Observer’s Information to This 12 months’s Should-Go to November Artwork Festivals

Umbrella Artwork Truthful returns to D.C.’s Union Market District on November 15. Picture: Pierre Edwards

This 12 months’s November artwork honest calendar is comparatively unbusy—relative as a result of the downtime artwork world insiders used to take pleasure in has been largely eaten up by a world market that by no means sleeps. That mentioned, November’s lineup of festivals is broadly distributed, which implies it’s probably that solely probably the most hardcore collectors and artwork fans will attempt to go to greater than a pair. Consider this month not as a break however as a welcome lull between New York’s Armory Week in September and Artwork Basel Miami Seashore in December (together with its many, many, many Miami Basel satellite tv for pc festivals).

Whether or not you’re staying near dwelling to arrange for subsequent month’s artwork honest extravaganza or hitting the street on a global odyssey of artwork, Observer’s international information to the artwork festivals in November may also help you place collectively the right itinerary.

ADAA The Artwork Present 2024

October 30 – November 2

In 2016, Observer correspondent Ryan Steadman posed a query on this attention-grabbing headline: Is the ADAA Secretly New York Metropolis’s Greatest Artwork Truthful? His reply was that the Artwork Sellers Affiliation of America’s annual honest, identified merely as The Artwork Present, “clearly places superior artwork forward of favor and glitz” even when it “is normally seen as a quiet, ‘insider’ affair.” Since 1989, the ADAA has mounted the honest on the historic Park Avenue Armory after reviewing sales space proposals submitted by the group’s 180-something member galleries. Tempo Prints is bringing works by Chase Corridor, Petzel is that includes Isabella Ducrot and Roberts Tasks will showcase works by Suchitra Mattai. The 2024 version introduces a brand new initiative titled “Highlight On…” that may shine a light-weight on the artwork scene in a metropolis with a vital mass of ADAA members. This 12 months, it’s Houston, and there might be a panel dialogue led by distinguished native artwork collectors and leaders of town’s cultural establishments. As per standard, ADAA The Artwork Present is a philanthropic affair, and all admissions proceeds will go to Henry Road Settlement.

DEFINE SEOUL 2024

October 30 – November 3

Premium design and artwork honest DEFINE SEOUL is returning to S-Manufacturing unit in Seongsu-dong. With Teo Yang on the helm as inventive director and host Artwork Busan Co. (the organizer of the premium Korean artwork honest, Artwork Busan), DEFINE SEOUL is mounting an formidable occasion with a fancy theme: “Understanding Simplicity – Perspective in the direction of life in a Rational Period.” This 12 months, Yang mentioned in an announcement that the honest, which goals to advertise the inventive vitality of Korea, will “deal with the worth of simplicity, symbolizing function and clear philosophy. We purpose to create an area the place we are able to perceive the essence conveyed by objects created by artists and designers who work based mostly on this worth and ponder a way of life that pursues simplicity.” Forty exhibitors will mount shows, and DEFINE SEOUL will host a number of public packages through the honest week, together with Outline Discuss, which invitations distinguished folks from the worlds of artwork and design to share insights.

ART X Lagos 2024

October 31 – November 3

Based in 2016, ART X Lagos in Nigeria is the main worldwide artwork honest in West Africa. Now approaching its ninth version, the honest’s theme for 2024 is “Promised Lands.” Whereas that may really feel incongruous given the tensions within the nation (between the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba ethnic teams rages on and between Christians and Muslims), ART X Lagos is specializing in locations, actual or imagined, that provide hope. “‘It’s a theme that resonates deeply with our collective journey—reflecting on the place we’re and envisioning the place we aspire to be,” mentioned Tokini Peterside-Schwebig, Founding father of ART X Lagos, in an announcement. “It was essential for us to create a platform that not solely anchors the African artwork motion but in addition drives significant conversations concerning the social, political, and cultural landscapes of our continent.” A number of shows by galleries from cities like Lagos, Harare, Accra and London might be bolstered by stay performances, particular exhibitions together with “In Stressed Cities: From Lagos to the World” by Andrew Dosunmu and insightful discussions. This 12 months’s collaborating galleries embody Afriart Gallery (Uganda), Alexis Gallery (Nigeria), Galerie MAM (Cameroon), Gallery 1957 (Ghana), Affinity Artwork Gallery (Nigeria), Kanbi Tasks (UK), kó (Nigeria), Nike Artwork Gallery (Nigeria), ODA Artwork Gallery (Nigeria) and Tiwani Up to date (UK). Concurrently, ART X Cinema will showcase a number of 13 movies by African and diaspora filmmakers.

A man in a long coat examines artworks at ART X Lagos — This 12 months, ART X Lagos is specializing in artwork that explores locations, actual or imagined, that provide hope. Picture by BENSON IBEABUCHI/AFP through Getty Photos

Artwork San Diego 2024

November 1-3

Artwork San Diego was based in 2009 by curator Ann Berchtold, making it the world’s first up to date artwork honest. Berchtold’s aim was to convey town’s galleries, arts establishments and collectors collectively in a single location to assist create a extra cohesive arts ecosystem. The honest was wildly profitable, and after simply 5 years, Redwood Media Group took over. Right now, Artwork San Diego is the main up to date artwork honest in Southern California and the longest-running up to date artwork and design honest within the area, attracting each native and worldwide galleries. This 12 months, greater than ninety galleries and artists from California and all over the world will mount shows within the San Diego Conference Middle. Past the cubicles, Artwork San Diego’s programming contains the Artwork Labs particular initiatives, artwork talks, the Highlight Program, the Discoveries Assortment, the [LOCAL TALENT] Program and the San Diego Artwork Prize. There’s additionally the San Diego Selects program, which awards prizes to 5 Greatest-in-Present artworks chosen by native arts insiders.

Artwork Collaboration Kyoto 2024

November 1-3

Artwork Collaboration Kyoto is a “tradition ahead” up to date artwork honest targeted on constructing relationships. The truth is, there’s a whole part of the honest by which Japanese galleries share their cubicles with worldwide galleries, placing artwork from completely different components of the world in dialog. Tokyo’s Sho +1 will associate with New York’s Kasmin, Yoshiaki Inoue from Osaka will associate with L.A.’s Chris Sharp Gallery and Nichido Up to date Artwork out of Tokyo will associate with Taipei’s Mindset Artwork Middle, amongst others. The Kyoto Conferences part, in the meantime, highlights galleries with deep connections to town. Past the honest, particular exhibitions and public packages are held in Kyoto, together with particular exhibitions, panel discussions and even programming for youths. This 12 months, a number of particular exhibitions will happen at historic venues in Kyoto Metropolis, together with initiatives by Lucas Arruda, Andreas Erikkson and Izumi Kato + Bosco Sodi.

Artissima 2024

November 1-3

Based in 1994, Artissima on the Oval Lingotto in Turin might be Italy’s most distinguished up to date artwork honest, and it has a well-deserved repute for combining a strong industrial platform with experimentation and a deal with curators. The honest’s theme for 2024, The Period of Daydreaming, delves into daydreaming as a catalyst for spontaneous acts of creation; “In an period of incessant connections and limitless exterior stimuli, a captivating rediscovery is going down: the inestimable worth of impromptu considering and daydreaming,” curator Luigi Fassi, director of the honest, mentioned in an announcement. “Wakeful dreaming has immense artistic potential, employed primarily by artists to interrupt down the limitations of what’s identified and predictable, to blaze new trails within the exploration of our time.” 189 Italian and worldwide galleries will convey work to Turin and mount cubicles within the honest’s 4 main sections (Important, New Entries, Monologue/Dialogue and Artwork Areas & Editions) and in three curated sections (Current Future, Again to the Future and Disegni, which highlight rising and rediscovered artists by means of monographic shows). This 12 months’s honest will even characteristic a digital part, Artissima Voice Over.

Paris Picture 2024

November 7-10

The newly renovated Grand Palais, which proved such a powerful venue for this 12 months’s Artwork Basel Paris, will host Paris Picture, which is bringing 232 exhibitors (189 galleries and forty-three publishers from thirty-two nations) to Paris for its twenty seventh version. Highlights embody a brand new curated sector, Voices; the growth of Digital and Emergence sectors; a showcase of images highlighting the Lithuanian images scene from the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationwide de France and the Centre Pompidou; and the return of antiquarian books. This 12 months’s lengthy roster of galleries contains RGR (Mexico Metropolis), Vermelho (São Paulo), Galerie Taka Ishii (Tokyo), Mariane Ibrahim (Paris, Chicago, Mexico Metropolis), Carlier Gebauer (Berlin, Madrid), Fraenkel (San Francisco), Stevenson (Cape City, Johannesburg, Amsterdam), Yancey Richardson (New York), Howard Greenberg (New York) and Gagosian (USA, Europe, Asia). Voices in 2024 might be hosted by three curators: Azu Nwagbogu, founding father of LagosPhoto Competition and lately curator of the Benin Pavilion on the 2024 Venice Biennale; Sonia Voss, a curator of quite a few exhibitions targeted on the photographic scenes that emerged behind the Iron Curtain; and Elena Navarro, founding father of FotoMéxico.

Reasonably priced Artwork Truthful Singapore 2024

November 7-10

Since its inception in 1999, Will Ramsay’s Reasonably priced Artwork Truthful has been democratizing the acquisition of artwork with its inclusive ethos, welcoming ambiance and round-the-calendar/round-the-globe schedule. Maybe surprisingly, Reasonably priced Artwork Truthful is Singapore’s longest-running worldwide artwork honest, and it’s now in its fifteenth 12 months. Held within the F1 Pit Constructing, the honest will showcase work introduced by greater than eighty galleries from throughout the globe, from San Francisco to Seoul, with all artworks priced beneath S$15,000. One much-anticipated set up, “Shifting City Panorama” by Yerin Shin, will discover human connections and concrete areas with distinctive cellular 3D pen artworks that transfer with the air, providing a fragile reflection on metropolis life. The Arty-Licious Night (which presents fairgoers further p.m. hours to browse the cubicles) kicks off the supplementary programming, and there additionally might be artwork talks and art-jamming classes.

Reasonably priced Artwork Truthful Hamburg 2024

November 7-10

Operating concurrently with Reasonably priced Artwork Truthful Singapore is Reasonably priced Artwork Truthful Hamburg, yet one more showcase of labor introduced by native, nationwide and worldwide galleries with items priced between €100 and €10,000. Guests will take pleasure in alternatives to fulfill the artists and gallerists, be taught the tales behind the works and be a part of free public guided excursions every day at 3 p.m. These in search of a extra curated expertise can be a part of themed excursions on November 8; Hannah Weber-Heidenfels will lead a tour on Rising Artists, and honest director Oliver Lähndorf will take fairgoers on a tour of artworks priced at beneath 500€, spotlighting the honest’s most reasonably priced masterpieces. Tomislav Subject’s colourful set up, which first wowed audiences on the Berlin version of the honest earlier this 12 months, might be on show once more right here. The Rising Artists exhibition, initiated by Oliver Lähndorf in 2012 to share work by artists with out gallery illustration, can also be again, and this 12 months’s featured artist is Darko Caramello Nikolic with “Archetypes of Concrete Artwork.”

ART COLOGNE 2024

November 7-10

ART COLOGNE payments itself as each the primary artwork honest on the planet and the “most essential trade assembly level for galleries and establishments in Germany.” It was based by gallerists Hein Stünke and Rudolf Zwirner manner again in 1967 (then known as Kunstmarkt Köln) to introduce younger German artists to a global viewers. In 2023, the honest attracted round 45,000 guests there to see work introduced by 170 exhibitors from all over the world. This newest version of Artwork Cologne will embody over 175 galleries from twenty-four nations. Notable members embody worldwide heavyweights like Karsten Greve, Thaddaeus Ropac and Sprüth Magers, alongside rising stars within the NEUMARKT sector, comparable to Gathering from London, Wil Aballe Artwork Tasks from Vancouver and F2 Galería from Madrid. This 12 months, there might be a powerful exhibiting from Turkish galleries, together with Galeri Nev Istanbul, Zilberman and Dirimart.

Salon Artwork + Design 2024

November 7-11

Salon Artwork + Design is returning to the Park Avenue Armory in New York Metropolis for its thirteenth version, now beneath the management of government director Nicky Dessources, who succeeded Jill Bokor. When requested what we are able to count on from this version, Dessources, who most lately spent ten years at Sanford L. Smith + Associates, advised Observer that there might be “a number of thrilling new parts, together with revolutionary designs from new exhibitors, some thrilling returning galleries, particular design installations and a wide range of participating packages that we are going to announce quickly.” This honest is rightly lauded for each its vibe and the extremely curated boutique number of nice artwork, designer furnishings and nice glass and ceramics that’s something however fussy. This 12 months’s roster of galleries contains first-timers comparable to Galerie Anne Jacquemin Sablon, Bossa and Ippodo, alongside returning members like Bernard Goldberg Nice Arts and NILUFAR. The honest will moreover introduce its inaugural Design & Artwork Advisory Council composed of main inside designers and artwork advisors comparable to Andre Mellone, Allan Schwartzman, Kim Heirston, Julie Hillman, John and Christine Gachot, Sara Story and others.

Umbrella Artwork Truthful 2024

November 15-17

The 2024 version of Umbrella Artwork Truthful (“a declaration of inventive independence, a revolt in opposition to the mundane and a celebration of the daring”) will convey over 100 native and worldwide artists, curators and creators to D.C.’s Union Market District for an lively three-day occasion. Spanning 17,000 sq. ft throughout a number of venues, this honest presents a wealthy mixture of native and worldwide gallery cubicles, exhibitions, panel discussions, workshops and stay performances. Umbrella Artwork Truthful is refreshingly commission-free, guaranteeing that 100% of gross sales profit collaborating artists and curators, a lot of whom are ladies and artists of coloration. In partnership with CulturalDC, the honest will current “Torrents: New Hyperlinks to Black Futures,” an exploration of Black future-building by means of visible artwork, know-how, music and efficiency. Notable contributors will embody acclaimed Kelly Towles, Nia Keturah and Rose Jaffe. Though admission is free, tickets are required.

FAB Paris 2024

November 22-27

The third version of this artwork and antiques honest will happen on the newly restored Grand Palais, the place 100 internationally famend artwork and vintage sellers masking twenty disciplines that span millennia will mount shows of antiquities to up to date works. Guests can count on to see masterpieces by famend artists comparable to Pieter Brueghel the Youthful, Auguste Rodin, Renoir and Picasso proven alongside distinctive items like an Historic Egyptian head as soon as owned by Coco Chanel and furnishings that adorned Versailles’ royal salons. This younger honest is thought for its “fabulous ephemeral museum” ambiance that presents a wealthy artwork historic narrative and for attracting international sellers like Bruno Sugères (a famous specialist in Nineteenth-century ornamental arts) and famend Parisian galleries like Steinitz and Léage.

A display of photography and sculpture from ADAA The Art Show — ADAA The Artwork Present is a philanthropic affair, and this 12 months, all admissions proceeds will go to Henry Road Settlement. Picture by AMBER DE VOS/Patrick McMullan through Getty Photos

Much more November artwork festivals in 2024

As all the time, what’s above doesn’t characterize the totality of the November artwork honest calendar in 2024—there are all the time loads of smaller, lesser-known and area of interest artwork festivals occurring all over the world. Right here’s a fast roundup of a number of extra fall artwork festivals you may need to try this month.