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If you are an art aficionado, you will definitely want to check out the following exhibitions that are now on display in the Paris area.

Ibrahim Mahama - The Harvest Season (through February 28, 2027)

The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain is presenting Le Temps des Récoltes (The Harvest Season), an exhibition featuring Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama and nine associate artists and collectives.

From the Fondation Cartier Website:

Ibrahim Mahama (b. 1987 in Tamale, Ghana) has gained international recognition with installations made from collected materials, archives, and fragments of industrial heritage, which he reactivates to shape new imaginaries. Since the 2010s, he has developed a body of work that explores Ghana’s colonial and postcolonial legacies. Drawing on his country’s industrial and commercial history, he explores the circulation of goods, the transmission of craftsmanship and the preservation of heritage. His work also highlights political, social, and economic continuities and ruptures, with particular attention paid to infrastructure, traces of the past, and collective dynamics.

The show occupies all of the Fondation Cartier’s new 8,500 square meters (almost 91,500 square feet) of public-access space, with some works created specifically for the site.  It also includes new versions of a selection of Mahama's best-known installations.

The artists and collectives whose works are also on display are Dorothy Akpene Amenuke, Gideon Appah, James Barnor, Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise, Courage Dzidula Kpodo & Postbox Ghana, Zohra Opoku, Tjaša Rener, Feda Wardak.

Click HERE to see the ~30-second video that introduces the exhibition.

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
2, place du Palais-Royal
75001 Paris
Metro: Palais Royal Musée du Louvre (Lines 1 and 7)
Hours: Tuesday to Thursday and Saturday to Sunday - 11 AM to 7 PM; Friday - 11 AM to 10 PM; Monday - closed
Admission: 15€; reduced price is 10€

Kwame Brathwaite - Black is Beautiful (through March 14, 2027)

Hosted by the Maison de la Photographie Robert Doisneau, this exhibition has been awarded the "Bicentennial of Photography" label by the Ministry of Culture and is part of the official Bicentennial program.

Produced by the Centre de la photographie de Mougins with the support of Les Amis du Centre de la photographie de Mougins, and organized in collaboration with The Kwame Brathwaite Archives, Black is Beautiful features Kwame Bratwaithe's pioneering work in birthing the eponymous movement and co-founding the African Jazz Arts Society and Studios (AJASS).  It is the first European retrospective for the artist.

Maison Doisneau
1, rue de la division du Général Leclerc
94250 Gentilly
RER B: Gentilly
Metro Hôpital de Bicêtre (Line 14)
Hours: Wednesday to Friday from 1:30 PM to 6:30 PM; Saturday and Sunday from 1:30 PM to 7 PM.
Admission: Free

Jordan Casteel - Winter Sun (through December 23, 2026)

Winter Sun is Jordan Casteel's first solo exhibition in France.  Organized by Thaddaeus Ropec Gallery in the Marais, it features paintings inspired by her experience as a new mother, works from her on-going "Subway Series" of portraits, which she began in 2015, and floral still lifes inspired by her love of gardening. 

Frieze Magazine lists it as one of the best exhibitions to see in Paris.

Casteel is a Denver, CO native who currently resides in New York.  An alum of the Studio Museum in Harlem, her work was recently displayed there as part of an installation of newly created works on paper by more than one hundred alumni that reflected on the history and impact of the program.

Click HERE to watch a 1-minute interview with the artist.

Thaddaeus Ropec Gallery
7, rue Debelleyme
75003 Paris
Metro: Filles du Calvaire and Saint Sébastien-Froissart (Line 8)
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday - 10 AM to 7 PM
Admission: Free

Kerry James Marshall - The Histories (through January 24, 2027)

From Paris Je t'Aime:

... the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is presenting the first retrospective in France dedicated to the contemporary American painter Kerry James Marshall, who reinterprets art history by placing Black people at the center of his works as a form of manifesto. Known for his colorful, monumental paintings, the artist addresses slavery, the civil rights movement, and the Black Power movement in the United States, capturing scenes of everyday life and popular culture. The exhibition, organized by the Royal Academy of Arts in London in collaboration with the Kunsthaus in Zurich, brings together 70 works, eight of which were created specifically for the event.

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (East wing of the Palais de Tokyo)
11 Avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday - 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (Thursday extended hours until 9:30 PM); closed Mondays
Admission: Around €17 for adults (reduced rates available; free for visitors under 18).  Advance timed-slot booking is recommended via the Paris Musées Ticketing Office.

You also don't want to miss Nate Lewis' Timbre in the Current at Zidoun & Bossuyt Gallery, which I wrote about last week: Nate Lewis at Zidoun & Bossuyt