PROMISES

A SECTOR DEDICATED TO YOUNG GALLERIES AND EMERGING ARTISTS

Promises

The Promises section is dedicated to galleries established less than ten years ago. It will welcome 27 galleries located along the southern balconies of the Grand Palais. The selection is overseen by Marc Donnadieu, member of the Art Paris selection committee and independent exhibition curator. 50% are first-time exhibitors at Art Paris, 56% are from France and the remaining 44% are foreign galleries that hail from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Luxembourg, Morocco, Singapore and the USA. They will be presenting a total of 56 artists, of whom 31 (55%) are women. Participating galleries may present up to three emerging artists. This section is supported by the fair, allowing for reduce exhibitor fees, with an rate of € 10,000 (excluding VAT) for a 20 m2 booth.

Selected Galleries:

22,48m2 (Romainville)
AA Gallery (Casablanca)
Galerie Alain Hélou (Brest)
Galerie Bao (Paris)
Galerie Anne-Laure Buffard (Paris)
The Bridge Gallery (Paris)
C+N Gallery Canepaneri (Genoa, Milan)
Cassandra Bird Gallery (Sydney, Paris)
Chiguer art contemporain (Montreal, Quebec City)
Cuturi Gallery (Singapore)
Valérie Delaunay (Paris)
EDJI Gallery (Brussels)
Galerie Écho 119 (Paris)
Galerie Idéale (Paris)
Iragui Gallery (Romainville)
Grège Gallery (Brussels)
Porte B. (Paris)
Camille Pouyfaucon (Paris)
Galerie La peau de l’ours (Brussels)
Prima (Paris)
Galerie Pauline Renard (Lille)
Reuter Bausch Art Gallery (Luxembourg)
Sailly (Anglet)
Michèle Schoonjans Gallery (Brussels)
Salon H (Paris)
The Spaceless Gallery (Paris, Miami)
Studio23 (Ghent)

Marc Donnadieu is an art critic and independent exhibition curator. He was previously chief curator at Photo Élysée (Musée Cantonal pour la Photographie, Lausanne), after having worked as curator of contemporary art at LaM Lille Métropole Musée d’Art Moderne, d’Art Contemporain et d’Art Brut (2010-2017) and as the 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 since 1994. He has also taken part in the production of several dozen catalogues, monographs and themed publications in the fields of the visual arts, architecture, design and fashion.


Marc Donnadieu © Mathilda Olmi

Nicolas Boulard, Stilton, 2020
Yoshimi Futamura, Rebirth (YF No. 5), 2023
Juliette Lemontey, La dernière piste, 2024
Carlos Noronha Feio, "O descanso antes da elevação em 's' ", 2021
Dmitry Bulnygin, Between the pages (detail), 2025
Johan Tahon, Taboo, 2018
Manon Lanjouère, ©ManonLanjouère_repro_paysagessensibles#1, 2025
Aurèce Vettier, a breath in a whisper (after the landslide), 2025
Gregory Hodge, In Bloom, 2024
Marguerite Bornhauser, Les témoins #6, 2025
Juanita McLauchlan, balima / place far away , 2025
Holly Stevenson, The most difficult thing was, how to disguise her face, 2025
kwama frigaux, ntitled (Mandorel 2, 2025
Marc Ming Chan, I LASH 5, 2020
Gaspard Girard d'Albissin, Sans titre, 2021
Noah Beyene, Luncheon in Silence, 2025
Lea Toutain, Planche, 2025