While Paris Fashion Week has got off to an exciting start with Dior’s Teddy Girl-inspired collection and Marine Serre’s boundary-pushing, sustainability-forward alternate universe, nonetheless, there’s still plenty to set your sights away from the catwalk. With rain forecast in Paris later in the week, why not run for shelter to one of the French capital’s many galleries and museums. We’ve rounded up some of the best to catch in between the shows, when you’ve just about had enough of high-end glamour and front-row selfies for one day.

Calder-Picasso — Musée Picasso-Paris

Across 120 paintings and sculptures, this eye-opening exhibit compares and contrasts the works of two of modern art’s most famous practitioners. In particular, the exhibition looks at Calder’s and Picasso’s use of the void and negative space across their respective oeuvres — through the former’s representation of the absence of space as defined and weighty, and in the latter’s portraits that appear to exist outside of time.

Calder-Picasso runs through to 25 August 2019.

Mutations/Creations 3: Erika Verzutti — Centre Pompidou

In the third instalment of the ongoing series, Mutations/Creations, Mexican artist Erika Verzutti presents highly tactile sculptures that combine materials, existing somewhere between fact and fiction. The São Paulo-based artist’s imaginative objects suggestive a playful past that never happened, and a creative future just waiting to unfold.

Erika Verzutti runs through to 15 April 2019.

Open Space #4 Hoël Duret — Foundation Louis Vuitton

For the fourth edition of Open Space, the  French artist has created a multi-sensory enviroment within the walls of the Frank Gehry-designed space. Inspired by 19th century greenhouses, Hoël’s immersive eco-stystem is wired by technology and responds to real-time data on climate change.

Open Space #4 Hoël Duret runs through to 22 April 2019.

Alberto Giacometti – Peter Lindbergh:  Seizing the invisible — Fondation Giacometti

This intriguing exhibition showcases a series of previously unpublished photographs by the acclaimed fashion photographer of the Swiss sculptor’s work. Through Linbergh’s lens, Giacometti’s anxious, surrealist forms assume new weight and human significance.

Seizing the invisible runs through to 24 March 2019.

Julien Creuzet — Palais de Tokyo

Visual artist, videographer, performer and poet, Julian Creuzet has created an elaborate, fragmentary landscape incorporating hybrid sculptures and multi-layered digitally-rendered collages — the perfect alternative to all the fashion week fuss.

Julien Creuzet runs through 12 May 2019.