FIAC 2017 — 44e édition — Grand Palais – La nef — Fair — Slash Paris

Past: October 19 → 22, 2017

FIAC 2017 Elle rythme depuis plus de 40 ans l’actualité artistique parisienne et, de génération en génération, n’a cessé de se renouveler pour s’imposer comme l’une des toutes meilleures foires d’art européennes. La 44e édition de la Fiac se tient cette année du 19 au 22 octobre sous la nef du Grand Palais.

Fiac, Paris Internationale, Yia 2017, impressions de foires Le mois d'octobre aura, cette année encore, largement tenu ses promesses de découvertes avec une programmation de foires véritablement au niveau des ambitions internationales que véhicule une Fiac résolument tournée vers le monde et chaque année incontestablement plus séduisante.

For its 44th edition from 19 to 22 October 2017 in Paris, FIAC will host a carefully balanced selection of leading international galleries in the iconic Grand Palais. FIAC consolidates the presence of major galleries working in the field of modern and contemporary art and confirms its support of the emerging generation, notably via the Lafayette Sector organized in partnership with our official sponsor, the Galeries Lafayette Group. Fresh, eclectic and edgy, this year’s selection is sure to attract wide-spread attention from connaisseurs and amateurs alike. Keen interest from exhibitors in all sectors of the market confirms Paris’s growing appeal. Increasingly FIAC appears as a must in the autumn calendar.

Will Boone, Untitled, 2015 — Acrylic on canvas

This year, FIAC will bring together exhibitors from 26 countries: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Egypt, France, Germany, Holland, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Kosovo, Mexico, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, South Korea, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The largest contingent of exhibitors is French (over a quarter of those included) and European (over two thirds).

For this international event, the French selection includes widely respected specialists of modern art (Galerie 1900-2000, Applicat-Prazan, Le Minotaure, Natalie Seroussi, Galerie Zlotowski), authoritative contemporary galleries (Air de Paris, Art : Concept, Chantal Crousel, gb agency, Karsten Greve, Lelong, kamel mennour, Nathalie Obadia, Perrotin, Almine Rech, Thaddaeus Ropac, Daniel Templon, Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Jocelyn Wolff, etc.) and galleries renowned for their capacity to detect young talents such as Galerie Allen, Balice Hertling, Marcelle Alix or New Galerie, to name only a few.

Antoni Tapies, Llibre i Coberts, 1996

The 2017 edition is characterized by the return of influential European galleries, both well-established and emerging such as ChertLüdde (Berlin); Peter Kilchmann (Zurich); Nogueras Blanchard (Madrid); Mezzanin (Geneva); and Vera Cortês Art Agency (Lisbon). Among the galleries participating for the first time this year: Imane Farès (Paris), LambdaLambdaLambda (Pristina), Maisterra Valbuena (Madrid, Lisbon), Waldburger Wouters (Brussels), and SCHLOSS (Oslo).

FIAC’s strength is likewise built on the long standing commitment of important European galleries, each of whom is recognized as a leader in their chosen field: Galerie Buchholz, Capitain Petzel, Sadie Coles HQ, Continua, Massimo De Carlo, Konrad Fisher, Bärbel Grässlin, Max Hetzler, Xavier Hufkens, Krinzinger, Lisson, Mai 36 Galerie, Victoria Miro, Jan Mot, Neu, neugerriemschneider, Eva Presenhuber, Esther Schipper, Sprüth Magers, Michael Werner, White Cube, Zeno X, as well as Isabella Bortolozzi, dépendance, Karma International, kaufmann repetto, König Galerie, Giò Marconi, Meyer Riegger, Neue Alte Brücke, Peres Projects, Plan B, Rodeo, ZERO… and their younger colleagues Lars Friedrich or Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler.

Guillaume Leblon, Abandoned window, 2017 Courtesy Galerie Jocelyn Wolff

Over the last decade, the presence of North American galleries (Canada, United States, Mexico) has considerably increased and now represents more than 20% of the exhibitors including market giants such as 303 Gallery, Blum & Poe, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Paula Cooper, Gagosian Gallery, Barbara Gladstone, Marian Goodman, Landau Fine Art, Lehmann Maupin, Metro Pictures, Nahmad Contemporary, Pace, Regen Projects, Skarstedt, Van de Weghe and David Zwirner. All have made FIAC a regular rendez-vous on their fair calendar, as has a new generation of galleries including Miguel Abreu, C L E A R I N G, Essex Street, House of Gaga, Labor, Overduin & Co, and Reena Spaulings Fine Art.

Kenneth Goldsmith, Jeronimo Alvarez 2017

They will be joined this year by David Kordansky (Los Angeles) and Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art (New York). New arrivals also include David Lewis (New York), Karma (New York), Shane Campbell (Chicago), and Queer Thoughts (New York).

Confident in its French and European identity balanced by a strong North American contingent, the composition of FIAC also extends to South America (Mendes Wood DM from Brazil, Casas Riegner, Instituto de Visión from Colombia), Asia (Edouard Malingue from Hong Kong and Shanghai, Vitamin Creative Space from Guangzhou and Beijing, Hyundai, Kukje Gallery/Tina Kim Gallery, PKM Gallery from Seoul, Experimenter from Calcutta), the United Arab Emirates (Green Art Gallery, Dubai) and Egypt (Gypsum, Cairo), complemented by the insider vision of the African continent that we owe, for example, to In Situ Fabienne Leclerc (Paris) and Imane Farès (Paris).