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Van Gogh as an influencer: the exhibition at the Château d’Auvers-sur-Oise

AUVERS-SUR-OISE CASTLE
From April 18, 2026 to January 3, 2027

The Château d’Auvers-sur-Oise explores the influence of Van Gogh, from his artistic sources to modern and contemporary artists.

• Photo

SMITH exhibition at the MAC VAL in Vitry-sur-Seine

MAC VAL
Until January 31, 2027

The MAC VAL, in Vitry-sur-Seine, is entrusting the entire museum to SMITH until January 31, 2027. Thermograms printed on brushed aluminum, videos, neon lights and sculptures unfold a cycle born from a parabolic flight captured by a thermal camera.

• Discovery
• With family

Climate emergency, the permanent exhibition at the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie

In its new permanent exhibition, the city of sciences is rethinking our way of living in the world to limit the consequences of global warming.

• Fashion
• Photo

Exposition Un vestiaire à soi. Féminités dissidentes au XIXe siècle au Palais Galliera

PALAIS GALLIERA
Du 26 septembre 2026 au 14 février 2027

Du pantalon de George Sand au vestiaire de Natalie Clifford Barney, la mode devient un outil d’émancipation.

• Free
• Contemporary

Brancusi exhibition, contemporary echoes at the Negropontes gallery

NEGROPONTES GALLERY
From September 11 to December 19, 2026

Brancusi is gone, but his work continues to turn heads.

• Photo
• Free

Exhibition by Isabelle Le Minh, Traumachromes, at the Centre photographique d’Île-de-France in Pontault-Combault

ÎLE-DE-FRANCE PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER
From October 4 to December 20, 2026

The Centre photographique d’Île-de-France, in Pontault-Combault, is exhibiting Isabelle Le Minh until December 20, 2026. Her series Traumachromes, photographed in Rochester on Kodak film and then printed on silk, tells the story of the ruin of an empire in one operation.

• Free
• Contemporary

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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Exhibition Kurt Schwitters, the chaos-world at the Picasso Museum

Picasso National Museum, Paris
From October 6, 2026 to February 7, 2027

Kurt Schwitters, the inventor of Merz, joins Picasso

• Photo
• Free

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).

• Drawing
• Free

The New Yorker exhibition, a century of covers, at the Martel Gallery

MARTEL GALLERY
From November 6, 2026 to January 16, 2027

From November 6, 2026 to January 16, 2027, Galerie Martel brings together the originals, sketches and research that gave birth to the covers of The New Yorker, under the curatorship of Françoise Mouly, artistic director of the magazine since 1993.

• Contemporary
• Free

Oscar Murillo exhibition, Unfinished Thinking, at the David Zwirner Gallery, Paris

DAVID ZWIRNER PARIS
From October 19 to December 19, 2026

David Zwirner Paris inaugurates its space on rue Vieille-du-Temple with Oscar Murillo, Unfinished thinking, from October 19 to December 19, 2026: canvases and social cartographies by the winner of the 2019 Turner Prize.

• Discovery
• Romantic

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.

• With family
• Unusual

Tropical autumn: palm trees in the Great Greenhouses of the Botanical Garden

Large Greenhouses of the Botanical Garden
From October 15 to November 23, 2026

Fifth edition of Tropical Autumn at the Great Greenhouses of the Botanical Garden: a toucan guides visitors from palm tree to palm tree, during the five weeks of the All Saints' holidays.

• Classic
• Romantic

Visit to Maison Caillebotte: an impressionist haven of peace

Enter the intimacy of the most discreet of impressionist painters at Maison Caillebotte in Yerres.

• Discovery
• Free

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.

• With family
• Unavoidable

Auguste Bartholdi Exhibition: A Season in Paris at the Musée d'Orsay

MUSÉE D’ORSAY
From September 15, 2026 to January 31, 2027

From Colmar to New York, the incredible destiny of the Statue of Liberty.

• Contemporary
• Free

"Let's Sow Our Resistance" Exhibition, the activist exhibition, at the MAIF Social Club

MAIF SOCIAL CLUB
From October 17, 2026 to July 24, 2027

From October 17, 2026 to July 24, 2027, the MAIF Social Club in Paris brings together fifteen artists who embrace joyful dissent. An exhibition to resist a brutal world without abandoning its joy. Free admission.

• Photo
• Free

Exhibition: The crafts in the photographs of François Kollar at the Monica Vitti garden

MONICA VITTI GARDEN - FORNEY LIBRARY
From September 3 to December 5, 2026

Until December 5, 2026, the Forney Library is installing around twenty prints by François Kollar, craftsmen's hands and workshops from the 1930s, in the Monica Vitti garden, outdoors and with free entry.

• Fashion
• Free

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

CARPENTERS
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.

• Contemporary
• Unusual

Lionel Sabatté exhibition at the Museum of Hunting and Nature: our photos

MUSEUM OF HUNTING AND NATURE
From October 15, 2026 to February 21, 2027

From October 15, 2026 to February 21, 2027, the Museum of Hunting and Nature opens its two private mansions in the Marais to Lionel Sabatté: beasts of dust, rust and dead skins, mostly unseen, one year after his nomination for the Marcel Duchamp prize.

• Contemporary

Gina Pane exhibition, A Hot Afternoon, at the Beaux-Arts de Paris

Fine Arts Museum of Paris, Jean Bonna Drawing Room
From October 20 to December 18, 2026

The Beaux-Arts de Paris, where Gina Pane was a student, are showing from October 20 to December 18, 2026 the observation of A Hot Afternoon, an action carried out at Documenta in Kassel in 1977 and which has just entered their collections.

• Digital
• Free

Keep Dancing exhibition at the EDF Group Foundation Space

EDF GROUP FOUNDATION SPACE
From November 4, 2026 to January 31, 2027

Núria Guiu Sagarra and Tiler Gab open the third season of Dans(e) la lumière with a free two-story journey, where the gesture ends up escaping the one who makes it.

• Photo
• Discovery

The Space Between Us: Questioning the Photographic Pact

The Ball
From June 19, 2026 to January 3, 2027

What exactly happens at the moment the shutter clicks? Between the person holding the camera and the person being photographed, there is a space.

• Discovery
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Sacred Cathedral! A monument celebrates its 850th anniversary

BOSSUET MUSEUM - EPISCOPAL CITY
Until December 6, 2026

Eight hundred and fifty years ago, the first limestone blocks were laid in what would become the Saint-Étienne Cathedral of Meaux.

• Fashion

Collections permanentes de la Cité de la dentelle et de la mode

Cité de la dentelle et de la mode
Collections permanentes

La Cité de la dentelle et de la mode, nichée au cœur d’une usine de dentelle du XIXe siècle, a ouvert ses portes en 2009 pour retracer l’histoire de cette splendide broderie .

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Séraphine Louis. From Senlis, Without Rival

Centre Pompidou-Metz
From October 31, 2026 to April 12, 2027

From October 31, 2026 to April 12, 2027, the Centre Pompidou-Metz brings together more than eighty works by Séraphine Louis, including six giant canvases from 1928-1930. An exhibition that takes the painter out of naive art and puts her back in the middle of modernity.

• Photo
• Festival

Planches Contact Festival, Generations, at Les Franciscaines in Deauville

THE FRANCISCAN NUNS
From October 17, 2026 to January 3, 2027

Les Franciscaines hosts the 17th edition of the Planches Contact Festival, on the theme Generations, from October 17, 2026 to January 3, 2027. Sixteen photographers spent several months in residence in Normandy, and Bruce Gilden is installing his New York retrospective right on the beach in Deauville.

• Photo

Exhibition "I dreamed of another world" at the Frac Grand Large in Dunkirk

FRAC GRAND LARGE - HAUTS-DE-FRANCE
From October 10, 2026 to January 3, 2027

The Frac Grand Large - Hauts-de-France, in Dunkirk, presents I dreamed of another world from October 10, 2026 to January 3, 2027. More than a hundred works from its collection, from Lee Friedlander to Daniel Buren, treat light as a material.

• Classic

Roman art from the Louvre to the Museum of Romanity

Museum of Roman Civilization
From June 11, 2026 to January 10, 2027

In Nîmes, the Roman world is not a memory: it is a geography.

• News
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The Feasts of Chambord exhibition at the Château de Chambord

Chambord National Estate
From September 26, 2026 to January 24, 2027

Four meals, from Francis I to Lady Diana, brought up to the second floor of the keep.

Shigeru Ban exhibition, Building a Better World, at the Centre Pompidou-Metz

Cardboard, bamboo, reclaimed wood. With these materials, once considered humble, Shigeru Ban has been building churches, museums, and emergency shelters for forty years, and the Centre Pompidou-Metz…

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Surreal Women Exhibition at the Nantes Museum of Fine Arts

NANTES MUSEUM OF ARTS
From November 20, 2026 to March 21, 2027

The smugglers and the surrealist painters

• Contemporary
• Unusual

Exhibition "Bursts of Laughter!" at the Tripostal in Lille

LE TRIPOSTAL, LILLE
From October 9, 2026 to January 3, 2027

For the first time, the Tripostal brings together the twenty-two Regional Contemporary Art Funds around the often-maligned art form: humor. From October 9, 2026, to January 3, 2027, "Éclats du rire!" (Bursts of Laughter!) features 153 works by 104 artists in Lille, transforming the building into a comedy club on Thursday evenings.

• Literary
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Visit to Victor Hugo's birthplace in Besançon

Birthplace of Victor Hugo
Permanent collections

Victor Hugo's birthplace showcases all the struggles of the writer committed to freedom, rights and human dignity, in a contemporary scenography that, unfortunately, resonates strongly with our current events.

• Discovery

Roman art from the Louvre, a world of images

Museum of Roman Civilization
From June 11, 2026 to January 10, 2027

In Nîmes, the Roman world is not a memory: it is a geography. The Maison Carrée is intact, the Arena still welcomes spectators.

• Drawing
• Contemporary

Yann Kebbi exhibition at the Caen Museum of Fine Arts

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS OF CAEN
From November 7, 2026 to March 7, 2027

The Caen Museum of Fine Arts concludes its residency cycle with Yann Kebbi, cartoonist for the New Yorker and first winner of the Cauvin-Monet prize: monotypes, unpublished pastels and monumental papers.

• Classic
• With family

Gaillon Castle: come and discover the first Renaissance castle in France

Gaillon Castle
Allée de l’Ermitage, 27600 Gaillon

Welcome to the Château de Gaillon, the first Renaissance castle in France and home to some of the most illustrious kings.

• Unavoidable
• With family

Too Cute! The Art of Happiness Exhibition at the Louvre-Lens

Louvre-Lens
From September 23, 2026 to January 18, 2027

Why do some images make us feel good? The Louvre-Lens takes the question seriously.

• News
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L'exposition Corée du Nord par Stéphan Gladieu au musée des Confluences

Corée du Nord par Stéphan Gladieu
Du 12 juin 2026 au 02 janvier 2028

Le musée des Confluences accueille les photographies de Stéphan Gladieu pour un perçu de la Corée du Nord rarement observée de l’intérieur.

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110 ans de la bataille de la Somme : les objets de la bataille

Historial de la Grande Guerre
Du 28 juin au 6 décembre 2026

Une mandoline fabriquée à mains nues par un soldat dans une tranchée. Des lettres, des médailles, des outils de fortune, des traces de soin et de deuil.

• Classic
• With family

Découvrez le Musée de Balzac Saché, un voyage au coeur de la littérature

Musée Balzac - Château de Saché
Collection permanente

Le musée Balzac retrace l’histoire mouvementée de l’iconographie balzacienne dans un nouvel espace d’exposition. Suivant un parcours chronologique et thématique caressant les années 1840 à nos jours, le Château de Saché dévoile cet été l’image de ce « grand pétrisseur des Hommes ».

• Contemporary
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Exhibition: Singular Women, self-taught, liberated artists, at the LaM in Villeneuve-d’Ascq

LAM
From October 3, 2026 to February 14, 2027

The LaM, in Villeneuve-d’Ascq, brings together from October 3, 2026 to February 14, 2027 seventy women and more than three hundred works of outsider art in Singulières, artistes, autodidactes, affranchies, de Baya à Séraphine Louis.

• 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.

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Egypt is being transformed at the Musée de Picardie

Picardy Museum
From April 11, 2026 to January 3, 2027

Eternal Egypt at the Musée de Picardie: restored objects, treasures brought out of storage and a new reading of Egyptian civilization.

• Contemporary
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Lyon Biennale 2026: Art makes its way even into the city's secret passages

LYON BIENNIAL
From September 19 to December 13, 2026

A former locomotive factory, a museum exceptionally reopened, traboules to explore… For its 18th edition, the Lyon Contemporary Art Biennale takes us far beyond the exhibition halls. A journey through…

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Exhibition "Making Body" at the Francès Foundation in Senlis

FRANCÈS FOUNDATION
Until December 19, 2026

The Francès Foundation in Senlis presents Faire corps, twenty years of photography in the Francès collection, until December 19, 2026. The foundation is exhibiting photography that borrows from cinema, including twelve commissioned prints by Gregory Crewdson with Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore.

Exhibition: Diving into the Unknown at the National Maritime Museum in Toulon

How far can one descend, and what do we find at the bottom? The National Maritime Museum in Toulon takes this question seriously and retraces the entire underwater adventure in the Mediterranean, from…

• Photo
• Free

"A Feast for the Eyes!" Exhibition at the Rouen Normandy Photographic Centre

ROUEN NORMANDY PHOTOGRAPHIC CENTER
From October 10, 2026 to January 30, 2027

The Rouen Normandy Photographic Centre presents Plein les yeux ! An animal history of the photographic book for children, until January 30, 2027. Fifteen authors, from Rodchenko to Doisneau, defend a genre long considered minor.

• Discovery
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Jean Brusselmans exhibition at Bozar, Brussels

BOZAR, BRUSSELS
From October 2, 2026 to January 31, 2027

Bozar is dedicating its first major retrospective since 1980 to Jean Brusselmans, a Brussels painter of Brabant landscapes, featuring some one hundred and twenty works, from October 2, 2026 to January 31, 2027.

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• Contemporary

Dalí exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid

THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA MUSEUM
From October 20, 2026 to January 24, 2027

The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid brings Dalí face to face with Freud, whom he only met once. Six sections show what the painter took from psychoanalysis, and what he subverted from it.

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Hals - Rembrandt exhibition at the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem

FRANS HALS MUSEUM
From November 6, 2026 to February 28, 2027

The Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem is bringing together for the first time Frans Hals and Rembrandt, two men of the same generation who never painted the human face in the same way.

• Festival
• With family

A festive weekend in Brussels: Kanal, Winter Wonders and hidden gems

BRUSSELS
From November 27, 2026 to January 3, 2027

Opening of the Kanal-Centre Pompidou, twenty-fifth edition of Winter Pleasures, new roof of the Royal Library and Atoma factory turned art center: our ideas for a festive weekend in Brussels, from the end of November to January 3, 2027.

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Portraits Exhibition! From Botticelli to Lempicka at the Gemäldegalerie

GEMÄLDEGALERIE
From October 16, 2026 to March 14, 2027

Showing oneself, telling one's story, being seen: the selfie invented nothing.

• Sculpture
• Unusual

 Sand City au Portugal : Le plus grand musée de sculptures de sable au monde à découvrir en vidéo

Sand City - Lagoa, Portugal
Collection permanente

Au sud du Portugal, venez découvrir le plus grand musée à ciel ouvert de sculptures de sable avec des créations en chair et en sable impressionnantes crées par des artistes venus du monde entier.

• Unusual
• Contemporary

NO SHOW exhibition at Kanal-Centre Pompidou

KANAL-CENTRE POMPIDOU
From November 28, 2026 to January 17, 2027

At Kanal-Centre Pompidou, in Brussels, NO SHOW transforms five rooms into an immersive journey between art, light, sound and performance, from November 28, 2026 to January 17, 2027, on the site of the city's first amusement park.

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Le verre, au-delà de la matière au Musée Ariana

MUSÉE ARIANA
Du 24 avril 2026 au 3 janvier 2027

Au Musée Ariana, 40 ans de recherche sur le verre : Soulages, Othoniel, Pesce et les coulisses inédites d'un laboratoire qui réinvente la matière.

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Exhibition "Impressionism, a Belgian Story" at La Boverie, Liège

LA BOVERIE, LIÈGE
From October 9, 2026 to March 29, 2027

For its tenth anniversary, La Boverie, in Liège, is bringing together nearly one hundred and fifty Belgian and French Impressionist works, from Émile Claus and Ensor to Monet and Renoir, from October 9, 2026 to March 29, 2027.

• Sculpture
• Classic

The Great Drama Exhibition, Rodin at the Albertinum in Dresden

ALBERTINUM
From October 31, 2026 to August 22, 2027

The Albertinum in Dresden reopens the case of Auguste Rodin's Balzac, rejected by its patrons in 1898 and which has since become the birth certificate of modern sculpture.

• Contemporary
• Discovery

PlasMAH : quand les fluides débordent Au Musée d’art et d’histoire de Genève

MUSÉE D’ART ET D’HISTOIRE DE GENÈVE
Dès le 16 juillet 2026

Une aile du Musée d’art et d’histoire se transforme en laboratoire impudique : telle est l’idée du programme expérimental PlasMAH, qui confie chaque été l’institution à de jeunes plasticiens.

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Hofburg: Visit the sumptuous Habsburg residence in Vienna, Austria

Vienna
Guided tours

More than a hundred years after their fall, the Hofburg invites us to follow in the footsteps of the Habsburgs, the former royal family of Austria, to their final resting place in Vienna.

• Contemporary
• Discovery

Aléas exhibition at the CID in Grand-Hornu, near Mons

CID AT GRAND-HORNU
From November 15, 2026 to April 18, 2027

The CID at Grand-Hornu entrusts its winter exhibition to chance. From November 15, 2026 to April 18, 2027, Aléas, pratiques de l'adaptation brings together in Hornu, near Mons, designers who work with gravity, the living and the already-there rather than imposing a plan, in a former coal mine listed as a world heritage site.

• Contemporary
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Frida Kahlo à la Tate Modern

TATE MODERN BANKSIDE
Du 25 juin 2026 au 3 janvier 2027

Cent trente œuvres, robes tehuanas, bijoux, photographies personnelles et mementos : le blockbuster de l'été londonien retrace l'œuvre et l'héritage de Frida Kahlo dans un parcours sensoriel inédit.

• Free
• Contemporary

Banu Cennetoğlu exhibition, right? at Kanal-Centre Pompidou

KANAL-CENTRE POMPIDOU
From November 28, 2026 to May 23, 2027

In the Kanal-Centre Pompidou showroom in Brussels, Banu Cennetoğlu is bringing together for the first time the thirty articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in golden balloon letters, freely accessible from November 28, 2026 to May 23, 2027.

• Drawing
• Discovery

Le Quentin Blake Centre ouvre enfin ses portes

Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration
Ouverture le 5 juin 2026

Le plus grand espace au monde dédié à l'illustration ouvre ses portes à Londres au printemps 2026.

• Discovery
• Contemporary

Simultaneous, Marie Ducaté at the Ariana Museum in Geneva

Ariana Museum
From February 20, 2026 to November 29, 2026

Discover at the Ariana Museum the colourful world of Marie Ducaté: painting, ceramics, glass and textiles interact in a poetic and luminous exhibition.

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The Antwerp Six exhibition at MoMu, Antwerp

MOMU, Antwerp
From March 28, 2026 to January 17, 2027

The MoMu, Antwerp's fashion museum, is bringing together for the first time the Antwerp Six, from Dries Van Noten to Ann Demeulemeester, forty years after their London breakthrough, from March 28, 2026 to January 17, 2027.

• Contemporary
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Willem de Kooning at work exhibition at the Rijksmuseum

RIJKSMUSEUM
From October 9, 2026 to January 17, 2027

The Rijksmuseum brings together nearly one hundred and twenty works by Willem de Kooning and takes a rare approach: placing the drawing at the center, not as a draft but as a work of art.

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Exposition Picasso, Bacon, deux fauves face au corps à l'Albertina

ALBERTINA MUSEUM
Du 18 sept. 2026 au 31 jan. 2027

Ils ne se sont jamais rencontrés, mais ils semblent peindre le même cri.

Le TOP des jardins en Europe

L’Europe ne se résume pas seulement à ses cathédrales, ses palais et ses musées. Elle cache aussi des jardins hors normes. On découvre un géant couvert d’herbe qui crache une cascade dans les Alpes…

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Maria Lassnig and Edvard Munch exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich

KUNSTHAUS ZÜRICH
From October 2, 2026 to February 21, 2027

The Kunsthaus Zürich, which houses the largest collection of Munch's work outside of Norway, is bringing together the Norwegian painter and the Austrian Maria Lassnig for the first time. Two raw and vibrant bodies of work, separated by half a century.

• Contemporary
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Steve McQueen exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO
From October 9, 2026 to February 21, 2027

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao entrusts its Film and Video gallery to Steve McQueen, Oscar winner for 12 Years a Slave and one of the greatest artists of the moving image.

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Exposition Yayoi Kusama, obsession d'infini au Stedelijk Museum

STEDELIJK MUSEUM
Du 11 sept. 2026 au 17 jan. 2027

Avant de devenir une icône de l’immersion, Yayoi Kusama cherchait déjà à s’effacer dans l’infini.