Exhibitions not to be missed in Paris this year

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From Suzanne Valadon and Pablo Picasso to Niki de Saint Phalle and David Hockney, some of the world's greatest artists are on show at Paris museums and digital art centers. Discover our selection of must-see exhibitions and immersive experiences in Paris. Ready, set, visit!

What exhibitions are not to be missed in Paris in 2025?

“Suzanne Valadon” at the Centre Pompidou

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Suzanne Valadon, Les Baigneuses, 1923. Oil on canvas, 116.4 x 89 cm. Gift of the Société des Amis du musée, 1957. Nantes, Musée d'arts.
© RMN- Grand Palais / Gérard Blot - Suzanne Valadon, Les Baigneuses, 1923. Oil on canvas, 116.4 x 89 cm. Gift of the Société des Amis du musée, 1957. Nantes, Musée d'arts.

From 15 January to 26 May 2025

Through 200 paintings, the Centre Pompidou pays tribute to Suzanne Valadon, whose work occupies a singular place in the history of art. Modern, audacious and self-taught, Valadon was first and foremost the muse of artists such as Auguste Renoir and Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, but she (quickly) found a passion for drawing and a favorite subject: nude scenes, both male and female, highlighting the fragility of bodies tested by everyday life. Suzanne Valadon was the first woman to paint a large-format frontal male nude. The exhibition also reveals a number of brightly colored paintings influenced by the Pont-Aven School.

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The Centre Pompidou will be closed for renovations from summer 2025. 

“Louvre Couture: objets d'art, objets de mode” at the Musée du Louvre

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Louvre museum, Paris
© Louvre museum / Nicolas Bousser - Louvre museum, Paris

From 24 January to 21 July 2025

This is one of the must-see exhibitions in Paris in 2025. Among the jewels, bronzes, ceramics and tapestries from the Louvre's Objets d'art department, sixty contemporary silhouettes and fashion accessories are displayed. A dialogue between the history of fashion and the history of art, a source of inspiration for great couturiers such as Jacques Doucet to Madame Carven, and an invitation to take a fresh look at the museum's collections.

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“Art in Motion”, third part at the Palais Galliera

Palais Galliera, Avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, Paris, France

Walter Van Beirendonck, PE-AH 2019-2020, collection « WoW ».
© Palais Galliera / Paris Musées - Walter Van Beirendonck, PE-AH 2019-2020, collection « WoW ».

From 8 February to 12 October 2025

The Paris Fashion Museum continues to explore the links between art and sport in 2025. After a focus on seaside bathing in the second part of the exhibition, this third show looks at sporting activities in the mountains, from the creation of the first resorts to the present day. More than 180 works of art offer a glimpse into the history of fashion and the evolution of clothing for skiing, tobogganing and skating! All the inspiration you need before heading off to the mountains...

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“Picasso, art in motion” at the Atelier des Lumières

Atelier des Lumières, Rue Saint-Maur, Paris, France

Pablo Picasso, Mediterranean Landscape, 1952, oil on wood, 81 x 125 cm, Batliner Collection, Albertina Museum, Vienna
© Succession Picasso 2024 / Bridgeman Images - Pablo Picasso, Mediterranean Landscape, 1952, oil on wood, 81 x 125 cm, Batliner Collection, Albertina Museum, Vienna

From 14 February to 29 June 2025

In 2025, Atelier des Lumières presents an immersive exhibition dedicated to Pablo Picasso. From Demoiselles d'Avignon to Guernica, major works by the father of modern art are displayed on the facades of the Paris-based digital art center. It's an opportunity for visitors to rediscover the artist's career, his iconoclastic work and the various techniques, such as etching, paper and glue, folding and ceramics, that revolutionized art in the 20th century.

The second digital creation - “Le douanier Rousseau, au pays des rêves” - projected onto the walls of the Atelier des Lumières is a tribute to the painter Henri Rousseau, a leading figure in French naive art.

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(the immersive exhibition ‘Picasso, Art in Motion’ is on view on Sunday and Monday). 

"The Met au Louvre Near Eastern Antiquities in Dialogue" at the Musée du Louvre

Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

From 29 February to 28 September 2025

For lovers of Oriental antiquities, a dozen major works from the permanent collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) will be on view at the Musée du Louvre in 2025. These exceptional loans offer a dialogue between the two collections.

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“Body and soul” at the Bourse de Commerce

Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection, Rue de Viarmes, Paris, France

Kerry James Marshall, Beauty Examined, 1993 / Acrylic and collage on canvas 214.9 × 252 cm.
© Pinault Collection - Kerry James Marshall, Beauty Examined, 1993 / Acrylic and collage on canvas 214.9 × 252 cm.

From 5 March to 25 August 2025

From Auguste Rodin to Duane Hanson, via Michael Armitage, Miriam Cahn, Philip Guston, Marlene Dumas, Kerry James Marshall, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Mira Schor and Arthur Jafa, the Bourse de Commerce - Collection Pinault explores the place of the body in the thinking of contemporary artists. Several artists evoke the civil rights, feminist and anti-militarist struggles of the 1960s.

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“Art is in the street” at the Musée d'Orsay

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen Poster La Rue 1896 Color lithograph 240 x 300 cm
© Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France - Théophile Alexandre Steinlen Poster La Rue 1896 Color lithograph 240 x 300 cm

From 18 March to 6 July 2025

In spring 2025, the Musée d'Orsay will be staging a brand-new exhibition dedicated to the illustrated posters that were so popular from the end of the 19th century onwards. Through a selection of drawings, objets d'art, photographs and paintings, the exhibition plunges visitors into the emergence of consumer society and mass culture. Ready for a trip to the “Belle Epoque”?

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"Tous Léger ! Avec Niki de Saint Phalle, Yves Klein, Martial Raysse, Keith Haring..." » at the Musée du Luxembourg

Musée du Luxembourg, Rue de Vaugirard, Paris, France

Fernand Léger, Face with hand on red background.
© GrandPalaisRmn / Gérard Blot/ Adagp, Paris, 2024. - Fernand Léger, Face with hand on red background.

From 19 March to 20 July 2025

From Niki de Saint Phalle and Yves Klein to Arman, Raymond Hains, Martial Raysse and César, the major figures in the Nouveau Réalisme movement were greatly influenced by the work of Fernand Léger. Through a selection of 110 works, including some sixty from the Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain de Nice, the exhibition to be shown in 2025 in Paris at the Musée du Luxembourg explores several themes dear to the New Realists, such as the misappropriation of the object, the representation of the body and leisure, the place of art in the public space...

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“Paris noir. Circulations artistiques, luttes anticoloniales 1950-2000” at the Centre Pompidou

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Gerard Sekoto, Self-portrait, 1947 / Oil on board, 45.7 × 35.6 cm/ The Kilbourn Collection.
© Estate of Gerard Sekoto/Adagp, Paris, 2025 / Photo : Jacopo Salvi. - Gerard Sekoto, Self-portrait, 1947 / Oil on board, 45.7 × 35.6 cm/ The Kilbourn Collection.

From 19 March to 30 June 2025

Between abstract paintings, surrealism and free figuration, the “Black Paris” exhibition invites visitors to the Centre Pompidou to take a fresh look at modern and postmodern art through the prism of works by Afro-descendant artists. The tour paints a portrait of a cosmopolitan city with multiple influences, where questions of identity and social and anti-colonial struggles are echoed.

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"David Hockney : a graphic life" à la Fondation Louis Vuitton

Fondation Louis Vuitton, Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, Paris, France

David Hockney « A Bigger Splash » 1967 Acrylic on canvas 242,5 x 243,9 x 3 cm.
© David Hockney Tate - David Hockney « A Bigger Splash » 1967 Acrylic on canvas 242,5 x 243,9 x 3 cm.

From 9 April to 1 September 2025 

British modern artist David Hockney is honored in 2025 at the Fondation Louis Vuitton. Between Californian landscapes, the hills of Yorkshire and the Pays d'Auge in Normandy, where he has been based for the past few years, one of the most eagerly awaited exhibitions of the year in Paris will retrace the artist's career, particularly over the past 25 years. In addition to the paintings and drawings for which David Hockney is renowned, visitors will also discover his digital experiments using a touch-sensitive tablet.

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'Le Petit Prince, immersive odyssey' at the Atelier des Lumières

Atelier des Lumières, Rue Saint-Maur, Paris, France

Atelier des Lumières, Paris.
© Culturespaces / Cyrille De la Motte Rouge / The Little Prince / Succession Antoine de Saint Exupéry. - Atelier des Lumières, Paris.

From 11 April to 6 July 2025

In addition to the exhibition devoted to Picasso, the Atelier des Lumières is offering (from Tuesday to Saturday) an immersive plunge into the world of The Little Prince, one of the most widely translated works of literature in the world. From crossing the desert to exploring imaginary stars and planets, dreamers of all ages are transported out of everyday life, inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's magnificent watercolours projected onto the walls of this former foundry, now a digital art centre.

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What exhibitions are planned in Paris?

‘In the intimacy of a collection. Donation Decharme to the Centre Pompidou’ at the Grand Palais

Grand Palais, Paris, France

Jaime Fernandes Untitled 1960 - 1968 Ballpoint pen on paper 25 x 32,4 cm ART BRUT / donation Bruno Decharme in 2021.
© Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI / Janeth Rodriguez-Garcia / dist. GrandPalaisRmn / All rights reserved. - Jaime Fernandes Untitled 1960 - 1968 Ballpoint pen on paper 25 x 32,4 cm ART BRUT / donation Bruno Decharme in 2021.

From June 11 to September 21 2025

Dive into the astonishing world of art brut this summer in the heart of the Grand Palais, with over 300 rare works brought together by collector Bruno Decharme on loan from the Centre Pompidou. This journey through free and unexpected creations reveals a different history of art. A virtual reality experience, inspired by the artist Henry Darger, also awaits you at the heart of this must-see exhibition in Paris.

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Read more: Reopening of the Grand Palais

‘Wolfgang Tillmans: Nothing prepared us for it. Everything prepared us for it’ at the Centre Pompidou

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Wolfgang Tillmans, Its only love give it away, 2005.
© Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, Maureen Paley, London, David Zwirner, New York. - Wolfgang Tillmans, Its only love give it away, 2005.

From 13 June to 22 September 2025

Prior to its closure for five years of renovation, the Bibliothèque publique d'information at the Centre Pompidou has become Wolfgang Tillmans' playground. Using photographs, sound recordings and artistic installations, the German artist takes a unique look at the fast-changing world of information channels. An artistic experience to be discovered this summer in Paris.

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While the Centre Pompidou is closed, its collections will be on show in a number of Paris museums. Discover the exhibition programme. 

"Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely et Pontus Hultèn" at the Grand Palais

Grand Palais, Paris, France

Niki de Saint Phalle Black Rosy or My Heart Belongs to Rosy, 1965 fabric, wool yarn and paint on wire mesh, 225 × 150 × 85 cm, Niki Charitable Art Foundation, Santee, California.
© 2025 Niki Charitable Art Foundation / Adagp, Paris. - Niki de Saint Phalle Black Rosy or My Heart Belongs to Rosy, 1965 fabric, wool yarn and paint on wire mesh, 225 × 150 × 85 cm, Niki Charitable Art Foundation, Santee, California.

From 6 June 2025 to 4 January 2026

In 2025, the Grand Palais invites visitors to explore the works of one of the most emblematic (and productive) artist duos in the history of art, Niki de Saint Phalle and Jean Tinguely. The tour highlights the central role played by Pontus Hulten, the first director of the Centre Pompidou, in the artistic success of these two disruptive figures, through the purchase of works and the organization of exhibitions.

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Exhibitions not to be missed in France

Claude Monet at the Carrières des Lumières in Baux-de-Provence, Eugène Delacroix and the Orientalists at the Bassins des Lumières in Bordeaux, Paul Cézanne at the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence, discover our selection of must-see exhibitions in France in 2025.

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