Grand Palais & Hors les Murs – Paris, France
18–21 October 2012

FIAC continues its development and confirms its status as a major international art fair.

For its 39th year, FIAC continues to build on past editions, developing and evolving while maintaining the strong features inherent to FIAC, including: its rigorous selection process, guaranteeing exemplary standards of quality; its broad scope, which allows for a balanced overview of modern and contemporary art and works by emerging artists; its firm foothold in the heart of Paris, working alongside public and private stakeholders in the world of arts and culture; and it’s acute perceptiveness surrounding current developments within the creative and intellectual fields, both on a Parisian and world wide scale.

Both international and French, FIAC has become one of the major events in artistic creation. FIAC 2012 will bring together around 180 galleries from 24 countries at the Grand Palais. France will be represented by 61 galleries (or 34% of the exhibitors), followed by the United-States (30 galleries), Germany (24 galleries), Italy (12 galleries), Belgium (14 galleries), the United Kingdom (9 galleries), and Switzerland (6 galleries). Galleries from Denmark, Poland, Romania and the United Arab Emirates will be present for the first time.

41 galleries are participating for the first time or are returning to FIAC in 2012.

FIAC testifies once again this year to its openness to different forms of creation by amplifying its Hors les Murs programme: the development of outdoor projects in the Tuileries Garden, the Jardin des Plantes and various sites at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle; the enhancement of its programme of performances, artists’ films and the inauguration of conference programmes, along with associated projects such as R4 on Ile Seguin, all bare witness to FIAC’s myriad and successful collaborations and projects, all of which continue to be developed and expanded upon, now and in the years to come.

The synergies that FIAC develops with the stakeholders of Parisian cultural life through initiatives such as the Parcours Privé and the Nocturne des Galeries contribute to showcasing the Parisian arts scene and place the capital at the forefront of the international cultural scene.

GENERAL SECTOR

NAVE & SALON D’HONNEUR

After having inaugurated the exhibition galleries located on the first floor of the Grand Palais last year, FIAC is now expanding into a new 1 200 m2 space, the Salon d’Honneur – the historic core of the architectural ensemble formed by the Grand Palais and the Palais de la Découverte – thus restoring the original configuration of the building for the first time since 1937.

The Salon d’Honneur has been entirely restored and conserves its original volume, its glass ceiling (at a height of 17 metres), its mouldings, wooden flooring and woodwork, as well as the great archway that opens directly onto the Nave. It is accessible via the Escalier d’Honneur (or via two elevators).

The Nave and the Salon d’Honneur will host 122 international modern art and contemporary art galleries.

It is worthy of note that an exceptional number of prestigious international galleries will be present, such as 303 Gallery, Air de Paris, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Capitain Petzel, Cheim & Read, Sadie Coles HQ, Paula Cooper, Chantal Crousel, Massimo De Carlo, Gagosian Gallery, Gladstone Gallery, Greene Naftali, Elvira Gonzalez, Marian Goodman, Bärbel Grässlin, Karsten Greve, Hauser & Wirth, Max Hetzler, Xavier Hufkens, Kukje Gallery / Tina Kim Gallery, Kurimanzutto, Yvon Lambert, Lelong, Lisson, Luhring Augustine, Matthew Marks, kamel mennour, Metro Pictures, Victoria Miro, Galerie Perrotin, Eva Presenhuber, Almine Rech, Regen Projects, Thaddaeus Ropac, Esther Schipper, Sprüth Magers, Michael Werner, White Cube, Zeno X, David Zwirner, among many others.

There will be a stronger presence of up-and-coming galleries galleries, including Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Greene Naftali and Meyer Riegger joining Art : Concept, Guido W. Baudach, Isabella Bortolozzi, gb agency, Johann König, Maccarone, Jan Mot and Franco Noero…

Many galleries specialising in modern art will also be present: Galerie 1900-2000, Raquel Arnaud, Applicat Prazan, Henze & Ketterer, Kicken, Le Minotaure, Helly Nahmad gallery, Guillermo de Osma, Sophie Scheidecker, Ubu, Zlotowski or Natalie Seroussi

Several solo shows will be presented: Herman de Vries at Aline Vidal, Alfred Manessier at Applicat-Prazan, Filipa César at Cristina Guerra, Lara Favaretto at Franco Noero, Walead Beshty at Rodolphe Janssen, Takis at Xippas, Fausto Melotti at Gladstone Gallery, Alan Suicide Vega at Laurent Godin and also Ai Weiwei at Urs Meile.