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URBAN ART FAIR – PARIS

April 23, 2025 butterfly

The 9ᵉ edition of the Urban Art Fair returns to Paris from 24 to 27 April 2025 under the hall of the Carreau du Temple. This international art fair dedicated to urban art will feature over 100 international artists with 40 exhibitor galleries based in France, Italy, Benelux, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain, Singapore, Japan and USA

Some highlights include collaborative works between Martha Cooper (US) and Logan Hicks (US) with Pascaline Mazac, solo shows by Hopare, Kan (DMV), Levalet , Alëxone Dizac , GOin, Danny Cortes, Jakman , Rahayu Retnaningrum, Jokin SorTwo, Andre Berger.

Galleries not to miss: Taxie Galerie, Thinkspace, Underdogs Gallery, Museum of Graffiti.

Sato Gallery will showcase Japanese artists: EXCALIBUR, Takeru Amano, YUFI, DEBZA WAS HERE, CLT

The Block A Collective presents CHIMERA: Hybrid Realities. It will be an opportunity to discover the Singapore street artist scene with artists like ANTZ, Asfi K, Eunice Hannah, METAMO Industries, Yang Derong, Speak Cryptic, Soph O, Steve Lawler/ Mojoko, THE GOODNIGHT GANG (GDNT)

Exhibited artists include Cey Adams, Add Fuel, Illan Argüello, Valentin Bechade, Blade, Blu, Buffmonster, Pieter Ceizer, Ceizer, Clet, Juan Cuellar, D*Face, Nina De Angelis, Olivia de Bona, Flavien Demarigny, Jo Di Bona, Matt Dosa, Maxime Drouet, Eneri, Eron, Fenx, Frankey, Futura, Ghilini, Raphael Gindt, HYDRANE, In the Woup, Djan Ivson, JonOne, Kamo, Kaves, Leon Keer, Kouka, Kraken, Alex Kuznetsov, L’Atlas, Benjamin Laading, Tomas Lacque, Lantomo, Marlen Letetzki, Arnaud Liard, Lor-K, Yann L’outsider, Daniel Mac Lloyd, MARA, Carlos Mare, Maye, Millo, Mioshe, Monkeybird, Mosko, Murmure, Riccardo Nannini, Nexgraff, Hom Nguyen, Gabriella Noelle, Onemizer, OX, Ozmo, Papa Chango, PAROLE, PichiAvo, Sandra Rojo Picón, Quik, Raider, Nuno Raminhos, Rero, RNST, Jean Rooble, Amir Roti, Jaime Sancorlo, Daniel Sueiras, Oscar Seco, Iker Serrano, Inigo Sesma, Skio, SpokBrillor, STOUL, Taroe, Tcheko, Erni Vales, Jérémy Vatutin, Zed1, Ziké.

A dedicated programme includes a series of conferences and film screenings, book signings, multimedia presentations about MAP360, a transatlantic artistic exchange collaboration as well as an offsite installation by Arnaud Liard in the Galeries Lafayettes Champs Elysees.

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Location:

Urban Art Fair Paris

24-27 April 2025

Le Carreau du Temple | 4 rue Eugène Spuller, Paris 3e

www.urbanartfair.com

Art Fair, Venice

Venice Biennale 2024: ‘Foreigners Everywhere’

February 4, 2024 butterfly

The Venice Biennale has announced the 332 artists and collectives participating in the 60th Edition, running from April 20 to November 24.

Curated by Adriano Pedrosa, the artistic director of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo, the exhibition’ title “Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere,” is inspired by a series of neon works by the Palermo-based French artist collective Claire Fontaine.

Foreigners Everywhere (English), 2005
Courtesy of Claire Fontaine and Galerie Neu, Berlin

Pedrosa explained that the theme “Foreigners Everywhere” reflects the global crises related to people’s movement and existence across borders, and the complexities of language, translation, nationality, and disparities conditioned by race, identity, nationality, gender, sexuality, freedom, and wealth.

The list of participating artists includes emerging, mid-career, and established living artists including Beatriz Cortez, Yinka Shonibareas well as well-known historical and recently deceased artists such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Carmen Herrera.

The Biennale will be divided into two parts: “Nucleo Contemporaneo” for contemporary work and “Nucleo Storico” for historical work.

The “Nucleo Contemporaneo” will explore an expansive definition of “foreigner,” including queer artists, outsider artists, self-taught artists, folk artists, popular artists, and Indigenous artists. First-time participants include the MAHKU—Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin collective from Brazil, the Mataaho Collective from Aotearoa (New Zealand), and three historical outsider female artists, Madge Gill, Anna Zemánková, among others.

Yinka Shonibare – Refugee Austronaut II (2016) Courtesy the Artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York / Photo Stephen White & Co. / © Yinka Shonibare CBE
Mataaho Collective – Takapau (2022) Photographs by Maarten Holl / Courtesy Te Papa

The “Nucleo Storico” will feature 112 artists focussing on “global modernisms and modernisms of the Global South,” with three sections dedicated to portraiture and representation, abstraction, and the Italian diaspora in the Global South.

The full list of 2024 invited artists can be downloaded here

The Exhibition will also include 90 National Participations in the historic Pavilions at the Giardini, at the Arsenale and in the city centre of Venice while the City of Venice will feature with its own pavilion, the Venice Pavilion, at the Giardini of Sant’Elena.

In parallel, a series of collateral events and special projects will take place in several locations around the city of Venice.

Purchase your tickets here

Art Fair, Paris

Highlights from Paris+ par Art Basel 2023

October 23, 2023 butterfly

The second edition of Paris+ par Art Basel continues ascent as a global art market hub, featuring 154 premier galleries including 61 operating spaces in France and leading international participants from Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.

Here are some highlights of this year edition:

Paris + par Art basel offered a vibrant panorama of the thriving art scene with an expanded, freely accessible cultural program unfolding across six storied Parisian locations. For the 2023 edition, works were presented in five locations: in the Jardin des Tuileries – Domaine National du Louvre, on Place Vendôme, in the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins des Beaux-Arts de Paris, in the Palais d’Iéna, and on the parvis de l’Institut de France.

To view all the projects, please visit parisplus.artbasel.com/public-program.

Click on the images for more details. Courtesy Paris+ par Art Basel

This year’s Conversations program, curated by Charles Teyssou and Pierre-Alexandre Matéos, was presented in collaboration with the Centre Pompidou and unfolded at the Musée national Picasso-Paris.

The fair took place at the Grand Palais Éphémère from October 20 to 22, 2023 and attracted an overall attendance of 38’000 throughout its VIP and public days.

Art Fair, London

London: Frieze Sculpture

October 10, 2023 butterfly

In parallel to the much-anticipated Frieze London week ( 11-15 October 2023), which celebrates its 20th year anniversary this year, Frieze Sculpture returns to London Regent’s Park, until 29 October, 2023.

The free exhibition curated by Fatoş Üstek features features 21 leading international artists whose works will be situated throughout The Regent’s Park’s historic English Gardens.

The participating artists are: Ghada Amer, Leilah Babirye, Sanford Biggers, Jyll Bradley, Catharine Czudej, Ayşe Erkmen, Yuichi Hirako, Suhasini Kejriwal, Tony Matelli, Louise Nevelson, Temitayo Ogunbiyi, Zak Ové, Li Li Ren, Hans Rosenström, Tomas Saraceno, Yinka Shonibare, Josh Smith, Amy Stephens, Holly Stevenson and Hank Willis Thomas.

Ghada Amer, presented by Goodman Gallery
My Body My Choice, 2022

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, Material (SG) IV, 2023, Stephen Friedman Gallery

Hank Willis Thomas, presented by Goodman Gallery and Pace, All Power to All People, 2023

Tony Matelli, presented by Maruani Mercier, Sleepwalker, 2014

Zak Ové, presented by Gallery 1957, The Mothership Connection, 2021

Li Li Ren, presented by Sherbet Green, To find a way home, 2023

Photos courtesy Linda Nylind/ Frieze

Art Fair

Paris: District 13 Art Fair 2019

September 27, 2019 butterfly

The second edition of District 13 – International Art Fair returns to Drouot auction house in Paris from 25 to 29 September 2019.
Featuring 17 international galleries, the District 13 – International Art Fair presents a global landscape of emerging and established artists from the street art and contemporary art scene.

In addition to an eclectic mix of international exhibitors, the fair is bringing together a comprehensive side program including book releases ( D*Face Monograph for example), print releases, conferences and more.

Here are a few highlights from the second edition