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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.

• Contemporary
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Walid Raad Exhibition, Festival of (In)Gratitude at CENTQUATRE-PARIS

LE CENTQUATRE-PARIS
From October 23 to November 22, 2026

From October 23 to November 22, 2026, CENTQUATRE-PARIS entrusts its Stables to Walid Raad for "Festival of (In)Gratitude," with free admission. A world premiere: the Lebanese-American photographer and visual artist will personally lead more than thirty tours of his photographs, collages, sculptures, and videos, rooted in forty years of war in the Middle East.

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Ibrahim Mahama exhibition at the Cartier Foundation: our photos and our review

CARTIER FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART
From October 22, 2026 to February 28, 2027

From October 22, 2026 to February 28, 2027, the Cartier Foundation entrusts all of its spaces in the Palais-Royal to the Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama: a glass bottle factory dismantled in Ghana and reassembled in Paris, a parliament of stools and several guest artists.

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Art Basel Paris 2026 at the Grand Palais: our photos and our review

GRAND PALAIS
From October 23, 2026, closed on the 24th and 25th

From October 23 to 25, 2026, the fifth edition of Art Basel Paris will take place at the Grand Palais. Shared booths, a balcony dedicated to sixteen solo exhibitions, thirty-two galleries discovering the fair, and a new Premise sector open to works from before 1900 make it an event where discoveries compete with big names.

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Modern Art Fair 2026, Place de la Concorde: our photos and our review

PLACE DE LA CONCORDE
October 22-25, 2026

Modern Art Fair will take place at Place de la Concorde from October 22 to 25, 2026. Modern art, contemporary creation and design will engage in dialogue there, and the edition will welcome the Arab World Institute with icons from the Claude and France Lemand donation.

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The "All Fires, Flowers" season at the Palais de Tokyo: our photos and our review

Palais de Tokyo
From October 21, 2026 to February 14, 2027

From October 21, 2026 to February 14, 2027, the Palais de Tokyo explores the links that unite us to places, memories and others with Tous les feux, les fleurs, a season where contemporary art draws sensitive territories, between intimate heritages, collective commitments and imaginaries in motion.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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Joan Miró exhibition, Protest, at the Abattoirs in Toulouse

LES ABATTOIRS, MUSEUM – FRAC OCCITANIE TOULOUSE
From October 3, 2026 to March 7, 2027

Les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse, are dedicating their very first exhibition to Joan Miró until March 7, 2027: nearly two hundred works to reveal an artist who made protest the driving force of his creation.

Art and anarchy at the Roubaix swimming pool

LA PISCINE - ANDRÉ DILIGENT MUSEUM OF ART AND INDUSTRY
From October 10, 2026 to January 24, 2027

Neither God nor master. From Gustave Courbet to Banksy, La Piscine retraces a century and a half of art spent under the libertarian banner.

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Exhibition Rubens, Jordaens, van Dyck at the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

KUPFERSTICHKABINETT
From October 10, 2026 to January 31, 2027

The Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin is bringing out its Flemish treasures for the first time in fifty years: more than one hundred drawings by twenty-eight artists, with Rubens, Jordaens and Van Dyck in the spotlight.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.