Paris Internationale 2025: Ten Years of Free and Unbounded Art
Ten years ago, it was a utopia: an art fair free, independent, built more on dialogue than on commerce. Today, Paris Internationale celebrates its tenth anniversary and eleventh edition (October 22–26), returning almost to where it all began, a few steps from the hôtel particulier that hosted its debut in 2015. What was once an idea is now a model — a fair that rejects hierarchy and rigidity, choosing instead collaboration, discovery, and the unexpected. Its new venue, a grand Haussmannian building on the Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées, welcomes over 60 galleries from 19 countries: a fluid, contemporary geography where emerging and established names coexist within open spaces designed by Christ & Gantenbein — 21st-century salons for a new artistic community.
To mark the milestone, ♡ PI 10 unfolds as a special journey through the fair’s history. Site-specific installations, interventions by artists from past editions, and collaborations with alumni galleries create a living archive of collective experimentation, while a dedicated publication revisits the conversations, visions, and discoveries that have shaped Paris Internationale. True to its founding spirit, the fair remains a non-profit project, reinvesting all proceeds into the following edition and maintaining the human scale that defines it.
Alongside founding galleries Ciaccia Levi, Crèvecoeur, and Gregor Staiger, regular participants like KOW (Berlin), Derosia (New York), greengrassi (London), and Kendall Koppe (Glasgow) return, joined by newcomers from Barcelona, Milan, Mexico City, and Los Angeles. Fifty-two solo or duo presentations offer deep immersion into artistic practices, while talks curated with Fondation Pernod Ricard and the Daily Dérives — guided walks led by curators, critics, and artists — transform each day of the fair into a living laboratory of ideas.
The official opening on October 21 — attended by international guests such as Raf Simons, Chris Dercon, Hans Ulrich Obrist — marked the beginning of a new season for Paris Internationale: a fair that doesn’t merely sell artworks but reimagines new ways of living and sharing art — with the lightness and conviction of those who know that, after ten years, utopia hasn’t ended; it has simply transformed into reality.
Text: Germano D’Acquisto
Photos: Niccolò Campita
