Contemporary art exhibitions in Paris

Contemporary art

Foucault, une aventure intellectuelle au Collège de France

Collège de France · 5th

Opens in 4 days

From 30 September 2026 to 15 January 2026, the exhibition “Foucault, une aventure intellectuelle au Collège de France” explores the journey of Michel Foucault (1926-1984) within the institution where he taught from 1970…

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Exposition Paris à l’arraché. Jacques Villeglé et l’art urbain au Musée Carnavalet

Opens in 18 days

On the occasion of the centenary of Jacques Villeglé's birth (27 March 1926, Quimper – 6 June 2022, Paris), the Musée Carnavalet – Histoire de Paris presents the exhibition "Paris à l’arraché. Jacques Villeglé et l’art…

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Eclats d'amour

Musée postal · 15th

Today 10:00 – 18:00

Drawing from the museum's collections, particularly ancient correspondences, Laurent Pernot has conceived an exhibition dedicated to “love in times of war”. By bringing forth fragments of intimate words traversing…

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Louise Bourgeois. Extrême tension

BnF Richelieu – Galerie Mansart - galerie Pigott · 2nd

Opens in 3 weeks

This exhibition dedicated to the graphic work of Louise Bourgeois brings together for the first time the collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Centre Pompidou. It is also the first exhibition…

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Alicia Penalba. La sculpture entre terre et ciel

Musée Zadkine · 6th

Opens in 8 weeks

Three years after the exhibition Chana Orloff. Sculpter l’époque, the Zadkine Museum once again invites visitors to (re)discover the work of an important 20th-century sculptor. Alicia Penalba (1913-1982), an…

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Exposition Le Cube Garges : D’autres voix · langage · code · traduction

Le Cube Garges

On 30 November 2022, the release of GPT-3.5 made visible a turning point that was already underway. In just a few months, artificial intelligences (AI), and conversational agents in particular, became accessible to the…

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Iranica : la voix du peuple iranien en images

FIAP Jean Monnet · 14th

Vanecha Roudbaraki exhibits "Iranica" Acrylic on canvas, 180cm X 450cm, 2026. This work was created between March and April 2026, in connection with the Sun and Lion movement, a symbol of the Iranian people massacred in…

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Salon de l'extra-terrestre : un événement de création contemporaine

Forma, centre d'exposition · 3rd

In this first Salon de l’extra-terrestre, around twenty artists present their works and demystify the extraterrestrial and the illusions it carries.

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exposition collective "Nourritures terrestres"

Coin de ciel · 14th

9 artists gathered around the pleasures of the table and the products of the Earth at the Coin de ciel gallery (Paris 14th arrondissement)

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Memento Floris

Galerie Anthologie · 7th

A sensory exhibition where painting, music, and perfume explore memory and the passage of time through flowers.

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Simulacres aux Magasins Généraux

Magasins Généraux

Les Magasin Généraux present the collective exhibition “Simulacres” from 25 June to 27 September 2026.