• Contemporary
• Free

Exposition Pietrantonio, entre les mailles du monde à la Galerie Faidherbe

GALERIE FAIDHERBE
Du 15 octobre au 14 novembre 2026

Filets de pêche, sable et aplats de couleurs intenses : à la Galerie Faidherbe, le peintre des Pouilles Pietrantonio rapporte de la mer Adriatique une abstraction entre Arte Povera et Fontana, à voir en entrée libre

• Festival
• Shows

Autumn Festival 2026: our selection of shows in Paris

AUTUMN FESTIVAL – PARIS AND ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
From October 30 to December 12, 2026

Theatre, dance, music and performance: fifteen events of the 2026 Autumn Festival in Paris and Île-de-France, from Romeo Castellucci’s Faust without words to the fifty pianos of La Villette.

• Theater
• Festival

Piano Man, by Marcus Lindeen and Marianne Ségol, at Nanterre-Amandiers

NANTERRE-AMANDIERS
From November 12 to 22, 2026

In 2005, a mute stranger found on an English beach turned out to be a piano virtuoso: Marcus Lindeen and Marianne Ségol have drawn from this a documentary play, at Nanterre-Amandiers with the Festival d’Automne.

• Theater
• Festival

The Parable of Resentment, by Rébecca Chaillon, at the Montreuil Public Theatre

MONTREUIL PUBLIC THEATRE
From November 26 to December 12, 2026

After Vienna and Avignon, Rébecca Chaillon brings back home to Montreuil, with the Festival d’Automne, her science-fiction fable about a community of fat people resisting the end of a world.

• Theater
• Festival

The Death of the Kid, by Sébastien Kheroufi, at La Colline

LA COLLINE – NATIONAL THEATRE
From November 6 to December 12, 2026

Sébastien Kheroufi, theatrical revelation of 2024 for the Critics' Union, creates his first play at La Colline, with Reda Kateb, Élodie Bouchez and Oulaya Amamra, as part of the Festival d’Automne.

• Theater
• Festival

Faust. An untold story by Romeo Castellucci, at the Odéon

ODÉON – THEATRE DE L’EUROPE
From October 30 to November 27, 2026

A Faust without words, created this autumn: at the Odéon, Romeo Castellucci reinvents the myth for one of the highlights of the 2026 Autumn Festival.

• Discovery
• With family

Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI at Fontainebleau: the opening weekend with Sofia Coppola's film

Château de Fontainebleau
From October 11, 2026 to January 25, 2027

More than one hundred and twenty works to tell the story of the royal couple's stays in Fontainebleau, and an opening weekend in music and images.

• Photo
• Living room

Photo Doc. 2026: the documentary photography fair at the Hôtel de l'Industrie, from October 9 to 12

Hotel of Industry
October 9-12, 2026

Nineteen independent documentary photographers, one theme, gratitude, and free entry to Saint-Germain-des-Prés.

• Photo
• Free

Miles Aldridge at the Park Hyatt Vendôme: the exhibition is free, the star portrait is a bonus

PARK HYATT PARIS-VENDÔME
From October 19 to December 1, 2026

During Art Basel Paris, fashion photography star Miles Aldridge is exhibiting his Technicolor heroines for free in a five-star hotel just steps from Place Vendôme; most of these images have never been seen in France before. The bonus: for €450, he'll take your Polaroid portrait in the Imperial Suite.

• Free
• News

Open studios of artists in Montreuil 2026: more than 250 studios to visit from October 9th to 11th

OPEN STUDIOS AT MONTREUIL ARTISTS' STUDIOS
October 9-11, 2026

The city of a thousand workshops opens its doors, free of charge, for three days.

• Discovery
• With family

Matisse, the symphony of colours at the Carrières des Lumières in Les Baux-de-Provence

CARRIÈRES DES LUMIÈRES
Starting October 9, 2026

The new immersive program in Les Baux-de-Provence follows Matisse color by color, from the blue of the cut-out Nudes to the stained glass windows of Vence.

• Free
• News

Montmartre Grape Harvest Festival 2026: the program from October 7th to 11th

MONTMARTRE HARVEST FESTIVAL
October 7-11, 2026

Five days of festivities on the Butte, from the Ban des Vendanges to the closing ball, and everything is free.

• Discovery
• News

LVMH Special Days 2026: the top addresses to visit in Paris from October 16th to 18th

LVMH SPECIAL DAYS
October 16-18, 2026

Workshops, private mansions and backstage areas of major fashion houses open free of charge for three days.

• Contemporary
• Unavoidable

The best of the François Morellet centenary: exhibitions to see

François Morellet would have been one hundred years old: from the City of Architecture to the Louvre, from Cholet to Marseille, the confirmed dates of the centenary.

• Contemporary
• Unavoidable

François Morellet Exhibition, Witty Remarks at the Cité de l'architecture

CITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND HERITAGE
From October 16, 2026 to January 3, 2027

François Morellet would have been one hundred years old: the City of Architecture celebrates the facetious surveyor who made buildings tremble, in front of his life-size Romanesque and Gothic portals.

• Contemporary

Sheila Hicks exhibition, Beyond, at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille

LILLE PALACE OF FINE ARTS
From October 9, 2026 to March 8, 2027

Sheila Hicks, a pioneer of textile art, is given carte blanche at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Lille and becomes the first female artist to occupy its atrium.

• Contemporary

Kennedy Yanko and Ma Kelu Exhibition at the City of Architecture

CITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND HERITAGE
From October 16, 2026 to January 3, 2027

Kennedy Yanko's sculptures and Ma Kelu's canvases slip among the casts and frescoes of the City of Architecture: a face-to-face encounter between contemporary art and heritage, for the duration of a season.

• Free
• News

National Artists' Days 2026: five open studios in Paris this weekend, from Les Frigos to Belleville

NATIONAL ARTISTS' DAYS
October 2-4, 2026

More than 560 artists' studios are opening their doors in Paris and the Île-de-France region, free of charge.

• Contemporary
• Discovery

Hervé Di Rosa's "Mirages of the World" exhibition at La Malmaison, Cannes

LA MALMAISON ART CENTER
From July 17 to November 8, 2026

Forty years of painting by Hervé Di Rosa in three chapters, from Free Figuration to Idols, facing the Croisette.

• Free
• With family

The best of the 2026 Science Festival in Paris: free museums

SCIENCE FESTIVAL IN PARIS
October 2-12, 2026

Ten days of free museums for the whole family, and a theme to savor: "Scholarly Flavors".

The Carnavalet Museum celebrates its 160th anniversary: a free weekend and a special evening event

CARNAVALET MUSEUM
October 3 and 4, 2026

Two days of free entry, a late-night opening until 11 p.m. on Saturday, an immersive game in the collections and a concert in the gardens: Carnavalet celebrates its 160th anniversary.

• With family
• Unavoidable

The Call of the Depths: The National Maritime Museum's Great Dive

NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM
From October 14, 2026 to April 4, 2027

Eight hundred square meters below the surface: the National Maritime Museum tells the story of the exploration of the seabed, from Antiquity to the present day.

• Contemporary
• Discovery

Exhibition "Restituer," Philippe Guesdon facing Dürer at the Louviers Museum

LOUVIERS MUSEUM
From September 19, 2026 to January 3, 2027

A contemporary painter repaints Dürer's engravings, facing the Louviers altarpiece which had copied them in the 16th century.

• Literary
• Discovery

Chateaubriand and Juliette Récamier Exhibition at the Maison de Chateaubriand, Vallée-aux-Loups

CHATEAUBRIAND HOUSE
From October 2, 2026 to September 26, 2027

The first exhibition dedicated to the story of Chateaubriand and Juliette Récamier, in the house where he began his Memoirs.

The "Long Live the Bride!" exhibition at the Arab World Institute

ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE
From September 29, 2026 to February 28, 2027

Forty Maghreb wedding costumes never before shown in France, and twenty-seven contemporary artists who respond to them.

• Discovery

First Nations - Arts and Cultures of Northwest America at the Quai Branly Museum

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques-Chirac
From September 29, 2026 to January 17, 2027

Along 1,800 kilometers of coastline, the First Nations of the American Northwest built societies without agriculture or writing, yet sedentary and hierarchical. The Quai Branly Museum allows visitors to read their sculpted language.

• Fashion
• Photo

Rafael Pavarotti exhibition at the Museum of Decorative Arts

Museum of Decorative Arts
From October 2, 2026 to May 2, 2027

Rafael Pavarotti photographs fashion as a ceremony: at the Museum of Decorative Arts, two hundred images where black beauty finally occupies the center of the frame.

• Movie theater
• Unavoidable

Belmondo, the Magnificent exhibition at the French Cinematheque

THE FRENCH FILM LIBRARY
From October 7, 2026 to January 31, 2027

Belmondo, the Magnificent: family archives, costumes and unpublished photos, plus thirty-five films

• Photo
• Unusual

Nadar Exhibition, Inventing Paris, from the Depths to the Sky, at the Catacombs of Paris

CATACOMBS OF PARIS
From September 29, 2026 to January 31, 2027

Nadar's work is on display twenty meters underground, in the galleries he was the first to photograph.

• Photo
• Unavoidable

Remember Me Exhibition: Masterpieces of Photography at the Bourse de Commerce

EXCHANGE FOR TRADE - PINAULT COLLECTION
From October 7, 2026 to January 18, 2027

Seven hundred photographs from the Pinault Collection for the two hundredth anniversary of the medium