Le Best of/de Paris - March 2026 Edition
This selection is drawn from more than 30 exhibitions visited across Paris this month.
List below.
The exhibition unfolds within an instability: a present longing for the future. Now is not a moment that exists as such, it is instead a process, a transformation, a liquid environment where we physically move through time-space and constantly become. The works seem to be driven by a form of urgency, almost a thirst. Liquid is everywhere, materially or metaphorically. Photographic silver prints emerge through chemical baths. Tin must be heated to become malleable in Daniel Cheruzel’s mouth jewel. In (LA)HORDE / Mouth Fist (2025), bodies merge through saliva and movement, fingers entering mouths in a choreography that is both intimate and disquieting.
And more.
Ariana Papademetropoulos’s Glass Slipper at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris Marais invites us into a contemporary surrealist experience. An aquarium placed in the center of the space, calling the viewer to see the world through the eyes of fish, but also, a clam like telephone booth upstairs letting you phone ring our to the see. The dreamy mermaid landscape bubble is bordered nonetheless but a series of burning microwaves, heating up the atmosphere.
Leonora Carrington
Musée du Luxembourg
18.01.2026 → 19.07.2026
The surrealist topic continues with the outstanding oeuvre of Leonora Carrington shown at the Musée du Luxembourg. If a surrealist artist deserves a pedestal, it is her, higher than Dali, Breton and Magritte. The exhibition claims to present Carrington as a “Vitruvian Woman”, and it is successful at that, to say the least. Carrington is the embodiement of a life of work, of continuous discovery and transformation.
Video is both an established and an underrated format in the art world. It is difficult to show to viewers who are unwilling to devote time and attention, and therefore difficult to sell. Few galleries dedicate their entire space to moving images. I do not know whether this context influenced my perception, or was it because of the strength of the works themselves, but I found this show full of magic. The programme is curated by François Bonenfant, and his selection is impeccable, the films connected by a shared fascination with childhood imagination and myth-making.
Group show
Clair-Obscur
Bourse du Commerce
→ 24.08.2026
As always, the Pinault Collection brings out a group of outstanding solo presentations within the overall theme of the season: Clair-obscur / the light and dark. Victor Man’s paintings fascinate in their greenish hue, as if painted in a post-apocalyptic space, and Laura Lamiel occupies the vitrines on the ground flour with installations touching our senses, albeit through the glass : the touch, the sight, the smell.
Jesse Zuo & Tess Mallavergne
Youth Will Always Win
Long Story Short
14.03.2026 → 11.04.2026
[…] Entering the Long Story Short gallery in Paris feels almost like stepping into a tunnel. Fairly small-format paintings hang on both sides at eye level. You’re absorbed inside, guided by the characters. The paintings are figurative, showing details of body parts: hands, backs, knees, faces. At some point, a subtle feeling of confusion creeps in. There is a lack of consistency in subject choice, palette, technique. Like a glitch in a digital rendering. Except this is still, thankfully, the real world. This is when it dawns on you that these might be different artists—and they are. Jesse Zuo’s works occupy one wall, Tess Mallavergne’s the opposite. The paintings mirror one another across the room. […]
Also seen this month:
All Parts Of Us, Drawing Lab
Pharmakon, Galerie Chantal Crousel
Nina Mae, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
µm, Backslash
Roxane Gouguenheim, By Lara Sedbon
Moffat Takadiwa, Sémiose
Paul Gondry, Sémiose
Stefan Rinck, Sémiose
Françoise Pétrovitch, Sémiose
Guillaume Pinard, Anne Barrault
Tornike Robakidze, Lo Brutto Stahl
Cédrix Crespel, Rabouan Moussion
Pablo Reinoso, Xippas
Dessins Sans Limites, Centre Pompidou au Grand Palais
Ersatz, Les Jardiniers
“1+1=3 : une exposition où l'art se fait dialogue”, Loevenbruck
Tout en Jambes, Vallois
Leandro Katz, Galerie du Crous
Elsa & Johanna, La Forest Divonne
Da capo sine fine, Wolff Abraham
Özlem Altin, The Pill
Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Mor Charpentier
Yoon Hyup, Ruttkowski;68
Visages d’artistes, Petit Palais
Le Best of/de Paris - February 2026 Edition
This selection is drawn from more than 30 exhibitions visited across Paris this month.
List below.
Florence Jung
Galerie Allen
31.01.26 → Closing date to be advised.
Since 2011, Florence Jung creates scenarios. In the absence of images, these script-based situations circulate through the personal, evolving, and sometimes contradictory narratives of viewers and witnesses. Yet none of this is !ctional; each scenario is real.
Susana Pilar
Not Alone
Galleria Continua
16.01.2026 → 10.03.2026
Not Alone explores issues related to gender, race, and family heritage - recurring themes in the artist’s practice. The thirteen works on view, including seven new pieces created specifically for the exhibition, are presented in the form of a performance, videos, paintings, drawings, photographies, and installations.
Melanie Smith
An Age of Liberty When the
World Had Been Possible
Galerie Peter Kilchmann
10.01.2026 → 07.03.2026
A multidisciplinary artist whose exhibitions consistently explore drawing, painting, performative film, and installation, Smith enjoys drawing from the vast fields of painting and art history, intertwining them with moving images.
Victoire Inchauspé’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Jousse Entreprise is entitled Armoires vides (Empty Wardrobes). The title implicitly evokes a sequence of gestures and actions: it presupposes a wardrobe that was once full and has since been emptied of its contents. But what compels one, one morning, to empty it? What urgencies, necessities or obligations prompt such a gesture?
Group show
A hundred years of chess
Galerie Perrotin
31.01.2026 → 28.02.2026
Based on an original idea by R.Jonathan Lambert, the gallery is pleased to present A Hundred Years of Chess an exhibition showcasing the influence of chess on contemporary art.
Giangiacomo Rossetti
Résurrectine
Mendes Wood DM
24.01.2026 → 14.03.2026
In Résurrectine, Giangiacomo Rossetti creates an atmosphere of self-enclosed, mausoleum-like entombment.
Group show
Le syndrome de Bonnard
Frac IDF
14.02.2026 → 19.07.2026
Le Syndrome de Bonnard (Bonnard Syndrome), exhibited at Le Plateau in Paris and Les Réserves in Romainville from 14th February to 19th July 2026, will reveal the evolving and open nature of artworks. Through reworkings, reactivations and recycling, the works continue to evolve after entering collections. Inspired by painter Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) and his habit of endlessly modifying his works, the exhibition, curated by the collective Le Bureau/, brings together over thirty French and international artists to explore the impermanence of works, the malleability of narratives, and the ever-evolving dialogue between creation and institution.
With Just Bees, and Things, and Flowers, Maude Maris presents a collection of her recent paintings at the Les Jardiniers art center in Montrouge. Taking advantage of the long walls and industrial feel of the venue, she displays both large-format works and a few smaller canvases, allowing visitors to appreciate the latest developments in her work, which is inspired by her travels between the Paris region and the Normandy countryside, her epicenter.
Also seen this month:
Nathalie Jouffre, Wilde - Le lieu
José Yaque, Galleria Continua
Jorge Macchi, Galleria Continua
Giorgio Petraci, Le Sentiment des Choses
Anaïs Boudot, Galerie Binôme
Jean Alain Corre, Betonsalon
Katherine Fiedler, Sorbonne Art Gallery
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Centre Culturel Irlandais
Bettina Samson, Sultana
Martial Raysse, Templon
Columbia Global Paris Center
Matthias Odin, Peter Kilchmann
Yudith Levin, Dvir Gallery
Marius Buet, Galerie Polaris
Abime, Alain Gutharc
Kathia St. Hilaire, Galerie Perrotin
Yoan Mudry, Galerie Frank Elbaz Maureen Gallace, Galerie Massimo de Carlo
Marlon Wobst, Galerie Maria Lund
Frank Perrin, Galerie Michel Rein
Ali Kaeini, Nika Project Space
Group show, air Topographie de l’art
Véronique Bourgoin, Juli Susin, Royal Book Lodge, Air de Paris
Caroline Delieutraz, Victoire Marion-Monéger, 22,48 m2
Alix Boillot, 22,48 m2
Ruoxi Jin, Frac IdF
Salon de Montrouge
Le Best of/de Paris - January 2026 Edition
This selection is drawn from more than 30 exhibitions visited across Paris this month.
List below.
Magdalena Abakanowicz
The Thread of Existence
Musée Bourdelle
20.11.25 → 12.04.26
Fibers, threads and lines — Magdalena Abakanowicz’s new show at Musée Bourdelle in Paris provides an intimate glimpse into a life of work. Compressed into a relatively small space — small only in relation to Abakanowicz’s volumes, of course — the exhibition presents few yet strong pieces that coherently explore the different phases the artist has traversed.
Gerard Richter
Fondation Louis Vuitton
17.10.2025 → 02.03.2026
In Richter’s show at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, I found myself returning again and again to one specific work I discovered: Large Curtain (1967). It is not the loudest work in the exhibition, nor the one most often reproduced, yet it struck me with an unexpected physical intensity.
Meriem Bennani
Sole Crushing
Lafayette Anticipation
22.10.2025 → 08.02.2026
If the premise of the show was to create a work about togetherness, Meriem Bennani absolutely nailed it. The object she chooses is radically democratic: worn by everyone, by choice or necessity, indoors or outdoors, across cultures and classes. Sole Crushing is joyful but not naïve, accessible without being simplistic. It operates on multiple levels at once, and it is difficult to imagine any viewer leaving it unmoved.
I am not going to pretend neutrality here: Berlinde De Bruyckere’s Need quietly restores hope that commercial exhibitions do not necessarily have to compromise visual or intellectual intensity.
Alain Biltereyst
Magenta
Xippas
17.01.2026 → 28.02.2026
Every painting is its own little discovery, like a visual firework—compact, precise, but bursting with ideas. Just when you think you’ve seen everything that can be done within this framework, the next work opens up a new possibility.
Also seen this month:
Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Pontus Hulten, Centre Pompidou x Grand Palais
MINIMAL, Bourse de Commerce
Claire Tabouret, Grand Palais
Edward Weston, MEP - Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Jacques-Louis David, Musée du Louvre
Boris Michailov, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve
Berthe Weill, Musée de l'Orangerie
ECHO DELAY REVERB, Palais de Tokyo
Exposition Générale, Fondation Cartier
Georges de La Tour, Musée Jacquemart-André
George Condo, Musée d'Art Moderne
Martha Jungwirth, Thaddaeus Ropac
Otobong Nkanga, Musée d'Art Moderne
Josef Albers, David Zwirner
Emily Mason, Almine Rech
Lux Miranda, The Pill
Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Hauser & Wirth
Beatrice Bonino, Fondation Ricard