‘Yu Nishimura: Towards a Sea’
‘Hélène Fauquet: Vivresse’
Until January 3, 2027
‘Mungo Thomson: Monument’
Until November 29, 2026
Lafayette Anticipations

Contemplation and stillness can only ever be followed by the return of movement. And it is precisely this energy that the three artists on show at Lafayette Anticipations set out to explore. Japanese painter Yu Nishimura invites visitors to join him on an underwater journey, in the company of human, animal, plant, and mineral creatures. Staying with the aquatic, French artist Hélène Fauquet uses the seashell – at once animal, artefact, collectible, and organic creation – as a gateway to the symbolic. Lastly, Californian polymath Mungo Thomson provides the final piece in this complex puzzle in works that evoke the speed and compression of contemporary life, at the expense of the decorative, the sacred, and the monumental.

‘Andy Warhol: Line and Image’
Until January 10, 2027
Musée du Luxembourg

The Musée du Luxembourg invites visitors to explore the foundations of Andy Warhol’s practice. His drawings, developed throughout his career, are presented in five sections spanning his early days as a commercial illustrator, his love of writing, his passion for faces and masks, his long-concealed gay iconography, and his meditations on mortality.

‘Stan Douglas: Parallax’
October 20, 2026 – January 10, 2027
Jeu de Paume

‘Parallax’ describes the effect of an observer’s position on what they perceive. This optical phenomenon succinctly captures the work of Canadian photographer Stan Douglas who, for nearly 40 years, has interrogated our perceptions of history through meticulous reconstructions. His compositions – painterly in their staging, theatrical in their framing – tell a thousand stories to those willing to listen, but with one constant thread: no narrative is simple, one-sided, or complete.

‘Cezanne and Us’
Until January 17, 2027
Grand Palais / Centre Pompidou

If Paul Cezanne’s status as the father of Modern art remains a matter of art-historical debate, his influence on 20th-century artists is beyond dispute. The Centre Pompidou and the Grand Palais bring together Cezanne and those who claimed to be his heirs – among them Joan Mitchell, Bridget Riley, Henri Matisse, and Piet Mondrian – in an exhibition of nearly 180 works.

‘Eva Gonzalès: A Free-Spirited Artist’
Until January 24, 2027
‘Prune Nourry. Visionaries’
October 20, 2026 – January 24, 2027
Petit Palais

The women written out of art history make their presence felt at the Petit Palais this autumn. Eva Gonzalès (1849–1883), long reduced to her role as Édouard Manet’s student and Impressionist muse, finally receives the major retrospective she deserves. Rooted in bourgeois artistic and literary circles, the Parisian painter cast a sensitive eye on the everyday lives of women in her milieu. Contemporary artist Prune Nourry, invited for the museum’s annual ‘carte blanche’, extends this narrative by peppering the permanent collection with sculptures by 18 visionary women artists, who like Gonzalès have been overlooked. Sculptors Hélène Bertaux and Jane Poupelet, writer Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, and actor Sarah Bernhardt, are among those waiting to be discovered throughout the Petit Palais.

‘Kerry James Marshall: The Histories’
‘Simone Fattal: Cities at the Bottom of a Lake’
Until January 24, 2027
Prix Marcel Duchamp
Until February 7, 2027
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris

A French premiere for Kerry James Marshall. Primarily a painter, the American artist has also explored sculpture, printmaking, and drawing. His work weaves together different threads from African-American history – from Black Power to Afrofuturism – celebrating Black figures, even as they go about their everyday lives. Lebanese-American artist Simone Fattal, a longtime adopted Parisian, also presents her wide-ranging and long underexposed practice in a Parisian museum for the first time. Finally, the nominees for the 2026 Prix Marcel Duchamp take up residence within MAM’s permanent collection (with free admission): Joël Andrianomearisoa, the duo Brognon Rollin, Laura Henno, and Josèfa Ntjam. Listen out on October 22 for the announcement of this year’s winner, who will reap the rewards of this prestigious program established in 2000.

‘Monet: Painting Time’
Until January 25, 2027
Vija Celmins
Until February 15, 2027
Musée de l’Orangerie

This year marks the centenary of the death of the great Impressionist painter, Claude Monet, and the Musée de l’Orangerie honors the occasion with an exhibition centered on his relationship with time. Latvian-American artist Vija Celmins is the season’s contemporary guest. Her painstakingly executed images plunge viewers into the infinite, stripping away all sense of scale and allowing them to lose themselves in endless oceans, deserts, and night skies, just as they might in the calm waters of Monet’s lily pond.

‘Zurbarán: 1598–1664’
‘Sculpting Colour: Masterpieces from the Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid’
Until January 25, 2027
Musée du Louvre

A Spanish season at the Louvre: the work of 17th-century master Francisco de Zurbarán, alongside an exhibition devoted to Spanish sculpture of the same period. Having steadily gained recognition over the course of the 20th century, these days Zurbarán is as celebrated as his compatriots Diego Velázquez and Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and is distinguished by his extraordinary naturalism, simplified volumes, and impressive command of color. Some of the masterworks on loan from the Museo Nacional de Escultura in Valladolid have never before been shown in France; among them are Gregorio Fernández’s Paso del Camino del Calvario (c. 1610) processional float and his Cristo de la Luz (c. 1630) – life-size sculptures whose presence generates an almost mystical experience.

‘Mary Cassatt: Being Independent’
Until January 31, 2027
‘Jenny Holzer: J’ai vu’
October 20 – February 21, 2027
Musée d’Orsay

American artist Mary Cassatt was one of the pillars of the Impressionist group. She spent most of her life in Paris while proudly proclaiming her origins, and fought for independence at every turn – carving out a place as a professional painter in a male-dominated field. On the façade of the Musée d’Orsay, fellow American Jenny Holzer, known for her Truisms and caustic wit, will project fragments of French text, drawn from the museum’s collections. Further works by Holzer will also be on view throughout the galleries of the former station.

‘Kurt Schwitters: Le chaos-monde, 1918–1948’
Until February 7, 2027
Musée Picasso-Paris

The work of German artist Kurt Schwitters – Dadaist and key figure of Constructivism and Abstraction – has not been shown in France for over thirty years. More than three hundred works and documents offer an immersive journey into the artist’s universe, while shedding light on his connections to the experimentally minded Pablo Picasso.

‘A Wardrobe of One’s Own: Dissident Femininities in the 19th Century’
Until February 14, 2027
Palais Galliera

Many know George Sand not only for her prolific literary output, but as a feminist icon and free spirit who opted to wear men’s clothing and was in many respects ahead of her time. ‘A Wardrobe of One’s Own’ uncovers the still largely untold history of ‘cross-dressing’ – as it was then called – or the appropriation of men’s clothing by 19th-century women. This is a pivotal chapter in the history of fashion, which opened up new possibilities for women, liberating them from the constraints they had previously endured.

‘Ibrahim Mahama: The Harvest Season’
October 22, 2026 – February 28, 2027
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain

The Fondation Cartier invites Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama – recipient of an Art Basel Award in 2025 – to present ‘Harvest Time’, alongside nine associated artists and collectives. This exhibition of unprecedented scope resonates with the art centers Mahama has founded in Tamale. These locally rooted spaces for creation and the sharing of knowledge, with education at their core, are the heirs of the cultural and social utopias of the 1950s and 1960s, born of African independence. The Paris project attempts to reactivate that spirit, in a moment of profound political, social, and environmental upheaval.

‘Gustave Fayet, Collector – Designer: Icons of Modern Art’
Until March 8, 2027
Fondation Louis Vuitton

The Fondation Louis Vuitton continues its series devoted to great collectors: after Sergei Shchukin, Samuel Courtauld, and the Morozov brothers, it is now Gustave Fayet’s turn to have both his collection and his own work exhibited. Collector, artist, designer, entrepreneur, and visionary – Fayet played an essential role in the emergence of Modern art. The exhibition presents 250 works from his extraordinary collection, including paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Odilon Redon, Paul Gauguin, Berthe Morisot, Pierre Bonnard, and Henri Matisse.

‘Rafael Pavarotti: Photographer’
Until May 2, 2027
Musée des Arts Décoratifs

Fashion insiders know him well, though more from the glossy pages of magazines than from gallery walls. Flawless color, glowing skin, geometric silhouettes, and sharp styling: these are the hallmarks of fashion photographer Rafael Pavarotti’s signature aesthetic. Born in Brazil, in the state of Pará, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, the young photographer found his calling early, practicing with his father’s camera. Before turning 30, he was already shooting fashion editorials and covers for the most prestigious international magazines – Vogue, i-D, Dazed – and directing his lens at icons including Naomi Campbell, Beyoncé, and A$AP Rocky.

‘Remember Me’
Until January 18, 2027
Collection Pinault – Bourse de Commerce

The Pinault Collection marks the bicentenary of the invention of photography in grand style, with over 700 works tracing the history of the medium. The circular galleries of the Bourse de Commerce eschew chronology in favor of a mosaic-like presentation initiating dialogues and journeys across eras in which Zanele Muholi rubs shoulders with Julia Margaret Cameron, and Alfred Stieglitz with Wolfgang Tillmans, among many others. At its center, American artist Barbara Kruger will inhabit the rotunda with her iconic work, Remember Me (1988/2020). Is this not, after all, the one wish shared by everyone who has ever been photographed?

‘You and Your Gang’
‘Valérie John: I telman nwè ki i blé (So Black it Turns Blue)’
‘Ali Cherri: Today is OK’
‘Sonia Gomes: Wild Heart’
‘Rose Lowder: The Source of the Loire and Other Films’
‘Paul Kodjo: Photoromance’
October 21, 2026 – February 14, 2027
‘Céleste Richard-Zimmermann: Not All Columns Have a Heart of Stone’
October 21, 2026 – January 10, 2027
Palais de Tokyo

The five exhibitions in Palais de Tokyo’s season, ‘All Fires, The Flowers’, revolve around the concept of ‘territory’. ‘You and Your Crew’ brings visibility to artists and spaces located in rural France. Valérie John and Sonia Gomes place craft at the heart of their practices, which are intimately tied to the countries where they were born and continue to work – Martinique and Senegal for the former, Brazil for the latter. Franco-Peruvian artist Rose Lowder presents her explorations of the details to be found in nature, pursued through 16mm photography for over half a century. Ali Cherri approaches the idea of territory as a symbolic as well as political space, governed by authority. In partnership with the Rencontres d’Arles, an exhibition of Ivorian photographer Paul Kodjo will round out this abundant season, alongside sculptures by Céleste Richard-Zimmerman.

‘Penn & Fashion’
Until January 17, 2027
‘Nanténé Traoré: pays des merveilles’
Until November 29, 2026
Maison Européenne de la Photographie

Irving Penn takes over the galleries of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP) until mid-January. The American photographer is a founding figure of the MEP – which is celebrating its 30th anniversary – and most of the works in ‘Penn & Fashion’ are drawn from the institution’s own collection. For Nanténé Traoré’s very first solo museum exhibition he takes us to the Breton coast – a key site from his childhood and the starting point of traumatic memories. Here, the photographer steps back from the vivid, sensory images that made his name, in favor of a hazy, intimate narrative, bringing us a meditation on memory.