FIAC the leading Paris contemporary art event launches tonight in Paris. The fair combines pieces by emerging names with blue chip works by Picasso and other 20th-century best-sellers. Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain finally came into its own in the last few years attracting many of the important international galleries like Gagosian, David Zwirner, White Cube and Lisson. Although the fair has been a regular date on the art calendar since 1974 the fair has had a new lease of life provided by Frieze Art Fair’s conveniently scheduled date just before the fair’s slot. Many of the better international galleries have found it is cost effective to stand at both venues because of the close proximity between London and Paris.
With the renovation of the Grand Palais’s historic Salon d’Honneur complete, fiac now boasts 181 stands, 13 more than last year. More than 40 dealers are new to the fair. Director Jennifer Flay has opened the fair to cutting edge galleries like Glasgow’s Mary Mary, exhibiting Lili Reynaud-Dewar and Alexis MargueriteTeplin. Berlin also has a large presence with 20 galleries, including newcomers Kamm, Eigen+Art, and Peres Projects.
The director of FIAC, Jennifer Flay, says: “We’ve got more conceptual works on display this year than ever before. The fair is at its core—and as its raison d’être is—a market event. Obviously that is our primary function. But around that it is important for us to address types of artistic production that fall outside or have fallen outside traditional market practices.”
The following galleries are exhibiting at FIAC 2012
Galerie 1900-2000, Paris• 303 Gallery, New York• Martine Aboucaya, Paris• Samy Abraham, Paris• Air de Paris, Paris• Annual Limited Editions• Applicat-Prazan, Paris• Raquel Arnaud, São Paulo• Art: Concept, Pari• Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli• Balice Hertling, Paris• Albert Baronian , Brussels Catherine Bastide, Brussels • Bortolami, New York• Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin• Zak Branicka, Berlin, Krakow• Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paul• Broadway 1602, New York• Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York Bugada & Cargnel, Paris• Bureau, New York• Campoli Presti, London, Paris• carlier | gebauer, Berli• Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg, Paris, Saint-Étienne, Genève• Cheim & Read, New York• Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin • Sadie Coles HQ, London• COLLECTION LAMBERT, Avignon• Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin• Continua, San Gimignano, Beijing, Le Moulin• Paula Cooper, New York• Raffaella Cortese, Milano Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux• Crèvecoeur, Paris Chantal Crousel, Paris• Ellen De Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam• Massimo De Carlo, Milano, London• Elizabeth Dee, New York• Dependance, Bruxelles• Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv• Eigen+Art , Berlin, Leipzig• Frank Elbaz, Paris Eleven Rivington, New York• Essex Street, New York• Dominique Fiat , Paris• Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich• Gaga Contemporary, Mexico City• Gagosian Gallery , London, Beverly Hills, New York, Paris , Hong Kong, Le Bourget – Paris• galerieofmarseille, Marseille Gaudel de Stampa, Paris• gb agency, Paris• GDM, Paris• Gladstone Gallery, New York, Brussels• Laurent Godin, Paris Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid• Marian Goodman, New York• Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, Cape Town• Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt• Greene Naftali, New York• Karsten Greve, Paris, Cologne, St. Moritz• Cristina Guerra, Lisbonne• Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, London, New York• Henze & Ketterer, Wichtrach (Berne), Riehen (Bâle)• Emmanuel Hervé, Paris• Max Hetzler, Berlin• Xavier Hufkens, Brussels• Imo, Copenhagen In Situ / Fabienne Leclerc, Paris• Catherine Issert, Saint-Paul• Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels• Jeanne Bucher / Jaeger Bucher, Paris• Jousse Entreprise, Paris• Annely Juda Fine Art, London Kadel Willborn, Karlsruhe• Kamm, Berlin Karma International, Zürich• kaufmann repetto, Milano• Kicken, Berlin• Kisterem, Budapest• Klosterfelde, Berlin• Johann König, Berlin• KOW, Berlin• Krinzinger, Vienna• Kukje Gallery / Tina Kim Gallery, Seoul, New York• kurimanzutto, Mexico City• Yvon Lambert, New York, Paris• Le Minotaure , Paris Simon Lee, London, Hong Kong• Lelong, New York, Zürich, Paris• Lisson, London, New York, Milan• Loevenbruck , Paris• Florence Loewy, Paris• Luhring Augustine , New York• Maccarone, New York• Mai 36 , Zürich Marcelle Alix, Paris• Matthew Marks , New York, Los Angeles• Mary Mary, Glasgow• Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris• Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf• Greta Meert, Brussels• kamel mennour, Paris• Metro Pictures, New York• Meyer Riegger, Berlin• mfc-michèle didier, Bruxelles, Paris• Francesca Minini, Milano Massimo Minini, Brescia• Victoria Miro , London• Monitor , Roma• Motive , Brussels• Jan Mot, Brussels, Mexico D.F.• Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna• CHRISTIAN NAGEL, Berlin, Cologne, Antwerp• Helly Nahmad Gallery, New York• Nelson-Freeman, Paris• NEU, Berlin• Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt New Galerie, Paris, New York• Franco Noero , Torino• Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris• Nathalie Obadia, Paris, Bruxelles• Office Baroque, Antwerp Guillermo de Osma, Madrid• Claudine Papillon, Paris Françoise Paviot, Paris• Peres Projects, Berlin• Galerie Perrotin, Paris, Central, Hong Kong• Capitain Petzel, Berlin• Plan B, Cluj, Berlin• Polaris, Paris• Praz-Delavallade, Paris• Eva Presenhuber, Zürich• ProjecteSD, Barcelona• Almine Rech, Paris, Bruxelles• Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York• Regen Projects, Los Angeles• Michel Rein, Paris• Denise René, Paris• Rodeo Gallery, İstanbul• Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Salzburg• Tucci Russo, Torre Pellice (Torino)• Sophie Scheidecker, Paris• Esther Schipper, Berlin• schleicher+lange, Paris, Berlin• Semiose, Paris• Natalie Seroussi, Paris• Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Beyrouth• Shanghart, Shanghai, Beijing• Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco• Skarstedt, New York• Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv• Pietro Sparta, Chagny• Sprüth Magers, Berlin, London• Diana Stigter, Amsterdam• Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp T293, Naples, Rome• Take Ninagawa, Tokyo• Richard Telles, Los Angeles• Daniel Templon, Paris• The Approach, London• The Third Line, Dubai• Tornabuoni Arte, Firenze, Portofino – Genova, Forte dei Marmi, Paris, Crans Montana, Milano• Triple V, Paris• UBU Gallery, New York• Valentin, Paris• Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris• Van de Weghe, New York• Vedovi, Brussels• Aline Vidal, Paris• VidalCuglietta, Brussels• Anne de Villepoix, Paris• Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen• Michael Werner, New York, London• White Cube, London, *• Jocelyn Wolff, Paris• Xippas, Paris, Genève, Montevideo, Punta del Este, Athènes• Thomas Zander, Cologne Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp• Zlotowski, Paris• David Zwirner, New York, London.
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