Latest Events in Paris(July Updated)

Guillaume Bottazzi a réalisé un tableau fruité en face du parc Montsouris. Il est visible de l’extérieur, au 34-36 avenue Reille, à Paris dans le 14ème arrondissement. Ce tableau apporte l’art ou on ne l’attend pas forcément et accompagne le quotidien des habitants.Cette huile sur toile de lin mesure 0,90m de haut par 1,80m de large. Elle a été conçue pour habiller l’entrée d’un bâtiment et dialogue avec les éléments qui l’entourent. L’artiste a déjà créé plus de 65 œuvres dans des espaces publics, comme un polyptique de 100m² à Paris La Défense, à Hong-Kong ou au Japon où il est l'auteur de la plus grande peinture du Pays, commandée par le Musée International d'Art Miyanomori. Ses œuvres font partie de collections muséales, notamment en Asie et aux Etats-Unis. Site internet de Guillaume Bottazzi : https://www.guillaume.bottazzi.org

“Chaosmos” is an invitation to 12 artists to tell us about the cosmos and invent new ways of inhabiting the Earth. Welcome to Chaosmos, a world that deconstructs, in order to better reconstruct, in time and space, the place in the universe that we attribute to ourselves and the way in which we inhabit the world, the traces that we leave there, the links that we establish there. From this precariously balanced zone emerge the works of twelve contemporary artists, from several countries around the world: South Africa, Belgium, Canada, Spain, France, Guyana, Japan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia. They evoke the relationship between our conception of the cosmos and our attitude towards the preservation of life on Earth.

Thanks to the cooperation of many important institutions, the exhibition "Tous Léger!" is on display at the Luxembourg Museum. The exhibition is curated based on the museum's existing collection, and the works of modern art pioneer Fernand Léger (1881-1955) are in dialogue with the works of European and American avant-garde artists from the 1960s to the present. The title of the exhibition has multiple meanings: on the one hand, it directly refers to Fernand Léger's name Léger, emphasizing his central position in the exhibition, while also implying the approachability and integration of art advocated by Léger and his new realism movement into daily life, suggesting a "light (Léger)" and unpretentious attitude.

FOR HER SOLO EXHIBITION AT THE FONDATION AS PART OF THE OPEN SPACE PROGRAMME, TABITA REZAIRE PRESENTS THE FILM "DES/ASTRES" (2024), THE LAST PART OF A TRILOGY DEVOTED TO THE TIES THAT HUMANITY FORGES WITH THE COSMOS.

From 9 April to 31 August 2025, the Musée Marmottan Monet presents the exhibition ‘Eugène Boudin, the father of Impressionism : a private collection’. Collector Yann Guyonwarc’h has assembled a collection of works by Eugène Boudin (1824 – 1898) that is unrivalled in any museum in the world. Every facet of the artist’s career is represented, from his first paintings in Le Havre to his final trip to Venice; from private sketches to paintings for the Salon (including one of the two largest beach scenes ever painted by Boudin). The works in this prestigious collection are matched with the holdings of the Musée Marmottan Monet, to highlight the dialogue between Boudin and his main pupil, Claude Monet. Thanks to the participation of the Durand-Ruel archives, the relationship between the two artists and their main dealer is also explored.

Since 2019, the museum has invited a contemporary artist to come and dialogue with its collection. For the ninth edition of these “Unexpected Dialogues.”, it has chosen to invite Françoise Pétrovitch. A major artist on the French and international art scene. In this “Unexpected Dialogue”, presented from April 9 to September 14, 2025, she has chosen another woman artist, Berthe Morisot, with whom she shares the themes of portraiture, childhood, adolescence and intimacy. Here, the parallel between Morisot’s Roses trémières and Pétrovitch’s Soleils highlights another bridge between the two painters: the very embodied, interior relationship with nature.

A retrospective, the exhibition retraces the artistic journey of the founder of lyrical abstraction, Georges Mathieu (1921-2012), in eight chronological and thematic sections. As early as 1947, seeking to capture the creative moment, Mathieu rejected geometric art forms in favor of spontaneous, gestural painting, marked by speed of execution and raw emotion. This quest for freedom sometimes led him to create his large abstract compositions in public. Deeply curious, Mathieu also devoted his energy and style to the applied arts: tableware for the Manufacture de Sèvre, posters for Air France, and a series of medals for the Monnaie de Paris – including the iconic 10-franc coin minted in 1974. The exhibition presents Mathieu's large-scale works, held by the Musée National d'Art Moderne, and medals minted in the Mint's workshops, alongside emblematic paintings and decorative works from public and private collections.

The exhibition The World Through AI presents a selection of works created between 2016 and today, many of them previously unseen, which raise the question of how we experience the world “according to AI” or “through the prism of AI”. Specially designed for the Jeu de Paume, the exhibition reflects the fundamental distinction between “analytical AI” (which includes computer vision and facial recognition systems) and “generative AI”. Time capsules, designed as cabinets of curiosities, link the present to the past, placing current transformations in a historical perspective.

While Khmer art is known around the world for its stone monuments, recent excavations have provided dramatic breakthroughs regarding our knowledge about its significant bronze statues.

Iván Navarro invests TEMPLON’s space with Cyclops, a luminous odyssey between myth, cosmos and power. As his ambitious project for the Grand Paris Express, which has been in development for nearly a decade, is set to be unveiled in 2026, Chilean artist Iván Navarro, renowned for his light works, makes his first show in the space on Rue du Grenier-Saint-Lazare. For the Cyclops exhibition, he is displaying a series of 14 electric sculptures, which transform the space through hypnotic optical effects. Oscillating between celestial phenomena and reflections on power relations, Navarro offers an intense sensory and symbolic immersion.

A pioneer of the Light and Space movement of Southern California, Robert Irwin’s deeply philosophical work encourages the viewer to attune their sensations to the world around them. Conditional Art, as he called it, is radically responsive and integral to its environment, to the point of atomising the art object. His innovations, over seven decades, have been hugely influential, and Irwin is perhaps best known for installations that delicately choreograph the light and dimensions of space through the most sparing, exacting and inconspicuous of means. ‘The subject of art’, he said, ‘is the human potential for an aesthetic awareness (perspective).’

Esther Schipper Gallery presented Martin Boyce's solo exhibition "Unhome" in its Paris space on May 23. This is the artist's second solo exhibition at Sprüth Magers Gallery and his first exhibition in the gallery's Paris space. The exhibition is part of a dual exhibition project during Paris Gallery Weekend, with the artist's other exhibition "Walk with Me" held at Galerie Natalie Seroussi.

Schipper Gallery is pleased to announce Martin Boyce’s exhibition “Walk with Me” at Galerie Natalie Seroussi. The exhibition will be held concurrently with the artist’s solo exhibition “Unhome” at Schipper Gallery. The title “Walk with Me” is taken from David Lynch’s 1992 film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, an iconic film known for its mysterious atmosphere and refusal to be interpreted in a single way. Like Lynch’s work, Martin Boyce’s work incorporates ambiguity and uncertainty, inviting the viewer into a dramatic, disorienting, and emotionally dense dialogue. This also echoes the creative attitude of the Surrealist artists, many of whom are carefully selected by Boyce from the Natalie Seroussi Gallery collection to be presented together with his works.

A laureate of the 2024 Villa Kujoyama residency, Ulla von Brandenburg spent five months in Japan, where she deepened her understanding of Japanese culture and explored traditional textile techniques. As an extension of her research on shadows, the artist invites us to rethink how we inhabit thresholds. The works produced during her residency transform the gallery into a site for experiencing grey zones— liminal, ambiguous, and porous spaces.

Galerie Peter Kilchmann Zurich presents the second solo exhibition with new works by Swiss painter Valentin Rilliet (b.1996, Geneva, Switzerland, where he lives and works). The artist was previously featured in the group show Three New Positions, featuring emerging artists in 2023, and his first solo exhibition Mountain Stories, in the following year, 2024. The Dream Synopsis is the artist’s first exhibition in Paris.

The artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot takes over the Rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce with her multi-sensory installation entitled "clinamen", presented in a format of unprecedented scale, in resonance with the architecture of the place.

The Marie-Laure de Decker exhibition is the first major retrospective devoted to this major figure in photojournalism. By rehabilitating her work, the MEP is paying tribute to her by highlighting her vision and approach, which are capable of bringing together history and intimacy, and which have a particular resonance today.

Imi Knoebel's resolutely abstract art investigates the fundamentals of painting and sculpture through an exploration of form, colour and material. His aim is to uncover the basic material elements of art, which he locates in the simple interactions between humans and the essential conditions of our world. He remains true to the tradition of non-representational art, following in the footsteps of artists such as Kazimir Malevich or Piet Mondrian. The artist cites his discovery of Malevich's Black Square (1915) as a watershed moment that liberated his conception of painting, giving him 'the overwhelming feeling that I could start at nothing'. He has developed an experimental approach and serial way of working, characterised by a haptic use of colour, geometric vocabulary of forms and material simplicity.

The Studio presents, in partnership with the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), the latest photographic project by artist Ilanit Illouz, created on the slopes of Mount Etna, the still-active volcano in Italy. This exhibition marks the beginning of a new partnership between Le Studio and the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP), launched in 2025 to support and promote contemporary creation.

Gagosian presents an exhibition of four photographs by Andreas Gursky—two new, one recent, and one from the beginning of his career in 1980.Gursky’s photographs evoke the global flow of information, the chaos of contemporary life competing with the classical desire for order. He portrays the visual extremes of the present with objectivity, capturing built and natural environments on a grand scale in richly detailed images comparable to early nineteenth-century landscape paintings. Many have been digitally manipulated, and reveal a sensitivity to the damaging effects of human systems on the natural world.

Perrotin Paris presents the gallery’s fifth solo exhibition with artist Matthew Ronay, Thirteen Forms. The presentation brings together ten sculptures and three wall reliefs that continue Ronay’s exploration of the subconscious through his ability to transform the intangible into tactile experience. Ronay’s sculptural works evoke a phantom familiarity, as if plucked from the shadowy recesses of a fevered dream. Erotic undertones and a perverse alchemy of form pulse through Ronay’s objects, which are characterized by subversive humor. Central to the exhibition are two monumental horizontal installations, a polychrome work (The Tombs Are Upset, 2023) and, for the first time, a black monochrome (Contraband Emulator, 2024). Each appears as a kind of cursive script of forms, an approach first employed in Ronay’s 2022 exhibition at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas.

At the invitation of Perrotin Paris, Barbara Newman curated a group exhibition showcasing the work of thirteen artists. Portals to Unwritten Time is inspired by painter Hilma af Klint’s belief that art can serve as a threshold through which we move across time.

Mitterrand presents a new exhibition of works by Franco-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle in both its Paris galleries.Entitled Mythology, this exhibition brings together works from the 1960s to 2000 and explores the artist’s iconography and the symbols that underlie it. The Nanas remain Niki de Saint Phalle’s emblem, but many other figures populate her work. Whether animals, monsters or hybrids, her figures often derive from mythology and tend towards a double meaning.

In this summer exhibition, nature is honored and displayed simultaneously in the gallery's two spaces, located at 6 and 12 rue Jacques-Callot, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.A gogotte, born from the union of magic and time, dating back approximately 30 million years, sits alongside 21st-century creations. The exhibition creates a dialogue between natural beauty and that shaped by human hands—such as a stone carved between 15,000 and 10,000 years BCE in North Africa, or a mermaid carved in wood nearly a century ago—with a more conceptual beauty, conceived by contemporary artists.

The gallery is pleased to open its doors with a group show of artists from its roster. This new Paris location will hold several exhibitions that will reflect the great diversity of Perrotin’s artistic program.GROUP SHOW: Jean-Marie APPRIOU, Daniel ARSHAM, Anna-Eva BERGMAN, Maurizio CATTELAN, Lynn CHADWICK, Julian CHARRIÈRE, Johan CRETEN, Wim DELVOYE, Jens FÄNGE, Bernard FRIZE, Laurent GRASSO, Hans HARTUNG, Gregor HILDEBRANDT, Klara KRISTALOVA, Georges MATHIEU, Jean-Michel OTHONIEL, Paola PIVI, Jesús Rafael SOTO, Kathia ST. HILAIRE, Xavier VEILHAN, Bernar VENET, Xiyao WANG, LEE Bae

Retracing the early years of Nedko Solakov’s career and presenting for the first time in France a historical body of his work, the exhibition offers a critical lens on the cultural tensions and transformations that shaped Bulgarian and Eastern European society between 1980 and 1990. In a historical moment on the verge of monumental change - marked by the Perestroika reform movement beginning in 1985, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the eventual decline of the USSR - Solakov entered a pivotal decade of artistic production. His work during this period captures the transition from communism to capitalism, while also anticipating the uncertain realities that followed the collapse of the socialist regime.

This summer, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto transformed the nave of the Grand Palais in Paris into an immersive sensory space for a large-scale installation titled Nosso Barco Tambor Terra (Our Boat Drum Earth). Made from crochet, bark and spices, the work invites contemplation and sharing. Designed to be walked through and inhabited, this multi-sensory environment celebrates a fundamental relationship with nature and explores the continuity between ourselves and the Earth through handmade, organic materials and ancestral techniques. The work is inspired by the profound impact that sailing and seafaring have had on the world, transforming the relationship between people and the land.

On the occasion of the Grand Palais d'été and after the extraordinary success of the Pop Air exhibition in 2022, the Euphoria exhibition designed by the Balloon Museum teams and curator Valentino Catricala is coming to the Grand Palais.

In her first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth’s Paris gallery, Rita Ackermann presents a new series of paintings and large, related works on paper that take up the theme of the double. In the works on view, Ackermann does not just evoke the presence of a dual entity but unveils its structure. Innovative in their unexpected combinations of materials and defined by a sharp conceptual tension, these works draw inspiration from two giants of French culture—Jean-Luc Godard and Paul Virilio. The results are as unsettling as they are exacting.

The Palais de Tokyo and the CAPC Musée d’art contemporain in Bordeaux join forces to unveil and present the cryptic work of RAMMELLZEE, an iconic artist from the 1980s American underground scene. The first large-scale European event, this deliberately enigmatic exploration is conceived in two acts, like the sides of an audio cassette or a vinyl record. Side A, at the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), from February 21 to May 11, then from June 12 to September 7 2025. Side B at the CAPC (Bordeaux), from 12 March to 20 September 2026.