culture for the bicentenary of photography, the gallery is also taking his work to Paris Photo, at the Grand Palais, in mid-November.

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Exhibition: Jean Marquis, Surveyor of Everyday Life, at the Roger-Viollet Gallery

ROGER-VIOLLET GALLERY
From October 8, 2026 to January 23, 2027

In 1951, Robert Capa advised a young actor to consider photography. Three years later, Jean Marquis joined Magnum Photos. The Roger-Viollet gallery displays over one hundred prints by this chronicler of the Trente Glorieuses (the thirty glorious years of post-war economic boom).

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Exhibition Five Easy Pieces, Rick Owens, at the Carpenters Gallery

CARPENTERS WORKSHOP GALLERY
From October 20, 2026 to March 15, 2027

Michèle Lamy, partner and accomplice of Rick Owens, is the curator of Five Easy Pieces at Carpenters: five new editions of Owens' furniture, in steel left to rust and in marsh wood that has remained underwater for millennia.

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Teenage Dream Exhibition, The Anonymous Project, at Quai de la Photo

QUAI DE LA PHOTO
From October 16 to December 20, 2026

Lee Shulman has been buying up Kodachrome slides from anonymous amateurs for years. The Quai de la Photo draws from his collection, The Anonymous Project, to tell the story of the invention of adolescence, without a single author's name.

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Robert Indiana exhibition, Alchemy, at Almine Rech

ALMINE RECH
From October 17, 2026 to January 23, 2027

Before LOVE, Robert Indiana collected rusty beams and wheels from abandoned warehouses in the Port of New York. Almine Rech dedicates her first solo exhibition of the artist's work to these years, conducted with the Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative.

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Elmgreen & Dragset Exhibition, The Madmen Across the Street, at the Max Hetzler Gallery

MAX HETZLER GALLERY
From October 19 to December 16, 2026

Elmgreen & Dragset occupy both addresses of the Max Hetzler gallery, which face each other across the rue du Temple. The Scandinavian duo installs their deceptive sets there, and the title does the rest.

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Paris Humanist Exhibition at La Galerie Rouge

THE RED GALLERY
From October 1st to December 12th, 2026

For the bicentenary of photography, La Galerie Rouge brings together the six names that have made Paris travel the world, from Boubat to Sabine Weiss, and contrasts them with Martine Barrat’s more political view of the Goutte d’Or.