Shane Rossi: Mental
Mental is the first solo exhibition in Europe by the New York-based artist Shane Rossi. Shane Rossi recently had a solo exhibition at Ramiken in New York.
What to see in Paris galleries this week
Gallop's picks for Paris galleries, October 30–November 5, 2026: 4 shows worth the trip, plus 2 openings and 4 last chances, each with a note from Gallop's editors.
Our picks
Amoako Boafo: The Home I Have Never Had
Amoako Boafo turns the gallery into an immersive environment, bringing the idea of home to the forefront of the practice for the first time. Boafo paints friends, family and fellow artists, applying oil paint with the fingertips, a technique developed while studying in Vienna.
Tracey Emin: I Will Miss You Yesterday, I Will Miss You Today, I Will Miss You Tomorrow, And That's How It Will Always Be
Tracey Emin's latest works draw on autobiography, with scenes from her home in Margate with her cats and her experience of a life-threatening illness and loss. The exhibition brings together bronze sculptures and new paintings.
Arlene Shechet: Kind of Blue
Arlene Shechet, who has helped redefine the place of ceramics in contemporary art over the past twenty years, has her first exhibition with the gallery. Shechet deliberately leaves fingerprints, joins, drips, cracks and traces of firing visible in the work.
Opening this week
Gérard Garouste: Brisure
Paintings, drawings and sculptures made by Garouste over the past four years take their title from the Kabbalistic notion of the breaking of the vessels. At the center is the triptych L'Amandier (2026), 3.5 meters wide, set in a fantastical sunset landscape.
Tina Barney: Beginnings
Barney’s six early black-and-white photographs depict family and friends in Rhode Island, with gestures, clothing, posture, and the material presence of fabrics, hair, and glass in focus. Made during summer visits, the works use snapshot immediacy; faces often fall outside the frame.
Last chance
Hervé Yamguen: Nos Géographies Intimes
Yamguen assembles drawings, paintings, bronze sculptures, and wooden masks populated by bodies, faces, silhouettes, trees, birds, and vegetal forms. The bronze sculptures were made by lost-wax casting in Foumban and enter into dialogue with the wooden masks.
Robin Kid: Permanent Display
Kid pairs Life’s silkscreened aluminum cereal boxes and layered paintings with works from the past decade. Life grew from a lyric in The Doors’ 1968 song The Unknown Soldier, which compresses domestic routine, mass media, advertising, and political violence into an everyday scene.
Robert Kushner: Summer Sun: Open My Heart
A dozen botanical works from 2019 to 2025 include eleven works on Japanese paper and one painting on canvas. Gold leaf and expanses of colour cradle stems, leaves, and petals.
Group show: Tolika Mtoliki
Nicholas Hlobo, Bulumko Mbete, Frans Thoka, Mankebe Seakgoe, Benjamin Stanwix and Xhanti Zwelendaba are among seven South African artists considering translation through sculpture, beadwork, weaving, inscriptions and photographs reworked on woven grass mats.
Everything else on view: every gallery show in Paris.
Questions
What gallery shows should I see in Paris this week?
Gallop's picks for the week of October 30: Shane Rossi at Lo Brutto Stahl (Le Marais); Amoako Boafo at Mariane Ibrahim (Matignon); Tracey Emin at White Cube (Matignon); Arlene Shechet at Lelong (Matignon). Each comes with a short note on what's in the show.
Which Paris gallery shows open this week?
Opening the week of October 30: Gérard Garouste at Templon (Le Marais); Tina Barney at Zander Galerie (Saint-Germain).
Which Paris gallery shows close this week?
Last chance the week of October 30: Hervé Yamguen at Afikaris, until Saturday Oct 31; Robin Kid at Templon, until Saturday Oct 31; Robert Kushner at Nathalie Obadia, until Saturday Oct 31; Group show at MAGNIN-A, until Saturday Oct 31.
How does Gallop choose its weekly picks?
Gallop's editors go through every show on view in Paris each week and pick a handful worth the trip, with a note on each. The same picks go out in Gallop's weekly email every Thursday, and every show is on the Gallop map with the gallery's address and hours.
Gallop's picks for Paris, every Thursday.
