Event: Paris Design Week
Design professionnels and fans always launch the rentrée in Paris. During Maison & Objet fair at Parc des Expositions - Villepinte, Paris Design week offers thousands of pop up showrooms and installations promoting young designers and brands, in 4 main areas in Paris: Marais-Bastille-République, Place des Victoires-Pigalle, Opéra-Concorde, Rive gauche.
Paris Design Week site, September 4-13
Art fair: FAB Paris
After Frieze Seoul (Sept. 3-6), the Armory Show (Sept. 5–7) at New York’s Javits Center, Vienna Contemporary (Sept. 11–14) and before Frieze London (October 15-19), FAB Paris is launching the fair season in France. Expect around a hundred of galleries, covering everything from antiquities to modern and jewellery under the glass ceiling of Grand Palais (previously known as Biennale des Antiquaires).
FAB Paris site, September 20 to 24, Grand Palais
Photo: A drawing by Degas proposed by Thomas Gibson Fine Art at FAB Paris
Art galleries exhibitions: an incredible line-up!
After the traditional summer break, art galleries will open their new shows, starting on Saturday 30 and almost every night between September 3 and 6 and a few more on September 10 to 13.
Tursic & Mille, Lavis en rose, Heztler gallery, Paris
We wait particularly for:
Hicham Berrada at Mennour
Theo Mercier at Mor Charpentier
Suzan Frecon at Zwirner
Michel Blazy at Art : concept
Nina Chanel Abney at Perrotin
Yan Pei Ming at Ropac
Franz Erhard Walter at Jocelyn Wolff new space
Tursic & Mille at Hetzler
Shuo Hao at Derouillon
Tom Dixon at RX
Marion Baruch & Juliette Minchin at AS Benichou
Laurent Proux at Semiose
Ronan Bouroullec at Kréo
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Museums and art centers exhibitions in September
It’s time to see a few great shows coming to their end, like the deep survey of IA evolution and impact in our lives at Jeu de Paume - or the unprecedented installation of photographer Wolfgang Tillmans at Centre Pompidou.
Mathilde Denize at Frac IdF - le Plateau
A few new exhibitions are starting but nothing compared to the giant wave of openings coming soon, mid-October, when international art lovers and collectors will travel to Paris for the contemporary art week.
Last piece of advice: if you want to see 20 years of the creative activity of Virgil Abloh at Grand Palais, book your tickets now! They will go fast and the show last only 10 days…
Modern and Contemporary art
The world through IA, Jeu de Paume, until September 21
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
Mathilde Denize, FRAC Île-de-France – Le Plateau, Sept. 13 - February 1st 2026
Beauvoir, Sartre, Giacometti, Institut Giacometti, until October 12
Sargent - The Paris years (1874-1884), Musée d’Orsay, Sept. 23 - January 11 2026
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Wolfgang Tillmans, Nothing could have prepared us – Everything could have prepared us, Centre Pompidou, until September 22
Richard Avedon — In the American West, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, until October 12
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
Virgil Abloh: The Codes, Grand Palais, Sept. 30 - 10 octobre
Get ready for Paris Art Week - October 20 - 25
The crucial week for contemporary art in Paris will be October 20-26. We’ll publish soon our annual Art fair decoder. If you already want to book a visit with us, let us know!