VIP PROGRAM MENART FAIR 2025
for VIP and Preview pass holders
Focus 2025: Tunisie
Slow and steady Wears the Stone
Curated by Victoria Jonathan
With the support of the Department of Seine-Maritime & Menart Friends
Visits with mediation
Guided tours were organised every day for Preview & VIP pass holders
FRIDAY 24th OF OCTOBER 2025
Institutions & collectors’ preview
Friday the 24th of October 2025 from 3pm to 10pm
Opening night
Friday the 24th of October 2025 from 6pm to 10pm
Performance AragoRn Boulanger
SATURDAY 25th of OCTOBER 2025
Panel talk – Création contemporaine en Tunisie
(FR)
Moderated: Zineb Soulaimani — Independent journalist, producer of the podcast Le Beau Bizarre.
with Victoria Jonathan, Wissem Barbouchi, Khadija Hamdi, Férielle Doulain-Zouari, Meriem Bouderbala
Panel talk – Artistic Ecosystems in Syria & Palestine & Lebanon
(ENG)
Moderated: Emmanuelle Bertrand
With Yusef Husein, Nour Salman, Maisara Baroud, Kalim Bechara, and Kevork Mourad
Launch- 2nd edition of the OPOM Magazine Love Bears the Lands
SUNDAY 26th OF OCTOBER 2025
Conversation – The Role Played by Paris in the Avant-gardism of Modern Iranian Art
(ENG)
Moderated: Aida Mojallal
With Catherine David & Pr. Hamid Keshmirshekan
Conversation – Joanna Chevalier & Laure d’Hauteville
(FR)
Performance by Sarine Semerjian (Galerie Camille Pouyfaucon)
Book signing – Visual Arts in Sudan by Rashid Diab
(Dara Art Gallery)
OFF-SITE VIP PROGRAM
Maison Boucheron
Visits of the Hotel de Nocé Boucheron’s Place Vendôme on Wednesday the 22nd, Thursday 23rd and Saturday the 25th of October 2025 – RSVP mandatory
Access to the exhibition Radio Free Europe from the 19th of October 2025 until the 25th of October 2025
Admission with VIP pass
Institut du Monde Arabe
Access to the permanent exhibition of the Institut du Monde Arabe, between the 20th October and 26th of October 2025.
Admission with VIP pass
Institut des Cultures de l’Islam
Access to the exhibitions from Wednesday, October 22 to Sunday, October 26.
Admission with VIP pass
Invitation to the opening of ECHO DELAY REVERB at the Palais de Tokyo the 22nd of October 2025.
Admission with VIP pass
Access to the exhibition ECHO DELAY REVERB at the Palais de Tokyo between the 23rd of October and the 27th of October.
Admission with VIP pass
Institut du Monde Arabe
Access to Le Mystère Cleopatre exhibition on October 23.
Admission with VIP pass
AKAA art & design fair 2025
From Thursday the 23rd until Sunday 26 October 2025.
Admission with VIP pass
Guided tour of studios of artists : Reem Ali Bakhyer, Reyhan Lal, Azza Abo Rebieh and Mahya Tooranpoor on Saturday 25th of October 2025.
RSVP mandatory
Access to the permanent and temporary exhibitions from Friday the 24th of October until Monday 27th of October 2025, from 9:30 to 6pm
Admission with VIP pass
Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac
Guided tour of the exhibition Hoda Afshar. Perform the invisible with curator Annabelle Lacour on Monday 27th of October 2025.
RSVP mandatory
Guided tour of the exhibition “John Singer Sargent. Éblouir Paris ” and “Bridget Riley. Point de départ” on Monday the 27th of October.
RSVP mandatory
Institut des Cultures de l’Islam
Guided tour of the exhibitions Cosmogrammes & Those who walk the Land on Monday 27th of October.
RSVP mandatory
Closing event
Menart Fair & la galerie Obafricart invite you to celebrate the end of the fair on Monday the 27th October 2025.
3 Place du Général Catroux, 75017