Ultimate Parisian art galleries guide

While culture can have a certain cost, especially in Paris when you’re a tourist, it is made completely free thanks to the art galleries.  Discover our ultimate Parisian art galleries guide !

GALERIE PERROTIN

The Perrotin gallery is a set of contemporary art galleries (Paris, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul, Tokyo and Shanghai) founded by Emmanuel Perrotin from the 90’s in Paris. It is probably one of the most famous galleries from this list, and is located in the Marais, in a mansion. You can find  installations, paintings, sculptures, videos, photographs, or even performances. Amongst the fifty or so artists exposed there, there’s Daniel Arsham, Takashi Murakami, Maurizio Cattelan… 

GALERIE PERROTIN
From Tuesday to Saturday – 11AM-7PM
76, rue de Turenne
75003 Paris

10, Impasse Saint-Claude
75003 Paris

2bis Avenue Matignon
75008 Paris

GALERIE TEMPLON (RUE BEAUBOURG)

With more than 400 exhibitions, the Daniel Templon gallery has won an international reputation and is now one of the most recognized art galleries of Europe since its creation in 1966. Today, the gallery represents 30 or so international artists. Its program seeks to promote a dialog between different generations : established artists from “classical” contemporary art, international artists from middle carreers, and young artists’ experiences. The last exhibition that made a mark on 2nd Try is the one from Ivan Navarro, you can find a small recap of the exhibition on 2nd Try’s Instagram account. 

GALERIE TEMPLON
From Tuesday to Saturday –  10AM-7PM
– Closed in August –
30, rue Beaubourg
75003 Paris

28, rue du Grenier Saint-Lazare
75003 Paris

104 PARIS

Located in the 19th arrondissement, CENTQUATRE-PARIS is a gigantic space gathering several forms of  art and culture, there are exhibitions,  shows, concerts… This multi-cultural space was imagined by José-Manuel Gonçalvès and his teams as a collaborative artistic platform, always offering a contemporary programmation on point.

CENT-QUATRE 
From Tuesday to Friday –  12AM-7PM
From Saturday to Sunday – 11AM-7PM
5, rue Curial
75019 Paris

GALERIE GOLDSHTEYN-SAATORT

This is the latest gallery in Paris, it opened its doors in December 2020 in the 7th arrondissement. Maybe the timing was not perfect, but the success was already there. Founded by Alla Goldshteyn, Romain Tortevoix and Jonathan Saada, the gallery wants to be a true space of dialog between artists and their public, with an original touch : a bar. If you’re not really interested in the artists, maybe the bar would make you come visiting anyway. 

GALERIE GOLDSHTEYN-SAATORT
From Tuesday to Saturday – 11AM-7PM
7, rue de Verneuil
75007 Paris

LOFT DU 34

More than a gallery, Loft du 34 is an atypical place dedicated to street art. It is located in an old apartment converted in a 160 m2 exhibition space. What we liked about this place are the new creations that accompany its retrospectives (phosphorescent canvas, varied medium or wood sculptures).

LOFT DU 34
Monday – 2PM-7PM
From Thrusday to Sunday – 2PM-7PM
34 rue du Dragon 75006 Paris

GALERIE SATOR

Founded by Vincent Sator, the Galerie Sator has a calling : to promote emerging French and international contemporary artists. It has a very humanist identity, with the idea of a contextual contemporary art related to an era, a society or world thought and referenced by history, science, music… There’s always a questioning about the human place in our society today, in a picture-saturated world.

GALERIE SATOR
From Wednesday to Saturday – 11AM-7PM
43 rue de la Commune de Paris
93230 Romainville

From Wednesday to Saturday – 2PM-7PM
8 passage des Gravilliers
75003 Paris

GALERIE BACKSLASH

The gallery offers an international and eclectic program. It supports emerging plastic artists and well-known artists  and accompanies them in all aspects of their careers. We’re thinking for example of Rero. 

GALERIE BACKSLASH
From Tuesday to Saturday – 2PM-7PM
29 rue Notre-Dame de Nazareth
75003 Paris

GALERIE PARIS BEIJING

The Galerie Paris-Beijing is sensitive to artists questionning our relation to power and society. Since 2017, the gallery devotes time to PBProject, an exhibition space, to the support and care of new artists.

GALERIE PARIS BEIJING
From Tuesday to Saturday – 11AM-7PM
62, rue de Turbigo  
75003 Paris

GALERIE A2Z

Founded in 2009 by Ziwei Li et Anthony Phuong, coming from China and Vietnam, the contemporary art gallery mostly displays Asian artists. Its goal is to support a selection of international artists, with only a few interferences, to express the social and technological changes  happening in the whole world.

GALERIE A2Z
From Tuesday to Saturday – (Monday on appointments) 11AM-7PM
24 Rue de I’Echaude
75006 Paris

GALERIE ALB

The Galerie ALB is the one always sensation at the Art Paris Art Fair thanks to an explosive program and scenography. It has a reputation for its choice of emerging in-depth artists. Specialized in realism, hyperrealism, and different aesthetics, you can mostly find drawings, paintings and installations.

GALERIE ALB
From Tuesday to Saturday – 11AM-7PM
47 Rue Chapon,
75003 Paris

GALERIE LJ

Founded by Adeline Jeudy and Claude Lemarié in 2007, the Galerie LJ is located in the Marais. The gallery’s program has an interest in graphic artists, painters, engravers and emerging sculptors, that offer a vision of our contemporary world through narration and figuration’s prism.

GALERIE LJ
From Tuesday to Saturday – 11AM-7PM
12 rue Commines
75003 Paris

GALERIE MAGDA DANYSZ

The gallery supports artists that emerge in urban art but also leading figures in photography, sculpture, new medium, that offer a rich and varied look on contemporary creation. Also, the gallery’s commitment goes beyond its international artists to young emerging artists.

GALERIE MAGDA DANYSZ
From Tuesday to Saturday – 11AM-7PM
78 rue Amelot
75011 Paris

GALERIE ANGE BASSO

Dedicated to contemporary art, the Galerie Ange Basso supports and guides a selection of emerging artists. You can also find important artists such as Banksy or Invader and other artists that made a mark on contemporary art. There’s a certain 80’s contemporary art nostalgia. 

GALERIE ANGE BASSO
From Monday to Saturday – 11AM-7PM
20-22 rue de Seine
75006 Paris

GALERIE ARTS FACTORY

Founded in 1996 by Effi Mild and Laurent Zorzin, Arts Factory explores the graphic scene : drawings, illustrations, comic books and graphic design. It is located in the 11th arrondissement in the Lavignes-Bastille’s old gallery’s local. It takes form as a library and 250m² divided in 4 levels.

GALERIE ARTS FACTORY
From Monday to Saturday – 12:30AM-7:30PM
27, rue de Charonne
75011 Paris

GALLERIA CONTINUA

Already installed at San Gimignano, Beijing, La Havane, Rome, Sao Paulo and Moulins (77), Galleria Continua expanded itself and opened its doors in Paris in the beginning of 2021 with the famous artist  JR. It is a mix of a supermarket and a contemporary art gallery, so you can buy some pasta as well as an art piece !

GALLERIA CONTINUA
From Tuesday to Saturday – 10AM-6PM
87 rue du Temple
75003 Paris