Grand Palais


PROMISES

AN ALL-NEW AND LARGER-THAN-BEFORE SECTOR FOCUSSING ON YOUNG GALLERIES AND EMERGING ARTISTS

Promises

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.

Héloise Rival, Smirnoff ice, 2024
Rieko Koga,  My Soul, 2016
Gillian Brett, Untitled (Almelec series), 2023
Felipe Rezende, Devolução, 2024
Yoann Estevenin, Un ami en or , 2022
Edgardo Navarro, Dimensional Middle Time II, 2020
Marco Emmanuele, 10000 seahorse power, 2021
Luciano Goizueta, 1242km, 2024
Israfil Ridhwan, This Time I'll Leave First, 2023
Nour Elbasuni, Friday Afternoon, 2021
Sergio Morabito, Creacion de arquetipos, 2017
Louka Anargyros, Locker Room, installation view, SEPTIEME Gallery Paris, 2022
Elisabeth Scherffig, Écossaise, 2020
Lara Bloy, Peintre à l'atelier II, 2024
Pauline-Rose Dumas, Rebours #4, 2024
Yuki Onodera, How to make a Pearl, No. 07, 2000
Pitseolak Qimirpik, Anaconda Transformation, 2024
Natsuko Sakamoto, Diagram of Dashed Lines (Rain, Shadows or Stitches), 2020
Sosthène Baran, Des figures, 2024

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