Exhibitions not to be missed in Paris this year

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. 

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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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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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). 

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. 

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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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.