The RMN statement says: "RX France and MCH have committed to promote a strong presence of French galleries at their respective fairs, and to maintain a controlled pricing policy. RMN had made the announcement without consulting RX, Filzi said, adding that “summary proceedings have been initiated”. On 4 January, its chief executive Michel Filzi wrote in a letter to Fiac and Paris Photo exhibitors that the situation had “very worrying consequences” for the fairs. With no agreement currently signed with RX, the organiser of both of these events, the Rmn-Grand Palais, in accordance with the law, put out a call for proposals".īut RX France was not happy about that. The seven-year contract is reportedly worth at least €20m for both slots.Īccording to a statement, in late November 2021, RMN received, "a spontaneous show of interest for the organisation of a contemporary art and photographic art fair on the dates usually held by the Fiac and Paris Photo. An Art Basel spokesperson says a new name is being developed for the Paris fair. The events will take place at the Grand Palais Éphémère on the Champ-de-Mars this year and next, then at the Grand Palais on the Champs-Elysées from 2024. Today, following a meeting of RMN's board of directors, it has been announced that the Swiss company MCH has been chosen to organise an international contemporary art fair in October while RX France (part of the Anglo-Dutch group RELX, which owns Fiac and Paris Photo) will continue to organise Paris Photo in November. This is big news-the Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (Fiac), founded in 1974, is a Parisian institution and France's pre-eminent art fair.Īt the end of last year, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais (RMN-GP), the French cultural body which manages the Grand Palais and its temporary replacement the Grand Palais Éphémère, unexpectedly put Fiac and Paris Photo's longstanding October and November slots up for tender. The Swiss firm will now pay €10.6m for a seven-year contract (excluding technical costs), which will run until 2028. In a major ruckus in the art fair world, MCH Group, the owner of the Art Basel fairs, is to take over Fiac's slot at the Grand Palais in Paris to host a new contemporary art fair in October. We reserve the right to challenge the decision concerning FIAC in court in favour of its competitor." If it is confirmed that the most established events are thus at the mercy of decisions that are as brutal and unilateral as they are unpredictable on the part of the managers of the buildings that are likely to host them in France, it is clearly our entire sector that will be affected, to the great benefit of our European competitors. Michel Filzi, the chief executive of RX France, says in the statement: "The procedure launched by the RMN-Grand Palais is not only a first that impacts the entire ecosystem associated with French contemporary art but also questions the programming of events at the Grand Palais. UPDATE: later on 26 January, RX France issued a press statement saying that while it is pleased that Paris Photo will continue at the Grand Palais, it "strongly regrets" the decision taken "abruptly" by RMN to evict Fiac fair in favour of MCH's offer, "at the end of a procedure which RX believes was hasty and flawed."
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