Exhibitions not to be missed in Paris this year

From 9 February 2024 to 22 January 2025

In 2024, the Atelier des Lumières offers a colourful plunge into the heart of ancient Egypt. The temples of Luxor and Abu Simbel, the tombs of Tutankhamen and Nefertari in the Valley of the Kings and Queens, the monumental sculptures of the pharaohs, the pyramids... The façades of the digital art centre in Paris reveal the sumptuous landscapes and architectural treasures of Egyptian civilisation in this new immersive exhibition.

During the festive season (October 18 to January 22), the Atelier des Lumières is also offering an immersive exhibition in the footsteps of cult comic book character Asterix. Head for Roman Gaul, Hispania and Egypt for the intrepid villagers in search of a certain Panoramix... A sensory journey where young and old alike (re)discover Uderzo's famous drawings and René Goscinny's dialogues. 

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From 6 September 2024 to 9 February 2025

Rubens, Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, Veronese... The greatest figures of the Italian Renaissance and the Baroque period are in the spotlight this autumn at the Musée Jacquemart André as it reopens after a major renovation campaign. Exceptional loans from the Borghese Gallery (currently under renovation) in Rome.  An opportunity to discover works by lesser-known artists such as Annibal Carracci, Guido Reni and Jacopo Bassano.

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From 2 October 2024 to 27 January 2025

From Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee to Henri Matisse and Alberto Giacometti, the greatest figures of modern art occupy a special place in the personal collection of Heinz Berggruen, a leading German art dealer who lived in Paris during the second half of the 20th century. This autumn, the Musée de l'Orangerie will be exhibiting around a hundred works illustrating the links he forged with the artists of his time.

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From 8 October 2024 to 19 January 2025

Urban workers, sportsmen, men on balconies, men bathing... Male figures were a major inspiration in the work of Gustave Caillebotte. 130 years after the death of the Impressionist painter to whom we owe nearly 500 paintings bequeathed to the State, the Musée d'Orsay is devoting an exhibition to him this autumn. Among the masterpieces on show are Young Man at his Window, Part of a Boat and Rue de Paris, Temps de pluie.

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From 9 October 2024 to 20 January 2025

Born in Italy in the 1960s, the Arte Povera artistic movement is invited to the Bourse de Commerce this autumn. Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis... The avant-garde artists behind this movement assert their opposition to consumer society, using simple, natural or everyday materials (earth, coal, water, trees, light bulbs...). Discover some fifty works from the Pinault Collection, as well as exceptional loans.

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From 9 October 2024 to 2 February 2025

An icon of modern Brazilian art, Tarsila do Amaral is honored this fall at the Musée du Luxembourg with a retrospective exhibition. It's an opportunity to discover her work, little known in France, inspired by indigenous and modern cultures, as well as Cubism, thanks to her visit to France in the 1920s.

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From 16 October 2024 to 3 February 2025

The king's fool, the jester, the dwarf... the figure of the madman is omnipresent in the history of art, particularly in medieval and modern art. From the Middle Ages to the 19th century, the Musée du Louvre this autumn presents an exhibition exploring the different representations and incarnations of human madness and its evolution, through a rich collection of 300,300 sculptures, illuminations, engravings and tapestries. Highlights include works by Jérôme Bosch and Pieter Bruegel.

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From 16 October 2024 to 16 January 2025

As the tenth edition of the Vendée Globe gets underway on November 10 from Les Sables d'Olonne, in the Pays de la Loire region of France, the Musée National de la Marine this autumn invites visitors to delve into the daily lives of skippers past and present who have completed a solo circumnavigation of the globe. The exhibition features sailing objects, models and sailors' outfits.  Adventurers beware!

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From 17 October 2024 to 24 February 2025

This fall, the Fondation Louis Vuitton is staging a major exhibition devoted to Pop Art and one of its emblematic figures, Tom Wesselmann. Comic strips, advertising, cinema, household robots and the tabloid press - popular culture in all its guises inspired the artists of this artistic movement, which emerged in the 1950s.  In addition to the work of Tom Wesselmann, there are almost 150 paintings by Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei, Yayoi Kusuma, Roy Lichtenstein and Sylvie Fleury.

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From 19 October 2024 to 16 March 2025

A fashion accessory par excellence, the hat in all its forms is in the spotlight this autumn at the Palais Galliera. An invitation to discover the collections of British milliner Stephen Jones from the 1980s to the present day. Working with leading haute-couture houses such as Christian Dior, Jean Paul Gaultier and John Galliano, his creations inspired by Paris and French history have toured the globe.

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From 20 October 2024 to 3 March 2025

A key figure in the Post-Impressionist movement, Pierre Bonnard is in the spotlight this winter at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris. Through two works, Paysage au Cannet by Pierre Bonnard and a portrait of the artist by Édouard Vuillard looking at his own canvas, the exhibition evokes the painter's installation in a villa on the Côte d'Azur, where he stayed from 1922 to 1947, and his work on color. Other works by the artist complete the exhibition, including L'Atelier au mimosa on loan from the Centre Pompidou.

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From 11 December 2024 to 19 March 2025

Chiharu Shiota's monumental art installations are on show this winter under the new glass roof of the Grand Palais. An opportunity to (re)discover the singular, poetic work of this Japanese artist - known for her creations in interwoven woollen yarns - and the iconic Parisian landmark, whose galleries will reopen in 2025.

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From 10 January to 31 March 2025

What more beautiful setting than the Grand Palais, partially reopened since the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, to host the finest creations from the House of Dolce&Gabbana? From architecture and craftsmanship to music, opera, cinema and theater, the exhibition to be discovered this winter in Paris evokes all the components of transalpine art that influenced the famous designer, and questions his place in the history of fashion.

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From 15 January to 26 May 2025

Through 200 paintings, the Centre Pompidou pays tribute to Suzanne Valadon, whose work occupies a singular place in the history of art. Modern, audacious and self-taught, Valadon was first and foremost the muse of artists such as Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, but she (quickly) found a passion for drawing and a favorite subject: nude scenes, both male and female, highlighting the fragility of bodies tested by everyday life. Suzanne Valadon was the first woman to paint a large-format frontal male nude. The exhibition also reveals a number of brightly colored paintings influenced by the Pont-Aven School.

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The Centre Pompidou will be closed for renovations from summer 2025. 

From 24 January to 21 July 2025

This is one of the must-see exhibitions in Paris in 2025. Among the jewels, bronzes, ceramics and tapestries from the Louvre's Objets d'art department, sixty contemporary silhouettes and fashion accessories are displayed. A dialogue between the history of fashion and the history of art, a source of inspiration for great couturiers such as Jacques Doucet to Madame Carven, and an invitation to take a fresh look at the museum's collections.

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From 8 February to 12 October 2025

The Paris Fashion Museum continues to explore the links between art and sport in 2025. After a focus on seaside bathing in the second part of the exhibition, this third show looks at sporting activities in the mountains, from the creation of the first resorts to the present day. More than 180 works of art offer a glimpse into the history of fashion and the evolution of clothing for skiing, tobogganing and skating! All the inspiration you need before heading off to the mountains...

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From 14 February to 29 June 2025

In 2025, Atelier des Lumières presents an immersive exhibition dedicated to Pablo Picasso. From Demoiselles d'Avignon to Guernica, major works by the father of modern art are displayed on the facades of the Paris-based digital art center. It's an opportunity for visitors to rediscover the artist's career, his iconoclastic work and the various techniques, such as etching, paper and glue, folding and ceramics, that revolutionized art in the 20th century.

The second digital creation - “Le douanier Rousseau, au pays des rêves” - projected onto the walls of the Atelier des Lumières is a tribute to the painter Henri Rousseau, a leading figure in French naive art.

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From 29 February to 28 September 2025

For lovers of Oriental antiquities, a dozen major works from the permanent collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) will be on view at the Musée du Louvre in 2025. These exceptional loans offer a dialogue between the two collections.

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From 5 March to 25 August 2025

From Auguste Rodin to Duane Hanson, via Michael Armitage, Miriam Cahn, Philip Guston, Marlene Dumas, Kerry James Marshall, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Mira Schor and Arthur Jafa, the Bourse de Commerce - Collection Pinault explores the place of the body in the thinking of contemporary artists. Several artists evoke the civil rights, feminist and anti-militarist struggles of the 1960s.

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From 18 March to 6 July 2025

In spring 2025, the Musée d'Orsay will be staging a brand-new exhibition dedicated to the illustrated posters that were so popular from the end of the 19th century onwards. Through a selection of drawings, objets d'art, photographs and paintings, the exhibition plunges visitors into the emergence of consumer society and mass culture. Ready for a trip to the “Belle Epoque”?

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From 19 March to 20 July 2025

From Niki de Saint Phalle and Yves Klein to Arman, Raymond Hains, Martial Raysse and César, the major figures in the Nouveau Réalisme movement were greatly influenced by the work of Fernand Léger. Through a selection of 110 works, including some sixty from the Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain de Nice, the exhibition to be shown in 2025 in Paris at the Musée du Luxembourg explores several themes dear to the New Realists, such as the misappropriation of the object, the representation of the body and leisure, the place of art in the public space...

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From 19 March to 30 June 2025

Between abstract paintings, surrealism and free figuration, the “Black Paris” exhibition invites visitors to the Centre Pompidou to take a fresh look at modern and postmodern art through the prism of works by Afro-descendant artists. The tour paints a portrait of a cosmopolitan city with multiple influences, where questions of identity and social and anti-colonial struggles are echoed.

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From 9 April to 1 September 2025 

British modern artist David Hockney is honored in 2025 at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Between Californian landscapes, the hills of Yorkshire and the Pays d'Auge in Normandy, where he has been based for the past few years, one of the most eagerly awaited exhibitions of the year in Paris will retrace the artist's career, particularly over the past 25 years. In addition to the paintings and drawings for which David Hockney is renowned, visitors will also discover his digital experiments using a touch-sensitive tablet.

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From 6 June 2025 to 4 January 2026

In 2025, the Grand Palais invites visitors to explore the works of one of the most emblematic (and productive) artist duos in the history of art, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely. The tour highlights the central role played by Pontus Hulten, the first director of the Centre Pompidou, in the artistic success of these two disruptive figures, through the purchase of works and the organization of exhibitions.

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Claude Monet at the Carrières des Lumières in Baux-de-Provence, Eugène Delacroix and the Orientalists at the Bassins des Lumières in Bordeaux, Paul Cézanne at the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence, discover our selection of must-see exhibitions in France in 2025.