New for 2025, the Promises sector, curated by independent exhibition curator Marc Donnadieu, will be taking up residence on the southern balconies around the central nave at the Grand Palais. The space will play host to twenty-five galleries created less than ten years ago, 17 are first-time exhibitors at Art Paris and 59% hail from other countries: South Africa, Belgian, Canada, China, Kuwait, Italy, Japan, Hong Kong, Guatemala, Singapore and Slovakia.
Selection 2025:
22,48 m2 (Romainville)
Afronova (Johannesburg)
Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard (Paris)
The Bridge Gallery (Paris)
C+N Gallery Canepaneri (Genoa, Milan)
Chiguer art contemporain (Montreal, Quebec City)
Cuturi Gallery (Singapore)
Valerie Delaunay (Paris)
Galerie Écho 119 (Paris)
Edji Gallery (Brussels)
Felix Frachon (Brussels)
Hunna Art (Koweit City)
Galerie Idéale (Paris)
Kanda & Oliveira (Funabashi, Chiba)
Camille Pouyfaucon (Paris)
Labs Contemporary Art (Bologna)
La peau de l’ours (Brussels)
Panis (Rouen)
Prima (Paris)
La Galería Rebelde (Guatemala City)
Michèle Schoonjans Gallery (Brussels)
Salon H (Paris)
Septieme Gallery (Paris, Cotonou)
Tomas Umrian Contemporary (Bratislava)
Wamono Art (Hong Kong)
Marc Donnadieu is an independent exhibition curator and art critic. He has been curator in chief at Photo Élysée (Musée Cantonal pour la Photographie, Lausanne), after previously working as curator of contemporary art at LaM Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut (2010-2017) and director of the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain de Haute-Normandie (1999-2010). He has curated or co-curated a number of major exhibitions, both solo shows and themed exhibits in the field of contemporary photography, drawing practices, present-day representations of the body in art, identity processes at work in society today, the relationship between art and architecture and between photography and art brut. He has been a member of the Association Internationale des Critiques d’Art (AICA) since 1997 and has contributed to numerous French and international periodicals, including Art Press with which he has been working since 1994. He has also taken part in the elaboration of several dozen catalogues, monographs and themed publications in the fields of the visual arts, architecture, design and fashion.