Nouveautés - Expos
Nouveautés à Paris
- Contemporary
- Free
HEY! Fabulous Familiar at Val Fleury: art emerges from materials we thought unworthy
LE VAL FLEURY
From October 16, 2026 to January 31, 2027
From October 16, 2026 to January 31, 2027, the Val Fleury in Gif-sur-Yvette hosts HEY! Fabulous Familiar, with free admission: brought together by Anne Richard, ten artists create works using seashells, buttons, bones, or nail polish. Strange, or rather fabulous.
- 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
- Unusual
Lionel Sabatté Exhibition, What Remains, at the Museum of Hunting and Nature
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
- 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.
- With family
- Digital
Planet Ocean, the Atelier des Lumières descends into the abyss
WORKSHOP OF LIGHTS
Starting October 16, 2026
From October 16, 2026, the Atelier des Lumières plunges into the ocean with Planète Océan, immersion into the depths: a 360-degree show that descends from coral gardens to the abyss, where animals make their own light.
- With family
- Discovery
Animal Stories Exhibition at the BnF Richelieu
BNF RICHELIEU
From September 18, 2026 to August 29, 2027
With Animal Stories, the BnF explores the many facets of the animal, between myth, science, literature and art.
Nouveautés en régions
- Contemporary
- Unavoidable
Exposition Max Ernst, De natura, au Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire
DOMAINE DE CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE
Du 3 octobre 2026 au 28 février 2027
Le Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire consacre du 3 octobre 2026 au 28 février 2027 une rétrospective à Max Ernst, De natura : une trentaine d’œuvres dont deux tableaux jamais sortis de collections privées, à quelques kilomètres de la maison où le peintre vécut treize ans.
- 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.
- Contemporary
- Unavoidable
Exposition Singulières, artistes, autodidactes, affranchies, au LaM de Villeneuve-d’Ascq
LAM
Du 3 octobre 2026 au 14 février 2027
Le LaM, à Villeneuve-d’Ascq, réunit du 3 octobre 2026 au 14 février 2027 soixante-dix femmes et plus de trois cents œuvres d’art brut dans Singulières, artistes, autodidactes, affranchies, de Baya à Séraphine Louis.
- 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.
- 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.
- Contemporary
- Unavoidable
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…
Nouveautés en Europe
- 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.
- Unavoidable
- Classic
Exposition L’impressionnisme, une histoire belge à La Boverie, Liège
LA BOVERIE, LIÈGE
Du 9 octobre 2026 au 29 mars 2027
Pour ses dix ans, La Boverie, à Liège, réunit près de cent cinquante œuvres impressionnistes belges et françaises, d’Émile Claus et Ensor à Monet et Renoir, du 9 octobre 2026 au 29 mars 2027.
- 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.
- 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.
- Classic
- Drawing
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.
- 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.
