Art Paris Art Fair

A springtime art fair focused on discovery

Held at the Grand Palais from 31st March to 3rd April 2016, Art Paris Art Fair is the springtime Paris event for modern and contemporary art that brings together 143 galleries from 20 countries which includes for the first time Azerbaïdjan, Colombia and Iran.

A generalist fair open to all forms of artistic expression including design, Art Paris Art Fair presents an overview of art from the post-war period to the present day. The thematic sections focus on discovery in particular with this year’s Korea guest of honor project, personal exhibitions in the Solo Show section, emerging talents with the Promises section for young galleries and digital art with monumental projections on the façade of Grand Palais.

Focus on the East: South Korea guest of honor

Under the leadership of guest curator Sang-A Chun, the invitation of South Korea as guest of honor highlights the vast wealth of the art scene from the “Land of Morning Calm”.

With close to 80 artists represented by 8 galleries both from Korea (Seoul, Daegu and Paju) and some 26 Western galleries, this project spans the emergence of very specific forms of contemporary art from the 1960s to the present day boom in creativity.

The Solo Show section includes some 20 personal exhibitions scattered throughout the fair.

This is an opportunity to discover or re-discover the work of modern or contemporary artists such as Syria’s Fadi Yazigi at Tanit Gallery, France’s Damien Cabanes at Galerie Eric Dupont, Ronald Ventura from the Philippines at Galerie Primae Noctis, or Belgium’s Antoine Roegiers at Art Bärtschi & Cie whose work is inspired by Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel.

The Promises sector is dedicated to the promotion of young galleries and emerging talents.

It includes 12 galleries that are less than five years old and have never taken part in the fair.

"Springtime in Paris" VIP program

Designed for collectors and art professionals, the program aims to highlight the vibrancy of the Paris art scene and the new face of the French capital in the 21st Century.

A number of outstanding exhibitions are on during Art Paris Art Fair week including “Daido Tokyo, Daido Moriyama” at the Fondation Cartier, “Pandora’s Box, another type of photography” by Jan Dibbets at the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, “Corpus, Helena Almeida” at the Jeu de Paume, “Le Douanier Rousseau, archaic innocence” at the Musée d’Orsay, “Ceramix, art and ceramics from Rodin to Schütte” at Sévres–Cité de la Céramique and La Maison Rouge, “Bentu, 12 Chinese artists in the turbulence of transformation” at the Louis Vuitton Foundation and Miquel Barceló at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Picasso national Museum - Paris.