Paris Art Week: Our Picks Across the City
Paris Art Week runs October 20 to 26, built around Art Basel Paris, but the city is full of shows worth your time all week. Here is what we would see, the new openings and the big ones already on.
Opening now
Art Basel Paris, Grand Palais
October 23 to 25
The fair’s fifth edition, and the first under new director Karim Crippa. Alongside the galleries, there is a free public program made with the City of Paris, with works placed across landmark sites around town.
Large, Île Seguin
From October 17
A new art centre opens on Île Seguin, on the site of the old Renault factories, in a building by Pritzker winners RCR Arquitectes. The opening show, curated by Cecilia Alemani, sets works from the Renault collection, Vasarely, Dubuffet, Tinguely, next to 17 new commissions by artists like Théo Mercier, Bianca Bondi and Thu Van Tran.
Kurt Schwitters, Musée Picasso
October 6 to February 7
World-Chaos, 1918–1948 is the first Schwitters show in France in over thirty years. More than 300 works show the Dada and Merz artist who built pictures out of tram tickets and everyday scraps, hung here next to Picasso.
Yu Nishimura, Lafayette Anticipations
October 21 to January 3
Towards a Sea is the Japanese painter’s first solo show at a French institution, around fifty works from the last decade. Quiet landscapes with the sea somewhere on the horizon, seen through train windows or half-hidden by trees.
Palais de Tokyo
Through February 14
A full season opens on October 22, led by the group show Toi et ta bande, on artists working out in the countryside and islands. Solo rooms go to Valérie John, Ali Cherri, Sonia Gomes, Paul Kodjo and others.
Ongoing
Kerry James Marshall, Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
Through January 24
The Histories is the American painter’s first show in France, seventy works, eight of them new. Marshall paints Black figures into the grand traditions of Western art history, at the scale those traditions reserved for kings and saints.
Remember Me, Bourse de Commerce
Through January 18
The Pinault Collection marks 200 years of photography with around 700 works, from Le Gray to Cindy Sherman, hung by theme across the building. Barbara Kruger takes the Rotunda.
Histoires de Paysages, Musée Marmottan Monet
Through January 31
From Monet to Hockney (1890–2025), landscape painting across more than a century, built around the centenary of Monet’s death. A big, easy show to love.
Eternal Tintoretto, Musée Jacquemart-André
Through January 24
The Venetian master, from his religious scenes to his portraits, and his influence on French painters from Delacroix to Cézanne. A rare chance to see Tintoretto gathered in Paris.
Animalia, Al Thani Collection, Hôtel de la Marine
Through January 10
More than 130 objects on how cultures across four continents have pictured animals, real and imagined, from 3000 BC to the early twentieth century.
Paris Art Week runs October 20 to 26, 2026.
More info: parisartweek.com
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