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Javier Calleja — Curiously

Almine Rech
64 rue de Turenne, 75003 Paris
Until July 25, 2026
Calleja conceived this show with the cabinet of curiosities in mind — a density of works whose messages answer one another across the room.
The large-eyed figures that populate his canvases hover between innocence and unease. Something is always about to happen. Nothing is resolved.
That is the point.

Yussef Agbo-Ola — Inside the Waterfall, 12 Bones Birthed a Flower

Baró Galeria
12 Galerie Véro-Dodat, 75001 Paris
Until August 29, 2026
Yussef Agbo-Ola’s debut solo exhibition in Paris unfolds inside one of the city’s oldest covered passages — Véro-Dodat, dating from 1826 — as if the building itself were waiting for these altar-like sculptures, textiles and cast metals.
Yoruba and Cherokee cosmologies, bone, water, flower.
Site-responsive in the fullest sense.

Rémi Noël — Poetry Wanted

Bigaignon
18 rue du Bourg-Tibourg, 75004 Paris
Until July 18, 2026
Photography, language and conceptual détournement.
Rémi Noël works at the intersection of image and text, questioning how contemporary imaginaries are built.
Last days — do not miss it.
Javier Calleja — Curiously at Almine Rech Paris
Javier Calleja, Curiously, 2026 © Almine Rech, Paris / Photo Rebecca Fanuele

Re-Situ Recommends: Frenchie

6 rue du Nil, 75002 Paris
Gregory Marchand’s quiet institution sits on a narrow pedestrian street.
An understated room, a sharp wine list and cooking that treats the season as the menu. Ten minutes from the Marais galleries.
Booking essential.

Off the Map

Mains d’avenir — Les Métiers d’Art de Chanel

Galerie du 19M
2 place Skanderbeg, 75019 Paris
Until July 19, 2026 · Free
Last Chance
Six hundred artisans. One building by Rudy Ricciotti, at the northern edge of Paris.
This sensory exhibition opens the workshops behind some of the most extraordinary clothes in the world: feathers, embroidery and goldwork.
Free admission. Closes in eleven days.
Worth the trip.

1,2,3, à vos papiers — Betremieux, Navasse, Pillard

Galerie Area, Paris
Until August 8, 2026
Opening Today
Three artists working with paper as both medium and subject.
The kind of show that fills up quietly over the summer and becomes difficult to see afterward. Go early in the run.

Alexis Wong — Intervalles perméables (Porous Pauses)

Galerie LooLoolook
July 9–26, 2026
Opening Tomorrow
A young artist exploring the threshold between presence and absence, visibility and void.
Opening tomorrow evening. The kind of gallery to know before everyone else does.

Galerie du 19M — Mains d’avenir, 2026 © Chanel / 19M, Paris

Re-Situ Recommends: Aux Folies

8 rue de Belleville, 75020 Paris
Open since the 1930s, Aux Folies has a red awning, a zinc bar and regulars who have been coming since before you were born.
A café-tabac that Belleville has somehow kept intact while everything around it changed.
Order a pression. Stay for another.

Les Immanquables

Leonora Carrington — Retrospective

Musée du Luxembourg
19 rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris
Until July 19, 2026
Last Chance
126 works. The first major survey in France entirely dedicated to Leonora Carrington — British-Mexican, surrealist, feminist and ecologist long before those words were combined.
Animals, alchemy, domestic magic and cosmic forces.
Eleven days left. Do not leave Paris without seeing it.

Hilma af Klint — Paintings for the Temple

Grand Palais
Until August 30, 2026
Still the must-see of the summer.
Vast, visionary canvases made in secret for a temple that was never built. Seeing them at Grand Palais scale is one of those rare experiences that shifts something permanently.

Clair-Obscur

Bourse de Commerce — Pinault Collection
Until August 24, 2026
From Caravaggio to Pierre Huyghe, 100 works trace the way darkness has shaped the Western imagination.
A summer exhibition with the weight of winter.

Animalia — Al Thani Collection

Hôtel de la Marine, Place de la Concorde
Until January 10, 2027
Over 120 objects spanning 5,000 years and four continents, united by one obsession: the animal.
The building alone is worth the detour.
Leonora Carrington — Edwardian Hunt Breakfast, 1956

Leonora Carrington, “Edwardian Hunt Breakfast” (1956) © Estate of Leonora Carrington / ADAGP, Paris / Musée du Luxembourg

Re-Situ Recommends: Lapérouse

51 quai des Grands Augustins, 75006 Paris
One of the oldest restaurants in Paris — established in 1766 — overlooking the Seine, five minutes from the Musée du Luxembourg.
Its private dining rooms contain eighteenth-century mirrors still etched by courtesans checking for fake diamonds.
The food has kept pace with the history.
Reserve for lunch and go slowly.

A Paris That Reveals Itself Slowly

No two cities reveal themselves the same way twice.
Neither will this one.
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