The month of September is always symbolically inscribed in change and novelty. As summer begins to bow out, it's time for museums to welcome the new exhibitions. And this season promises to be rich for the world of culture. Modern art, fashion art, photographic art or contemporary art, there will be something for everyone. JustFocus has therefore prepared a small overview of the long-awaited exhibitions in Paris.
Exhibitions of paintings
Botticelli, Artist and designer
Among the most anticipated exhibitions, there is that of the Jacquemart-André Museum dedicated to the painting Sandro Botticelli (1445 – 1510). Known for his famous painting The Birth of Venus, he is undoubtedly one of the best-known painters of the Italian Renaissance. Through some forty works by the artist and his Florentine contemporaries, the exhibition focuses on highlighting his creative genius, his studio, his influence and his influence under the Medici.
Practical information: Musée Jacquemart-André, 158, boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris From 10 September to 24 January 2022 Full price: 17 € / Reduced price: 13 €
Julie Manet, the impressionist memory
For the first time, the Musée Marmottan Monet is devoting an exhibition to Julie Manet, only daughter of Berthe Morisot and niece of Édouard Manet. The objective of this exhibition is to reflect the importance of the role she played in art: from her childhood to her family and friends, to her collection that she undertook with her husband Ernest Rouart to the donations, legacies and dations she made to support French museums.
Practical information: Musée Marmottan Monet, 2, rue Louis-Boilly, 75016 Paris From 19 October to 20 March 2022 Full price: 12 € / Reduced price: 8,5 €
David Hockney. A Year in Normandy
The Musée de l'Orangerie presents the work of the famous British painter, David Hockney, who made during his confinement, in Normandy. Using an iPad, he then creates a huge fresco that traces the cycle of the seasons. He is inspired both by the Tapestry of Queen Mathilde that he was able to observe at the Bayeux Museum, and also by the Impressionists and in particular by Claude Monet's Water Lilies cycle, visible in the museum.
Practical information: Musée de l'Orangerie, Jardin des Tuileries, Place de la Concorde (Seine side), 75001 Paris From 13 October to 14 February 2022 Full price: 12,5 € / Reduced price: 10 €
Exhibitions on icons of modern art
The exhibition on Georgia O'Keeffe
For its new school year, the Centre Pompidou has a dense exhibition programme. He devoted for the first time in France, a retrospective of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), on her entire artistic career. Between paintings, drawings and photographs, the exhibition highlights this artist considered one of the greatest figures of North American art of the twentieth century. Known for her paintings of flowers in acid colors, she painted America and its landscapes, in an authentic and singular style. Free in her painting as in her life, she has been able to cross seventy years of history of American painting.
Practical information: Centre Pompidou, Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris From 8 September to 6 December 2021 Full price: 14 € / Reduced price: 11 €
Anni and Josef Albers and the democratization of art
Curated by Julia Garimorth, assisted by Sylvie Moreau-Soteras, the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris is organizing an exhibition dedicated to Anni and Josef Albers. Placing the function of art at the heart of their thinking, they seek to highlight craftsmanship and industrial production (which the Bauhaus supports) in order to democratize art. The exhibition brings together more than three hundred and fifty works of paintings, photographs, furniture, graphic works and textiles. The works presented thus testify to the artistic development of the two artists, considered today as founders of modernism. Beyond this particularly rich and dense presentation, this is the first exhibition in France dedicated to this couple of artists who will have an immense influence for generations to come.
Practical information: Musée d'Art Moderne, 11 avenue du Président Wilson, 75116 Paris From 10 September to 9 January 2022 Full price: 14 € / Reduced price: 12 €
Photography exhibitions
Vivian Maier, one of the greatest photographers of the twentieth century
The Musée du Luxembourg retraces the atypical career of one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century, Vivian Maier (New York, 1926 – Chicago, 2009). Indeed, it is through her position as a children's governess that she meticulously captures everyday and urban life. Each of his photographs reveals the gap between the American dream and modernity with behind the scenes. His work also testifies to the great social and political changes that American society is experiencing in the 50s. The exhibition then gives us to see unpublished archives of the photographer, discovered in 2007.
Practical information: Musée du Luxembourg, 19, rue de Vaugirard, 75006 Paris From 15 September to 16 January 2022 Full price: 14,5 € / Reduced price: 10,5 €
Photographic masterpieces of MoMA. The Thomas Walther Collection
The Jeu de Paume Museum presents for the first time outside New York, the incredible acquisition of MoMA, by Swiss collector Thomas Walther. Between 2001 and 2016, the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) acquired no less than 350 photographs, constituting one of the pillars of MoMA's modern collection. We then find major works of the first half of the twentieth century such as the photographs of Berenice Abbott, Karl Blossfeldt, Claude Cahun, El Lissitzky, Edward Weston or André Kertész.
Practical information: Musée du Jeu de Paume, 1 place de la Concorde, Jardin des Tuileries, 75001 Paris From 14 September 2021 to 13 February 2022 Full price: 10 € / Reduced price: 7.50 €
Art and fashion at the heart of exhibitions Thierry Mugler: couturissime. 
The Museum of Decorative Arts has a habit of presenting memorable exhibitions on fashion. After Canada, the Netherlands and Germany, it is now his turn to host the exhibition Thierry Mugler: couturissime. Thierry Mugler has been driving energy and dynamism in the world of fashion for almost 50 years, allowing him to make a place for himself. In his image, this retrospective traces the entire career of the couturier, between perfumes, photographs, haute couture, fashion shows, models, shows.
Practical information: Musée des Arts Décoratifs, 107 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris From 30 September 2021 to 24 April 2022 Full price: 14 €
Vogue Paris. 1920-2020
The Palais Galliera traces the centenary history of Vogue Paris magazine founded by Condé Nast in 1920. This is an unprecedented exhibition that presents the evolution of the magazine over time. Actor of fashion and defender of creation, the magazine reflects the different eras to which it is a part. Indeed, it is in the heart of Paris, the capital of fashion, that he has captured the different evolutions of fashion, between creation, adaptation and anticipation.
Practical information: Palais Galliera, Musée de la mode de la Ville de Paris, 10, Avenue Pierre Ier de Serbie, 75116 Paris From 2 October to 30 January 2022 Full price: 14 € / Reduced price: 12 €
Exhibitions, between reflections and political questions
Paris – Athens, Birth of Modern Greece 1675 ‐ 1919
Organized on the occasion of the bicentenary of the Greek Revolution of 1821, the exhibition aims to highlight the links between Greece and European culture, in particular by following the thread of relations between Paris and Athens. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, ambassadors on their way to the Sublime Porte discovered an Ottoman province in Greece, which was of great interest to artists and intellectuals. In 1821, the Greek War of Independence, supported militarily and financially by some European countries, aroused popular enthusiasm. Liberated in 1829, Greece proclaimed Athens as its capital in 1834. Influenced by the German and French presence on its territory, the new Greek state built its modern cultural identity by drawing on the sources of French and German neoclassicism.
Practical information: Louvre Museum, Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris From 30 September to 7 February 2022 Full price: 18 €
Lights of Lebanon. Modern and contemporary art from 1950 to today
With this exhibition, the Institut du Monde Arabe highlights modern and contemporary artists from Lebanon, as well as its diasporas, from 1950 to the present day. Thus, through seven decades of art history, the Lebanese art scene testifies and echoes the various events that the country will experience: the effervescence after the independence of Lebanon, in 1943, the end and post-Second World War, the tears of the civil war and exile, artistic bubbling in the face of globalization. The Lumières du Liban exhibition also takes place one year after the explosion that took place on August 4, 2020 ravaging the port of Beirut. It pays tribute to the resilience and dynamism of Lebanese artists such as Shafic Abboud, Etel Adnan, Saliba Douaihy, Paul Guiragossian, Hussein Madi, Assadour, Chaouki Choukini, Ayman Baalbaki, Zad Moultaka, Serwan Baran, Hala Matta, Hiba Kalache, Zena Assi and Tagreed Darghouth.
Practical information: Institut du Monde Arabe, 1 Rue des Fossés Saint-Bernard, 75005 Paris From 21 September 2021 to 2 January 2022 Full price: 8 € / Reduced price: 6 €
Contemporary art exhibitions
Narcissus' Theorem. Jean-Michel Othoniel
From September 28, 2021 to January 2, 2022, the Petit Palais invites the artist Jean-Michel Othoniel to invest the museum and its garden. Organized with the support of the Perrotin Gallery and under the patronage of Christian Dior Parfums, the exhibition then presents seventy new works and a new realization The Theorem of Narcissus. This is the artist's largest solo exhibition in Paris since his My Way retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in 2011. In dialogue with the architecture of the Palace and its gardens, the works tend to re-enchant visitors and continue the theory of reflections initiated by the artist ten years ago.
Practical information: Petit Palais – Musée des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Avenue Wintson Churchill, 75008 Paris From 14 September 2021 to 13 February 2022 The exhibition Jean-Michel Othoniel, The Theorem of Narcisse is free of charge.
Marcel Duchamp Prize 2021
Created in 2000, the Marcel Duchamp Prize is an unmissable event for contemporary art. It takes place every year at the Centre Pompidou. It thus highlights the emerging French scene, with the most representative artists of their generation. Towards an international influence, its goal is also to highlight the great diversity of contemporary art practices. The nominees of the 2021 edition are Julian Charrière, Isabelle Cornaro, Julien Creuzet and Lili Reynaud Dewar.
Practical information: Centre Pompidou, Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris From 6 October 2021 to 3 January 2022 Full price: 14 € / Reduced price: 11 €
Martha Wilson in Halifax, 1972–1974
The Centre Pompidou also presents the work of Martha Wilson (born in 1947 in Philadelphia). Through this exhibition, the museum aims to highlight the singular personality of the artist in the history of American art. Indeed, she is one of the first women to use her body to question social representations of the feminine. A pioneer, she distinguished herself in the field of conceptual practices, in a radical irony, in the early 1970s.
Practical information: Centre Pompidou, Place Georges-Pompidou, 75004 Paris From 20 October 2021 to 31 January 2022 Full price: 14 € / Reduced price: 11 €
You can also read other articles on the JustFocus website that feature art exhibitions that are still ongoing:
- Divas, from Oum Kalthoum to Dalida, at the Institut du Monde Arabe, until 26 September 2021
- Les Extatiques, at La Défense, until October 3rd.
- Cherry Blossoms by Damien Hirst, at the Fondation Cartier, until January 2, 2022
- Napoleon, at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris, until December 19, 2021
