What to See

The fair’s public program is the part of the week that costs nothing. Nine sites across the city host installations, a film debut and an exhibition, mostly from October 20 to 25. Each work is presented by a gallery, which is how the program is paid for. Miu Miu is the program’s official partner.

Along Avenue Winston Churchill, in order from Place Clemenceau: Marcello Maloberti, CIEL (Raffaella Cortese); Yinka Shonibare, Abstract Bronze VIII (Mennour); Simone Fattal, Door (2024; Karma International, Balice Hertling, Greene Naftali, kaufmann repetto and Hubert Winter); Niki de Saint Phalle, Cat Head Totem (2000; Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois); Manfred Pernice, bank-group (2026; Anton Kern and Neu); Alicja Kwade, L’Élévation des Mondes (2026; Mennour); Carmen Herrera, Angulo Amarillo (2017; Lisson); and Keita Miyazaki, A Symbiotic Form (2025; Rosenfeld).

The Tracey Emin works are the first Public Program project the fair itself has realized, its press dossier says, and run from October 14, ahead of the rest. Some events may need registration; the Palais d’Iéna show has guided tours booked through Miu Miu’s website.

Miu Miu’s 2026 commission goes to the French filmmaker Alice Diop, for her first exhibition. Geste de Consolation opens to the public on October 21 at the Palais d’Iéna, the building that houses France’s Economic, Social and Environmental Council and hosts Miu Miu’s runway shows. It is built as four environments mixing film, photography, sculpture, poetry, dance, music and performance. One is a living room and library carpeted in motifs by the Gee’s Bend quilter Mary Lee Bendolph; another is a screening space of archival film and image excerpts.

Works and performances come from Zanele Muholi, Mary Lee Bendolph, Simone Leigh (Sentinel (Mami Wata)), Angel Bat Dawid and the trio Sistazz of the Nitty-Gritty, with readings of texts by Zora Neale Hurston, June Jordan, Audre Lorde and Zadie Smith among others. Diop is the third artist Miuccia Prada has chosen for the program, after Helen Marten and the pairing of Goshka Macuga and Elvira Dyangani Ose.

“I want my curation to center on acts of consolation conceived by Black women artists.”

Alice Diop, to Hypebeast

The institutions have timed their autumn openings to the week. A selection, with dates from the museums’ listings and from Domus where the listings were silent:

The Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, the Musée d’Art Moderne and the Palais de Tokyo keep late evenings on some days, as the Paris tourist office notes. Check each museum for the day. Domus adds that the winner of the Prix Marcel Duchamp is announced on October 22. For the larger story of the museum world behind the week, including the Louvre and the Centre Pompidou’s closure, see Art in France.

The Biennale shop sells fine-art prints of works held in Paris museums, from $16. By the store’s credits, Manet’s Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, Renoir’s Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette and Van Gogh’s The Bedroom are at the Musée d’Orsay, Monet’s Impression, Sunrise is at the Musée Marmottan Monet, and the Mona Lisa is at the Louvre. See the prints, or the Paris city shop.

Charles Zana, Something Else. The architect and designer opens an 18th-century building at 2 Rue de la Vrillière, near the Place des Victoires, from October 21 to 25, before it is renovated, as Sortiraparis reports. Paintings by Mario Schifano, selected by Marion Franchetti, are shown with Zana’s furniture, including a new sofa, Victoire. Entry is free; the listing gives no hours, so contact the venue. Hours not stated

Gener8ion. Sortiraparis also links to a free audiovisual installation by Gener8ion at the Grand Palais. We could read only the headline, so the room and dates are not confirmed. Details unconfirmed

Domus sorts the week into the official program, the other fairs, museum shows and gallery openings. Three gallery picks from its guide:

Yan Pei-Ming at MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, October 13 to 24: a new monumental painting that reworks Manet’s The Execution of Emperor Maximilian in blood red. Lee Krasner at Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, through December 18: Works from the 1960s, which Domus calls her first solo show in France. Tacita Dean and Bruce Nauman at Marian Goodman, 79 Rue du Temple, through December 19: Drawing Blind Drawing, a 35 mm film; Dean’s 16 mm films screen daily at 4 pm from October 20 to November 14.

The other fairs. Domus gives Paris Internationale at 187–189 Quai de Valmy, October 20 to 24 (preview October 19), with 56 galleries and five nonprofit spaces; Asia Now at the Monnaie de Paris, October 20 to 24; and OFFSCREEN, for installation and moving image, at the Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, October 20 to 25, with 29 artists and a tribute to Ana Mendieta. Our Fairs page counts 59 galleries at Paris Internationale, from another source. Counts differ

The sites cluster. These groupings follow geography, not an official route, and opening times should be checked before you go.

Around the Grand Palais. The Petit Palais, the eight works on Avenue Winston Churchill, Place Clemenceau and Square Jean Perrin are all next to the fair. The Jardin de la Nouvelle-France is nearby. This is the half day for the first morning of the public days.

Trocadéro and Iéna. Tracey Emin’s works on the Parvis des Droits de l’Homme, the Cité de l’Architecture (Kennedy Yanko) and the Palais d’Iéna (Alice Diop with Miu Miu) are within a short walk of one another on the Right Bank, across from the Eiffel Tower.

The Left Bank. The Chapelle des Petits-Augustins is at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, a few minutes along the river from the Monnaie de Paris, where Asia Now is held. Pairing the two makes a quiet morning before the larger fairs.

Passages: pas sages, organized by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, fills the historic halls of the Quai d’Orsay from October 20 to 23. The designers Thierry Lemaire and Harry Nuriev co-produced it, with the Manufactures nationales (Sèvres and Mobilier national), the Centre national des arts plastiques and the Institut français. The ministry says its aim is to show how art fosters international exchange. The report we read is partly paywalled and does not say how the public can attend. Access not stated