Alongside its curated themes, the 2026 edition will feature monographic exhibitions, the Promises sector for young galleries, an expanded French Design Art Edition, art prizes, and a dedicated presentation of African, South American and Caribbean artists from the City of Paris collection.

VIP and Press Preview: April 8, 2026 | 11 AM - 9 PM (by invitation only)
On View: April 9 – 12, 2026

January 14, 2026 (Paris, France) – Art Paris, the premier spring event for modern and contemporary art, returns to the Grand Palais from April 9 – 12, 2026. The 28th edition will host more than 160 galleries from over 20 countries, and unfold around two curated themes: Babel – Art and Language in France curated by Loïc Le Gall, and Reparation, curated by Alexia Fabre, examining language as a system of signs and reparation as a sustained practice of care, resistance, and continuity. Following the success of its inaugural edition in 2025, the French Design Art Edition returns with an expanded selection, alongside monographic exhibitions, major prizes, conferences, and institutional presentations. With its expanding international scope and multi-disciplinary programming, Art Paris 2026 continues to establish its role as a global crossroads for historical reflection, creativity and cultural exchange.

International galleries account for 40% of exhibitors, while French galleries represent 60%, and 30% first-time participants. This balance reflects the vitality of the French gallery ecosystem while opening it to a broad range of international perspectives. Art Paris 2026 also continues its commitment to emerging practices through the Promises sector, which will welcome 27 young galleries and artists. Among the first-time participants are French galleries Bendana-Pinel, In Situ - Fabienne Leclerc, Iragui Gallery, Pietro Sparta, and Galerie Papillon, and key international galleries Lumen Travo (Amsterdam), RocioSantaCruz (Barcelona), Cassandra Bird (Sydney, Paris), and Schenkweitzdörfer (Cologne), joining long-standing exhibitors like Galleria Continua, Lelong, Loevenbruck, Nathalie Obadia, Michel Rein, Almine Rech, Semiose, Templon, and Waddington Custot.

Babel – Art and Language in France by Loïc Le Gall

Babel – Art and Language in France is a themed visit through Art Paris 2026 that brings together 21 artists selected from the participating galleries and whose work explores the richness and, at times, the enigmas of systems of signs and linguistic structures in French contemporary art. In the words of the curator: “Some artists explore the material nature of letters themselves, whereas others examine the tension that exists between text and images, or tackle themes such as translation, the ambiguity of signs, the many and varied alphabets and the way in which words circulate across networks. The ensemble proves that art is a laboratory where the forms of language are observed and analysed, sometimes used in new contexts and often reinvented. Featuring creations that waver between figuration and abstraction, this themed visit is an invitation to rethink our relationship with words and symbols and the way in which, both individually and collectively, we construct and decode the reality of our surroundings.”

Reparation by Alexia Fabre

Alexia Fabre sets out to explore perspectives of reparation in contemporary art through the works of twenty international artists selected from the participating galleries. Reparation is a broad term: its meaning shifts across artists, cultures and temporalities. By making connections between the past, present and future, reparation evokes notions such as care, kindness and time spent preserving objects, ideas, people and stories. It seeks to put together fragments, to mend wounds – both physical and symbolic. It hints at injuries, wars, absences, suffering and oblivion, gesturing towards historical silences and injustices, as well as the hope of projecting a new and “entirely” reconstructed element into the future. Reparation conveys the idea of restoring the self, a story, or a reality that once was. It may be visible - marking its existence by a scar, or elusive, fading into invisibility. At times, reparation conceals the very traces it seeks to mend. It permeates both the intimate and the collective, connecting personal narratives with the state of the world itself, sometimes forging ties between the two. While it can imply notions of debt or compensation, here it speaks above all of resistance, resilience and reinvention. Reparation is about engaging in a sustained relationship that prioritizes doing rather than doing again, the desire to make things last, and the need for dialogue and mutual understanding with what has been repaired.

Selected Artists: Nú Barreto (b. 1966, Guinea-Bissau) • Galerie Nathalie Obadia | Oliver Beer (b. 1985, United Kingdom) • Galerie Almine Rech | Anaïs Boudot (b. 1984, France) • Binome | Javier Carro Temboury (b. 1997, Spain) • SAILLY | Teresa Gancedo (b. 1937, Spain) • Galeria RocioSantaCruz | Shilpa Gupta (b. 1976, India) • Galleria Continua | Aung Ko (b. 1980, Myanmar) • A2Z Art Gallery | Mehdi-Georges Lahlou (b. 1983, France) • Galerie Papillon | Rachel Labatie (b. 1978) • Galerie La Forest Divonne | Nge Lay (b. 1979, Myanmar) • A2Z Art Gallery | Duy Manh Nguyên (b. 1984, Vietnam) • Galerie BAO | Juanita Mclauchlan (b. 1975, Australia) • Cassandra Bird Gallery | Otobong Nkanga (b. 1974, Nigeria) - In Situ - Fabienne Leclerc & Lumen Travo | Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza (b. 1978, Ecuador) • Galerie Alain Gutharc | Enrique Ramírez (b. 1979, Chile) • Galerie Michel Rein | Ruddy Roye (b. 1969, Jamaica) • Galerie Polaris | Alison Saar (b. 1956, USA) • Galerie Lelong | Mary Sibande (b. 1982, South Africa) • Everard Read Gallery | Arthur Simms (b. 1961, Jamaica) • Galerie RX&SLAG | Sandra Vásquez de la Horra (b. 1967, Chile) • Galerie Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain

Promises | A Sector Focusing on Young Galleries and Emerging Artists

The Promises section is dedicated to galleries established less than ten years ago. It will welcome 27 galleries located along the southern balconies of the Grand Palais. The selection is overseen by Marc Donnadieu, member of the Art Paris selection committee and independent exhibition curator. 50% are first-time exhibitors at Art Paris, 56% are from France and the remaining 44% are foreign galleries that hail from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Singapore and the USA. They will be presenting a total of 56 artists, of whom 31 (55%) are women. Participating galleries may present up to three emerging artists. This section is supported by the fair, allowing for reduced exhibitor fees, with a rate of €10,000 (excluding VAT) for a 20 m2 booth.

24 Monographic Exhibitions

Interwoven throughout the main fair and the Promises sector, 24 monographic exhibitions offer visitors an unparalleled opportunity to delve deeply into the work of modern, contemporary, and emerging artists. These focused showcases provide an intimate exploration of individual creative visions, allowing visitors to discover or rediscover the work of modern, contemporary, and emerging artists.

French Design Art Edition | A Sector Devoted to Design and the Contemporary Decorative Arts

After the resounding success of its first edition in 2025, the Design sector is returning to the balconies on the north side of the Grand Palais Nave with a richer selection, including new voices in design. Curated by exhibition curators and Le FRENCH DESIGN directors Jean Paul Bath and Sandy Saad, the sector will host more than fifteen exhibitors, including interior designers, design studios, and galleries specializing in design, showcasing one-off pieces and limited series.

Le Fonds d'art contemporain - Paris Collections

Developing on the theme of Reparation that Alexia Fabre explores in her curated section, the Fonds d’art contemporain head curator Julie Gandini and the curatorial team set out to question the traces of France’s 20th century colonial heritage in the municipal collections with the desire to showcase 20th century artists from Africa, the Caribbean and South America. The selection will showcase works by artists such as Wilson Tiberio, Mohammed Issiakhem, Germaine Casse, Iba N’Diaye and Victoire Ravelonanosy. Such artists who lived and worked in a colonial context, each in their respective periods, are underrepresented in French public collections. By means of recent acquisitions, the Fonds d’art contemporain seeks to demonstrate how the institution can tackle this injustice and make amends. In the contemporary field, visitors will discover visions of resistance, resilience, care and how artists who are racialised or come from migrant backgrounds affirm their identity. As a partner of Art Paris, the Ville de Paris (Paris Municipality) will present the Fonds d’art contemporain - Paris Collections on a dedicated stand. The only public collection on display amongst the exhibiting galleries, the Ville de Paris’ art collection comprises almost 23,400 works dating from the end of the 19th century to the present day. Every year, new works are added to the collection as part of the municipality’s actions in support of artists.

The BNP Paribas Banque Privée Prize – A focus on the French scene

The BNP Paribas Banque Privée Prize - A focus on the French scene (with prize money totalling € 40,000) was jointly launched in 2024 by BNP Paribas Banque Privée and Art Paris. It rewards a living artist active on the French art scene. For its 3rd edition, the winner will be selected from among the artists exhibiting in Babel: Art and Language in France, curated by Loïc Le Gall. The winning artist will be selected by a prestigious jury made up of individuals from the art world who all share the common desire to support French creativity. Their name will be revealed during the opening ceremony of Art Paris 2026. This prize allows BNP Paribas Banque Privée to support an artist’s career and showcase how the artist’s gallery works to promote them and develop a wider awareness of their work. By underlining the correspondences between works that are already part of the history of art and those produced by emerging artists on the French art scene, the prize also establishes a dialogue between different generations.

The Her Art Prize | An internationally recognised prize for women artists in partnership with Marie Claire and Maison Boucheron

Art Paris and Marie Claire, a key magazine committed to defending the cause of women, are renewing the Her Art Prize for women artists launched in 2025, in partnership with Maison Boucheron. A prestigious jury will come together to choose a winner from among the women artists presented by this year’s exhibiting galleries. The winner will receive the Her Art Prize and € 30,000 in prize money presented by Maison Boucheron. In addition, the winning artist will benefit from a national and international promotional campaign organised Marie Claire and Art Paris. This prize will reward both the career of the artist and a body of work that contributes to shifting perspectives.

The Le FRENCH DESIGN Prize | 100 design projects that spread the influence of French creativity on an international level

On Thursday, 9 April 2026, as part of the 2nd edition of the French Design Art Edition, Art Paris will be hosting the FD100 awards ceremony. These distinctions reward the 100 interior design projects that have contributed to enhancing the reputation and influence of French creativity outside the country’s borders. Sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, these awards are a tribute to the entire design ecosystem: the designers, manufacturers and master craftsmen who are essential components of the French “art de vivre”.

NOTES TO EDITORS

Art Paris 2026 will be on view at the Grand Palais, from April 9 – 12, 2026.

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Opening Preview
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Thursday, April 9 | 12 – 8 PM
Friday, April 10 | 12 – 8 PM
Saturday, April 11 | 12 – 8 PM
Sunday, April 12 | 12 – 7 PM

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About Loïc Le Gall:

Art historian and exhibition curator Loïc Le Gall has been the director of the Passerelle Centre d’Art Contemporain in Brest since 2019, having previously worked at the Centre National des Arts Plastiques and the Centre Pompidou from 2013 to 2019. In parallel, from 2018 to 2019, he was in charge of Bonnevalle, an initiative in favour of young artists based in Noisy-le-Sec. Since 2011, he has organised around fifty exhibitions in different venues around France and abroad, including solo shows by Reda Boussella, Michele Ciacciofera, Rafael Domenech, Alia Farid, Apostolos Georgiou, Fanny Gicquel, Han Bing, Nathanëlle Herbelin, Laura Henno, Hoda Kashiha, Liang Yuanwei, Caroline Mesquita, Hanako Murakami, Luiz Roque, Sean Scully, Achraf Touloub and Philomena Williamson, to name but a few. He is a regular contributor to contemporary art journals, books and catalogues.

About Alexia Fabre:

Alexia Fabre is executive director of the Centre Pompidou Francilien in Massy. As a heritage curator she was previously in charge of running the project for the creation of the MAC VAL contemporary art museum. Amongst other activities, Alexia Fabre was artistic director of the Nuit Blanche Paris in 2009 and 2011 (together with Frank Lamy) and of the Biennale l’Art de la Joie in Quebec in 2017. She co-curated La Lune-du voyage réel aux voyages imaginaires at the RMN Grand Palais in 2019 alongside Philippe Malgouyres and was the president of Videomuseum, the professional network of public collections of modern and contemporary art, from 2018 to 2022. She has taught at the Ecole du Louvre and been a member of the Musée National d’Art Moderne acquisitions committee, associate curator at Grand Paris Express, president of the Prix Dauphine pour l’Art Contemporain and a member of the Prix Emerige. From 2022 to March 2025, she directed the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris, where she defended the values of diversity and inclusivity, the recognition of artists and their implication in society and present-day issues. In 2024 / 2025, she curated the 17th Biennale de Lyon - Les voix des fleuves / Crossing the water.

About Marc Donnadieu:

Marc Donnadieu is an art critic and independent exhibition curator. He was previously chief curator at Photo Élysée (Musée Cantonal pour la Photographie, Lausanne), after having worked as curator of contemporary art at LaM Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut (2010- 2017) and as the director of the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Haute-Normandie (1999- 2010). He has curated or co-curated several major exhibitions, both solo shows and themed exhibits in the field of contemporary photography, drawing practices, present-day representations of the body in art, identity processes at work in society today, the relationship between art and architecture and between photography and art brut. He has been a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art (AICA) since 1997 and has contributed to numerous French and international periodicals, including Art Press since 1994. He has also taken part in the production of several dozen catalogues, monographs and themed publications in the fields of the visual arts, architecture, design and fashion.

Exhibitors list 2026

General Sector

Galerie XII (Paris, Santa Monica)* • 193 Gallery (Paris, Venise, Saint Tropez) • 313 Art Project (Séoul, Paris) • 1831 Art Gallery (Paris)* • 3812 Gallery (Hong Kong, London) • Galerie 8+4 (Paris) • Galerie 9e Art (Paris)* • A&R Fleury (Paris) • A2Z Art Gallery (Paris) • AD Galerie Montpellier (Mauguio)* • Alzueta Gallery (Barcelona, Madrid, Casavells, Paris) • AMS Galería (Santiago) • Galerie Andres Thalmann (Zurich, Paris) • Argo Fine Arts (Paris)* • Galerie Ariane C-Y (Paris)* • Galerie Arts d’Australie • Stéphane Jacob (Paris)* • Galerie Bacqueville (Lille) • Saleh Barakat Gallery (Beirut) • Baudoin Lebon (Clairefontaine- en-Yvelines)* • Albert Benamou - Véronique Maxé (Neuilly-sur-Seine)* • Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain (Paris)* • Galerie Berès (Paris) • Galerie Claude Bernard (Paris) • Bildhalle (Zurich, Amsterdam) • Galerie Binome (Paris) • Galerie Boquet (Paris) • Galerie Camera Obscura (Paris) • Galerie Capazza (Nançay) • Chalk Horse (Sydney) • Galerie Chauvy (Paris)* • Galleria Continua (San Gimignano, Beijing, Boissy-le-Châtel, Havana, Rome, São Paulo, Paris) • Galerie Da-End (Paris)* • Dilecta (Paris) • Ditesheim & Maffei Fine Art (Neuchâtel) • Galeria Marc Domènech (Barcelona) • Galerie Dutko (Paris) • Galerie de l’Élysée (Paris)* • Everard Read (Cape Town, Johannesburg, London, Franschhoek)* • Clémentine de la Féronnière (Paris) • Les filles du calvaire (Paris) • Galerie Claire Gastaud (Clermont-Ferrand, Paris) • Gowen (Genève) • Galerie Alain Gutharc (Paris) • H Gallery (Paris) • H.A.N. Gallery (Séoul) • Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery (London, Miami) • Huberty & Breyne (Brussels, Paris) • Ibasho (Anvers) • In situ - Fabienne Leclerc (Romainville)* • Galerie Catherine Issert (Saint-Paul-de-Vence) • Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger (Paris, Lisbon) • Galerie Martina Kaiser (Cologne)* • Galerie Kaléidoscope (Paris) • Koren Gallery (Paris) • Galerie La Forest Divonne (Paris, Brussels) • Galerie Lahumière (Paris) • Yvon Lambert (Paris) • galerie lange + pult (Genève, Auvernier) • Alexis Lartigue (Paris) • Galerie Lelong (Paris) • Galerie Claude Lemand (Paris) • Galerie Pol Lemétais (Toulouse)* • Fabienne Levy (Lausanne, Geneva, Zurich) • Galerie Françoise Livinec (Paris, Huelgoat) • Loevenbruck (Paris) • Loo & Lou Gallery (Paris)* • Lumen Travo Gallery (Amsterdam)* • Galerie Maria Lund (Paris) • MALA Gallery (Paris, Nice) • Galleria Anna Marra (Rome) • Galerie Martel (Paris, Brussels) • MEL Publisher (Paris) • Modesti Perdriolle Gallery (Brussels) • Galerie Najuma – Fabrice Miliani (Marseille) • Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris, Bruxelles) • Oniris.art (Rennes) • Opera Gallery (Paris) • Galerie Papillon (Paris)* • Paris-B (Paris) • Pavec (Paris) • Galerie Christophe Person (Paris, Brussels) • Alina Pinsky (Moscou, Paris) • Galerie Polaris (Paris) • Galerie Catherine Putman (Paris) • Almine Rech (Paris, New York, Brussels, Shanghai, Monaco, Londres) • Michel Rein (Paris, Brussels) • Galerie Mélanie Rio Fluency (Nantes)* • Ritsch-Fisch (Strasbourg) • RocioSantaCruz (Barcelona)* • RX&SLAG (Paris, New York) • Schenkweitzdörfer (Cologne)* • Semiose (Paris) • Isabelle Serrano Fine Art Gallery (Mexico)* • Setareh (Düsseldorf, Berlin, London)* • Sèvres - Manufacture nationale (Sèvres, Paris) • Edouard Simoens (Knokke)* • Verart Véronique Smagghe (Paris) • Pietro Sparta (Chagny)* • Spazio Nuovo (Rome, Amsterdam) • Strouk (Paris) • Galleria Studio G7 (Bologne)* • Galerie Tanit (Beirut, Munich) • Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve (Paris) • Templon (Paris, Bruxelles, New York) • Galerie Traits Noirs (Paris)* • Galerie Patrice Trigano (Paris) • Galerie Dina Vierny (Paris) • W&K - Wienerroither & Kohlbacher (Vienne, New York) • Waddington Custot (London, Paris, Dubaï) • Galerie Wagner (Paris, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage) • Galerie Esther Woerdehoff (Paris, Geneva) • Galerie Zlotowski (Paris)

Promises Sector

22,48m2 (Romainville) • AA Gallery (Casablanca)* • Galerie Alain Hélou (Brest)* • Galerie Bao (Paris)* • Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard (Paris) • The Bridge Gallery (Paris) • C+N Gallery Canepaneri (Genoa, Milan) • Cassandra Bird Gallery (Sydney, Paris)* • Chiguer art contemporain (Montréal, Ville de Québec) • Cuturi Gallery (Singapore) • Valérie Delaunay (Paris) • EDJI Gallery (Bruxelles) • Galerie Echo 119 (Paris) • Galerie Idéale (Paris) • Iragui Gallery (Romainville)* • Grège Gallery (Brussels)* • Porte B. (Paris)* • Camille Pouyfaucon (Paris) • Galerie La peau de l’ours (Brussels) • Prima (Paris) • Galerie Pauline Renard (Lille)* • Reuter Bausch Art Gallery (Luxembourg)* • Sailly (Biarritz)* • Michèle Schoonjans Gallery (Brussels) • Salon H (Paris) • The Spaceless Gallery (Paris, Miami)* • Studio 23 (Gand)*

French Design Art Edition

Andrée Putman Studio (Paris)* • Bruno Moinard Editions (Paris) • Diana Ghandour Studio (Beirut)* • Emma Donnersberg (Paris)* • Franck Genser (Paris)* • Hom Le Xuan (Paris)* • India Mahdavi (Paris)* • Maison Berthès (Paris)* • Nicolas Aubagnac (Paris) • Pierre Bonnefille (Paris) • Philippe Hurel (Paris) • Reda Amalou Design (Paris) • Rinck (Paris) • Seraphyn Design (Saint Barthélemy)* • School Gallery (Paris)* • Things From / LGD Distribution (Paris)* • Veronese (Paris)* • Galerie Zèbres (Paris)

*first-time participants or galleries returning to Art Paris after a hiatus.

Other Exhibitors

Art Absolument • Le Fonds d’art contemporain • Paris Collections

Monographic Exhibition

Image Credits :

2. Isidore Isou, Composition lettriste, 1986. Courtesy Galerie Patrice Trigano.

3. Yasmine Hadni, Pyramide, 2024. Courtesy AA Gallery.

4. India Mahdavi, Criss Cross Paravent, 2022. Courtesy India Mahdavi.

5. Diana Ghandour, la chaise, 2025. Courtesy Diana Ghandour Studio.

6. Fabienne Verdier, Vivre à deux, 2024. Courtesy Galerie Lelong.

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ART PARIS ANNOUNCES ITS 28TH EDITION AT THE GRAND PALAIS | A CURATED PROGRAM ON LANGUAGE, REPARATION AND DESIGN