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Presentation
Art on Paper, the international drawing fair in Brussels, will be held from October 3rd to 6th 2024 in an exceptional setting: the Tour & Taxis Gare Maritime.
Art on Paper presents a unique panorama of the quality and diversity of contemporary, modern and Old Master drawing's approaches through the organization of an international fair dedicated to this practice.
The Art on Paper fair offers the different publics, professionals or amateurs, to discover the plurality of drawing and works on paper selected by more than 60 Belgian and international galleries, established or emerging.
Art on Paper will be held as part of the 5th edition of the Brussels Drawing Week (from September 30th to October 6th) which will host a rich and varied program of activities dedicated to drawing throughout Brussels (More information via drawingweek.brussels).
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Selection committee
2024
Under the impetus of Virginie Devillez, Art on Paper's senior advisor, the fair has redesigned its selection committee to create a broader strategic committee, including experts in modern and antique drawing as well as gallery representatives. Art on Paper has chosen to surround itself with a committee of art professionals, experts and collectors to support its development and influence in Belgium and abroad.
Art on Paper would like to extend its warmest thanks to these key figures for their involvement and contribution to the success of this 9th edition:
Sabine Taevernier
Sabine Taevernier is an art expert and advisor to public and private collections.
She holds a master's degree in art history from the KU Leuven. She became an independent consultant and resumed her curatorial activities in 1998.
As a specialist in James Ensor, she founded the Ensor Advisory Committee in 2002 and took part in most of the artist's national and international exhibitions.Since 2005 she has been associated as an expert with the Belgian Chamber of Art Experts. In 2015 she became a member of the Council for the Conservation of Movable Cultural Heritage in Flanders (Topstukkenraad) and in 2019 she was appointed Vice-Chairman.
Since January 2021, she has been a trustee of the King Baudouin Foundation, an independent and pluralist Belgian and European charitable foundation. She manages the Orcona fund attached to the King Baudouin Foundation with the aim of supporting small to medium-sized museums in the Flemish region with the acquisition of artworks, financing restoration and art scientific research.
An art enthusiast, she has always collected contemporary art.
Pascal Neveux
After a doctorate in art history from the Sorbonne, where he specialised in Chaïm Soutine, Pascal Neveux began his career at Art Public Contemporain in Paris.
He then worked at Galerie Jean Gabriel Mitterrand before joining Madeleine Van Doren at Credac, in Ivry-sur-Seine, in 1992.
From 1999 to 2006, he directed the Frac Alsace in Sélestat, and for fourteen years, from 2006 to 2020, he led the Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
From 2003 to 2006, Neveux served as President of the Association nationale des directeurs de Frac and was a board member of Platform, where he coordinated projects commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Frac.
Between 2013 and 2018, he was a founding member and chairman of the Marseille Expos association, which brought together around fifty contemporary art venues and galleries in the Aix Marseille Métropole area.
From 2018 to 2023, he chaired Cipac, a federation of contemporary art professionals that now includes 36 national and regional professional networks.
Neveux also held the position of General Curator for the "Ulysses" project, conceived for Marseille-Provence, European Capital of Culture in 2013, which featured over a hundred venues and more than 150 artists.
Since 2020, Pascal Neveux has been the director of FRAC Picardie in Amiens, which houses the only public collection in France dedicated to contemporary drawing.
He is currently overseeing the project to relocate FRAC Picardie to the Tri Postal building in downtown Amiens.
He serves on the selection committees for Drawing Now Art Fair Paris and the Salon du Dessin Paréidolie in Marseille. Additionally, he has authored numerous texts and articles on a variety of French and international artists.
Gwenvael Launay
After a Master's degree / Curatorial program at the University of Rennes, Gwenvael Launay began his professional career in Brussels as a curatorial assistant to Elena Filipovic at WIELS in 2010-2011. From 2011, he started as Artist Liaison at Almine Rech Brussels, then became director and in charge of the gallery's global program in collaboration with Almine Rech. At the same time, he holds a position as Project Coordinator at FABA (Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso) and is responsible for the coordination of exhibitions for the foundation such as 'The Echo of Picasso' at the Museo Picasso Malaga (2023 ), or Ewa Juszkiewicz at the Palazzo Cavanis in Venice (2024).
Virginie Devillez
Active for more than 25 years in the art world, Virginie Devillez is an expert in Belgian and international art, a researcher and curator. She holds a PhD from the Université libre de Bruxelles (2001) and was then curator at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, where she was, among other things, the project manager of the Magritte Museum inaugurated in 2009. She then managed the galleries of Daniel Templon and Micheline Szwajcer before becoming an expert at Sotheby's from 2016 to 2023 in Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Art.
Virginie Devillez is also a member of the René Magritte Expertise Committee, a scientific collaborator of the Université libre de Bruxelles and guest curator of the Ostend Museum for the project dedicated to the Belgian impressionist painter Anna Boch.
Ravi Bhansali
Ravi Bhansali is a dedicated art enthusiast and collector, focused on international post-war & contemporary art. He pursues this passion with a sense of adventure and curiosity.
Ravi is a 3rd generation Belgian-Indian, born and raised in Antwerp. After earning his degree in International Business from Regent's University London, he joined Rosy Blue, a family business active in the global gem & jewellery trade.
He has lived in Mumbai, Sri Lanka and Thailand, managing several of the company’s Asian units, eventually settling back in Belgium in 2011. In 2017 he took on the role of CEO & Managing Director of Rosy Blue NV
Anne Bambynek
Anne Bambynek has been directing the contemporary art collection of the National Bank of Belgium since May 2020. She studied art history at KULeuven and Freie Universität Berlin and started working as Yves Randaxhe's assistant curator at the National Bank in 2016.
In 2019, she collaborated in the realization of the exhibition Building a Dialogue. Two Corporate Collections of Contemporary Art. This year she curated NBB's second public exhibition: (un)common values, on the occasion of the collection's 50th anniversary.
History
From the birth of the fair, under the impetus of Michel Culot and in collaboration with Paul Dujardin and the fair’s team, to the organisation of its 8th edition in 2023: find out, by year, the highlights and various players who have contributed to the evolution of Art on Paper to become one of the leading European drawing fairs.
2014
Premises and birth of a commitment to the promotion of contemporary drawing.
- Born as a pop-up store, under the impetus of Michel Culot and the late Pierre Hallet (1953 - 2021), the Art on Paper fair evolved rapidly to become, from 2015 onwards with the help of Paul Dujardin, an art fair dedicated to the practice of drawing at BOZAR.
- At the instigation of Michel Culot (founder of Art on Paper at BOZAR), Adeline d'Ursel and Paul Dujardin (director of BOZAR), a collaboration agreement was signed to support the organisation of a platform for the promotion of contemporary drawing, the Art on Paper fair.
- The fair advocates the solo show as the preferred form of presentation of the artists' work.
- An agreement places Art on Paper as a "hosted event" within BOZAR, which is a partner of the fair.
2015 - 2017
First editions and development of the Art on Paper formula in the Terarken Rooms of BOZAR.
ORGANISATION
Fair Director / Adeline d’Ursel
Artistic Director / Pauline Hatzigeorgiou
Fair Coordinator / Grace Lombi
Fair Advisor / Liv Vaisberg
SELECTION COMMITTEES
2015
Denis De Rudder Head of the drawing department, La Cambre
Olivier Gevart Directeur, Ete 78
Harlan Levey Harlan Levey Projects
Francesco Rossi Rossicontemporary
Maïté Smeyers BOZAR Expo
Christophe Veys Veys-Verhaevert Collection
2016
Denis De Rudder Head of the drawing department, La Cambre
Joost Declercq Director, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
Olivier Gevart Director, Ete 78
Yves Lecointre Director, Frac Picardie/des mondes dessinés
Francesco Rossi Rossicontemporary
Christophe Veys Veys-Verhaevert Collection
2017
Denis De Rudder Head of the drawing department, La Cambre
Joost Declercq Director, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
Olivier Gevart Director, Ete 78
Sophie Lauwers Head of exhibitions, BOZAR
Yves Lecointre Director, Frac Picardie/des mondes dessinés
Tanguy Van Quickenborne Art collector
- The first three editions of the fair take place in the Terarken Rooms in BOZAR.
- The fair welcomes 25 galleries including major Belgian and international galleries: Zenox X Gallery (Mircea Suciu), Albert Baronian (Robert Devriendt), Meessen De Clercq (Nicolas Lamas), Sofie Van De Velde (Johan de Wilde) and Michel Rein (Raphaël Zarka).
- On average, the fair welcomes nearly 5000 visitors at each edition, and its reputation is growing rapidly internationally.
- In addition to the solo shows, the Eeckman Art Prize is presented, a prize for young talent selected by a jury of professionals and initiated by the fair and its partners Eeckman Art & Insurance and BOZAR.
- Creation of the SOFAM prize for the best solo show, selected by a jury of professionals.
- In 2017, the fair wins the visit.brussels Award in the category 'International Congress & Fair'.
- Two in situ works are created in collaboration with BOZAR: in 2016, "Vaporisation Crystallisation" by the artist Henri Jacobs in the BOZAR Rotunda, entrance hall and Fumoir and, in 2017, "I still draw love, plants and things" in the Fumoir by the Ukrainian artist, Alevtina Kakhidze.
- First partnership with La Libre Belgique for the co-creation of an Art on Paper supplement in Arts Libre.
2018
The fair doubles in size, further increasing its influence and recognition both internationally and in Belgium. Art on Paper at BOZAR is one of the leading drawing fairs and a key event on the European drawing agenda.
ORGANISATION
Fair Director Adeline d'Ursel & Gilles Parmentier
Artistic Director Marie Cantos
Fair Coordinator Kelly de Gheldere
Fair Advisor Liv Vaisberg
SELECTION COMMITTEE
Denis De Rudder Head of the drawing department, La Cambre
Joost Declercq Director, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
Florence and Daniel Guerlain Art collector
Sophie Lauwers Head of exhibitions, BOZAR
Yves Lecointre Director, Frac Picardie l des mondes dessinés
Kate Mc Farlane Co-director, Drawing Room
Reyn van der Lugt Art collector
EXHIBITORS' LIST
galleries
- The fair is located in the Ravenstein circuit of BOZAR and welcomes 50 galleries.
- The fair opens a 'project space' section to allow young galleries and 'artist-run-spaces' to participate in the fair.
- Collaboration with BOZAR Bookshop to present the artbooks of the artists present on the fair.
- Exhibition of a series of works on paper, "Dark Museums and Colored Museums" by the artist Leo Copers at BOZAR.
- Creation of sound capsules by sound artist Alix Gastineau, on the initiative of Marie Cantos and with the support of SOFAM.
- VIP programming of studio visits by artists (Gabriel Kuri, Audrey Cottin and Raffaella Crispino) and visits to private collections (Tobias Arndt and the Veys-Verhaevert collection).
- Programming of three talks with speakers: Javier Quilis, curator and CEO INELCOM Arte Contemporáneo, Valeria Duplat du Tate and Denis De Rudder, head of the drawing department at La Cambre, and the artist Katrin Ströbel.
- Performance and visual and sound installation, ''Drawing'', in the living room of the artist Clarissa Baumann.
- Second edition of the Art on Paper supplement in Arts Libre in partnership with La Libre Belgique.
2019
The 5th anniversary edition marks a turning point for Art on Paper at BOZAR, the fair welcomes almost 10,000 visitors and received unrivalled media attention. Launch of the first edition of the Brussels Drawing Week.
ORGANISATION
Fair Director Gilles Parmentier
Artistic Director Bas Hendrikx
Fair Coordinator Agnès Raux
Fair Advisor Liv Vaisberg
SELECTION COMMITTEE
Denis De Rudder Head of the drawing department, La Cambre
Florence and Daniel Guerlain Art collectors
Kate Macfarlane Co-director, Drawing Room
Sophie Lauwers Head of exhibitions, BOZAR
Reyn van der Lugt Art collector
EXHIBITORS' LIST
galleries
- Opening of the fair to the presentation of one or two artists in addition to the solo show.
- Launch of the first edition of the Brussels Drawing Week with around fifteen participating schools and art centres.
- Programme of talks: conversation between the artist Daphné Nan Le Sergent and Johana Carrier, co-editor-in-chief of Roven, and between the artist Keren Cytter (Daata) and Bas Hendrikx, artistic director of Art on Paper 2019.
- Exhibition of Timo van Grinsven, laureate of the Eeckman Art Prize at the Botanique as part of the Brussels Drawing Week.
- Production of a catalogue for the 2019 edition of Art on Paper, listing the participating galleries, the partners and the programme of the Brussels Drawing Week.
- BOZAR has a 'BOZAR on Paper' stand in the Horta hall where a series of drawings of their collection in limited edition are on sale.
2020
A promising and highly anticipated edition, cancelled following the health crisis of Covid-19 in Belgium and internationally.
- Strong synergies with the exhibition 'Molenbeek', drawings by Philippe Vandenberg at BOZAR.
- Second edition of the Brussels Drawing Week (cancelled due to Coronavirus) with a double participation of Brussels museums and art centres.
- Programming of book signing-session by the artists, in collaboration with BOZAR Bookshop.
2021
Creation of a drawing ecosystem consisting of Art on Paper and Brussels Drawing Week.
ORGANISATION
Fair Director Gilles Parmentier
Artistic Director Joost Declercq & Charlotte Crevits
Fair Coordinator & Gallery Relations Agnès Raux
LISTE DES EXPOSANTS
galeries
- Joost Declercq and Charlotte Crevits take over the artistic direction of the fair for a period of at least 3 years.
- Organisation of the fair taking into account the current sanitary measures.
- Publication of a new website with the development of a digital platform for the management of VIP relations.
- Second edition of the Brussels Drawing Week with a doubling of the participating Brussels museums and art centres.
2022
Unique and remarkable edition within the Vanderborght building. The fair hosts 45 galleries and nearly 10,000 visitors during its 5-day opening. It further strengthens its position as a benchmark event for all those involved in the European art scene (galleries, collectors, institutions, artists, art students).
ORGANISATION
Fair Director
Gilles Parmentier
Artistic Director
Joost Declercq
Fair Coordinator & Gallery Relations
Agnès Raux > 15.07.2022 & Géraldine Hubot
SELECTION COMMITTEE
Anne Bambynek Curator, National Bank of Belgium
Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collector and founder, Cloud Seven
Joost Declercq Artistic Director, Art on Paper
Benedicte Goesaert Artist liaison
Paul Vanhonsebrouck Art collector
EXHIBITORS' LIST
galleries
- Moving from Bozar to the Vanderborght building in the heart of Brussels.
- Conference cycle “Talks - A cycle of discussions on drawing and works on paper”.
- In situ proposal "O, 6o, four drawings" by Boris Thiébaut with Le Botanique.
- Exhibition "StandUp" by Charlotte Beaudry by CENTRALE for contemporary art.
- Exhibition of a selection of works from the Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection.
- Solo show by Sarah Minutillo, winner of the Eeckman Art Prize 2022.
- Discover the winner of the SOFAM FOCUS PRIZE.
- Talks & tours programme, coworking space by Cloud Seven, official bookshop by Peinture Fraîche, and much more!
- Third edition of the Brussels Drawing Week everywhere in Brussels.
2023
The first edition of Art on Paper to be held at the Gare Maritime has been acclaimed by all, with over 60 galleries and a wide-ranging programme of exhibitions, talks and tours. It succeeds in welcoming a significant number of modern and ancient art galleries alongside contemporary art galleries. Art on Paper further strengthens its position as Europe's leading event for drawings and works on paper. Its programme attracts almost 11,000 visitors over 5 days (galleries, collectors, institutions, artists and art students).
ORGANISATION
Fair Director
Gilles Parmentier
Artistic Director
Joost Declercq
Fair Coordinator & Gallery Relations
Géraldine Hubot
SELECTION COMMITTEE
Anne Bambynek Curator, National Bank of Belgium
Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collector and Founder, Cloud Seven
Joost Declercq Artistic Director, Art on Paper
Florence Derck Co-founder DEMAIN Art
Virginie Devillez Fine Art Expert and Art advisory
Paul Vanhonsebrouck Art collector
EXHIBITORS LIST
galleries
- Installation in the heart of the Gare Maritime, the new "Grand-Palais du dessin à Bruxelles".
- Solo show by Rémie Vanderhaegen, winner of the Eeckman Art Prize 2023
- Publication and distribution of a special edition of AMA magazine devoted to the fair, the galleries, the Art on Paper programme and Brussels Drawing Week
- Talks - Talks - Talks" conference, bringing together over 200 participants for a series of 4 conferences
- Fourth edition of Brussels Drawing Week throughout Brussels.
- Organisation and presentation of 6 exhibitions during the 4th edition of Brussels Drawing Week:
1° The Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée with the exhibition Un musée : trois collections and the print workshop Qui est-ce ?
2° The Cultuurcentrum Strombeek with the Sound of a moment exhibition by Gwendolyn Lootens
3° The Design Museum Brussels with the exhibition Christophe Gevers: Esquisses et plans
4° The Ecole nationale supérieure des arts visuels La Cambre with the group exhibition SOME BODY STRANGE and its performances
5° KBR with the group exhibition Congolines. Works on Congolese paper (ca. 1920-1940) from the KBR collection
6° The Musée d'Ixelles with the group exhibition Musée d'Ixelles x Art on Paper
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