The Grand Palais will host modern and contemporary art galleries and continues its support of emerging ones with a 2017 Lafayette Sector of unprecedented strength diversity.

This edition brings together 193 galleries from 30 countries under the nave of the Grand Palais, and upstairs in the Salon d’honneur, the Upper Galleries, and the Salon Jean Perrin (inaugurated in 2016), re-introducing also a design sector, with the participation of 5 galleries internationally renowned for their expertise in the field of 20th and 21st design.

Inaugurated in 2016, the On Site sector, will present around 40 sculptures and installations for this new edition, at the Petit Palais and on the Avenue Winston Churchill, which will be pedestrianised for the occasion. Launched in 2016, On Site presents sculptures and installations in locations in and around the prestigious. Is organized in collaboration with Christophe Leribault, (Director and curator of the Petit Palais) and Eva Wittocx (Senior Curator, M-Museum Leuven), associate curator for 2017.

In 2017, FIAC will further increase its presence in the Palais de la Découverte, through its performance festival, Parades for FIAC.

In association with Chantal Crousel (Paris), Eva Presenhuber (Zürich, New York) and Luhring Augustine (New York), this year FIAC gives carte blanche to American artist Oscar Tuazon to present an in-situ project on the prestigious Place Vendôme.

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