Headed to Paris for Art Basel? Here are the 17 museum shows not to miss

‘Minimal’
Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection
From October 8, 2025 to January 19, 2026

In the 1960s, Minimalism sparked an artistic revolution with its stripped-down works, changing the viewer's relationship to space and the artwork-object. Through seven thematic sections, this exhibition, curated by Jessica Morgan, director of the Dia Art Foundation, traces the diversity within the movement. Agnes Martin, Lee Ufan, Lygia Pape, Rasheed Araeen and many others gather under the dome of the Bourse de Commerce for a dive into a movement that is as radical as it is influential.

‘Echo Delay Reverb: American Art and Francophone Thoughts’ and ‘Melvin Edwards’
Palais de Tokyo
From October 22, 2025 to February 15, 2026

Offered free rein at the Palais de Tokyo, art historian Naomi Beckwith (deputy director and Jennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, as well as director of the next edition of documenta) proposes an artistic investigation into the influence of francophone philosophers and theorists on American Postwar and contemporary art. Around 60 established artists (including Renée Green, Cindy Sherman, and Lorna Simpson) rub shoulders with younger figures (such as Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, and Char Jeré) to map out little-known cultural exchanges. In the other spaces, Melvin Edwards’s abstract sculptures are like homages to those who fought for their rights. Replete with musicality, his works are impregnated with poetry, and jazz, and showcase his relationships with French thinkers such as Léon-Gontran Damas and Édouard Glissant.