• 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).

• Contemporary
• Free

Gaétan Vaguelsy exhibition at the Polaris gallery

POLARIS GALLERY
From October 17 to November 22, 2026

The Polaris gallery is exhibiting Gaétan Vaguelsy's large-scale compositions from October 17 to November 22, 2026, with free admission. Pastoral scenes, ancient bathing scenes, and history paintings are reinterpreted with contemporary heroes, amidst references to Western painting and t-shirts, sneakers, and apricots.

• Contemporary
• Free

Eric Reynier's Explorations exhibition at the Galerie de l'Europe

GALLERY OF EUROPE
From October 20 to November 21, 2026

From October 20 to November 21, 2026, the Galerie de l’Europe presents paintings by Éric Reynier, entitled Explorations. The figures in this exhibition all originate from clay models, ephemeral creations whose traces are preserved only on the canvas. Free admission, rue de Seine.

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Mary Cassatt exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay: our photos and our review

MUSÉE D’ORSAY
From October 6, 2026 to January 31, 2027

Mary Cassatt, the independent one.

• Digital
• With family

Cleopatra, the Destiny of Egypt exhibition, at BHV Marais

BHV MARAIS
Until January 3, 2027

A department store has given over its fifth floor to a virtual epic: wearing a headset, we follow the last queen of Egypt, until January 3, 2027 at BHV Marais. Thirty minutes of immersion, one hour visit.

• Contemporary
• Free

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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• Movie theater

Exhibition: A History of French Cinema. Maghreb Heritage at the Palais de la Porte Dorée

Palais de la Porte Dorée
From October 30, 2026 to March 21, 2027

The National Museum of the History of Immigration dedicates its major autumn exhibition to artists of North African descent who have shaped French cinema since the 1960s. "A History of French Cinema: North African Heritage" is being held at the Palais de la Porte Dorée from October 30, 2026 to March 21, 2027, and opens with a free weekend.

• Drawing
• Free

Exhibition of Poignon, Pelletrat de Borde, Ringuedé and the Yves Jobert donation to the Taylor Foundation

TAYLOR FOUNDATION
October 29 to November 21, 2026

From October 29 to November 21, 2026, the Taylor Foundation is showing engravings by Nicolas Poignon, sculptures by Stéphanie Pelletrat de Borde, paintings by Nadine Ringuedé and the donation from engraver Yves Jobert, with free admission.

• Contemporary
• Free

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.

• Photo
• Free

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.

• Classic
• Unavoidable

Exhibition: Georges Kars, a Bohemian in Paris at the Museum of Jewish Art and History

Museum of Jewish Art and History
From October 15, 2026 to March 14, 2027

From October 15, 2026 to March 14, 2027, the Museum of Jewish Art and History is dedicating its first major Parisian retrospective since 1945 to Georges Kars, a painter from Bohemia and a figure of the School of Paris. More than one hundred and fifty paintings, drawings and archival documents, on loan from the National Gallery in Prague and some fifteen Czech institutions, are reopening the Prague-Paris axis forgotten by history.

• Contemporary

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.

• Contemporary
• Unavoidable

Louise Bourgeois exhibition, Extreme Tension, at the BnF Richelieu

National Library of France - Richelieu Site
From October 20, 2026 to February 21, 2027

From October 20, 2026 to February 21, 2027, the BnF is exhibiting on its Richelieu site the engraved and drawn work of Louise Bourgeois: the 1995 donation brought out of storage, augmented by ninety-one works from the Centre Pompidou, for its first exhibition in a Parisian public institution since 2008.

• Contemporary
• Free

Exhibition "Creating a Vase" at the JAD in Sèvres: our photos from the visit

JAD - GARDEN OF CRAFTS AND DESIGN
From October 16, 2026 to February 28, 2027

From October 16, 2026 to February 28, 2027, the JAD - Jardin des métiers d’art et du design, in Sèvres, is exhibiting twenty-one variations on the vase, commissioned from ten young winners of the Cnap. Free entry to discover the pieces, drawings and experiments.

• Free
• Contemporary

Anish Kapoor: the new exhibition at Mennour

MENNOUR
Until November 28, 2026

Anish Kapoor's return to Paris.

• Unavoidable
• Classic

Francisco de Zurbarán exhibition at the Louvre museum: our images

LOUVRE MUSEUM
From October 7, 2026 to January 25, 2027

Our images from the Zurbarán exhibition at the Louvre. We previewed the exhibition the day before it opened to the public. Beneath the midnight blue walls of the Hall Napoléon, the large monastic…

• 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.

• News
• Contemporary

The City of Architecture celebrates its 20th anniversary: a new era for all

City of Architecture and Heritage

2027 marks a historic turning point for the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine. Celebrating its two decades of existence, the institution is not simply looking back: it is embarking on a…

• Contemporary
• News

Imaginary Engine exhibition at Large, the new art space on Île Seguin: our photos

LARGE - CONTEMPORARY CULTURES
From October 17, 2026 to March 7, 2027

From October 17, 2026 to March 7, 2027, Large, the new art venue on Île Seguin in Boulogne-Billancourt, opens with Imaginary Engine: one hundred and twenty works, including seventeen new commissions, around the engine, in the very place where Renault assembled its cars.

• Photo

Exhibition Brassaï, the eye of Paris at Hangar Y in Meudon

HANGAR Y
From October 17, 2026 to February 21, 2027

From October 17, 2026 to February 21, 2027, Hangar Y, in Meudon, is dedicating the exhibition "The Eye of Paris" to Brassaï. One hundred prints from the personal collection of Gilberte, the photographer's wife, are being shown there for the first and only time, from the nocturnal Paris of the musette balls to the anonymous graffiti hunted on the walls.

• Classic
• Discovery

Exhibition The Body at Work, 1850-1939, at the MUS in Suresnes

MUS, MUSEUM OF URBAN AND SOCIAL HISTORY
From October 14, 2026 to June 20, 2027

The Suresnes Museum of Urbanism (MUS) brings together over a hundred pieces, on loan from institutions including the Musée d'Orsay and the Petit Palais, until June 20, 2027, offering a journey through the world of work from the perspective of the tools themselves. The Ministry of Culture has awarded it its national interest label, which it reserves for around thirty projects per year.

• Contemporary
• Free

Lubaina Himid exhibition, A Fashionable Marriage, at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris

Museum of Modern Art, Paris
From October 16, 2026 to January 10, 2027

The Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris is hosting Lubaina Himid from October 16, 2026 to January 10, 2027, with free admission, as part of the Festival d'Automne. The British artist is showing a single piece, placed amidst the permanent collections.

• Contemporary
• Free

Yu Nishimura Exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations

LAFAYETTE ANTICIPATIONS
From October 21, 2026 to January 3, 2027

Lafayette Anticipations offers Japanese painter Yu Nishimura his first institutional solo exhibition in France, from October 21, 2026 to January 3, 2027. Around fifty works from the last ten years, including several unseen works, where oil and tempera borrow from cinema and photography, free admission.

• Contemporary
• Free

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.

• 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.

• Unavoidable
• Discovery

The "Eating Images" exhibition at the Mucem in Marseille

MUCEM, J4 LEVEL 2
From October 28, 2026 to April 12, 2027

The Mucem tells in four hundred and thirty-five pieces how, around the Mediterranean, images were eaten, from the host to the love cake, with Ingres, Meret Oppenheim and Michel Journiac.

• 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.

• Contemporary
• Discovery

The exhibition “Night Sister” by Éléonore False at the Tanneries d’Amilly: a plunge into a dreamlike universe.

LES TANNERIES - CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER
From October 17, 2026 to February 28, 2027

From October 17, 2026 to February 28, 2027, the contemporary art center Les Tanneries, in Amilly, presents Sœur de nuit, a solo exhibition by Éléonore False: a nocturnal journey of collages, textiles, glass and luminous sculptures, the second chapter of Sœur de jour presented at the CCC OD in Tours.

• Discovery
• With family

Cult Animal Exhibition at the Musée des Confluences, Lyon

MUSEUM OF CONFLUENCES
From October 16, 2026 to August 15, 2027

The Musée des Confluences in Lyon presents Animal culte from October 16, 2026 to August 15, 2027: three hundred and thirty objects and specimens to ask ourselves whether we live with animals or at their expense.

• Digital
• Festival

Digital Imaginary Biennial Chronicles 2026, Resistances, in Marseille, Aix and Avignon

CHRONICLES, BIENNIAL OF DIGITAL IMAGINATIONS
From October 24, 2026 to January 17, 2027

From October 24, 2026 to January 17, 2027, the fifth Biennale of digital imaginaries, Chroniques, unfolds thirteen exhibitions in seven cities, from Marseille to Avignon, around one word: resistances.

• Unusual
• With family

The Pink Diamond exhibition at the Château de Chantilly

CHÂTEAU DE CHANTILLY
From October 17, 2026 to January 3, 2027

Stolen a hundred years ago from the Château de Chantilly and then found hidden in an apple, the Grand Condé, a pink diamond of more than 9 carats, comes out of its vault from October 17, 2026 to January 3, 2027 for an exhibition devoted to its incredible story.

• Photo

Exhibition "The Lives of Photography" at the Le Château d'Eau gallery in Toulouse

THE WATER TOWER
From October 16, 2026 to February 21, 2027

The Le Château d’Eau gallery in Toulouse presents The Lives of Photography from October 16, 2026 to February 21, 2027. Together with the Paul-Dupuy and Georges-Labit museums, it brings together 19th-century daguerreotypes and contemporary photography in the same room.

• Photo
• Free

Exhibition: Marseille as seen by the Detaille family at the Marseille History Museum

MARSEILLE HISTORY MUSEUM
Until June 20, 2027

The Marseille History Museum presents "Marseille as seen by the Detaille family: 164 years of photographs," on display until June 20, 2027, with free admission. The collection from the studio taken over in 1902 by Fernand Detaille, dating back to 1860, was acquired by the city in 2021.

• Classic

Fernand Léger exhibition, bodies in celebration, world in colours, at the Matisse Museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis

HENRI MATISSE DEPARTMENTAL MUSEUM
From October 17, 2026 to January 27, 2027

From October 17, 2026 to January 27, 2027, the Henri Matisse departmental museum in Le Cateau-Cambrésis dedicates its first exhibition to Fernand Léger. Bold colors, bodies in motion and joie de vivre, with a dialogue with Nadia Léger.

• Classic
• Unavoidable

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.

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The strange case of Monsieur Gallé, the exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy

Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy
From October 21, 2026 to February 28, 2027

From October 21, 2026 to February 28, 2027, the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy opens the workshops of Émile Gallé: one hundred and forty pieces, from 1880 to the 1920s, in an exhibition recognized as being of national interest by the State.

• 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.

• 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
• Discovery

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.

• Discovery
• Classic

Modern Barcelona exhibition, from Gaudí to Picasso, at the Kunsthalle Munich

KUNSTHALLE MÜNCHEN
From October 23, 2026 to February 21, 2027

The Kunsthalle in Munich tells the story of Catalan Modernism in one hundred and sixty pieces, from Gaudí to the young Picasso: thirty-four years during which Barcelona invented itself.

• Classic
• Discovery

Whistler Exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

VAN GOGH MUSEUM
From October 16, 2026 to January 10, 2027

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is dedicating an exhibition to James McNeill Whistler, the American in London who wanted painting to be music and not a story.

• Classic
• Discovery

Titian's Venus exhibition at the Castelvecchio Museum, Verona

CASTELVECCHIO MUSEUM
From October 31, 2026 to January 31, 2027

For its centenary, the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona acquired Titian's Venus with a Dog and an Organ Player from the Prado. A single painting, yet representing a whole century of art.

• Photo
• Discovery

Light and Magic exhibition at Tate Modern

TATE MODERN
From October 14, 2026 to February 21, 2027

The Tate Modern traces the birth of pictorialism, the first international movement to claim photography as an art form. More than fifty photographers, from Seoul to Sydney.

• Discovery
• Unusual

Arcana Borealis exhibition at the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

ATENEUM ART MUSEUM
From October 23, 2026 to February 28, 2027

The Ateneum in Helsinki brought together women from the North who, like Hilma af Klint, invented abstraction while believing they were painting under the dictation of spirits. There were about fifty of them.

• Unavoidable
• 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.

• Contemporary
• Discovery

Portia Zvavahera Exhibition at WIELS, Brussels

WIELS
From October 31, 2026 to February 28, 2027

WIELS, Brussels' contemporary art center, celebrates its twentieth anniversary with Zimbabwean painter Portia Zvavahera, from October 31, 2026 to February 28, 2027, and hosts Ali Cherri until January 3.

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• Contemporary

Munch - Picasso exhibition at the Picasso Museum Málaga

PICASSO MUSEUM MÁLAGA
From October 30, 2026 to February 28, 2027

The Picasso Museum Málaga brings together Edvard Munch and Pablo Picasso, two painters who never met and yet constantly addressed the same subject.

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• Discovery

The exhibition "Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin!" at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest

Museum of Fine Arts Budapest
From October 30, 2026 to February 28, 2027

From October 30, 2026 to February 28, 2027, the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest presents "Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin!". Focusing on Paul Gauguin and the circles of artists he encountered, from Pont-Aven to Tahiti, the exhibition brings together one hundred and fifty works, including eighty by the painter, a collection that Hungary had never seen before.

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• Classic

Artemisia Gentileschi Exhibition at the Museum of the Innocents, Florence

Museum of the Innocents
From October 21, 2026 to April 4, 2027

The Museum of the Innocents in Florence is dedicating an exhibition to Artemisia Gentileschi's Florentine years, the most successful of her career, when she painted for the Medici.

• 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.

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• Unavoidable

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
• Unavoidable

Constellations exhibition at the Beyeler Foundation, in Peter Zumthor's new buildings

The Beyeler Foundation is expanding and exhibiting approximately 230 works from its collection. The new Wyss Museum, designed by Peter Zumthor, opens alongside them. Riehen, on the outskirts of Basel.…

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Signac exhibition, symphony of colors at the Kunsthal Rotterdam

KUNSTHAL ROTTERDAM
From October 24, 2026 to February 28, 2027

The Kunsthal in Rotterdam is dedicating an exhibition to Paul Signac, for whom divisionism was less a matter of optics than a matter of boats.

• Drawing
• Discovery

Hokusai, The Wave and Others exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London

DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY
From October 20, 2026 to January 17, 2027

From October 20, 2026 to January 17, 2027, the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London presents "Hokusai, The Wave and Others." For the first time in the UK, the complete series of Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, comprising forty-six prints in Prussian blue, is brought together.