A fair with a strong cultural vocation

This year, the FIAC is strengthening its support for performative practices and dialogue between disciplines in contemporary art by inaugurating a new Festival, Parades for FIAC, which is held in different emblematic Parisian spaces near the FIAC. This program is at the intersection of music, contemporary dance, performance and poetry. It offers as many experiments in the form of live actions opening up new areas in the field of artistic performance.

Recognized in the landscape of art fairs in the world and of an unequaled scope, the Hors les Murs program, which gives FIAC a strong cultural dimension, will reinforce its programming through exhibition routes of external works, 3 days of conferences and projections of artists' films. This year the route will take place in 3 emblematic places: the Tuileries Garden (for the 10th consecutive year as part of the partnership with the Louvre Museum), the Eugène Delacroix National Museum and Place Vendôme.

Visitors will also benefit from - YCI VISITS! - commented on by young critics and curators selected as part of the YCI (Young Curators Invitational) program created by the Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard and the FIAC in 2006.

FIAC 2016 in brief : 186 galleries including 42 new exhibitors; 133 foreign galleries from 27 countries around the world; Most represented countries: France (52 French galleries - 28%), United States (34 galleries) Germany (26 galleries), Italy (14 galleries), England (13 galleries).

On Site at the Petit Palais

The FIAC is pleased to inaugurate its new On Site sector which presents more than forty sculptural works and installations in the prestigious setting of the Petit Palais, in collaboration with Christophe Leribault, curator and director of the Petit Palais, as well than associate curator Lorenzo Benedetti. The works presented occupy the spaces of the South Gallery, the South Pavilion, the Garden, the Large Format Gallery as well as the esplanade in front of the building. On Site will be open to the public from October 19 at 10 a.m. until October 23 at 18 p.m.

Outside the walls

Tour of exterior works, three emblematic Parisian places

Tuileries garden

Inauguration on Tuesday October 18, at noon.

Since 2006, FIAC has joined forces with the Domaine national du Louvre et des Tuileries to present, in the alleys, lawns and ponds of the famous garden, a tour of outdoor works combining installations, sculptures, or sound works. To discover in the course, works and monumental installations by Berdaguer and Péjus, Joe Bradley, Alexander Calder, Mircea Cantor, Gloria Friedmann, Jacques Julien, Michael Sailstorfer, Barthélémy Toguo or Keiji Uemats, but also exceptional architectural presentations by Ron Arad, Mauricio Pezo and Sofia von Ellrichshausen, or Yona Friedman among others.

Address: Café Médicis in the Jardin des Tuileries, entrance on the Place de la Concorde side, 75001 Paris

Eugène Delacroix National Museum

Following on from the Tuileries route, the Eugène Delacroix National Museum, attached to the Louvre Museum since 2004, will open its doors to the FIAC public. Located in Eugène Delacroix's last studio and apartment, in the heart of Saint-Germain-Des-Prés, the Eugène Delacroix museum is a haven of peace, between courtyard and garden. The workshop was transformed into a museum at the initiative of Maurice Denis and the great painters of the 1920s. It is thus a place dedicated to artistic creation.

Address: 6, rue de Furstenberg, 75006 Paris

Place Vendôme

FIAC renews its collaboration with the Vendôme Committee and all of its members to present Place Vendôme monumental works on the scale of the site. A mineral case, the square embodies the excellence of know-how in the service of art. In collaboration with the Eva Presenhuber gallery, Gladstone Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ and Esther Schipper, the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone presents on the Place Vendôme a set of seven majestic aluminum sculptures: it refers to the olive trees that often grow in the region of Naples in Italy, where his family is from. Like “time capsules”, he repaints them in white to give the illusion of tree ghosts, “the ghosts of passing time”.

Address: Place Vendôme, 75001 Paris

Festival Parades for FIAC: music, contemporary dance, performances, poetry

This year, FIAC strengthens its support for performative practices and dialogue between disciplines in contemporary art by inaugurating a new festival, Parades for FIAC, which is held in various emblematic Parisian spaces near the FIAC. This program is at the intersection of music, contemporary dance, performance and poetry. It offers as many experiments in the form of live actions opening up new perimeters to the field of artistic performance.

The Grand Palais opens for the first time the doors of the Salon d'Honneur which lead to the Palais de la Découverte, from Wednesday 19 to Saturday 22 October from 18 pm; the performances presented allow the public to rediscover the spaces of this museum through different routes combining fictions and scientific realities. In the different courses, a program organized with the Louvre focused on contemporary dance is held during the week of the FIAC. Performances are also presented in the Grand Palais and opposite the Petit Palais, on Avenue Winston Churchill.

This festival is produced in collaboration with the Louvre Museum. With the support of SNCF Gares & Connexions. Free access subject to availability, unless otherwise stated in the agenda.

Pratical information

Duration:

From Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 October 2016 from noon to 20 p.m.
Nocturne on Friday October 21
until 21 p.m.

Prices

FIAC ticket € 35
Reduced rate * € 20
Under 12, free
Entry + catalog package, € 60
Catalog 35 €

Cloakroom € 2 per item.
Helmets, umbrellas, suitcases, backpacks and bulky items: compulsory deposit.
Suitcases, travel bags and backpacks larger in size A3 are not authorized at the Grand Palais.

* under 26 or on presentation of the Louvre Jeunes card or the Louvre Professionals card.

Access

Starter
Avenue Winston Churchill
75008 Paris

Transport
Metro: lines 1 and 13 Champs-Élysées Clemenceau
Bus: lines 28, 32, 42, 72, 73, 80, 83,93

Parking
Roundabout Champs Elysees
Q-Park Tour Maubourg

Vélib
Avenue Franklin Roosevelt & Avenue Dutuit

Access for people with reduced mobility
We invite you to come directly to Avenue Winston Churchill with your FIAC access card.
An access ramp allows you to enter directly into the Nave of the Grand Palais.

To know more : www.fiac.com