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 2020-2021 cultural season and a preview of the line-up for the upcoming years.

Soulier Maquereau - Christian Louboutin, Exhibition[niste] Palais de la Porte Dorée

Current exhibitions in Paris:

Yuan Jai at Centre Pompidou until 27 April
Louboutin at Palais de la Porte Dorée until 25 July 2020
AI / Brain at Centre Pompidou until 20 April 2020
Aux pays des monstres at musée d'Orsay until 29 June 2020
Helena Rubinstein at Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac until 28 June 2020
Harper's Bazaar, first fashion magazine at Musée des Arts décoratifs until 14 July 2020
Turner at Jacquemart André museum until 20 July 2020
1940: les Parisiens dans l'exode at musée de la Libération - Leclerc - Jean Moulin until 30 August 2020
Voyages around the Mediterranean: Monet, Renoir, Chagall ... at L'Atelier des Lumières until 31 December 2020

Fondation Louis Vuitton, vue panoramique 3, Paris © Iwan Baan Eberle for Fondation Louis Vuitton - 2014

Nekovisit - Musée d'Orsay intérieur, Paris © NEKOVISIT

Upcoming exhibitions in Paris:

Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Paris at Centre Pompidou from 18 March until 15 June 2020
James Tissot at Musée d'Orsay from 24 March until 15 June 2020
Pompéi at Grand Palais from 25 March until 8 June 2020
Louis de Funès at Cinémathèque française from 1 April until 31 July 2020
Comme en 40... at musée de l'Armée from 1 April until 26 July 2020
De Chirico and metaphysical art at musée de l'Orangerie from 1 April until 13 July 2020
Cindy Sherman at Fondation Vuitton from 1 April until 24 August 2020
Esprit, es-tu là? Les peintres et les voix de l'au-delà at musée Maillol from 2 April until 26 July 2020
The musics of Picasso at Philharmonie de Paris from 3 April until 16 August 2020
Koudelka at Bibliothèque nationale de France from 4 April until 4 July 2020
Gabrielle Chanel at musée Galliera from 4 April until 13 September 2020
Man Ray et la mode at Musée du Luxembourg from 8 April until 19 July 2020
Revolutions - Records and rebels 1966 - 1970 at La Villette from 22 April until late August 2020
Luxes at musée des Arts décoratifs from 23 April until 6 September 2020
Victor Hugo. La liberté au Panthéon from 22 April until 31 August 2020
Van Cleef and Arpels at Grande Galerie de l'Évolution in the spring 2020
Black and white photography at Grand Palais in the spring 2020
Altdorfer and his time at the Musée du Louvre from 23 April until 3 August 2020
Sarah Moon at Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris from 24 April until 16 August 2020
Italian sculpture from Donatello to Michelangelo (1460-1520) at the Musée du Louvre from 6 May until 17 August 2020
Matisse in France at Centre Pompidou from 23 May until 31 August 2020
Alice Neel at Centre Pompidou from 10 June until 24 August 2020
Picasso - Rodin at Musée Picasso from September 2020 until March 2021
Botticelli at Jacquemart André museum from 11 September 2020 until 25 January 2021
Wrapping of the Arc de triomphe by Christo from 19 September until 4 October 2020
De Bonnard à Picasso, Ambroise Vollard at Petit Palais from 20 September until 15 January 2021
Taharqa, Pharaoh of two lands at the Musée du Louvre from 15 October 2020 until 31 January 2021
The Ivan Morozov collection (Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Picasso...) at Fondation Louis Vuitton from 13 October until 15 March 2021
Arts in Toulouse in the 14th century at Musée de Cluny in the fall 2021
Vogue Paris 1920 -2020 at Musée Galliera from October 2020 until January 2021
Penone at Bibliothèque nationale de France from 17 October 2020 until 30 January 2021
George Baselitz at Centre Pompidou from 19 October 2020 until 8 January 2021
Thierry Mugler: Couturissime at MAD Musée des Arts Décoratifs from 22 October until 4 April 2021
Tempêtes et naufrages. Turner, Géricault, Isabey at musée de la Vie romantique from 18 November until 28 February 2021

Basquiat and Africa at Centre Pompidou from 3 February until 31 May 2021
Paris-Athens 1800-1900: rediscovery of Greece in the 19th century at the Musée du Louvre in the spring 2021
Women and abstraction at Centre Pompidou from 5 May until 6 September 2021
Gaudí and Art Nouveau at Musée d'Orsay in 2021
Vivian Maeir at musée du Luxembourg from spring 2021
Mode et cinéma at Cinémathèque française from spring 2021
Georgia O'Keefe at Centre Pompidou from 1 August until 6 December 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