For once, the Salon d'Automne is taking place this year on Place de la Concorde. Although the Salon is a regular feature at the Grand and Petit Palais, where it was first held in 1903, this 122nd edition is breaking new ground by choosing Place de la Concorde as its venue.
While the Grand Palais was presented as the temple of artistic modernity when it was built in 1900, the Concorde shines through the prominent place it has occupied for almost 250 years in French history.

By choosing this highly symbolic location, the Salon d'Automne is placing its 2025 edition in a double lineage: that of an artistic event created to celebrate modernity and that of a public square where French history has been played out.

This year gives the Salon d'Automne a new resonance. In the heart of Paris, on the capital's largest square, the exhibition opens up to the city by appropriating a space steeped in memory.

In addition, an ambitious programme combining conferences, debates, screenings and performances in line with the Year of the Sea will bring this artistic event to life.

The works will be presented in two monumental pavilions, covering a total area of more than 4,000 m². This vast exhibition space will offer unprecedented freedom in terms of scenography, allowing the diversity of the artistic disciplines represented — painting, sculpture, photography, design, and much more — to be fully showcased. Thanks to this ambitious configuration, this edition promises to be exceptional, both in terms of the richness of the works on display and the setting offered to artists and visitors.

We will therefore meet again this autumn, from 29 October to 2 November 2025, to celebrate contemporary creation, in the hope that this new location will deepen the link between art, memory and modernity.