Paris Fall 2026: 15 Solo Shows From Simone Fattal to Alexander Calder
The Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris is currently hosting Simone Fattal's significant exhibition, "Cities at the Bottom of a Lake," showcasing 100 pieces until January 24, 2027. This Lebanese-American artist's early works in landscape painting and ceramics are presented alongside nearly 30 publications from her Post-Apollo Press. Additionally, Barbara Kruger’s "The History of Tears" is on display at the Bourse de Commerce until January 25, 2027, while Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette exhibition at the Petit Trianon will be available through January 24, 2027. Ibrahim Mahama's "The Harvest Season" is set to open at the Fondation Cartier on October 22, 2026, with further exhibitions by Katinka Bock, Yu Nishimura, Sonia Gomes, and Jordan Casteel. This guide comes during France's most significant student protests in years.
Key facts
- Simone Fattal's "Cities at the Bottom of a Lake" at Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris spans 50-plus years and about 100 works, through Jan. 24, 2027
- Barbara Kruger's "The History of Tears" at Bourse de Commerce runs through Jan. 25, 2027 and revives her video Power, Pleasure, Desire, Disgust, unseen since 1996
- Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette 20th-anniversary show at the Petit Trianon, Château de Versailles, is supported by Cartier and runs through Jan. 24, 2027
- Ibrahim Mahama's Fondation Cartier show opens Oct. 22, 2026 and runs to Feb. 28, 2027, with nine longtime collaborators
- Alice Diop's "Geste de consolation" at Palais d'Iéna runs Oct. 21–25 under Miu Miu
- Alexander Calder's Les Granettes, 1953, is on view at Hauser & Wirth for the first time in 72 years, through Dec. 19
- Lee Krasner's Gagosian show is her first solo exhibition in France, through Dec. 18, 2026
- Deborah Roberts inaugurates Salon 94's permanent Paris gallery near the Jardin du Palais-Royal, through Nov. 28
Entities
Artists
- Simone Fattal
- Barbara Kruger
- Sofia Coppola
- Kirsten Dunst
- Eleanor Coppola
- Katinka Bock
- Le Corbusier
- Yu Nishimura
- Sonia Gomes
- Okwui Enwezor
- Ibrahim Mahama
- Alice Diop
- Zanele Muholi
- Mary Lee Bendolph
- Simone Leigh
- Nadia Beugré
- Jordan Casteel
- Alexander Calder
- Lee Krasner
- Jackson Pollock
- Franne Davids
- Deborah Roberts
- Kennedy Yanko
- Marina Adams
- Philippe Parreno
- Douglas Gordon
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Daisuke Fukunaga
- Tadao Ando
- Jonathan Van Meter
- Kim Kardashian
Institutions
- Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
- Bourse de Commerce
- Pinault Collection
- Château de Versailles
- Petit Trianon
- Cartier
- Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
- Palais de Tokyo
- Palais d'Iéna
- Miu Miu
- Maison La Roche
- Fondation Le Corbusier
- Lafayette Anticipations
- Thaddaeus Ropac
- Hauser & Wirth
- Gagosian
- Sebastian Gladstone
- Salon 94
- Esther Schipper
- Crèvecœur
- Galerie Jocelyn Wolff
- Balice Hertling
- Post-Apollo Press
- Sprüth Magers
- David Zwirner
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation
- National Library of Greece
- École des Lettres
- Sorbonne
- San Francisco Art Institute
- College of Marin
- Calder Foundation
- Calder Gardens
- Centre Pompidou-Metz
- Centre Pompidou
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Studio Museum in Harlem
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation
- Artists Rights Society
- ADAGP
- Mubi
- The Art Show
- Skidmore College
- Devals gallery
- Tomio Koyama Gallery
- Red Clay
- Venice Biennale
- Holy See Pavilion
- Prada Group
- CULTURED
- Frieze
Locations
- Paris
- France
- Versailles
- Beirut
- Lebanon
- California
- San Francisco
- Marin County
- Greece
- Athens
- Ghana
- Tamale
- Philadelphia
- Metz
- New York
- Harlem
- Hudson
- Connecticut
- Brooklyn
- London
- Aix-en-Provence
- Loire Valley
- Jardin du Palais-Royal
- 30 Galerie de Montpensier
- Southwest Region of Ghana