Returning to the historic Grand Palais in Paris for its 46th edition, FIAC 2019 featured 199 established and emerging galleries from 29 countries, offering a wide selection of modern and contemporary art and design. The adjacent Petit Palais hosted FIAC Projects—co-organized by Palais de Tokyo curator Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel—where 30 sculptures and installations occupied the rooms of the museum and its surrounding grounds.

Spread across iconic public spaces in the city, FIAC Hors les Murs presented an ensemble of outdoor works, including over 20 pieces in collaboration with the Louvre Museum at the Jardin des Tuileries; a solo exhibition of Glenn Brown’s new works at the Musée National Eugène-Delacroix; Yayoi Kusama’s large, inflatable sculpture of a polka-dotted pumpkin, Life of the Pumpkin Recites, All About the Biggest Love for the People (2019), at Place Vendôme; and a group of architectural projects installed at Place de la Concorde. Additional programming included talks in the Conversation Room as well as film screenings at the fair.

Here are some highlights from FIAC:

Paul Laster is a New York desk editor of ArtAsiaPacific.

FIAC 2019 runs through to October 20, 2019.

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