"La RATP invite": photos in stations

Partenaire du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle pour célébrer ses 400 ans, la RATP accueille dans le couloir emblématique de la station Montparnasse-Bienvenüe une exposition inédite, visible du 3 septembre au 2 décembre 2026. 

Cette fresque monumentale propose aux voyageurs une immersion au cœur de quatre siècles de découvertes scientifiques et d’exploration du vivant, à travers les collections, les recherches et les grandes figures qui ont façonné l’histoire du Muséum.

From January 21 to mid-May, discover selected works from the exhibition “Martin Parr. Global Warning,” on display at the Jeu de Paume from January 30 to May 24, 2026.

With humor, Martin Parr has spent fifty years examining the shortcomings of our contemporary world: overconsumption, mass tourism, the omnipresence of the automobile, the place reserved for living beings, and dependence on technology. His photographs often make us smile, but they also challenge and question us. The exhibition at the Jeu de Paume offers a reinterpretation of Martin Parr's work since the late 1970s, in light of the social and ecological issues facing our planet.

See these works in 17 train stations and metro stations:
 

• Hôtel de Ville, Bastille, Champs Elysées - Clemenceau, and George V stations (set up in February due to work on the support structure)
• La Chapelle station
• Bréguet – Sabin station
• Bir-Hakeim station
• Crimée station
• Oberkampf et Franklin D. Roosevelt stations
• La Motte-Picquet – Grenelle station
• Saint-Denis – Porte de Paris station
• Gare de Lyon, Madeleine et Pyramides stations
• Gare de Lyon station
• Châtelet – Les Halles station

A l'occasion du partenariat de la RATP avec le Festival d'Automne 2026, dédié à la création contemporaine, découvrez, du 11 septembre 2026 à fin janvier 2027, huit œuvres de l'artiste étasunienne Christine Sun Kim, dans le couloir de correspondance entre la gare d'Auber et la station Opéra.

A la croisée des arts visuels, de la langue des signes et de la musique, l'artiste interroge avec humour et esprit critique les dimensions non auditives et politiques du son.

The Valois Gallery, located at the Palais Royal–Musée du Louvre metro station, is hosting an exhibition of works by French fashion historian Olivier Saillard through May 2026.
Titled “The Living World of Fashion,” this exhibition offers a critical and poetic exploration of how fashion is displayed in museums, imagining everyday garments that regain movement and a voice.

This event is being held as part of a partnership between RATP and the Fondation Cartier.

Created in 2013, the “La RATP invite” program enables RATP to regularly showcase the work of photographers—French or foreign, including young talents and recognised artists from various eras—by displaying it widely in its stations.

The following have already exhibited on the network:

• The Circulation(s) festival (since 2014)
• Harry Gruyaert (2015)
• Richard Avedon (2016)
• Yann Arthus-Bertrand (2017)
• JR (2018)
• Hassan Hajjaj (2019)
• The Noir & Blanc exhibition at the Grand Palais (2020)
• Sebastião Salgado (2021)
• Vivian Maier (2021)
• Boris Mikhaïlov (2022)
• The Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation (2023)
• Elsa and Johanna - Palais de la Découverte (2023)
• Juergen Teller (2023-2024)
• Fisheye Magazine and Sport (2024)
• Les Magasins Généraux, as part of the “Balade grand-parisienne” festival (2024)
• Science/Fiction exhibition - A non-history of plants - Maison européenne de la photographie (2024)
• Pixels exhibition - Grand Palais Immersif (2024)
• Fisheye Magazine and the sea (2025)
• Wolfgang Tillmans “Nothing prepared us for it—everything prepared us for it” (2025)
• 160 years of the Haussmann Spring (2025)
• Cécile Chabert - Thylacine; Hyper Weekend Festival (2026)

As photography is a community art form and a means of artistic expression accessible to all, the RATP aims to continually enrich the travel experience of its passengers by regularly offering them moments of surprise, discovery, and discussion.