Re-Situ Edit #08: Paris, After Summer

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
From September 18, 2026 to January 24, 2027

Kerry James Marshall’s first major exhibition in France brings together around seventy works, including eight new paintings.

His work asks who gets to appear in the history of art, and how representation can reshape the stories a culture tells about itself. The scale of the exhibition promises an encounter with a painter whose work is both formally exacting and deeply engaged with the public life of images.

A significant opening for the new Parisian season.

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
From September 18, 2026 to January 24, 2027

Simone Fattal’s work moves between sculpture, poetry, archaeology and memory.

Her figures and objects seem to have travelled through several civilisations before arriving in the present. There is something quiet and elemental in the work, a sense of forms carrying stories that are only partly visible.

Presented alongside Kerry James Marshall, the exhibition offers another way of entering the new season.

Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine
Until January 3, 2027

Some buildings are inherited. Others have to be defended.

Heritage in Resistance looks at monuments, cities and cultural landscapes threatened by conflict. Through drawings, contemporary works and digital reconstructions, the exhibition asks what it means to preserve a place when the place itself has been damaged or erased.

Heritage is never only about the past. It is also about what a city chooses to remember, protect and rebuild.

Paris has its monumental avenues, but it also has another network of quieter roads.

Behind gates, hedges and old walls, the city loosens its pace. Traffic recedes. The scale changes. A few steps can take you from the density of Paris into something closer to a garden suburb.

Villa Seurat, in the 14th arrondissement, is a small private street of artists’ studio houses, partly designed by the modernist architect André Lurçat. Villa Santos-Dumont, in the 15th, keeps another trace of the city’s artistic history, with its planted paths, workshops and quiet façades.

These are residential streets, still inhabited and still private. They are best approached slowly and observed from the public way, with respect for those who live there.

The pleasure lies in noticing the trees, the proportions of the houses, the old surfaces and the feeling of a different Paris just beyond the main road.

Late summer is the right moment for this kind of walk. The light is softer, the city has begun to empty and the shade lasts a little longer.

Musée Picasso Paris
Until September 6, 2026

Henry Taylor’s paintings begin with observation.

People, interiors, gestures and fragments of ordinary life become subjects without losing their ambiguity. The work does not explain itself. It asks to be looked at for longer than expected.

A final opportunity to see the exhibition before the summer programme gives way to the new season.

Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac
Until September 6, 2026

Kwame Akoto’s work brings together painting, place and the experience of looking.

The exhibition offers a chance to encounter an artist whose work moves between the personal and the collective, between the immediate surface of an image and the wider histories it carries.

One of the last exhibitions to see before Paris turns fully towards September.