Art Fair
Looking to the Art Fair World of 2024
Early in the pandemic, as in-person art fairs ground to halt, many art professionals proclaimed the financial, health and climate costs of shipping art and people around the planet were simply no longer sustainable. But predictions of a major reset have proved premature.
“Surprisingly, we haven’t given up as many fairs as we thought we would,” said David Leiber, a partner at the David Zwirner Gallery, which expects to participate in 17 art fairs in 2024. Although that’s down from a peak of 21 in 2019, it’s still brisk business. (Other galleries, like Pace and Lelong, are also only slightly below their highs in 2019.)
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/05/arts/design/art-fair-schedule-2024.html
Three passionate Lancaster based freelance artists, Hannah Corbett, Lidia Ranns, and Julie Evans, are uniting their creative forces to transform the city into a vibrant hub of artistic expression with the expanded Lancaster Art Fair (LAF), running from August 19th to 23rd, 2025.
This year, LAF is evolving into a larger, city wide festival, thanks to their dedicated collaboration and partnerships with established local arts organisations.
Source: Lancashire Post
Contemporary Lynx is a proud media partner of the SPARK Art Fair, which will take place from 21 to 23 March in MARX HALLE in Vienna.
SPARK Art Fair Vienna advocates for a new art fair concept, addressing the challenges of the art market. Based on a strong trust in art and the role of the galleries in the primary art market, SPARK Art Fair Vienna is the only international art fair focusing exclusively on solo presentations.
Read More:https://contemporarylynx.co.uk/lynx-x-spark-art-fair
On the plane back from Miami, I add up expenses versus income from this year’s Untitled Art Fair. It is our third year here, and our first bust. As a small Midwestern gallery, two major art fairs a year — Untitled in Miami and the Outsider Art Fair in New York — can generate a quarter of our annual income. Even more importantly, they help us develop a national collector base for regional artists. There is no other way to survive.
It is expensive to participate in more selective and carefully curated international fairs, such as Untitled. Our three-walled, 14 x 14-foot space cost $17,400. Housing for the staff, transportation, food, and additional framing rounded out the total to about $30,000.
Read more: https://hyperallergic.com/978630/my-small-gallery-lost-money-at-an-art-fair-it-hurt/
