Every year in April, Brussels welcomes 30 000 contemporary art lovers from all over the world.

Every April, artists, galleries, collectors, critics and curators from all over the world make the City of Brussels their destination. Brussels is during the fair all about art. An important number of museums, art institutions, galleries and private collectors show an exciting contemporary art program.

ART FAIRS:

- Art Brussels
from 25 to 27 April 2014
Preview & Vernissage: 24 April (by invitation only)
from 12 pm to 8 pm
Brussels Expo - Halls 1 & 3
Place de Belgique, 1
BE-1020 Brussels

190 international galleries from 27 countries, for this 32nd edition of Art Brussels.
At the same time it continues to reinforce and build upon its identity as a 'discovery fair' and the place where one can identify artists at the beginning of their careers. Art Brussels is also proud to feature a rich artistic and discursive programme within the fair, conceived by the artistic director, Katerina Gregos.
SECTIONS: PRIME, YOUNG, FIRST, SOLO, CURATOR’S VIEW (new)
Apart from the renewal of each edition, Art Brussels continues to maintain its profile as a fair that brings together emerging artists and galleries (the YOUNG & FIRST section) with more established ones (the PRIME section), thus offering the best of both worlds: an established market combined with a youthful appeal. At the same time it continues to reinforce and build upon its identity as a ‘discovery fair’ and the place where one can identify artists at the beginning of their careers.
Indicatively, this year the FIRST section, which includes young and upcoming galleries that have never shown at the fair before, will be enlarged after a record number of applications. FIRST is a unique section at Art Brussels as it is upon invitation only. It is scouted and selected by a committee of international curators including:
- Daria De Beauvais, Curator, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
- Chris Fitzpatrick, Director, OBJECTIF EXHIBITIONS, Antwerp
- Nathalie Hartjes, Artistic director Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem and Co-ordinator of the Gallerist Programme at de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam
- Johan Holten, Director, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
- Katerina Gregos, Curator, Artistic Director, Art Brussels.
In addition to FIRST, 75 galleries will be exhibiting in the YOUNG section.This year, more emphasis will also be placed on individual presentations of artists, in the SOLO section, providing the opportunity to see the work of an artist (whether established or young) more in-depth, and allowing for larger scale projects. Finally, a new section has been added to the fair this year entitled CURATOR’S VIEW. This section brings together a selected number of galleries who bring a curated thematic group exhibition in their stand to the fair. These curatorial proposals can be curated either by an artist, or by a curator, or by the gallery themselves and are selected by Katerina Gregos.
Talks and debates on THE STAGE a special structure (designed by Tom Mares & {{Walt Van Beek) will, once again, feature an extensive programme of discursive activities (debates, talks, encounters with artists) following the success of last year's programme. THE STAGE is the place where people gather in order to listen to the ideas that currently matter.
Film & video at Art Brussels: THE CINEMA is a special structure (designed by Tom Mares & Walt Van Beek ) with comfortable cinema seating where one can view shorter duration artists' videos and films, on two screens, in an appropriate setting. Two screening programmes run in a continuous loop.
A special exhibition: this year's flagship artistic project is titled Portrait of the Collector as a Work of Art: An Intimate Journey, and will bring together highlights from the collections of the Art Brussels' Collectors Committee, comprised of some of the most foremost Belgian collectors.

- Slick Art Fair
from April 25 to April 27 2014
Wild Gallery
rue du Charroi
1190 Brussels

SLICK is pleased to announce the third Belgium edition of the SLICK contemporary art fair taking place in Brussels from April 25 to 27, 2014. SLICK Brussels aims to bring together the vitality of younger galleries with that of more established galleries, working both with recognized artists and tomorrow’s high-potentials.