VIP PROGRAM MENART FAIR 2026

Project Room 2026 Algeria
Standing in front of the image

Curated by Wassyla Tamzali
With the support of la Saison Méditerrannée 2026, l’Institut Français d’Algérie, la Ville de Paris, & Menart Friends
Fair location : Project Room, 1st floor

Visits with mediation

Guided tours are organised every day for Preview & VIP pass holders (reservation mandatory)

Institutions & collectors’ preview
Thursday the 22nd of October 2026 from 3pm to 10pm

Opening night
Thursday the 22nd of October 2026 from 6pm to 10pm

Announcement of the “Coup de Coeur” award by the Maison Boucheron
Thursday the 22th of October 2026 at 6pm
Fair location: Menart Fair’s Agora

3-4:30 pm: Round table (FR)
Fair location : Project Room, 1st floor

Chaired by Mario Choueiry, Project Officer, Department of the Museum and Exhibitions, Institut du Monde Arabe

Speakers:

• Nadine Atallah, PhD in art history and exhibition curator, currently research fellow specializing in MENA at the MNAM–Centre Pompidou
• Éric Delpont, former director of the Institut du Monde Arabe museum, exhibition curator, and member of the Board of Directors of the Palestinian National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
• Feriel Fodil, Managing Director of Villa Hegra in AlUla and former Executive Director of the Domaine de Chantilly.
• Arnauld Pierre, Professor of contemporary art history at the Sorbonne and researcher at the Centre André-Chastel.

5-6:30 pm: Round table (FR)
Fair location : Project Room, 1st floor

Chaired by Malika Dorbani-Bouabdellah, art historian, former curator and director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Alger

Speakers:

• Léna Kemiche, member of mat3amclub and curatorial assistant at the Palais de Tokyo
• Seloua Luste Boulbina, philosopher, political scientist and writer.
• Wassyla Tamzali, founder and director of Ateliers Sauvages, Algiers, curator of the Project Room dedicated to Algeria
• Samir Toumi, writer, founder of La Baignoire Expérience

3-4:30 pm: Round table (ENG)
Fair location : Project Room, 1st floor

Chaired by Michele Anbar Haddad, Editor-in-Chief of Matahef magazine

Speakers:

• Farah Abushullaih, Head of Museums at Ithra, Saudi Arabia
•  Anhar Salem, artist
• Doug McCraw, collector and founder of IMX3 Art, FATVillage
• Amedeo Schiattarella, architect, President of Schiattarella Associati, Italy
• Eman Zidan, Director of the Red Sea Museum, Saudi Arabia

 5-6:30 pm: Round table (ENG)
Fair location : Project Room, 1sr floor

Chaired by Rebecca Anne Proctor, independent journalist, author, editor and cultural strategy consultant

Speakers:

• Kalim Bechara, collector and director of Kalim Bechara Art Gallery (2021)
• Essia Hamdi, founder of Galerie Le Violon Bleu in Tunis (2003) and specialist in North African art. Founder of the Fondation Essia Hamdy for Modern North African Art (2026)
• Anne-Sophie Joncoux Pilorget, Director for North Africa, the Middle East and India at auction house Millon
• Naïla Kettaneh-Kunigk, author, founder and director of Galerie Tanit, Munich (1972) and Beirut (2007)
• Mona Ahmed Saïd, patron, owner and director of Safarkhan Art Gallery in Cairo (founded in 1968), and custodian of the Sherwet Shafei collection dedicated to modern Egyptian art