PARIS GALLERY WEEKEND
44 participating galleries across Paris 26 – 27 May 2018
Since 2014, Paris Gallery Weekend has established itself as an annual landmark event for art lovers and collectors, whether based in France or abroad.
For its 5th edition—set to take place the last weekend of May 2018—Paris Gallery Weekend is proud to announce the participation of 44 galleries.
Throughout the weekend, collectors and art lovers can discover a free program of dedicated events and exhibitions. More than 41 rendez-vous will offer opportunities to meet artists, to exchange ideas in talks, to discover exhibitions, openings, concerts and performances, and to celebrate at brunches, cocktails, and aperitifs.
For the second consecutive year and in partnership with Talking Galleries, two conferences will gather an international public to discuss Paris’ recent renewal on the contemporary art scene, as well as new uses of technology and digital media.
Since 2014, Paris Gallery Weekend has established itself as an annual landmark event for art lovers and collectors, whether based in France or abroad.
For its fifth edition – held the 25th, 26th, and 27th of May – the 2018 Paris Gallery Weekend is proud to host a total of 44 galleries, representing a 40% increase in the number of participants since 2017. This significant growth testifies to the dynamism and rising influence of the event and is a result of 8 new galleries and the return of 16 others.
In 2018, Paris Gallery Weekend dons a new visual identity representative of its image and growing visibility. Created by the Paris agency Matter of Fact, this new visual identity expresses the idea of an artistic journey, well-marked and guided, while simultaneously signaling an openness to detours, meetings, and discoveries.
Throughout the weekend, visitors, art lovers and collectors can discover dedicated events and exhibitions organized by the participating galleries. More than 41 free-access rendez-vous are on the itinerary, offering multiple festive and participatory opportunities to meet artists, to exchange ideas in talks and conferences, to discover fresh perspectives in exhibitions, openings, concerts and performances, and to celebrate together at brunches, cocktails, and aperitifs.
The rich program offers several themes and paths to follow: one presenting 5 exhibitions of “historic” contemporary artists who have passed away, including Olivier Debré, Robert Motherwell and Ceija Stojka; another uniting “notable and confirmed talents”, featuring 35 exhibitions based on the work of artists from Agnès
Varda and Jonathan Monk to David Hockney and Claude Viallat; a third made up of artists born after 1980, from American artist Emily Ludwig Shaffer to the British artist Oli Epp (the youngest exhibited artist, born in 1994); and, finally, an itinerary following four thematic exhibitions: on Outsider Art, on the great masters of the after-war years, on women artists, and an exhibition curated by the young art critic Léa Chauvel-Levy.
Paris Gallery Weekend seeks to highlight Paris’s vibrancy and significance on the international modern and contemporary art scene. Beginning on opening day on May 25, organized for the second consecutive year in partnership with Talking Galleries, two talks will bring together an international public of both art professionals and art lovers on two important current topics: Paris’s renewal on the contemporary art scene, and the new uses of technology and digital media in the world of contemporary art.
With its 44 participating galleries in 2018, Paris Gallery Weekend represents the diversity of type and of geography of Parisian galleries: from the newest to the most established and the most imposing to the most intimate, whether situated in the Marais, in Saint-Germaindes-Prés, in the 8th or 18th arrondissements, in Belleville or in the Haut-Marais.
The Weekend’s 2017 edition included more than 5,000 participants associated with 31 galleries representing the work of 99 artists. Paris Gallery Weekend is organized by Choices, an association founded and directed by gallery owner Marion Papillon. Since September of 2017, she has been supported by a board composed of gallery owners Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Philippe Jousse, Nathalie Vallois, and Séverine Waelchli of Galerie Thaddeus Ropac.
