The 35th edition of the fair Art Brussels will take place between April 20-23, 2017 gathering a total of 142 galleries from 28 countries across the fair’s main section and Discovery, Solo, and Rediscovery, the three areas that focus on emerging artists, solo presentations, and overlooked figures respectively.
The 2017 edition will host a total of 33 newcomers, including David Kordansky Gallery (Los Angeles), Pearl Lam Galleries (Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore), ProyectosMonclova (Mexico City), Gallery Baton (Seoul), and Skopia Art Contemporain (Genève).
Key galleries that are returning to the fair are Bernier/Eliades (Athens), Galleria Continua (San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins, and Havana), dépendance (Brussels), Xavier Hufkens (Brussels), Galerie Lelong (Paris, New York), KOW (Berlin), Galerie Krinzinger (Vienna), Galleria Massimo Minini (Brescia), New Art Centre (Salisbury), Almine Rech Gallery (Paris, Brussels, London, New York), and Tina Kim (New York).
“The applications to Art Brussels this year have been of an exceptionally high standard: exclusive, original and highly distinctive, in other words, wholly in line with our concept for the fair,” Anne Vierstraete, managing director of the fair, said in a statement. “We were delighted to see a high level of renewal within the list of galleries who applied, and to have already experienced such high enthusiasm for the fair ahead of our promising 35th edition,” she added.
Anne Vierstraete, managing director of Art Brussels. Photo David Plas.
The 2017 edition will be again staged at Tour & Taxis, a centrally-located Brussels landmark that the fair relocated to last year in order to make it more accessible to the public, and more competitive since the arrival of the Brussels edition of the Independent art fair, which launched just a day before the 2016 edition of Art Brussels at the heart of the city, to great acclaim.
Last year also marked the departure of the fair’s artistic director since 2012, Katerina Gregos. No replacement has been appointed yet, but a press representative for the fair told artnet News that an external curator who will be responsible for a special project will be announced in early 2017.
In the meantime, the fair has appointed two new members to the selection committee, both of whom have curatorial backgrounds: Tania Doropoulos, artistic director at the gallery Timothy Taylor in London and New York, and Eva Birkenstock, director of the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf.
See the complete exhibitor list of Art Brussels 2017 below:
11R, New York
ADN, Barcelona
Sabrina Amrani, Madrid
Enrico Astuni, Bologna
Piero Atchugarry, Pueblo Garzón
Baró, Sao Paulo
Albert Baronian, Brussels
Art Bärtschi & Cie, Geneva
Base-Alpha, Borgerhout (Antwerp)
Baton, Seoul
Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Brussels
bitforms, New York
Thomas Brambilla, Bergamo
Brand New Gallery, Milan
Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo
Bugada & Cargnel, Paris
Laura Bulian, Milan
BWA Warszawa, Warsaw
Carroll / Fletcher, London
Casado Santapau, Madrid
Bernard Ceysson, Paris, Luxembourg, Saint-Etienne
Chelouche, Tel Aviv
Choi&Lager, Köln
Clages, Köln
Conradi, Hamburg
Continua, San Gimignano, Les Moulins, Beijing, Habana
Copperfield/Division of Labour, London
Cortesi, Lugano, London
COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
Heike Curtze und Petra Seiser, Vienna
Dauwens & Beernaert, Brussels
Monica De Cardenas, Milan
Kristof De Clercq, Ghent
dépendance, Brussels
Anne de Villepoix, Paris
Lucie Drdova, Prague
Eric Dupont, Paris
Edel Assanti, London
Escougnou-Cetraro, Paris
Imane Farès, Paris
Fifty One, Antwerp, New York
Les filles du calvaire, Paris, Brussels
Flatland, Amsterdam
MLF | Marie-Laure Fleisch, Brussels, Rome
Forsblom, Helsinki
Jean Fournier, Paris
Gallery 55, Shanghai
Annie Gentils, Antwerp
Geukens & De Vil, Knokke
Thierry Goldberg, New York
Gowen Contemporary, Geneva
Grimmuseum, Berlin
Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels
HDM, Beijing
Hopstreet, Brussels
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
Jablonka Maruani Mercier, Brussels
Fred Jahn, München
Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
David Kordansky, Los Angeles
Kornfeld, Berlin
KOW, Berlin
Krinzinger, Vienna
Kusseneers, Brussels
Irène Laub, Brussels, Shanghai
Laurentin, Paris
Lelong Paris, New York
Galerie Christian Lethert, Köln
Licenciado, Mexico City
LMNO, Brussels
Javier Lopez & Fer Frances, Madrid
Lyles & King, New York
Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
Marlborough Contemporary, London, New York
MARSO, Mexico City
Mario Mauroner, Vienna, Salzburg
Mario Mazzoli, Berlin
Greta Meert, Brussels
Meessen De Clercq, Brussels
Mier, Los Angeles
Minini, Brescia
Galería de las Misiones, Montevideo
Mitterrand, Paris
Ani Molnár, Budapest
Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles
Neumeister Bar-Am, Berlin
New Art Centre, Salisbury
Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
Nathalie Obadia, Paris, Brussels
OSL Contemporary, Oslo
Parafin, London
Pearl Lam Galleries, Honk Kong, Shanghai, Singapore
Karl Pfefferle, München
Polansky, Prague
prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan, Lucca
PROYECTOSMONCLOVA, Mexico City
Raum mit Licht, Vienna
Almine Rech, Brussels, Paris, London, New York
(re)D., Antwerp
Michel Rein, Brussels
Denise René, Paris
Repetto, London
Tyler Rollins, New York
Ronchini, London
Rossicontemporary, Brussels
SAGE Paris, Paris
Barbara Seiler, Zurich
Selma Feriani, London
Semiose, Paris
Senda, Barcelona
SKOPIA/P.-H. Jaccaud, Genève
SMAC, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Stellenbosch
Filomena Soares, Lisboa
Sophia Contemporary, London
Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels
Pietro Sparta, Chagny
Marc Straus, New York
Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris
Timothy Taylor, London
Daniel Templon, Paris, Brussels
The Hole, New York
Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Innsbruck
Tina Kim, New York
Tiwani Contemporary, London
Transit, Mechelen
Tucci Russo, Torre Pellice
Steve Turner, Los Angeles
unttld, Vienna
Rita Urso, Milan
Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp
van der Mieden, Antwerp
Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Honk Kong
Nadja Vilenne, Liège
VILTIN, Budapest
VNH, Paris
Wetterling, Stockholm
Xippas, Paris, Montevideo, Punta Del Este, Geneve
Zidoun-Bossuyt, Luxembourg
Zilberman, Istanbul
Zink, Waldkirchen in der Oberpfalz