Fifth edition

OFFSCREEN Paris returns this year to La Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière for its fifth edition from October 20 to 25, 2026 (VIP preview October 19). 

OFFSCREEN Paris is a nomadic event that values contemporary, historic and avant-garde artists with image-based practices. With its distinct voice, it is a must-see highlight of Paris Art Week each October, bringing together a tightly curated selection of artists working with installations, still and moving images. A commercial, site-specific architectural exhibition, since its founding in 2022 by Artistic Director Julien Frydman, OFFSCREEN has become an important nexus for building the contemporary conversation, institutional support and the market in this field.

OFFSCREEN is supported by Lombard Odier, Dior Parfums, and Cultish by Publicis Luxe.

Ana Mendieta: Guest of Honor
OFFSCREEN celebrates Ana Mendieta (1948-1985) this year as the Guest of Honor. The major multidisciplinary artist is renowned for her works in the landscape, earth/body works, and sculptures in which she used her body—or its absence, evoked in what she called “siluetas” (silhouettes)—in dialogue with earth and other natural elements including fire, flowers, and water. One of the most prolific artists using film and video in the 1970s, Mendieta made over a hundred films in her career. Mendieta is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery (New York, Paris). The presentation is developed in collaboration with the Estate of Ana Mendieta.

The installation will complement the simultaneous major exhibition at Tate Modern in London (2026) curated by Valentine Umansky and Michael Wellen. 

Mendieta is the fifth artist to be honored as a Guest of Honor at OFFSCREEN. The presentation follows Anthony McCall in 2022, Rosa Barba in 2023, Chantal Akerman in 2024, and Shigeko Kubota in 2025. 

Born in Havana, Cuba, Mendieta was sent to the United States as a young teen after Fidel Castro came to power. As a student of the renowned Intermedia MFA program at the University of Iowa in 1972, she began working with her body and with Super 8 film. Her work has been exhibited in 56 solo exhibitions, and 16 museum retrospectives including at Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (2018); Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (2013); Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (2004); New Museum, New York, New York (1987). Mendieta received major awards in her lifetime, including a National Endowment for the Arts Grant (1977 and 1980) and Fellowship (1982); John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1980); Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome (1983); and many others.

La Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière
OFFSCREEN returns for the second time to the exceptional Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, once again activating this distinct architectural landmark.

Once a renowned home to site specific interventions at the end of the 20th century, featuring installations by Anselm Kiefer, Bob Wilson, Lucinda Childs, Bill Viola, Nan Goldin, and Christian Boltanski as part of the Festival d’Automne, OFFSCREEN reintroduced La Chapelle Saint Louis de la Salpêtrière into the contemporary art scene last year.