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Paris City Guide – Spring ’26

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With springtime knocking at the door, Paris is sparkling with fresh exhibitions and vibrant openings… The perfect moment to kick off the season by exploring the city’s world-class museums and cutting-edge art spaces.

Paris City Guide – Spring ’26

We’ve curated our favourite art stops by arrondissement. Expect museum highlights, warm cafés, festive tables, and elegant spots for a celebratory drink — everything you need for art-filled days!

7TH & 8TH ARR.

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Art Fix Tip: The Hermès Rive Gauche at 17 Rue de Sèvres offers a radically different experience from the Faubourg Saint-Honoré flagship: housed in a former swimming pool, the space is unusually open, light-filled, and notably accessible for an Hermès store.

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Art Fix tip: Make sure to keep an eye on the the Notre-Dame. By the end of 2026, the cathedral’s brand-new stained-glass windows will be unveiled — and trust us, this reveal is worth the wait!

Paris City Guide – Spring ’26

Nan Goldin | Grand Palais

  • Until 21 June ’26
  • 17 avenue du Général Eisenhower
  • grandpalais.fr

This major retrospective presents Nan Goldin as a filmmaker, bringing together her immersive slideshows and video works in an intimate, emotionally charged journey through five decades of life, love, identity and struggle.

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Matisse | Grand Palais

This major exhibition traces the final years of Henri Matisse, bringing together over 300 works to reveal how, late in life, he reinvented his practice through bold cut-outs, vibrant color and a multidisciplinary approach that transformed modern art.

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Photo:Marten Elder, courtesty of the artist and Almine Rech

Artist’s Faces | Petit Palais

This exhibition celebrates the power of portraiture by bringing together striking works that explore how artists capture identity, emotion and presence in faces across time.

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Ellen Gallagher | Gagosian

New, intricately layered paintings by Ellen Gallagher draw on maritime history and mythology to explore shifting ideas of ownership and identity through collage and transformation.

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Loris Cecchini | Galleria Continua

This exhibition presents a new body of work by Art Fix fave Loris Cecchini, transforming the gallery into a fluid, evolving environment where organic forms and sculptural structures continuously shift and adapt, evoking a poetic dialogue between nature, architecture and perception.

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Art Fix tip: Remember our collaboration with Loris? Step inside his world and discover the thinking behind the work in our interview.

Paris City Guide – Spring ’26

©️ Ha Chong-Hyun - Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech.

‘Making the Monochrome’ | Almine Rech

This group exhibition brings together key figures of the Korean Dansaekhwa movement, showcasing their meditative, process-driven paintings to explore how repetition, material experimentation and restrained color result in a distinctly Korean approach to abstraction.

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Bernard Frize | Perrotin

The square-format paintings in Bernard Frize’s new series were created using brushstrokes of three different widths, interwoven into grids through juxtaposition and layering that follow a principle of permutation between brush widths and their associated colors.

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Paul McCarthy | Hauser & Wirth

Step into the world of Sophie Taeuber-Art, a key figure of the 20th-century avant-garde. La règle des courbes reveals how she blurred the boundaries between Dada and geometric abstraction, art and design.

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Park Seo-Bo | White Cube

A sweeping overview of Park Seo-Bo’s iconic Écriture paintings, spanning over five decades, to reveal his meditative, process-driven approach to abstraction and his central role in shaping the Korean Dansaekhwa movement.

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Courtesy of Naomi Lulendo

‘Incompleteness’ | Mariane Ibrahim

This group exhibition brings together a diverse roster of artists to explore the idea of incompleteness as a creative force, presenting works that embrace fragmentation, openness and transformation to challenge fixed meanings and invite new ways of seeing.

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Etel Adnan | Galerie Lelong

This exhibition brings together rarely shown works on paper by Etel Adnan, highlighting her quietly powerful use of color, line and language to create meditative compositions that evoke landscape and inner stillness.

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Photography courtesy of MARC DOMAGE

Maurizio Cattelan | Galeries Lafayette Paris Haussmann

This exhibition transforms Galeries Lafayette into an unexpected artistic playground, where works by artists including Maurizio Cattelan, Gloria Friedmann and Lawrence Weiner are woven into the building’s architecture to explore how art shifts in meaning when it moves beyond the museum and into everyday life.

Paris City Guide – Spring ’26

Drinks: Maison Delano Paris

Maison Delano Paris is home to Delano Café, a vibrant French-Mediterranean festive restaurant and bar nestled in the mansion’s historical courtyard, as well as Delano Bar, a beautiful cocktail bar with a DJ.

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DINNER: Le Grand Café

A beautifully curated experience overlooking the Petit Palais – effortlessly elegant atmosphere, soaring ceilings, soft lighting, classic French décor, and live music in the evenings.

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DINNER: Le Voltaire

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DINNER: Bistrot Paul Chêne

1ST & 2ND ARR.

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Clair-obscur | Bourse de Commerce

The show invites visitors on an evocative journey through light and shadow, transforming the space into a twilight-like landscape of modern and contemporary works that explore how chiaroscuro resonates today.

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Alexandre Lenoir | Musée de l’Orangerie

The show offers four newly-revealed, dreamlike landscape paintings by French painter Alexandre Lenoir — known for reworking personal photographs into meditative, layered images where light, memory and nature emerge through an experimental process that blurs figuration and abstraction.

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Exposition Générale | Fondation Cartier

Designed by architect Jean Nouvel, Fondation Cartier transforms a historic Haussmannian building with dynamic, immersive moving floors. The inaugural exhibition marks a new chapter for the institution, redefining their vision with a program that bridges contemporary art, architecture, science, and society.

Tip: On your way out, stop for the mesmerizing light work by James Turrell.

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DINNER: Chez Georges

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DINNER: Racines

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DRINKS & BITES: Les Oeillets

3RD & 4TH ARR.

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Henry Taylor | Musée Picasso

A major retrospective, presenting Henry Taylor as a leading voice in contemporary painting. It brings together over a hundred works, including vivid portraits and scenes of everyday life, that offer a powerful, personal vision of Black America.

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Jitish Kallat | Templon Gallery

  • Until 7 May ’26
  • 28 rue du Grenier Saint-Lazare
  • templon.com

These works by the Indian artist Jitish Kallat explore our relationship to the universe, weaving together material and cosmic references in a contemplative journey from earthly matter to celestial imagination.

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Kishio Suga | Mendes Wood DM

Kishio Suga is a key figure of the Mono-ha movement – this exhibition presents installations and works on paper that use raw materials to activate space and reveal the subtle relationships between objects, environment and viewer.

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Rose Wylie | David Zwirner

This exhibition presents new and recent works by Rose Wylie, whose bold, seemingly naïve yet sharply observant paintings blend personal references and pop culture into witty, large-scale compositions that playfully question how images are made and understood.

Paris City Guide – Spring ’26

Mamma Andersson | David Zwirner

This exhibition focuses on Mamma Andersson’s works on paper, presenting new etchings and recent drawings that transform photographic, theatrical and Nordic landscape references into atmospheric, enigmatic scenes where memory and imagination quietly intertwine.

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Ettore Spalletti & Dan Graham | Mariane Goodman

The work of Ettore Spalletti and Dan Graham explores the interplay between space, perception and material through Spalletti’s meditative, color-infused forms and Graham’s conceptual, architectural approach to viewing and experience.

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Arcangelo Sassolino | Galleria Continua

Jorge Macchi presents a poetic body of work that subtly disrupts everyday perception through chance, time, and quiet conceptual gestures.

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Adrian Ghenie | Thaddaeus Ropac

  • 18 Apr – 30 May ’26
  • 7 rue Debelleyme
  • ropac.net

Richly textured, layered paintings by Adrian Ghenie draw on contemporary culture to reflect on memory, identity and the shifting image in today’s world.

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Danielle Orchard | Perrotin

Danielle Orchard reworks modernist and classical traditions through intimate scenes of the female figure.

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Art Fix tip: Don’t miss Perrotin’s freshly opened shop on Rue de Turenne, a sleek standout for limited editions, art books, and finely curated objects by the gallery’s artists.

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LUNCH: Recoin

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DINNER: Shana

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DINNER: Arcance 17

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DRINKS & BITES: Clown Bar

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Merci

Merci is at its best this time of year. Pick up a gift for someone you love, and earn yourself a heartfelt merci.

5TH & 6TH ARR.

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Magdalena Abakanowicz | Musée Bourdelle

In ‘The Fabric of Existence’, Polish textile artist Magdalena Abakanowicz weaves together a story of feminine resistance, geopolitical history, and humanity – revealing seventy works.

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LUNCH: Casa Bini

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Le Petit Lutetia

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LUNCH: Crying Tiger

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DINNER: Le Cherche Midi

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DINNER: Localino

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DRINKS & BITES: L’avant comptoir du marché

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DRINKS & BITES: La Palette

16TH ARR.

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Alexander Calder | Fondation Louis Vuitton

This major retrospective celebrates Alexander Calder, bringing together nearly 300 works across five decades to trace his revolutionary approach to movement and abstraction, transforming the exhibition into a dynamic choreography of floating forms, light and space.

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Courtesy of the Lee Miller Archives

Lee Miller | Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris

  • 10 Apr – 2 Aug ’26
  • 11 avenue du Président Wilson
  • mam.paris.fr

This major retrospective traces Lee Miller’s extraordinary journey from model and surrealist collaborator to pioneering war photographer, bringing together around 250 works to reveal a bold, multifaceted vision that moves between fashion, experimentation and the raw realities of history.

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LUNCH: Le Paris Seize

Paris City Guide – Spring ’26

DRINKS & BITES: Delicatessen Place

17TH ARR.

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Step into Daniel Buren’s chromatic rhythm, where stripes breathe through architecture and 30 Rue des Acacias becomes a living canvas of light, color, and perception.

PARIS OUTSKIRTS

Paris City Guide – Spring ’26

Anselm Kiefer | Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Pantin

  • 25 Apr – 25 Oct ’26
  • 69 avenue du Général Leclerc
  • ropac.net

New monumental works by Anselm Kiefer that draw on mythology, history and memory, transforming the gallery from wall to wall.

Paris City Guide – Spring ’26

Walter de Maria | Gagosian Le Bourget

  • Until 18 April ’26
  • 26 avenue de l’Europe, Le Bourget
  • gagosian.com

Dive into the charged calm of Walter De Maria’s The Singular Experience  – where pickup trucks become metaphysical icons and stainless-steel rods whisper tectonic rhythms in a space thrillingly and quietly vast.

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