designboom LIVE · paris art week 2026 · 19 to 23 october
Anchored by the highly anticipated Art Basel Paris and Design Miami.Paris, Paris Art Week takes over the French capital from October 19 to 25, 2026. Join designboom on the ground as our editors track the pulse of the city in real time. Follow our live feed as we move in and out of the major fairs, intimate gallery openings, museum exhibitions, and exclusive events, bringing you quick snaps and direct dispatches straight from the crowds.
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in scaffolding, that is. .The metal veil, which will remain in place until the 2030 renovation completion date, does feel very much aligned with the iconic building’s original architecture. We still managed to get a glimpse of the colorful rear facade before its full steel makeover though – just head to rue Simon le Franc 💙💛💚❤️
We step inside Dalad’s, a temporary restaurant by We Are Ona in Paris, where Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija has designed two monumental stainless steel tables inspired by traditional fishing boats. Created with chef Dalad Kambhu and Luca Pronzato for Art Basel Paris 2026, the installation brings cooking and communal dining together, transforming a shared meal into a collective artistic experience.
The long read: thai fishing boats inspire Rirkrit Tiravanija’s dining installation for We Are Ona in Paris
We are two quite young institutions, both over a decade old, and we share a common purpose to present a deeper understanding of 20th- and 21st-century art. As we build an expansion that will welcome even more visitors to The Broad in L.A. in 2028, this extensive exhibition in Paris allows us to share the founding vision of Eli and Edythe Broad to reach as wide an audience as possible, and highlights their dedication to artists as vital to understanding complexity in our world.
Joanne Heyler, Founding Director and President of The Broad, on the announcement of the museum’s upcoming exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton
Presented at the 2003 Venice Biennale, Wake centers on a black ship on a pedestal that stands for a black sea. While recalling the journey made by enslaved Africans, the work also suggests the growing power of Black cultural expression. Each time it is displayed, Marshall adds more medallions, representing the proliferating achievements of African Americans.
On the walls, plates commemorate the first cargo of twenty enslaved Africans brought to North America in 1619, as well as William Tucker, the first child of African origin born in North America (English colonies) around 1624. Marshall represents Tucker with a photograph of himself as a teenager.
In fairness to the building, the Hôtel de Maisons is a wonderful place to hold a design fair and I understand the temptation entirely. A private mansion in Saint-Germain that used to be Karl Lagerfeld’s house sells itself, and nobody at Design Miami needed to think twice. The interiors are a masterpiece in their own right and would be worth the trip with nothing in them at all.
But on the first day the house was so full that moving through it felt like queuing at an airport, except that in an airport queue everyone is at least going the same way. Here, everybody was in a desperate hurry and in no hurry whatsoever at once. The passages between the stands are narrow enough that when two people stop to greet each other, and they stop constantly, you do not go around them. You stand there, close enough to be part of the conversation, waiting for the person in front of you to move, and then the river carries you on to the next one.
A fair can count how many people came through the door, or it can count how many of them were actually able to stand still long enough to enjoy looking at something, and I suppose the second one should matter more to the galleries that are paying to be there. Most of what I saw, I saw over a shoulder while moving, and the only visitors with an unobstructed view were the ones pointing the camera at themselves.
None of which reads to me as a failure. Outgrowing your venue is the best problem an organization can have, and Paris has very clearly turned up. But what does a visitor actually take away from an afternoon in which both the venue and the collectible design inside it end up disappearing behind the noise, the blocked passages and somebody else’s reunion?
In the garden of the Hôtel de Maisons, Galerie Patrick Seguin presents a 6×6 demountable house by Jean Prouvé, entirely reconfigured as a traditional Japanese tea house.
Take a look inside!
At Design Miami.Paris, Boccara Gallery presents rare 20th-century textile works by Calder, Man Ray, Le Corbusier and more.
Monkeys, leaves, birds and mushrooms make up these playful stools at Design Miami by Parisian designer and gallerist Emma Donnersberg, created in collaboration with Ardmore.
Towards a Sea is Yu Nishimura’s first institutional solo exhibition in France. Across two floors at Lafayette Anticipations, the Japanese painter brings about fifty works that vary from a close-up portrait to a full- length silhouette, from a human face to an animal head, from a bicycle wheel to the clouds reflecting on the sea. Here’s a selection of works we saw and loved!
Exhibition opens to the public tomorrow, October 21st, and is free and open to all.
This afternoon, The Broad and the Fondation Louis Vuitton announced details of a major exhibition coming to Paris in Spring 2027.
As The Broad completes construction of its museum expansion that will open in 2028, the two institutions have come together to present 164 works in the foundation’s Frank Gehry-designed building, marking the most extensive exhibition of the museum’s collection ever mounted outside Los Angeles.
Spanning art scenes from New York to Los Angeles, the exhibition offers a panorama of American art, from Pop Art to younger generations of artists, alongside major works by leading figures in the Broad collection, including. Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami and William Kentridge. The exhibition will also include works by John Baldessari, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mark Bradford, Chris Burden, Keith Haring, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Roy Lichtenstein, Julie Mehretu, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, Lauren Halsey, and Patrick Martinez among others.
The Broad Collection – Los Angeles In Paris will take place from April 21 to August 30, 2027 at the Fondation Louis Vuitton.
A few highlights from Kerry James Marshall: The Histories at Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.
Considered one of the most influential contemporary painters, Kerry James Marshall is known for his large-scale compositions that centre Black people, frequently elevating the everyday to the epic.
The exhibition is on view until January 24, 2027.
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In collaboration with Design Miami, Apple’s Designers of Tomorrow brings together four emerging designers at Hôtel de Maisons in Paris, presenting original works that explore how objects can capture our attention and encourage more mindful interactions with our surroundings. This year’s showcase features Salem S. Charabi, Isabel Rower, Yoonjeong Lee, and Parafernalia, whose projects range from a lantern crafted from palm fronds to a transformable installation designed for shared experiences.
Navigating Paris Art Week is an art form in itself. From the heavyweight fairs and monumental museum exhibitions to independent interventions hidden inside unexpected venues, the city shifts into a high-speed cultural marathon. To help you cut through the noise, we have mapped out the definitive guide to the week. Discover our editors’ curated picks and use our interactive, neighborhood-by-neighborhood map to build your ultimate route through Paris.
