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