designboom paris guide: what to see in and out of design miami and art basel 2025

DESIGNBOOM GUIDE: A WEEK OF ART AND DESIGN IN PARIS

October sees Paris transform into a vibrant stage of creativity and culture as art and design fairs, museums and gallery exhibitions and public installations take over the French capital. For its fourth edition, Art Basel Paris returns to the newly restored Grand Palais, bringing together 206 international and local galleries as well as a strong public program beyond the fairgrounds. Meanwhile, Design Miami.Paris stages its third edition at the historic Hôtel de Maisons, presenting collectible design that bridges craft, history, and contemporary innovation.

Beyond the fairs, the entire city becomes part of the cultural program with several new exhibitions, installations, and site-specific projects on view. From Alex da Corte’s giant Kermit installation above Place Vendôme and an automated orchestra installation made of flip-flops at Lafayettes Anticipations, to the opening of Fondation Cartier’s new premises and a floral dining experience by We Are Ona and India Mahdavi, Paris unfolds into a landscape of ideas, dialogue, and experimentation.

Explore designboom’s curated guide below for our must-see highlights of Art Basel Paris, Design Miami.Paris, and other standout shows and events across the city.

image by Alexander Kagan on Unsplash

Art Basel paris 2025 returns to the Grand Palais

Art Basel Paris 2025 returns to the Grand Palais from October 24th to 26th, bringing together 206 galleries from 41 countries, including 29 newcomers and nearly a third with spaces in Paris. The fair unfolds across three sectors: Galeries, showcasing the breadth of international gallery programs; Emergence, dedicated to 16 solo presentations by rising artists; and Premise, highlighting curated historical projects with works predating 1900.

Beyond the fairgrounds, the Public Program, supported by Miu Miu, animates key Parisian landmarks such as the Petit Palais, Palais d’Iéna, and the Domaine national du Palais-Royal with site-specific commissions and installations developed in collaboration with major cultural institutions. Conversations, Art Basel’s flagship talks series, returns to the Petit Palais, hosting artists, curators, and thinkers in dialogue on contemporary art and culture. The fair also restages Oh La La!, its initiative inviting exhibitors to present creative rehangs on October 24th and 25th, this year guided by an overarching thematic prompt.

what: Art Basel Paris 2025
when: 24 – 26 October 2025
where: Grand Palais, 3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, 75008 Paris

image courtesy of Art Basel

Helen Marten — 30 Blizzards. presented by Miu Miu

As part of the Art Basel Paris 2025 Public Program, Miu Miu presents 30 Blizzards., a major new project by British artist Helen Marten, staged at the Palais d’Iéna. This is Marten’s first large-scale performance work, created in collaboration with theater director Fabio Cherstich and composer Beatrice Dillon. On view from 22nd to 26th October, 2025, the project combines five sculptures and five new videos with monologues and a libretto performed by thirty characters, each linked to a symbolic object. Through song, speech, and movement, the performance explores themes of childhood, sexuality, community, interiority, and loss, while the title evokes both the performers and the turbulence of human temperament. Installed within the formal architecture of the Palais d’Iéna, the work features sculptural platforms, a central stage, and a circular track carrying vessels, creating an immersive environment where sculpture, video, text, music, and performance converge in a continuously unfolding narrative.

what: 30 Blizzards.
when: 22 – 26 October 2025
where: Palais d’Iéna, 9 Avenue d’Iéna, 75116 Paris

The Palais d’Iéna | photography by Aliki Christoforou for Art Basel

Alex Da Corte — Kermit the Frog, Even

The Art Basel Paris 2025 Public Program also features an inflatable sculpture by Alex Da Corte, which is inspired by the collapse of a Kermit balloon during New York’s 1991 Thanksgiving Day Parade. Half-deflated yet still afloat, the figure hovers above Place Vendôme in a state of suspended vulnerability, transforming an icon of childhood joy into a monument of fragility and delusion. By isolating this fleeting accident, Da Corte continues his exploration of American pop culture as a site of both collective fantasy and underlying unease, where cartoons, consumer icons, and suburban ideals reveal their hidden cracks. The work is on view from October 20th to 26th, 2025, with a performance activating the sculpture scheduled for Monday, October 20th.

what: Kermit the Frog, Even
when: 20 – 26 October 2025
where: Place Vendôme, Paris

Alex Da Corte, performance view, Kermit The Frog, Even, Fridericianum, Kassel, 7 September 2024. © Alex Da Corte. courtesy the artist and Fridericianum, Kassel. photo: Nicolas Wefers

Harry Nuriev — Objets Trouvés

Harry Nuriev transforms the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins into a site of exchange with Objets Trouvés (2025), a participatory installation inviting visitors to leave behind an object they no longer need and take one left by others. Arranged in supermarket-style boxes, each contribution is certified as an artwork, with all exchanges later compiled into a Yellow Pages–style publication, preserving the fleeting process as a collective archive. Rooted in Nuriev’s notion of Transformism — the reimagining of everyday materials into new forms and meanings — the project turns the act of exchange into a gesture of shared authorship and social interaction. Objets Trouvés is on view from October 21st to 26th, 2025 and is part of the Art Basel Paris 2025 Public Program.

what: Objets Trouvés
when: 21 – 26 October 2025
where: Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, Beaux-Arts de Paris

Harry Nuriev, Objets Trouvés, 2025 | image courtesy of the artist

Ugo Rondinone — the innocent

Ugo Rondinone installs the innocent (2024) on the parvis of the Institut de France, a monumental figure over four meters tall, composed of stacked bluestone blocks evoking heads, torsos, and legs. Archaic in form yet shifting with the light and weather, the work embodies both permanence and transience. Continuing Rondinone’s exploration of elemental sculpture as a reflection of the human condition, the innocent stands as sentinel and witness in the historic heart of Paris — at once timeless, fragile, and profoundly human. Presented in collaboration with the City of Paris and as part of the Art Basel Paris 2025 Public Program, the installation is on view from October 17th to 28th, 2025.

what: the innocent
when: 17 – 28 October 2025
where: Parvis de l’Institut de France, Paris

Ugo Rondinone, the innocent, 2024 | image courtesy of the artist

design Miami.Paris 2025 presents its third edition

The third edition of Design Miami.Paris returns to the historic Hôtel de Maisons, bringing together over 25 leading international galleries and designers to present rare and unique examples of historic and contemporary collectible design across the house and gardens. Set within the 18th-century mansion, the fair continues to explore the dialogue between architecture, craftsmanship, and innovation through curated exhibitions, site-specific installations, and its Design at Large program. Alongside the main fair, a series of talks, collaborations, and special projects will highlight new perspectives on design and its evolving role in culture and daily life.

what: Design Miami.Paris 2025
when: 21 – 26 October 2025
where: L’Hôtel de Maisons, 51 Rue de l’Université, Paris

image courtesy of Design Miami.Paris

Friedman Benda

As part of the Design Miami.Paris 2025 program, Friedman Benda (New York) presents a cross-section of contemporary design practice, showcasing designers, architects, and artists who push the discipline’s formal and conceptual limits. Among the highlights is the European debut of Frida Escobedo’s Creek Chair, a study in material poetics where delicate nickel ball chains cascade over a geometric frame.

Creek Chair 02, 2023 by Frida Escobedo for Friedman Benda at Design Miami.Paris 2025 (Image courtesy of Friedman Benda Gallery)

Galerie Gastou and Galerie Desprez-Bréhéret

On the occasion of Design Miami.Paris 2025, Galerie Gastou and Galerie Desprez-Bréhéret (Paris) present Early Birds, a joint curation celebrating the art of mixing and dialogue across eras. The presentation brings together an ensemble of works by the Artisans de Marolles alongside pieces spanning from the early 1900s to contemporary design. Unified by the recurring motif of birds, the selection reflects both galleries’ shared sensibility for craftsmanship, symbolism, and timeless form.

image courtesy of Galerie Gastou and Galerie Desprez-Bréhéret

Patrick Parrish Studio

Making its French debut at Design Miami.Paris 2025, Patrick Parrish Studio (New York) presents a solo exhibition dedicated to Carl Auböck. The presentation spotlights the Austrian designer’s mastery of everyday objects — bells, dishes, baskets, and bookends — reframing them as refined objets d’art. Focusing on Auböck’s post-Bauhaus era, the curation highlights his signature blend of material sensitivity and craftsmanship, expressed through hand-sewn leather, polished brass, bamboo, and fine woods.

Assorted Objects, 1950s by Werkstätte Carl Auböck for Patrick Parrish Studio at Design Miami.Paris 2025 | image courtesy of Clemens Kois

ATRA x Pedro Reyes

Also making its debut at Design Miami.Paris 2025, ATRA (Mexico City) presents Aerial Symmetry, a collaboration with Pedro Reyes exploring geometry, time, and memory. The installation comprises a series of sculptural, pyramid-like structures arranged around a central chair by Reyes, conceived as a spatial marker visible from above. Referencing the cosmic alignments of ancient civilizations, Aerial Symmetry invites reflection on humanity’s enduring impulse to organize space in dialogue with the stars and the passage of time.

Aerial Symmetry, 2025 by Pedro Reyes for ATRA at Design Miami.Paris 2025 | image courtesy of ATRA

Maison Parisienne

At Design Miami.Paris 2025, Maison Parisienne (Paris) presents a site-specific installation by Aude Franjou, showcasing the artist’s hand-crafted linen sculptures throughout the Hôtel de Maisons. Franjou’s vivid, vine-like forms unfurl across the balcony of the étage noble and weave through the metal arches of the garden, creating a dialogue between textile and architecture. Rendered in radiant shades of yellow, orange, and red, the works highlight the expressive potential of linen while casting a vibrant contrast against the building’s neoclassical ironwork.

Embrassade en rouge opéra, 2024 by Aude Franjou for maison parisienne at Design Miami.Paris 2025 | image by Vincent Leroux

Designers of Tomorrow – Design Miami.Paris x Apple

Design Miami.Paris and Apple present Designers of Tomorrow, a special initiative highlighting four emerging designers whose creative practices are deeply integrated with the iPad Pro. Curated by AGO Projects co-founder Rodman Primack, and selected by a jury including Apple’s Alan Dye and Molly Anderson, the exhibition showcases how technology empowers innovation, from research to the final crafted work. Beyond the presentation, the project provides a platform for visibility, professional connection, and future opportunities within the global design community.

image © Elodie Μatcha

the 11th Edition of PARIS ASIAN ART FAIR

Returning for its 11th edition, Paris Asian Art Fair – Asia NOW once again brings together leading and emerging voices from across Asia and its diaspora. Held at the historic Monnaie de Paris, the fair reaffirms its role as a platform for dialogue and discovery, transcending geographic and cultural boundaries. Guided by the decentering mission initiated by My East is Your West, the fair continues to challenge traditional frameworks of presentation and perception—amplifying underrepresented narratives and expanding the understanding of what “Asian art” can mean today. Through its curated program, Paris Asian Art Fair invites visitors to experience Asia not as a fixed place, but as a methodology, a lens, and a movement shaping the global art landscape.

what: Paris Asian Art Fair – Asia NOW
when: 22 – 26 October 2025
where: Monnaie de Paris, 11 Quai de Conti, 75006 Paris

image courtesy of Asia NOW

exhibitions, events and galleries AROUND PARIS

Fondation Cartier Opens New Site at Place du Palais-Royal

On October 25th, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain inaugurates its new home at 2 Place du Palais-Royal, directly opposite the Louvre. Housed within a Haussmann-era building from 1855, the space has been entirely reimagined by architect Jean Nouvel, who designed the Fondation’s original glass structure on Boulevard Raspail in 1994. The new site unfolds across 8,500 square meters, including 6,500 square meters of exhibition space distributed over five adjustable platforms capable of shifting to eleven different heights. Conceived as a flexible ‘scenographic device,’ the architecture adapts to exhibitions spanning visual arts, film, performance, craft, and science, while fostering public exchange and dialogue.

To mark its inauguration, the Fondation presents Exposition Générale, a sweeping showcase of works from its collection tracing over 40 years of contemporary creation—from early commissions to recent landmark projects. Accompanied by live performances and spoken word events, the exhibition signals a new chapter for the Fondation Cartier: one that expands its architectural, cultural, and social reach within the very heart of Paris.

what: Exposition Générale
when: 25 October 2025 – 23 August 2026
where: 2 Place du Palais-Royal, 75001 Paris

rendering of platform 1 looking onto the Rue de Rivoli | image © Jean Nouvel/ADAGP, Paris, 2024

Gerhard Richter Retrospective at Fondation Louis Vuitton

The Fondation Louis Vuitton presents a landmark retrospective dedicated to Gerhard Richter, featuring 270 works from 1962 to 2024. Spanning paintings, glass and steel sculptures, drawings, watercolors, and overpainted photographs, the exhibition offers the most comprehensive view yet of Richter’s six-decade career.

Tracing his evolution from photo-based realism to lyrical abstraction, the show highlights the artist’s lifelong exploration of perception, memory, and the possibilities of painting. Occupying the entire museum, this exhibition continues the Fondation’s series of major monographs devoted to 20th- and 21st-century masters such as Basquiat, Mitchell, Rothko, and Hockney.

what: Gerhard Richter: Retrospective
when: 17 October 2025 – 2 March 2 2026
where: Fondation Louis Vuitton, 8 Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, Paris

Gerhard Richter, Gudrun, 1987 | image courtesy of Fondation Louis Vuitton

Gerhard Richter at David Zwirner

Coinciding with the major retrospective of Richter’s work at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, David Zwirner’s exhibition presents a selection of paintings, drawings, and glass works by Gerhard Richter at its Paris gallery. This marks Richter’s third exhibition with the gallery since his representation was announced in 2023, following solo shows in New York and London.

what: Gerhard Richter exhibition
when: 20 October – 20 December 2025
where: David Zwirner Gallery, 108, rue Vieille du Temple 75003 Paris

Gerhard Richter, Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting), 2001 (detail) | image courtesy of Gerard Richter

Minimal at Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection

Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection presents Minimal, an exhibiton that examines the global evolution of Minimalism, a movement since the 1960s that redefined the artwork and its relationship to the viewer. With a focus on simplicity, formal clarity, and spatial experience, artists worldwide used natural and industrial materials to create works emphasizing perception, presence, and direct interaction. The show is organized into seven themes — Light, Mono-ha, Balance, Surface, Grid, Monochrome, and Materialism — and spans North American, South American, Asian, Middle Eastern, and European perspectives. Featuring works from the Pinault Collection, Dia Art Foundation, and other major collections, the show highlights Minimalism’s global reach and experiential impact.

what: Minimal
when: 8 October 2025 – 19 January 2026
where: Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection, 2 rue de Viarmes, 75001 Paris

image courtesy of Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection

Meriem Bennani’s Sole Crushing at Lafayette Anticipations

For her solo exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations, Meriem Bennani transforms the foundation into a vast resonating chamber with Sole Crushing, a monumental sound installation spanning the building’s full height. Nearly two hundred pairs of flip-flops and slides form an automated orchestra, striking surrounding surfaces to create a rhythmic composition between symphony and uprising. Echoing crowds in movement — whether at protests, stadiums, or traditional dakka marrakchia ceremonies — the work explores the balance between individuality and collective rhythm, where the simple slap of a flip-flop becomes a shared pulse of resistance and connection. Reimagined from its first presentation at Fondazione Prada (2024–25), this new version features an original soundtrack by Reda Senhaji (Cheb Runner) and a site-specific design for Lafayette Anticipations.

what: Sole Crushing
when: 22 October 2025 – 8 February 2026
where: Lafayette Anticipations, 9 Rue du Plâtre, 75004 Paris

preparatory drawing Sole crushing, sound installation work-in-progress (2025). reinterpretation of the work originally presented in For My Best Family at Fondazione Prada in 2024–25 © Meriem Bennani

Steffani Jemison’s clear skies / troubled water at Lafayette Anticipations

Steffani Jemison’s solo exhibition at Lafayette Anticipations explores how physical and social forces shape our ability to move, act, and perceive. Developed during her residency at the foundation, the exhibition features a new sculpture and a video installation that examine movement, gravity, and orientation as frameworks for understanding power and resistance. Through these works, Jemison considers how bodies navigate systems of control and liberation, connecting geographies of violence with practices of resilience. The artist approaches atmosphere not simply as weather, but as a condition charged with history and tension — one that influences how we move, respond, and inhabit space.

what: clear skies / troubled water
when: from 22 October 2025
where: Lafayette Anticipations, 9 Rue du Plâtre, 75004 Paris

research still, video work-in-progress (2025) © Steffani Jemison

India Mahdavi x WE ARE ONA present Rose, c’est la vie !

India Mahdavi teams up with Luca Pronzato’s WE ARE ONA on Rose, c’est la vie !, an immersive one-week dining installation. Set inside a former car repair shop in Paris’ 7ᵉ arrondissement, the project transforms the space into a hidden speakeasy — a parallel world that carries the spirit of APT, Mahdavi’s first New York nightclub, reinterpreted for today.

At the heart of the experience is Mahdavi’s signature ‘all-over’ approach: a bespoke textile inspired by the Rose d’Ispahan envelops the space entirely, from tablecloths and napkins to aprons, creating a tactile, poetic cocoon. The menu, conceived by guest chef Jesús Durón, mirrors the setting with a multi-course experience designed exclusively for the occasion.

what: Rose, c’est la vie !
when: 20 – 26 October 2025
where: Secret location, 7ᵉ arrondissement

image courtesy of India Mahdavi and WE ARE ONA

PROJECT ROOM #20: Parenchyma by KAUANI / India Mahdavi

AGO Projects, the Mexico City–based collectible design gallery, presents Parenchyma, a solo exhibition by the design studio Kauani, in Project Room #20, India Mahdavi’s open platform for international design. This marks AGO Projects’ third year participating, showcasing innovative approaches to material, form, and spatial experience in a space designed to connect Paris with the global design community.

what: Parenchyma
when: 21 October – 7 November 2025
where: Project Room, 29 rue de Bellechasse

image by Ines Llasera

INDIA MAHDAVI PROJECT ROOM #7: FOLK CITY by Serban Ionescu

India Mahdavi’s Tiny Room #7 presents Folk City, a solo project by Serban Ionescu exploring the form and memory of the chair. Using raw materials, Ionescu treats wood like drawing or clay, improvised and direct, embracing accidents. Inspired by his Balkan roots and heirloom traditions, the Folk Chairs series began after visiting the Museum of the Peasant in Bucharest in 2015, where simple wooden chairs from around 1900 sparked a spontaneous creative response. These fast, rough chairs, made from discarded materials without plans, grow through improvisation, reflecting childhood memories of joy and sadness.

what: Folk City
when: 21 October – 7 November 2025
where: Tiny Room, 3 rue Las Cases

image by Thierry Depagne

Maison Guerlain presents Straight to the Heart: A Century of Pure Love

To mark the centenary of Shalimar, its iconic fragrance created in 1925, Maison Guerlain presents Straight to the Heart: A Century of Pure Love, in partnership with Art Basel Paris. The exhibition explores how our understanding of love has evolved over the past hundred years, bringing together more than thirty artists across generations and disciplines—from Louise Bourgeois, Marina Abramović & Ulay, and Robert Mapplethorpe to Camille Henrot, Alex Gardner, and Pierre et Gilles. Spread across three floors of Guerlain’s historic flagship designed by Charles Mewès, the show unfolds as a multi-sensory journey through painting, photography, sculpture, video, and performance. An olfactory installation by Guerlain perfumer Delphine Jelk and Magique Studio complements the artworks, translating emotion into scent and creating what Guerlain calls ‘love potions to see, smell, and feel.’ Drawing inspiration from Shalimar’s origin — a tale of eternal devotion that inspired the Taj Mahal — the exhibition reflects on love as a force that transforms, endures, and reappears in ever-changing forms.

what: Straight to the Heart: A Century of Pure Love
when: 22 October – 16 November 2025
where: Guerlain, 68 Avenue des Champs-Élysées, Paris

RongRong&inri, Untitled 2008 No.25, 2008

Maison Perrier-Jouët

Maison Perrier-Jouët presents a new collaboration with botanical artist Marcin Rusak, featuring an installation that lets viewers see, hear, and interpret the hidden signals of plants. Drawing on its botanical heritage, Rusak transforms natural phenomena into an immersive sensory experience, blurring the boundaries between art, science, and nature.

At the same time, the Maison transforms Maxim’s into the House of Wonder, a sensorial celebration of champagne, art, and floral gastronomy inside one of the city’s most iconic venues.

image courtesy of Maison Perrier-Jouët

The Salons of Imagination by Studio GGSV

From October 13th to November 2nd, French design duo Studio GGSV presents The Salons of Imagination, an immersive installation created for the newly established Manufactures Nationales as part of its inaugural PAVILLON program. Conceived for this first edition at the invitation of the institution, the project gives contemporary designers free rein to imagine the interiors of tomorrow while honoring the role of the interior designer. Housed inside the Pavillon d’Angiviller at the historic Manufacture des Gobelins in Paris, it transforms a 200-square-meter apartment into three interconnected interiors where art, architecture, and craftsmanship converge to offer profound sensory experiences. For this commission, Gaëlle Gabillet and Stéphane Villard, founders of Studio GGSV and known for their experimental use of illusion and trompe-l’œil, designed every piece of furniture and décor, presenting several never-before-seen works. The three environments — the Reception Salon, the Conversation Salon, and the Reading Salon — are conceived as spaces that stimulate the mind as much as they invite contemplation, encouraging visitors to imagine, exchange, and dream while celebrating French savoir-faire.

what: The Salons of Imagination
when: 13 October – 2 November 2025
where: Manufactures Nationales, 42 avenue des Gobelins 75013 Paris

image © Jean Allard

Ed Ruscha: Talking Doorways at Gagosian

Gagosian presents Ed Ruscha: Talking Doorways, an exhibition of new paintings that mark a striking shift in the artist’s six-decade exploration of architecture and language — from public facades to the quiet intimacy of private interiors. In these works, Ruscha depicts sparse rooms defined by molding and doorframes, each pierced by a doorway through which a painted phrase appears, accompanied by trailing bands that evoke both beams of light and soundwaves. The series draws inspiration from Vilhelm Hammershøi, the Danish painter known for his restrained, light-filled interiors, whose influence led Ruscha to explore the emotional resonance of empty spaces.

what: Ed Ruscha: Talking Doorways
when: 22 October – 3 December 2025
where: Gagosian, rue de Castiglione, Paris

Ed Ruscha, Says I to Myself Says I, 2025. acrylic and graphite on canvas, 54 × 120 inches (137.2 × 304.8 cm) © Ed Ruscha. photo: Jeff McLane

The Singular Experience at Gagosian Le Bourget

Gagosian Le Bourget presents The Singular Experience exhibition, curated by Donna De Salvo, marking what would have been American artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer Walter De Maria’s 90th birthday. At its center is Truck Trilogy (2011–17), De Maria’s final sculpture, shown for the first time outside the U.S., featuring three polished 1950s Chevrolet pickup trucks transformed into minimalist monuments of geometry and reflection. The exhibition also includes 13, 14, 15 Meter Rows (1985), drawings, films, and archival materials that trace the artist’s lifelong exploration of measurement, rhythm, and perception.

what: The Singular Experience
when: 19 October 2025-18 April 2026
where: Gagosian, 26 Avenue de l’Europe, Le Bourget

Walter De Maria, Truck Trilogy, 2011–2017, installation view at Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, New York, 2017–19

Magma No. 3: Archive of the Future

Magma Journal launches its third issue, Magma No. 3: Archive of the Future, with the support of Bottega Veneta. Conceived as a forum for artistic expression, Magma revives the tradition of the twentieth-century revues d’art, inviting artists and writers to collaborate on original, previously unseen works. The new volume will debut on October 19th, accompanied by a month-long exhibition presenting the featured artworks within an immersive scenography by Matière Noire.

what: Magma No. 3: Archive of the Future
when: 19 October – 19 November 2025
where: FORMA, 127 rue de Turenne 75003, Marais district, Paris

A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE x Eugene Kangawa

Japanese multidisciplinary artist Eugene Kangawa and A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE unveil a new textile innovation, the result of a three-year creative dialogue between Kangawa and designer Yoshiyuki Miyamae and his team. Inspired by Kangawa’s ongoing series Light and shadow inside me (2021–), the textile reinterprets the gradations of photographic paper through weaving alone, achieving shifts from black to white without dyes or multiple thread colours. The project debuts in Paris in an exhibition conceived by architect Tsuyoshi Tane, presenting the new textile alongside test pieces, artworks, and creative tools, and accompanied by guided tours and hands-on workshops. Following its Paris premiere, the exhibition is scheduled to travel to Tokyo and Osaka.

what: A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE x Eugene Kangawa exhibition
when: 24 – 25 October 2025 (11:00 – 19:00) and 26 October 2025 (11:00 – 18:00)
where: Lycée Turgot Paris, 40 Rue Volta, 75003 Paris

Eugene Kangawa, Artist and Yoshiyuki Miyamae,Designer, A-POC ABLE ISSEY MIYAKE discussing the project at the artist’s atelier in Japan © ISSEY MIYAKE INC.

Constantin Brancusi’s Photographs at Thaddaeus Ropac

Following the acclaimed retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, Thaddaeus Ropac Paris presents Photographs, a focused exhibition devoted to Constantin Brancusi’s rarely seen photographic work from 1906 to 1938.

For Brancusi, photography was both documentation and creation—an extension of his sculptural practice through which he explored form, light, and spatial dialogue. Influenced by his friendships with Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, and Man Ray, Brancusi used his camera to ‘sculpt light,’ capturing the radiance of his polished bronzes and the interplay between his works and their surroundings. Featuring self-portraits, early naturalist studies, and iconic views of his atelier, the exhibition reveals how Brancusi shaped his own myth and legacy through the lens—transforming his studio into a living space for sculpture and light.

what: Photographs
when: 20 October – 22 November 2025
where: Thaddaeus Ropac, 7 Rue Debelleyme, 75003 Paris

Precious Okoyomon’s it’s important to have ur fangs out at the end of the world AT Mendes Wood DM

Mendes Wood DM presents Precious Okoyomon’s first solo exhibition in Paris, it’s important to have ur fangs out at the end of the world, coinciding with the artist’s presentation at Art Basel Paris. Known for creating living ecosystems that merge poetry, sculpture, and organic materials, Okoyomon explores the entanglement of race, nature, and power, exposing the invisible violences that shape our shared environments. At the gallery, the exhibition unfolds across several immersive settings: newly conceived wallpaper and a series of child-sized teddy bear sculptures introduce the show, while further rooms feature dioramas, a new poetic text, and a large-scale horticultural installation of aromatic flowering plants accompanied by sound. Together, these elements evoke a world where decay and regeneration, innocence and ferocity coexist, offering a sensorial reflection on survival and transformation at the end of an era.

what: it’s important to have ur fangs out at the end of the world
when: 20 October 2025 – 17 January 2026
where: Mendes Wood DM, 25 Pl. des Vosges, 75004 Paris

Precious Okoyomon, ONE EITHER LOVES ONESELF OR KNOWS ONESELF, Exhibition view second floor Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2025, in the belly of the sun endless, 2025 | photo: Markus Tretter © Precious Okoyomon, Kunsthaus Bregenz courtesy of the artist and Kunsthaus Bregenz

The Spaceless Gallery and MycoWorks present Matières Sensibles

From October 20 – November 28, 2025, The Spaceless Gallery collaborates with MycoWorks to present Matières Sensibles at The exhibition combines contemporary art and next-generation biomaterials, featuring ceramics, pigment-based works, floral assemblages, abstractions, and sculptural/AI collaborations. MycoWorks highlights Reishi designs, including pendant lights by Alea and a new stool by Tim Leclabart. The show explores materiality, form, and technique, celebrating the dialogue between human creativity and natural matter.

what: Matières Sensibles
when: 20 October – 28 November 2025
where: Reishi House, 14 avenue de l’Opéra, 75001 Paris

image courtesy of The Spaceless Gallery

Enrico David’s The Soul Drains the Hand at White Cube

Enrico David presents his first solo exhibition The Soul Drains the Hand at White Cube Paris. Opening during Art Basel Paris, the show coincides with his major survey at Castello di Rivoli, Italy. The exhibition features new sculptures, furniture, tapestries, and works on paper, continuing David’s exploration of the body through inventive manipulation of materials and form.

what: The Soul Drains the Hand
when: 21 October 2025 – 19 December 2025
where: White Cube Paris, 10 Avenue Matignon, 75008 Paris

Paul Sietsema at Marian Goodman

Marian Goodman Gallery presents Paul Sietsema’s second solo exhibition in France, featuring new works and earlier pieces, including two 16mm films. Known for his exploration of image, material, and meaning, Sietsema examines how objects and gestures acquire cultural and symbolic value. The exhibition spans paintings, sculptures, and film, from recent object-based compositions, depicting telephones, coins, and paintbrushes, to archival works exploring labor, media, and perception. Together, they trace the artist’s ongoing investigation into the shifting relationship between image, material, and time.

what: Paul Sietsema exhibition
when: 18 October – 20 December 2025
where: Marian Goodman Gallery, 79 Rue du Temple, 75003 Paris

image courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery

Pièces à vivre at GALLERIA CONTINUA

Galleria Continua presents Pièces à vivre, a group exhibition featuring works by Ai Weiwei, Leandro Erlich, Eva Jospin, Julio Le Parc, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Nari Ward, Pascale Marthine Tayou, and over twenty other international artists. Set within the gallery’s historic Marais space, a former leather goods store redesigned by MBL architects, the exhibition transforms each room into a reimagined domestic environment where art and everyday life seamlessly merge.

Conceived as a ‘house of art,’ Pièces à vivre invites visitors to wander through spaces that blur the boundaries between intimacy and imagination. Each artwork engages in dialogue with its surroundings, offering fragments of memory, emotion, and collective experience. In this hybrid setting, GALLERIA CONTINUA continues its mission to create a living continuity between art, architecture, and daily life.

what: Pièces à vivre
when: until 29 October 2025
where: Galleria Continua, Paris, 87 Rue du Temple, 75003 Paris

Jeffrey Gibson’s This is dedicated to the one I love at Hauser & Wirth

Hauser & Wirth presents Jeffrey Gibson’s first solo exhibition in France, showcasing new paintings, beaded panels, cloaks, punching bags, and ceramic head sculptures. Dubbed This is dedicated to the one I love, the show reflects Gibson’s interdisciplinary practice, rooted in American, Indigenous, and queer histories, and inspired by music, literature, and art history. With his signature use of bold color, pattern, and abstraction, Gibson explores empathy, resilience, and creative expression in times of crisis, inviting viewers into a space where identity, culture, and color converge.

what: This is dedicated to the one I love
when: 20 October – 20 December 2025
where: Hauser & Wirth, 26 bis Rue François 1er, 75008 Paris

image courtesy of Hauser & Wirth

Ronan Bouroullec’s Clair-obscur at Galerie kreo

Galerie kreo presents a new exhibition by Ronan Bouroullec, extending his exploration of light as both material and perception. Suspended glass compositions — part sculpture, part drawing — balance fragility and precision, lightness and structure. Each piece combines white opaline globes with transparent, gray, or amber glass corollas, connected by anodized aluminum rods of near watchmaking detail. Rooted in repetition and variation, the works transform their surroundings through diffused, filtered, or reflected light, inviting a phenomenological experience of perception.

what: Clair-obscur
when: until 1 November 2025
where: Galerie kreo 31, rue Dauphine 75006 Paris

image courtesy of Galerie kreo

CHRISTO AND JEANNE-CLAUDE: 40 YEARS OF THE WRAPPED PONT NEUF

Paris celebrates 40 years since Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s legendary transformation of the Pont Neuf into a monumental work of art. Realized in 1985 with 41,800 square meters of fabric and the help of hundreds of workers, The Pont Neuf Wrapped remains one of the city’s most iconic artistic gestures. To mark the anniversary, the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, with support from the City of Paris, presents Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Parisian Projects, a free open-air exhibition tracing the artists’ deep connection with the French capital through projects including Wall of Oil Barrels – The Iron Curtain (1961–62), Wrapped Statue, Trocadéro (1964), and The Arc de Triomphe Wrapped (1961–2021). The celebration continues in summer 2026 with JR’s Projet Pont-Neuf, an installation inspired by the artists’ legacy, transforming the historic bridge once again through a dialogue between art, architecture, and the city.

what: The Pont Neuf Wrapped: 40th Anniversary

when: until 30 October 2025

where: Quai de la Mégisserie, beneath the Pont-Neuf

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