PARIS/NEXT UP
AUG 2026—AUG 2027Last updated
A living cultural field guide

One year.
One very busy city.

Confirmed exhibitions, live music and convention-center events across Paris. Save what catches your eye; your choices sync online.

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Art01
Sep 7, 2026 — Sep 20, 2026

1913–1923 — L’esprit du temps

Musée du quai Branly — Jacques Chirac · 7th

A decade of Parisian encounters with African and Oceanic art is reconsidered through objects, artists and changing ideas of modernity.

African & Oceanic art
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Art02
Sep 7, 2026 — Dec 31, 2026

Affinités — Arts de l’Islam aux Objets d’art

Musée du Louvre · 1st

A collection dialogue uncovers connections between Islamic art and the Louvre’s decorative-arts holdings.

Islamic & decorative arts
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Art03
Sep 7, 2026 — Feb 21, 2027

Echoes of the Tides — Yo-E Ryou

Musée du quai Branly — Jacques Chirac · 7th

A meditative sound work shaped by breath, waiting, tides and relationships between human and non-human life.

Sound installation
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Special event04
Sep 7, 2026 — Oct 10, 2026

Formula Bula 2026

Multiple Paris venues, with the main festival at Césure · Citywide

Paris’s independent comics festival presents exhibitions, talks, workshops and a three-day central program at Césure.

Citywide comics festivalMostly free
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Art05
Sep 7, 2026 — Sep 14, 2026

Fujiko Nakaya — Cloud #07156

Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection · 1st

A new fog sculpture transforms the Rotunda into an ephemeral landscape of shifting visibility.

Installation
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Art06
Sep 7, 2026 — Jan 27, 2027

Guillermo Kuitca — Chapelle

Musée national Picasso-Paris · 3rd

Kuitca’s site-specific intervention occupies the museum’s chapel in dialogue with memory and architecture.

Contemporary art
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Art07
Sep 7, 2026 — Feb 7, 2027

Kurt Schwitters — Le chaos-monde, 1918–1948

Musée national Picasso-Paris · 3rd

Collage, assemblage and poetry chart Schwitters’s response to a world fractured by war and exile.

Dada & modern art
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Art08
Sep 7, 2026 — Mar 15, 2027

L’Eau primordiale — Leçons de Mésopotamie

Musée du Louvre · 1st

Ancient Mesopotamian objects reveal water’s role in cosmology, society and the emergence of cities.

Ancient art
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Art09
Sep 7, 2026 — Jan 27, 2027

La Collection — Revoir Picasso

Musée national Picasso-Paris · 3rd

A long-form rehang that revisits Picasso’s work through the museum’s singular collection.

Modern art
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Art10
Sep 7, 2026 — Sep 21, 2026

Laura Lamiel

Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection · 1st

Installations in the Passage and Machine Room make light, color and found objects into a precise poetic environment.

Installation
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Art11
Sep 7, 2026 — Jan 11, 2027

Michel Lacoste’s Donation

Musée du Louvre · 1st

A focused display marking an important new donation to the national collection.

Collection spotlight
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Art12
Sep 7, 2026 — Jan 3, 2027

Patrimoines en résistance — De Tombouctou à Odessa

Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine · 16th

An urgent look at cultural heritage threatened by conflict, and the people working to protect it.

Architecture & heritage
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Art13
Sep 7, 2026 — Nov 8, 2026

Plumes du paradis

Musée du quai Branly — Jacques Chirac · 7th

Bird-of-paradise feathers travel from New Guinea forests into art, collecting, fashion and European imagination.

Natural history & visual culture
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Art14
Sep 7, 2026 — Sep 20, 2026

Révéler le féminin

Musée Cognacq-Jay · 3rd

An exhibition reconsidering representations and creative agency of women in the eighteenth century.

18th-century art
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Art15
Sep 7, 2026 — Dec 20, 2026

Robert Capa — Photographe de guerre

Musée de la Libération de Paris · 14th

A focused survey of Capa’s wartime photography and its lasting visual and historical force.

Photography
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Art16
Sep 7, 2026 — Oct 11, 2026

The Mbari Club — A Transnational Creative Space in Nigeria

Musée du quai Branly — Jacques Chirac · 7th

Works, books, magazines and archives retrace the influential Nigerian artists’ and writers’ network founded in the early 1960s.

Modern African art
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Art17
Sep 7, 2026 — Oct 18, 2026

Tisser, broder, sublimer

Palais Galliera · 16th

Textile, embroidery, lace, dyeing and ornament reveal the exceptional craft behind Paris fashion.

Fashion & decorative arts
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Art18
Sep 7, 2026 — Jan 27, 2027

Transparence

Palais des enfants — Grand Palais · 8th

An interactive exhibition for children and families devoted to transparency, perception and material.

Family exhibition
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A NOTE ON THE LIST

This guide prioritizes art and confirmed programming at major Paris institutions and venues. Listings are checked weekly; dates, availability and admission can change, so the official source is always the final word.

Last verified Sep 7, 2026 · Europe/Paris