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2025 Art Fairs

2025	Art Fairs	Country
Jan 26-Feb 2	Brafa Art Fair	Belgium
Feb 7-9	Arte Fiera	Italy
Feb 20-23	art karlsruhe	Germany
Mar 5-9	ARCOmadrid	Spain
Mar 15-20	TEFAF Maastricht	Netherlands
Apr 18-20	Art Dubai	UAE
Apr 30-May 4	KunstRAI	Netherlands
Apr 3-6	Art Paris	France
Apr 3-6	Supermarket	Sweden
Apr 24-27	Art Brussels	Belgium
May 9-13	TEFAF New York	USA
Jun 17-22	Photo Basel	Switzerland
Sep 10-14	ArtRio	Brazil
Oct 3-5	ArtVilnius’25	Lithuania

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2024 Art Fairs

2024	Art Fairs	Country
Jan 28-Feb 4	Brafa Art Fair	Belgium
Feb 2-4	Arte Fiera	Italy
Feb 22-25	art KARLSRUHE	Germany
Mar 1-3	Art Dubai	UAE
Mar 3-10	ARCOmadrid	Spain
Mar 9-14	TEFAF Maastricht	Netherlands
Mar 27-Apr 1	KunstRAI	Netherlands
Apr 4-7	Art Paris	France
Apr 25-28	Art Brussels	Belgium
Apr 25-28	Supermarket	Sweden
May 10-14	TEFAF New York	USA
Jun 10-16	Photo Basel	Switzerland
Jun 28-Jul 5	London Art Week	UK
Aug 29-Sep 1	CHART	Denmark
Sep 12-15	POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair	Germany
Sep 25-29	ArtRio	Brazil
Oct 4-6	ArtVilnius’24	Lithuania
Oct 17-20	Art Market Budapest	Hungary
Oct 25-28	Art Taipei	Taiwan
Nov 7-10	ART021 Shanghai	China
Nov 23-Dec 1	Feriarte	Spain
Nov 24-Dec 1	PAN Amsterdam	Netherlands
Dec 3-8	Art Miami	USA
Dec 3-8	SCOPE Miami Beach	USA
Dec 6-8	Art Basel in Miami Beach	USA

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Discover the 5 key Art Industry Trends
For 59% of respondents, non-figurative paintings (which includes abstract painting, as well as associated genres such as minimalist painting, spiritual abstraction, and neo–abstract expressionism) were selected as most important to their business now. In contrast, 45% of galleries ranked figurative painting highest.
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UNESCO has teamed up with Interpol to build a virtual museum of stolen cultural artifacts. https://t.co/Wn81CYWJrC

— Artnet (@artnet) October 13, 2023

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The Bouvier Affair

How an artworld insider made a fortune by being discreet
The Geneva Freeport, which may be the world’s most valuable storage facility, consists of seven beige warehouses and a large grain silo in La Praille, an industrial zone a short tram ride from the city’s lakeside panorama of banks and expensive hotels. One recent morning, rain was falling on the chain-link fence that runs through the property, and snow was visible on the mountains to the south. Iris scanners, magnetic locks, and a security system known as Cerberus guard the freeport’s storerooms, whose contents are said to be insured for a hundred billion dollars, but the facility retains a blue-collar feel. There were signs to the showers. Men stood around in aprons and smoked. Everything about the place tells you to look the other way.
> newyorker.com/the-bouvier-affair

The Global Art Fairs Industry: An Overview

The global art fairs and antiques fairs industry serves as a critical platform for collectors, galleries, artists, curators, and investors. These events are not just exhibitions but key marketplaces where significant deals are brokered, emerging trends are established, and the pulse of the global art economy is felt.

Global Market Insights & Trends

• Market Size: The global art market reached $67.8 billion in 2022, with fairs contributing significantly to overall sales. They account for up to 40% of gallery sales annually.
• Digital Transformation: The rise of online platforms, accelerated by the pandemic, has made art fairs increasingly hybrid, offering virtual viewing rooms alongside physical exhibitions.
• Regional Growth: Asia-Pacific has emerged as a strong contender in the global art market, with Hong Kong and Shanghai leading the charge in art fair activity. Meanwhile, European fairs continue to dominate in terms of heritage and influence.
• Sustainability: There is a growing demand for fairs to adopt eco-friendly practices, with sustainable exhibition designs and reduced carbon footprints becoming priorities.

Emerging Trends

• Diverse Representation: Increasing visibility for underrepresented artists, including women, BIPOC, and LGBTQ+ creators, is reshaping the art fair landscape.
• Investment in Art: Art continues to be seen as an alternative asset class, with growing interest from younger, tech-savvy collectors.
• Tech Integration: Blockchain and NFTs are being explored as tools for provenance and digital art sales, creating new avenues for collectors and artists alike.

Impact of Fairs on the Art Industry

Art fairs are critical nodes in the global art ecosystem. They bring together stakeholders across the supply chain, from artists and galleries to investors and museums. Beyond commerce, they foster cultural dialogue, spotlight emerging talent, and drive innovation in exhibition design and curation.

Europa Regina provides comprehensive resources for professionals in the art and antiques sectors, including a curated Calendar for Art Fairs & Antiques Events. Explore our listings to stay ahead in this dynamic and evolving industry.

Art Industry

Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities; this introduction focuses primarily on the visual arts, which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media.

Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts; however, like the decorative arts, it involves the creation of objects where the practical considerations of use are essential—in a way that they usually are not in a painting, for example. Music, theatre, film, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature and other media such as interactive media, are included in a broader definition of art or the arts.

Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences. In modern usage after the 17th century, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, the fine arts are separated and distinguished from acquired skills in general, such as the decorative or applied arts.

Art may be characterized in terms of mimesis (its representation of reality), expression, communication of emotion, or other qualities. During the Romantic period, art came to be seen as “a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and science”. Though the definition of what constitutes art is disputed and has changed over time, general descriptions mention an idea of imaginative or technical skill stemming from human agency and creation.

The nature of art, and related concepts such as creativity and interpretation, are explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics.