A visual diary from Art Paris 2025
Inspiration from the yearly Parisian art fair
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Two weeks ago, I visited the yearly art fair Art Paris for its 2025 edition. It was the first time since the reopening of the Grand Palais and I much preferred the wider space and the light pouring in compared to the temporary space they used in the past few years. I thought it would be fun to share a visual diary with some of my favourite works and interesting pieces and galleries.
If you visited during the day as I did, the natural light from the Grand Palais created some effects on the displays, reflecting the little lamps above the paintings, which was both fun to see but also slightly affected the attention you paid to the details of the pieces.
Her Art Prize for women artists
In collaboration with Marie Claire, this year, a new prize called Her Art was awarded for “both the career of a unique woman artist and a body of work that has pushed back the limits.” I didn’t love too many of the pieces selected and I thought there were other exhibited artists who would have been a great pick, but of course this is just my personal taste.
Two I really enjoyed discovering were French Vietnamese artist Thu-Van Tran, who had some pieces exhibited with different galleries:
And German artist Evi Keller at Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jaeger:
Agnès Thurnauer’s feminist work was also quite interesting:
Visual diary
Rather than sharing lots of thoughts about other artists that are just personal opinions and not proper art criticism, I wanted to show you other pieces I enjoyed as a sort of visual diary to show the beauty of their colours and textures:
💬 Do you have any favourites? Are there other contemporary artists you love? I’m always interested in discovering more.
Have a wonderful Easter!
I really enjoyed this tour of the art gallery. It's wonderful being able to see all that from my sofa in rural England! Thank you and enjoy your Japan trip!