PARIS.- From 3-6 April 2025, Art Paris, the leading spring event for modern and contemporary art, is back with a bang at the Grand Palais, whose entirely renovated Nave and balcony spaces will allow the fair to host 170 exhibitors from 25 different countries (34 more than in 2024). At this edition, the fair’s events programme will be even more ambitious with new themes, exhibitions, prizes and panel discussions. The Art Paris VIP programme, a regular feature, provides a choice of 31 exhibition visits and tours reserved exclusively for guest collectors and art professionals, highlighting the effervescent Parisian cultural scene.
The 2025 selection embodies the unique identity of Art Paris, a fair that is both regional and cosmopolitan and, as ever, a place of artistic discovery: 60% of the exhibitors are from France with 40% of international galleries. Moreover, 36% of this edition’s participants are new to the fair. Such figures illustrate how Art Paris showcases the wealth and depth of the French gallery ecosystem, from big name international galleries to unique modern and contemporary art galleries around France. Art Paris is also committed to supporting young galleries, notably with Promises, the sector focussing on emerging artists. This year, Mennour, Semiose and Christian Berst will be joining regular exhibitors, such as Continua, Lelong & Co, Loevenbruck, Meessen, Nathalie Obadia, Michel Rein, Almine Rech and Templon, to name but a few.
New names are also joining the list of international galleries with the arrival of Sabrina Amrani (Madrid), Beck & Eggeling and Pasquer (Dusseldorf, Paris), Lange + Pult (Zurich), Senda (Barcelona), Rüdiger Schöttle (Cologne), Tang Contemporary (Beijing), Waddington-Custot (London), Wilde (Geneva) and W&K - Wienerroither & Kohlbacher (Vienna, New York), amongst others.
IN 2025, GUEST CURATORS WILL BE EXPLORING TWO THEMES:
IMMORTAL: A FOCUS ON THE FIGURATIVE PAINTING IN FRANCE
BY AMÉLIE ADAMO AND NUMA HAMBURSIN
Writer and independent curator Amélie Adamo and Numa Hambursin, general director of MO.CO. (Montpellier Contemporain), will be pursuing their commitment to the French figurative scene at Art Paris 2025, having previously co-curated Immortal, an ambitious and groundbreaking panorama of young French figurative painting in 2023. Working from a selection of 30 artists chosen from the exhibiting galleries, the guest curator duo will present a new analysis that will take into account the historical context and compare artists from different generations. Irrespective of fads and fashions, their themed visit aims to underline the permanent nature of figurative painting in France, while highlighting the influence of the painters of the past. It will show how figurative painting - at a time when a global art form focusing on abstraction and new mediums has become predominant - is a dynamic, Europe-wide movement. A catalogue presenting the work of each selected artist will be produced and a cycle of 4 panel discussions at the Grand Palais on 5th April and 6th April will further develop on the theme.
