SALON D’AUTOMNE DE PARIS 2025 – 122nd EDITION – Place de la Concorde – Paris 8 – France

For its 122nd edition, the Salon d’Automne of Paris will be held from October 29 to November 2 at Place de la Concorde, a stone’s throw from the Petit Palais, where it was founded in 1903.

In 2025, the Salon d’Automne is committed to protecting the sea. A contemporary art fair firmly rooted in the present, this year it is highlighting the preservation of marine ecosystems, echoing the Year of the Sea. With themed exhibitions, conferences, screenings, and committed guests including navigator Louis Burton, the program deliberately combines art, science, and awareness to highlight environmental issues with the power of contemporary creation.

Since its inception, the Salon d’Automne has embodied artists’ commitment to artists and supported diversity and freedom of artistic expression without hierarchy between art forms. A true incubator for creation, its spirit based on values of sharing and tolerance is unique in the art world: it continues to reinvent itself over time by questioning the major issues of our time through the prism of contemporary art. This year, the Salon once again affirms its ability to address essential issues by highlighting the protection of the sea in line with UNOC 2025.

Among the artists announced is Florence Lemiegre, ceramic sculptor and member of the Salon d’Automne in Paris since 2018. She presents a spectacular “Noli me tangere Pistils Big Mama deep blues Kathryn Sullivan” in red Normandy earthenware, glazed in a thousand shades of deep blue.

This ceramic sculpture, with its organic forms resembling coral, is part of her Noli me tangere universe, a work committed to the protection of nature and more specifically to the fragility of our oceans. The artist explores the wounds at the heart of our planet’s flesh and symbolically denounces the decline in ocean health: sea and clay earth find correspondences and retain the imprints of trauma and aggression suffered.

The name given to this sculpture is also a tribute to Kathryn Sullivan. She was the first woman to reach the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the ocean, and to perform a spacewalk in 1984.

The question of balance and imbalance in living things is inseparable from the artist’s work as a whole, which is itself intertwined with various explorations and experiments in which matter gives life to color and emotional vibrations.

The public can also discover “Tiny Mama deep blues Milia & Puncta” and “Tiny Mama deep blues,” two Noly me tangere Pistils.

Art as a major player in raising awareness and alerting the public

The Salon d’Automne of Paris is honored to have received the “La Mer en Commun” label, awarded by the Ministry of Ecological Transition.

This 2025 edition, rooted in the present and concerned with the urgent issues of our time, is part of the global program for the preservation of the oceans: La Mer en Commun. Here, art becomes a vehicle for dialogue, emotion, and action to raise awareness about the destruction of our marine heritage.  The sea is a common good, essential to life on Earth. It absorbs a large part of the carbon we emit into the atmosphere, produces more than half of the oxygen we breathe, and regulates the climate. Without the oceans, our planet would not be habitable.

Artists play an essential role in raising awareness, bringing a unique and sensitive perspective to subjects that are often treated solely from a scientific point of view. Addressing these issues through painting, sculpture, drawing, or any other visual art medium creates a special emotional connection with the public. In this way, art becomes an original and decisive vehicle for mobilizing support for the protection of aquatic environments, which are essential to life on Earth.

Numerous works on the theme of the sea and the various issues surrounding pollution and destruction of the seabed will be on display across the artistic sections presented. Events will be organized to raise awareness of the importance of maritime issues and inspire people to take action for the ocean: conferences, screenings, and meetings with committed guests will enrich this exceptional edition. Louis Burton, renowned navigator and patron of the 2025 show, will bring not only the open sea but also his vision and commitment to ocean preservation.

The Tara Foundation will bring all its experience and knowledge to enlighten and enrich the debates.

Serge Guérin, guest of this edition and specialist in the broad issue of aging, will exchange ideas with artists based on works created on this theme.

A LITTLE HISTORY:

The Salon d’Automne is organized by the Société du Salon d’Automne, a non-profit association of artists founded in 1903 and recognized as a public utility since 1920, whose aim is to encourage and develop the fine arts in all their forms, particularly through exhibitions in France and abroad.

The Salon d’Automne in Paris, a driving force behind the avant-garde since 1903.

As a reminder, it was on this date, in the basement of the Petit Palais, in reaction to the prevailing academicism, that a group of friends gathered around the architect Frantz Jourdain, Guimard, Carrière, Desvallières, Bonnard, Rouault, Vallotton, Vuillard, Matisse, and many others, decided to organize an independent exhibition with the aim of promoting the avant-garde and innovative minds of their time. A pioneer of multidisciplinarity and equality in the arts, the Salon d’Automne was born, establishing itself as an essential witness to the emergence of the most important artistic movements of the 20th century: Fauvism, Surrealism, Cubism, abstract art, new figuration, etc.

The Salon d’Automne is thus unquestionably the promoter of all arts, without distinction of hierarchy. Since its creation, it has renewed its noble mission of providing artists with a forum of choice by bringing together each year the most dynamic and promising of current creations. The regular creation of new sections also proves its commitment to representing all artistic creations, without borders and without preconceptions.

Today, there are no fewer than 20 artistic sections: painting, sculpture, architecture, engraving, drawing, photography, environmental art, singular art, digital art, artists’ books, unknown worlds, and myths & singularity. The painting section is composed of nine groups: Abstraction, Naïve Art, Chromatics, Free Expression, Figuration, Heritage and Innovation, Imaginary, Synthesis, and Variations.

Supported by the Ministry of Culture, this year’s event will feature 1,000 artists of 48 nationalities spread across 20 sections. They will exhibit their works in two pavilions covering an area of nearly 4,000 m².

The President of the 122nd edition of the Salon d’Automne in Paris is painter Jean-Christophe Lévêque.

The poster for this edition is by Christophe Badani, painter, calligrapher, and typographer.

SALON D’AUTOMNE DE PARIS 2025, 122nd EDITION 
International contemporary art fair since 1903
Place de la Concorde
Paris 75008

Opening hours: Wednesday, October 29 to Sunday, November 2, 2025.
Every day from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., closing at 9 p.m. on Friday and 6 p.m. on Sunday. Last admission 30 minutes before closing.

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