• Discovery
• Contemporary

Exposition Made in Situ - Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, à la Galerie des Gobelins : on y est allé !

MOBILIER NATIONAL - GALERIE DES GOBELINS
Du 9 octobre au 29 novembre 2026

Le Mobilier national réunit pour la première fois les sept collections du studio Made in Situ, fondé au Portugal par Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, designer qui a quitté le luxe parisien pour travailler avec les artisans d’un territoire.

• Contemporary
• Free

Installation Lumière divine de Jiang Qiong Er sur la façade de l’église Saint-Eustache

ÉGLISE SAINT-EUSTACHE
Du 8 octobre 2026 au printemps 2027

Jiang Qiong Er investit les quatre niches de 4,5 mètres de la façade ouest de Saint-Eustache, restaurée en 2024 : une installation monumentale inédite, gratuite, qui se regarde depuis la rue et s’allume à la nuit tombée.

• Photo
• Free

U2 Exhibition at the Irish Cultural Centre

IRISH CULTURAL CENTRE
Until December 18, 2026

The Irish Cultural Centre celebrates U2’s 50th anniversary with an exhibition of iconic photographs, until December 18, 2026. The exhibition traces the band’s Dublin roots and connects its early days to its global destiny, with free admission.

• Photo

Exhibition: See Tahiti at the Quai Branly Museum - Jacques Chirac

QUAI BRANLY - JACQUES CHIRAC MUSEUM
From September 29, 2026 to January 31, 2027

The Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac presents Voir Tahiti until January 31, 2027. Acquired in 2023 and unveiled for the first time, the negatives of Gustave Viaud and the photographs of Paul-Émile Miot are among the very first images of Tahiti and the Marquesas.

• Contemporary

Mohammad Alfaraj exhibition, "I'd Rather Be a Dragonfly Than a Lion," at the Louis Vuitton Foundation

LOUIS VUITTON FOUNDATION
From October 9, 2026 to January 18, 2027

The Louis Vuitton Foundation is dedicating its first French exhibition to Mohammad Alfaraj, "I would rather be a dragonfly than a lion," until January 18, 2027. The artist from the Al-Ahsa oasis is showing his animated fables, frame by frame, made of palm fronds, dates and pebbles.

• Fashion

The Artist's Fabric Exhibition at the Bourdelle Museum

BOURDELLE MUSEUM
From September 23, 2026 to January 24, 2027

The Bourdelle Museum presents The Fabric of the Artist from September 23, 2026 to January 24, 2027. The outfits of Gustav Klimt, Rosa Bonheur or Sonia Delaunay, little-known pieces, are in dialogue with paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs, for a history of fashion told by the first great strategists of the image.

• Photo
• Romantic

The major Robert Doisneau exhibition in Lyon

LA SUCRIÈRE - LYON
Until February 28, 2027

To mark the Bicentenary of Photography, the famous photographer Robert Doisneau - or rather his studio - is being honored at La Sucrière in Lyon.

• 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.

• Unavoidable
• Contemporary

Lee Ufan takes over the Palais des Papes in Avignon

PALACE OF THE POPES
Until November 15, 2026

Matter. Space. Time. The Palais des Papes opens its doors to Lee Ufan, a major figure in contemporary Korean art, for a major exhibition. The exhibition, entitled "Relatum," transforms the iconic spaces of the Avignon monument into experimental sites for architectural sculptures.

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.

• 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.

• Photo
• Free

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.

• 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.…

• Contemporary
• Unavoidable

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.

• Contemporary
• Unavoidable

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.

• Unavoidable

Rodin sous l’œil de Rilke à la Fondation Gianadda

FONDATION PIERRE GIANADDA
Du 26 juin au 22 novembre 2026

Qui connaît vraiment Rodin ? Personne ne le connaît, sans avoir lu Rilke.

• Classic
• 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.

• Fashion
• Unavoidable

The 90s, Art and Fashion exhibition at Tate Britain

TATE BRITAIN
From October 8, 2026 to February 14, 2027

Tate Britain reopens 1990s London: Cool Britannia, resourceful spirit and cult of reality, the portrait of a youth that redefined cool.