Events

Tribute to Women Artists from MENA regions

Arte por Excel… 14-08-2024

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

Salmah Almansoori, Who I became Within these walls, photo transfer on tiles, installation Courtesy Firetti Contemporary, Dubaï

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

*Fatima Hassan, Untitled, lithography - Courtesy Le Violon Bleu, Sidi Bou Said*

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