Photo banner: Albert Laprade. Exposition des Arts décoratifs de Paris, 1925 © Académie d'architecture/Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine/Archives d'architecture contemporaine/ADAGP-2025
Our selection of must-see exhibitions
Gerhard Richter at Fondation Louis Vuitton
Gerhard Richter, Venedig (Treppe) [Venezia (staircase)], 1985 (CR 586-3)
The Art Institute of Chicago. Gift of Edlis Neeson Collection
© Gerhard Richter 2025 (18102025)
Major retrospective of the German painter Gerhard Richter spanning the entirety of the institution’s 10-gallery space. Expect to see 270 works and the variety of media and styles of the acclaimed artist, from the diaries paintings to coloured painted or sculpted abstractions.
Dates: October 17 - March 2 2026
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Exposition Générale at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
© Jean Nouvel / ADAGP, Paris, 2025. Photo © Martin Argyroglo
The opening of the new headquarter of the Fondation Cartier, 2 Place du Palais-Royal, in front of the Louvre, will without any doubts be a peak of the art season in Paris. The inaugural presentation will include more than 600 works from 100 artists, reflecting the Fondation Cartier forty years of commitment and acquisitions of contemporary international creation.
Dates: October 25 - August 2026
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Art Déco Centennial at MAD and Cité de l’Architecture
Albert Laprade, perspective de la voute lumineuse, exposition des Arts décoratifs de Paris, 1925 © Académie d'architecture/Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine/Archives d'architecture contemporaine/ADAGP-2025
A hundred years ago, in 1925, 16 millions of people visited the remarquable International Exhibition of Decorative and Industrial Modern Arts in Paris, located between the Invalides and the Grand Palais. The Exhibition was made of pavilions, ephemeral constructions built for the regions of France, the major invited nations, powerful luxury brands like Lalique or Galeries Lafayettes with celebrated ones like the Pavilion of a French Embassy, L’Esprit Nouveau by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. This event marked the history of architecture and decorative arts, giving its name to the Art Deco style, which spread throughout France and the world, even though this term doesn’t reflect the various stylistic trends coexisting at this time.
This Exhibition that ran from late April to early November 1925, is finally getting its celebration in Paris this Fall in two Parisian museums:
1925-2025. One hundred years of Art déco, MAD - Musée des Arts décoratifs
With a thousand of works, including furniture, jewelry, drawings, fashion pieces...
Dates: October 20 - March 29 2026
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Paris 1925 : l'Art déco et ses architectes, Cité de l’Architecture
We look forward trying their announced immersive reconstruction of the 1925 Exhibition, notably through a virtual model.
Dates: Octobre 22 - March 29 2026
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Minimal at Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
“Minimal”, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection, Paris, 2025
© Photo: Nicolas Brasseur/Pinault Collection.
A major exhibition dedicated to Minimalist art presenting more than a hundred major works that trace the diversity of this movement since the 1960s, when a whole generation of artists initiated a radical approach to art.
Dates: October 8 - January 18 2026
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George Condo / Otobong Nkanga / Bianca Bondi, Xie Lei, Eva Nielsen and Lionel Sabatté at Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
Artistes nommés pour le Prix Marcel Duchamp 2025 © Prix Marcel Duchamp 2025. Photo : Paris Musées / Guillaume Blot
Take time to explore the various exhibitions proposed by the Musée d’art moderne this Fall: a solo show for the American painter George Condo, another solo show for lesser known Nigeria born Otobong Nkanga living in Belgium, and last but not least, the 4 finalists of the French Marcel Duchamp Prize 2025.
Dates: Oct 10 - February 8 2026
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Sargent. Dazzling Paris at Musée d’Orsay
The musée d’Orsay pays tribute to the most famous American painter of the 19th century, John Singer Sargent (1856 – 1925) but lesser know in France, focusing on the Parisian years. If you didn’t see it in its first presentation at the New-York Metropolitan Museum, you have a second chance at Musée d’Orsay- or if you want to discover the paintings where they have been originally painted!
Dates: until January 11 2026
Jacques-Louis David at Musée du Louvre
Jacques-Louis David, Le serment des Horaces, ©GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre), M Hurtado
From The Death of Marat to Napoleon Crossing the Alps and The Coronation of Napoleon, Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) pictured the great moments of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire, while his portraits bring to life the society of this period. This exhibition marks the bicentennial of his death in exile in Brussels in 1825.
Dates: October 15 - January 26
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If you have more time…
Contemporary art
Philip Guston. The irony of history, Musée national Picasso-Paris, Oct 14 - March 1st 2026
Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Pontus Hultén, Grand Palais, until January 4 2026
Pierre Soulages. Works on paper, Musée du Luxembourg, Sept. 16 - January 11 2026
Echo Delay Reverb. American Art, Francophone Thought, Palais de Tokyo, Oct 22 - Feb 15
Modern art
Berthe Weill, Art dealer of the Parisian Avant-garde, Musée de l’Orangerie, October 8 - January 2026
Nabis prints, Bibliothèque nationale de France site Richelieu, until January 11 2026
The Empire of sleep, Musée Marmottan Monet, Oct 9 - March 1st 2026
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Edward Weston: Becoming Modern, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, October 15 -January 25 janvier 2026
Donna Gottschalk, Le Bal, until November 16
Decorative arts/design/Fashion
Paul Poiret (1879-1944), Musée des Arts Décoratifs, until January 11 2026
Rick Owens, Temple of love, Palais Galliera, until January 5 2026