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 are organised every day for Preview & VIP pass holders, on demand
FRIDAY 24th OF OCTOBER 2025
Institutions & collectors’ preview
Friday the 24th of October 2025 from 3pm to 10pm
Preview invitation
Opening night
Friday the 24th October 2025 from 6pm to 10pm
Preview & VIP invitation
Performance by AragoRn Boulanger
Friday 24th of October at 7:30pm
Preview & VIP invitation
SATURDAY 25th of OCTOBER 2025
Panel talk – Création contemporaine en Tunisie
Saturday 25th October 2025 from 2:30pm to 4pm
(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
Performance by Kevork Mourad (Galerie Tanit)
Saturday 25th of October 2025 at 4:30pm
Panel talk – Artistic Ecosystems in Syria & Palestine & Lebanon
Saturday 25th Octobre 2025 at 5:30pm to 7pm
(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
Saturday 25th of October 2025 from 5pm to 8pm
SUNDAY 26th OF OCTOBER 2025
Conversation – The Role Played by Paris in the Avant-gardism of Modern Iranian Art
Sunday 26th October 2025 from 2:30pm to 3:30pm
(ENG)
Moderated: Aida Mojallal
With Catherine David & Pr. Hamid Keshmirshekan
Conversation – Joanna Chevalier & Laure d’Hauteville
Sunday 26th October 2025 from 4pm to 5pm
(FR)
Performance by Sarine Semerjian (Galerie Camille Pouyfaucon)
Sunday 26th of October 2025 at 5:30pm
Book signing – Visual Arts in Sudan by Rashid Diab
(Dara Art Gallery)
Sunday 26 October 2025 at 17h45 booth R1
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
26 Place Vendôme, 75001 Paris
Sign up here, 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, from 10am until 6pm
Admission with VIP pass
Institut des Cultures de l’Islam
Access to the exhibitions from Wednesday, October 22 to Sunday, October 26, from 12 pm to 7 pm
Admission with VIP pass
Invitation to the opening of ECHO DELAY REVERB at the Palais de Tokyo the 22nd of October 2025, from 12am to 22pm
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, from 12 until 9pm.
Admission with VIP pass
Institut du Monde Arabe
Access to Le Mystère Cleopatre exhibition on October 23, from 10 am to 6 pm
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 at 11.30am (2hrs)
RSVP mandatory: sign up here
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 at 5pm.
RSVP mandatory: sign up here
Guided tour of the exhibition “John Singer Sargent. Éblouir Paris ” and “Bridget Riley. Point de départ” on Monday the 27th of October between 3pm and 7pm.
RSVP mandatory: sign up here
Institut des Cultures de l’Islam
Guided tour of the exhibitions Cosmogrammes & Those who walk the Land on Monday 27th of October at 5pm
RSVP mandatory: sign up here
Closing event
Menart Fair & la galerie Obafricart invite you to celebrate the end of the fair on Monday the 27th October 2025 from 6:30pm onwards.
3 Place du Général Catroux, 75017
Sign up here.