For its 5th edition, Menart Fair makes a powerful return to Paris, from September 20 to 22, 2024 (VIP on the 19th), with a unique focus on celebrating female artists from the MENA region (Middle East & North Africa).
The 2024 Menart Fair will focus exclusively on this female art scene, examining the legacy of pioneering female artists and exploring the work of contemporary and emerging female creators.
THE EVENT
Around a hundred artists will be showcased under the aegis of our Selection Committee, composed of Stefania Angarano, Kalim Bechara, Essia Hamdi & Leila Varasteh.
The leverage of expertise sought is designed to faithfully reflect the incredible dynamism of these regions.
THE FEMININE GAZE: REDEFINING ART
Women artists question cultural memory and its production structures, transnational artistic exchanges, and the status of women in patriarchal societies. Some of them, already established on the international scene, express through the singularity of their approaches the ability to self-create, undergo metamorphosis, and escape social or gender constraints. They also demonstrate how art is a projection towards the universal, transcending individual or collective neuroses. It is to the universality of artistic language that the feminine imagination summons us. Veiled and unveiled, it expresses itself in new artistic forms that make every truth visible.
29 GALLERIES | 12 COUNTRIES
Agial Art Gallery, Beirut | ART GIRLS Galerie, Paris | Artists of Beirut, Beirut | Gallery Bawa, Kuwait | Bigaignon, Paris | Centre Interculturel Leila Alaoui (CILA), Fontvieille | Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwaitt | Galerie Claire Corcia, Paris | Comptoir des Mines Galerie, Marrakesh | D2Art Gallery, Dubai | Écho 119, Paris | ERRM Art Gallery, Riyadh | Firetti Contemporary, Dubai | Kalim Art Space, Beirut | Xena Kalouti Designer, Amman | Katharina Maria Raab, Berlin | Khawla Art Gallery, Dubai | Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo | Myriem Himmich Gallery, Casablanca | Picasso Art Gallery, Cairo | Polysémie, Marseille | Rug Entertainment, Paris | Shams Collective, Paris | Simine Paris, Paris | Suite Amazigh, Paris | Le Violon Bleu Gallery, Sidi Bou Said | W+S Gallery, Brussels | Wusum Gallery, Doha | ZAAT, Beirut |
7 INSTITUTIONS | 5 COUNTRIES
Source: Menart Fair