Here is our selection of main museum exhibitions.
MODERN ART
Matisse, 1941-1954, Grand Palais, until July 26
Focus on the final creative years of Henri Matisse, revealing his new artistic language based on pure color and simplified forms with the famous gouache cut-outs.
Hilma af Klint, Grand Palais, until August 30
A visionary display of the spiritual abstraction of the painter started in 1906, that predates and redefines the history of modern art.
Alexandre Calder, Fondation Louis Vuitton, until August 16
50 years of creation, from the late 1920s and the first staging of the artist’s Cirque Calder performances, to the monumental sculptures that redefined public art in the 1960s and 1970s.
Henri Rousseau, Musée de l’Orangerie, until 20 July
Exploration of the distinctive naïve style of the “Douanier” that influenced generations of modern artists.
Contemporary art
Clair-Obscur, Bourse Pinault, until August 31
From darkness to light, around twenty modern and contemporary artists reflect issues of the present time - with a spectacular ephemeral fog sculpture by artist Fujiko Nakaya!
Laure Prouvost. We felt a Star Dying, Grand Palais, until July 26
A sensory journey into her immersive worlds where the artist combines video, sculpture, sound, scent, and light - the result of two years of research into quantum physics.
Leandro Erhlich, Grand Palais, until September 6
Mirrors, appearances, shifts in scale, and perspective effects, Leandro Erhlich’s spectacular installations, activated by the viewer’s, explores the mechanisms of perception.
Exposition générale, Fondation Cartier, until August 23
The inaugural exhibition continues, presenting works from 40 years of exhibition and collection of Fondation Cartier.
JR, La caverne du Pont Neuf, Pont Neuf, until June 28
A monumental immersive installation transforming the bridge into a walk-through “cave,” blending illusion, architecture, and digital effects to rethink public space and perception.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Fragile beauty, Jeu de Paume, until September 27
The impressive life’s collection of Sir Elton John and his husband David Furnish - 300 prints running from the 1950’s with Robert Mapplethorpe, Nan Goldin, Irving Penn, Diane Arbus, Ai Weiwei...
Lee Miller, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, until August 2
A powerful retrospective tracing Miller’s journey from fashion muse to fearless war photographer.
If you have more time, you can also visit
Artists’s faces, from Gustave Courbet to Annette Messager, Petit Palais, March 18 - July 19
Near 100 artist’s portraits and self-portraits in paintings, sculptures, graphic arts, decorative arts, and photographs plus dotted amongst the museum’s permanent historical collections, works by some of our favorite women artists like Giulia Andreani, Nina Childress, Camille Henrot, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Françoise Pétrovitch, Apolonia Sokol and Claire Tabouret.
Leonora Carrington, Musée du Luxembourg, until July 19
A surreal journey into the painter’s mystical universe blending dreamlike imagery, feminism, and the occult.
Renoir and Love 1865-1885, Musée d’Orsay, until July 19
Retrospective dedicated to the painter's debuts.