Major Parisian exhibitions
Paris’ leading museums show exhibitions, some of which come from many different parts of the world. Here is a selection of highlights for the 2017-2018 cultural season and a preview of the line-up for the upcoming years.
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Current exhibitions in Paris:
- Michael Jackson: on the Wall at Grand Palais until 14 February 2019
- From Palmyra to Mosul at the Institut du monde arabe until 17 February 2019
- The Baron of Campana and his collection at the Musée du Louvre until 18 February 2019
- Persona Grata at MAC/VAL until 24 February 2019
- Southern geometries, from Mexico to Patagonia at Fondation Cartier until 24 February 2019
- Cut-outs by Rodin at Musée Rodin until 24 February 2019
- 'Formes limites' - Ceramics and contemporary sculpture at Beaux-Arts until 24 February 2019
- Magical unicorns at Musée de Cluny until 25 February 2019
- Cubism at the Centre Pompidou until 25 February 2019
- Japan-Japanisms - Inspired objects 1867-2018 at Musée des arts décoratifs until 3 March 2019
- Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921), master of enigma at Petit Palais until 17 March 2019
- Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826), builder of fantasy at Petit Palais until 17 March 2019
- Nara - Treasures of Japanese Buddhism at Musée Guimet until 18 March 2019
- Picasso-Rutault at Musée Picasso until 20 March 2019
- Alberto Giacometti / Peter Lindbergh - Seize the invisible at Institut Giacometti until 24 March 2019
- David Perlov at Musée d'Art et d'histoire du judaïsme until 31 March 2019
- Mircea Cantor - Vânătorul de imagini at Musée de la chasse et de la nature until 31 March 2019
- Forces de la nature - 3 Norwegian artists (Kari Dyrdal, Torbjørn Kvasbø and Marit Tingleff) at Musée national de céramique in Sèvres until 1 April 2019
- Japanese bamboo art at Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac until 7 April 2019
- Leonardo Da Vinci and Italian Renaissance at Beaux-Arts until 19 April 2019
- Doisneau and music at Cité de la musique until 28 April 2019
- Tutto Ponti, Gio Ponti archi-designer at the Musée des Arts décoratifs until 5 May 2019
- Vasarely at Centre Pompidou until 6 May 2019
- Red hair! From Jean-Jacques Henner to Sonia Rykiel at Musée national Jean-Jacques Henner until 20 May 2019
- Sérusier's "The talisman", a prophecy of colour at musée d'Orsay until 2 June 2019
- Luigi Ghirri - 'Cartes et territoires' at the Jeu de Paume until 2 June 2019
- Sebastião Salgado - Declarations at Musée de l'Homme until 30 June 2019
- Poison - 30 living species at Palais de la Découverte until 11 August 2019
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Upcoming exhibitions in Paris:
- Calder - Picasso at Musée Picasso from 19 February until 25 August 2019
- Thester Gates, Angelica Mesiti & Julien Creuzet at Palais de Tokyo from 20 February until 12 May 2019
- Asian Infinities - Photographs by Jean-Baptiste Huynh at Musée Guimet from 20 February until 20 May 2019
- The Courtauld collection, a look at Impressionnism at Fondation Louis Vuitton from 20 February until 17 June 2019
- Passer-by by Atelier E.B at Lafayette Anticipations from 21 February until 28 April 2019
- Van Gogh - The Starry night at L'Atelier des Lumières from 22 February until 31 December 2019
- Eugène Lami, painter and decorator to the Orléans family in the Prints and Drawings Gallery of Chantilly castle from 23 February until 19 May 2019
- Ellsworth Kelly: Windows at Centre Pompidou from 27 February until 27 May 2019
- Franz Marc / August Macke - The Adventure of the blue rider at musée de l'Orangerie from 27 February until 17 June 2019
- Love, Ren Hang at Maison européenne de la Photographie from 6 March until 26 May 2019
- Coco Capitán, busy living at Maison européenne de la Photographie from 6 March until 26 May 2019
- From dream to reality: Eastern world of painters at musée Marmottan-Monet from 7 March until 21 July 2019
- Oceania at Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac from 12 march until 7 July 2019
- Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), painter of intimacy at Musée de la vie romantique from 12 March until 21 July 2019
- Bonnard, Vuillard, Maurice Denis ... Nabis decor at the Musée du Luxembourg from 13 March until 30 June 2019
- Hammershøi, master of Danish painting at Jacquemart André museum from 14 March until 22 July 2019
- Thomas Schütte - Three acts at Monnaie de Paris from 15 March until 16 June 2019
- Thomas Houseago - Almost Human at Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris from 15 March until 14 July 2019
- Revolution generation - French drawings from the Fabre museum, 1770-1815 at Musée Cognacq-Jay from 16 March until 14 July 2019
- Red. Soviet arts at Grand Palais from 20 March until 1 July 2019
- The Bührle collection. Manet, Cézanne, Monet, Van Gogh etc. at Musée Maillol from 20 March until 21 July 2019
- Tutankhamun: treasure of a pharaoh at La Villette from 23 March until 15 September 2019
- Black models: from Gericault to Matisse at Musée d'Orsay from 26 March until 21 July 2019
- The Moon, from reality to imaginary travels at Grand Palais from 3 April until 22 July 2019
- Fellini / Picasso at Cinémathèque française from 3 April until 28 July 2019
- Oceans at Grande Galerie de l'Évolution from 3 April 2019 until 5 January 2020
- Alberto Giacometti / Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler - 'Flora' at Institut Giacometti from 5 April until 9 June 2019
- Picasso and war at Musée de l'Armée from 5 April until 28 July 2019
- Electro dreams - from Kraftwerk to Daft Punk at Philharmonie de Paris from 9 April until 11 August 2019
- The world in spheres at Bibliothèque nationale de France François Mitterrand from 16 April until 21 July 2019
- Théo Mercier - Every stone should cry at Musée de la chasse et de la nature from 30 April until 30 June 2019
- Forgotten empires: heirs to the Hittite Empire at the Musée du Louvre from 2 May until 12 August 2019
- Prehistory - A modern invention at Centre Pompidou from 8 May until 16 September 2019
- Romantic Germany 1780-1850 - Drawings from the Weimar collection at Petit Palais from 22 May until 1 September 2019
- Romantic Paris 1815-1848 at Petit Palais from 22 May until 15 September 2019
- Félix Fénéon (1861-1944) at Musée du Quai Branly - Jacques Chirac from 28 May until 29 September 2019
- Bernard Frize at Centre Pompidou from 29 May until 26 August 2019
- 'The Nude Mona Lisa' at the Jeu de Paume in the Domaine de Chantilly from 1 June until 6 October 2019
- De Gaulle - Eisenhower at Musée de l'Armée from 3 June until 1 October 2019
- Dora Maar at Centre Pompidou from 5 June until 29 July 2019
- Henry Wessel, a dark thread at Maison européenne de la Photographie from 5 June until 1 September 2019
- Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) at Musée d'Orsay from 18 June until 22 September 2019
- Marc Pataut at the Jeu de Paume from 18 June until 22 September 2019
- Sally Mann at the Jeu de Paume from 18 June until 22 September 2019
- Buddha, the golden legend at Musée Guimet from 19 June until 7 OCtober 2019
- Back on fashion at Musée Bourdelle from 1 July until 30 November 2019
- Alberto Giacometti - 'Histoire de Corps' at Institut Giacometti from 11 July until 27 October 2019
- Carte blanche to Hassan Hajjaj at Maison européenne de la Photographie from 11 September until 24 November 2019
- Francis Bacon at Centre Pompidou from 11 September 2019 until 20 January 2020
- Golden age in English painting: Gainsborough, Reynolds, Turner ... at the Musée du Luxembourg from 11 September 2019 until 31 January 2020
- Mondrian. Between figuration and abstraction at musée Marmottan-Monet from 12 September 2019 until 26 January 2020
- Degas at the opera at musée d'Orsay from 24 September 2019 until 19 January 2020
- The Dreamer in the forest at Musée Zadkine from 26 September 2019 until 23 February 2020
- Henri II warrior king at Château de Vincennes from 27 September 2019 until 5 Janvier 2020
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec at Grand Palais from 9 October 2019 until 27 January 2020
- 'Les Canons de l'élégance' at Musée de l'Armée from 10 October 2019 until 26 January 2020
- 'Le Supermarché des images' at the Jeu de Paume from 15 October 2019 until 12 January 2020
- Vincenzo Gemito (1852-1929) at Petit Palais from 15 October 2019 until 26 January 2020
- Marie-Antoinette 'métamorphoses d'une image' at the Conciergerie from 16 October 2019 until 26 January 2020
- Félix Fénéon (1861-1944) at musée de l'Orangerie from 16 October 2019 until 28 January 2020
- Alimentation at Musée de l'Homme from 16 October 2019
- J.R.R. Tolkien at Bibliothèque nationale de France François Mitterrand from 21 October 2019 until 4 February 2020
- Hans Hartung retrospective at Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris from October 2019 until February 2020
- Chosen pieces from the Lafayette Anticipations collection at Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris from October 2019 until February 2020
- Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre from 24 October 2019 until 24 February 2020
- El Greco at Grand Palais from 27 October 2019 until 10 February 2020
- Embroidery in the Middle Ages at Musée de Cluny in the fall 2019
- 23rd Paris Photo Fair at the Grand Palais from 6 until 10 November 2019
- 'La chaussure, la marche, la démarche' shoes exhibition at Musée des arts décoratifs from 7 November 2019 until 23 February 2020
- Boltanski: retrospective at Centre Pompidou from 13 November 2019 until 16 March 2020
- Luca Giordano, triumph of Napolitan baroque at Petit Palais from 14 November 2019 until 23 February 2020
- Joris-Karl Huysmans Art Critic. From Degas to Grünewald at musée d'Orsay from 3 December 2019 until 2 March 2020
- Ursula Schulz-Dornburg at Maison européenne de la Photographie from 4 December 2019 until early 2020
- Pierre Soulages at the Musée du Louvre from 11 December 2019 until 9 March 2020
- Van Cleef and Arpels at Grande Galerie de l'Évolution in the spring 2020
- Koudelka at Bibliothèque nationale de France from 4 April until 4 July 2020
- Italian sculpture from Donatello to Michelangelo (1460-1520) at the Musée du Louvre from May until August 2020
- Revolutions in France from 1966 to 1970 at La Villette in 2020
- The Ivan Morozov collection (Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Picasso...) at Fondation Louis Vuitton in the fall 2020
- Taharqa, Pharaoh of two lands at the Musée du Louvre from 15 October 2020 until 31 January 2021
- Penone at Bibliothèque nationale de France from 17 October 2020 until 30 January 2021
- Arts in Toulouse in the 14th century at Musée de Cluny in the fall 2020
- Paris-Athens 1800-1900: rediscovery of Greece in the 19th century at the Musée du Louvre in the spring 2021
- Gaudí and Art Nouveau at Musée d'Orsay in 2021
- Civilizations and cultures on the Silk Road at the Musée du Louvre from October 2021 until January 2022
- A history of still lifes from the Antiquity at the Musée du Louvre in the spring 2022
- Treasures of the Order of the Holy Spirit at the Musée du Louvre in the fall 2022