CONFERENCES & TALKS
STAND B0
Thursday 9 April
14:30 -16:00
The Cnap and the French art scene
A panel discussion moderated by art critic and journalist Anaël Pigeat
With Martin Bethenod, director of the Cnap – Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Sébastien Faucon, director of the LaM in Villeneuve d’Ascq, artist Fabrice Hyber and gallerist Fabienne Leclerc.
Discussion in French
Organised in collaboration with the Cnap
16:30 – 18:00
Ministère Transitoire: constitutive fiction and the symbolic economy
In recent years, we have seen a gradual shift in the artist's status towards that of an "institutor", i.e. no longer just a person who produces art, but someone who creates the conditions for its showing, distribution and even determining its value.
A performance-based event imagined by artist, Musée Transitoire founder and exhibition curator Romina Shama in collaboration with independent curator, coordinator and art writer Balqis Tandjaoui.
Discussion in French
Organised by Musée Transitoire
Friday 10 April
10:15 – 11:45 (by invitation only)
Art‑market litigation and arbitration: when the artwork becomes a battleground
Moderated by Vanessa Quang, Art Advisor, Founder of Quang & Co
With Jean-Fabrice Brun, Partner, Co-head Litigation & Arbitration, CMS France, Antoine Laniez, Partner, Head of Dispute Resolution, CMS Luxembourg, Frédéric de Clercq, Art Insurance Specialist – President of UNESCO’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art
Discussion in French
Organised by
14:30 – 16:00
Lifestyle Collectors
A panel discussion moderated by Jean-Paul Bath, co-curator of the French Design Art Edition sector and director of the FRENCH DESIGN association, with Lionel Sauvage, President of Les Arts Décoratifs and chairman of the jury for the 4th edition of the FD100 Award, designer and interior designer Emma Donnersberg, director of the Emma Donnersberg Gallery, Aurélie Laure, managing director of Studio Andrée Putman and designer and interior designer Bruno Moinard, CEO of Bruno Moinard Editions.
Discussion in French
Organised by Le FRENCH DESIGN
16:15 – 17:30
A conversation between artist Alireza Shojaian and art historian and philosopher Agnès Callu (EHESS/CNRS), the author of the recently published book: Alireza Shojaian. Masculinité(s) persanes. Graphes & Chromes, Lyon, published by Éditions Jacques André, 2026.
Discussion in French
Organised in collaboration with Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain Gallery
18:00 – 19:30
Places of reparation
A panel discussion moderated by Stéphanie Pioda, journalist and art historian, with Alexia Fabre, deputy director of the Centre Pompidou Francilien in Massy and guest curator at Art Paris 2026 for Reparation, Julie Gandini, head of the Fonds d’Art Contemporain - Paris Collections and artists Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza and Mehdi-Georges Lahlou.
Discussion in French
Saturday 11 April
14:30 – 16:00
Languages, images and territories
This panel discussion will be moderated by Loïc Le Gall, guest curator at Art Paris 2026 for Babel – Art and Language in France. It will be exploring language, not as a means of communication, but rather as a territory, a place of circulation, power, memory and transformation. Participating in the discussion will be artists Sara Ouhaddou and Luca Resta and curator Patricia Couvet, who will be addressing practices that approach language in different but highly convergent ways.
16:15 – 17:45
As part of the Her Art Prize launched by Marie Claire and Art Paris with the support of Maison Boucheron
Discussion in French
16h15 : What is at stake today for women artists
A panel discussion moderated by art consultant, exhibition curator and Marie Claire contributor Marion Vignal with Boucheron CEO Hélène Poulit-Duquesne, Jeanne Brun, assistant director at the Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, Isobel Gooder, contemporary art market specialist at Sotheby’s Paris, art curator Erin Jenoa Gilbert and Anne Bourrassé, author of Les Refusées. Les artistes femmes n'existent pas (published by Éditions du Seuil).
17h : A discussion around the winner of the Her Art Prize 2026 for women artists
18:00 – 19:30
The State of the Market Now
A panel discussion moderated by Devorah Lauter with Jelena Kristic, curator and art advisor Sophie Neuendorf, vice president at Artnet
Discussion in English
Organised in partnership with Artnet
Sunday 12 April
14:30 – 16:00
How to both enhance and safeguard your collection: a survival kit for the curious, the passionate and other compulsive art lovers
This panel discussion will provide the opportunity to review the principles of sound management applied to a private art collection (insurance, acquisition, inheritance, etc), but also to discuss the specificities of the French context. It will also take a forward-looking approach by considering possible areas for improvement in this field.
The discussion will be moderated by art historian Maxime Georges Métraux (Galerie Duchemin/Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University) with Laurent Issaurat, Head of Art Banking Services at Société Générale Private Banking, Pierre Noual, a lawyer specialising in art and cultural property law and Daphné de Marolles, Head of Art, Specie and Private Clients at AXA.
Discussion in French