Exceptional presence of 199 galleries from 29 countries, including 2 represented at FIAC for the first time (Ivory Coast and Iran) and 3 countries that will return to FIAC in 2019 (Iceland, Poland, Czech Republic). Among the exhibitors, we note the return of 9 galleries representing different geographical areas and generations: Lisson (London, New York, Shanghai), Nara Roesler (Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York), Contemporary Fine Arts (Berlin), hunt kastner (Prague), Campoli Presti (Paris, London), Tomio Koyama (Tokyo), Papillon Gallery (Paris), Sprovieri (London), Baronian Xippas (Brussels).
The 46th edition of FIAC is also characterized by the participation of 25 new galleries: Lévy Gorvy (London, New York, Hong Kong, Zurich), The Box (Los Angeles), Meyer Kainer (Vienna), Barbara Wien (Berlin), Magnin-A (Paris), Jacky Strenz (Frankfurt), BERG Contemporary ( Reykjavik), Dastan Gallery (Tehran), apalazzo (Brescia), Laveronica (Modica), Kate MacGarry (London), JTT (New York), Simone Subal Gallery (New York), Cecile Fakhoury (Abidjan, Dakar, Paris), Lyles & King (New York), Joseph Tang (Paris), Hopkins (Paris), Barbara Weiss (Berlin), including 7 in the Lafayette sector: Jenny's (Los Angeles) Angeles), Gianni Manhattan (Vienna), Mariane Ibrahim (Chicago) , PM8 (Vigo), Dawid Radziszewski (Warsaw), Soft Opening (London) and Weiss Falk (Basel).
With Sector Lafayette, FIAC and the Galeries Lafayette Group once again confirm their commitment to the emerging scene. The 10 selected galleries receive financial support from the Galeries Lafayette Group, an official partner of FIAC since 2009.
The design sector, reintroduced in 2017, is long-term with the return for the 2019 edition of five essential modernist and contemporary design galleries: Jousse company, Galerie kreo, LAFFANOUR – Downtown Gallery, Eric Philippe and Galerie Patrick Seguin.
FIAC Projects will present about thirty sculptures and installations, in the extraordinary setting of the Petit Palais and on the Avenue Winston Churchill, pedestrian on the occasion of the FIAC. This year, FIAC Projects was designed in collaboration with Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, curator of the upcoming Riga Biennale. As guest curator, she participates in the selection of projects with the curator teams of the Petit Palais and the artistic direction of FIAC.
FIAC Hors les Murs, in collaboration with the Louvre Museum, will present a course of around twenty outdoor works in the Jardin des Tuileries, a historical site of this sector, as well as a monographic exhibition of the English artist Glenn Brown, in collaboration with the Max Hetzler Gallery (Berlin, Paris, London …) at the Eugène Delacroix National Museum. For Place Vendôme, FIAC Hors les Murs has given the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama carte blanche to invest in this emblematic place in Paris, in collaboration with the Victoria Miro Gallery (London, Venice). In the continuity of the Hors les Murs garden tour at the Tuileries Gardens, FIAC presents, for the second consecutive year, an architectural itinerary, an ephemeral village of architectural structures, on the most iconic square in Paris, the Place de la Concorde.
In addition, FIAC presents a program of cultural performances (Parades for FIAC), conferences (Conversation Room) and film screenings (Cinéphémère), open and free access.
FIAC 2019 in brief: 199 galleries from 29 countries (Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, South Korea, Ivory Coast *, United Arab Emirates, Spain, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, United States *) Ireland, Iceland *, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kosovo, Mexico, Norway, Netherlands, Peru, Poland *, Czech Republic *, United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia).
