Monaco Art Week: details of upcoming fifth edition
Monaco Art Week will host 15 exhibitions and Art Monte-Carlo will welcome 35 exhibitors - © HOFA Gallery
The week-long art event will coincide with the Art Monte-Carlo show.
One week, two events, with works and exhibitors galore. The fifth Monaco Art Week will be held from 4 to 9 July, and the seventh edition of the Art Monte-Carlo show will take place from 7 to 9 July.
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These two artistic events, under the High Patronage of Prince Albert II, were presented at a press conference on 1 June. Thomas Hug, the show’s director, was joined by Louise Gréther, director of Sotheby’s Monaco, Federica Beretta, director of the Hauser&Wirth gallery – who has just joined the selection committee – Fabrizio Moretti, founder of the Moretti Fine Art gallery, Safia El Malqui, patron of Art Monte-Carlo, and Augustin Nounckele, associate director of the Retelet gallery.
They all unveiled the superb itinerary organised for Monaco Art Week, supported by the Government’s Department of Cultural Affairs, which will feature 15 exhibitions and bring together 16 members*, mainly in Monte-Carlo and Larvotto.
From Chagall to Léger, by way of Picasso, Chamberlain, Renoir and Cocteau… Paintings and sculptures can be admired in the many partner galleries and auction houses, where modern art, contemporary art, design and fine jewellery creations will all be on display.
The launch will take place on 4 July, from 6pm to 9pm, in the different participating venues.
Art Monte-Carlo, “a show on a human scale”
As for the Grimaldi Forum , it will be hosting the seventh edition of Art Monte-Carlo, from 7 to 9 July. No fewer than 35 exhibitors** will be taking part, both indoors and on the esplanade, including the Hauser & Wirth gallery, which will be presenting an exhibition by George Condo, currently on view at the NMNM.
“George Condo was in Monaco in March and May, at the Hôtel Hermitage,” says Federica Beretta. “He asked his assistants to create a tiny studio in his hotel room, and he created new works there. We are delighted to present this selection of fifteen new works, which are mainly on paper. They are magnificent, truly exceptional drawings!”
Also worth noting is the participation of the Retelet gallery, which focuses on the Surrealist movement in Belgium and France. Augustin Nounckele explained that the stand would be celebrating two anniversaries: the 125th anniversary of the birth of René Magritte and the 30th anniversary of the death of Belgian artist Marcel Mariën. The exhibition will also feature a monumental piece by Peter Hailey. The gallery director also mentioned that in 2024 Retelet will be hosting a summer exhibition of works by the famous Spanish painter Joan Miró, to mark the centenary of the beginning of the Surrealist movement.
The Prix Artmonte-carlo – F.P.Journe, awarded by a prestigious institutional jury, will be presented for the best gallery presentation during the show. One of the works on the winning stand will be donated to a local institution.
You can see the exhibition (whose opening takes place on 7 July) at the Grimaldi Forum:
- 8 July: 2pm to 7pm
- 9 July: 2pm to 8pm
- Prices: 20 euros (adults), 12 euros (groups of 20 or more), 10 euros (seniors, students under 25 and children aged 6 to 16).
- Free admission for children under 6
*Artcurial, Boghossian, Christie’s, G&M Design, Hauser & Wirth, HOFA, Kamil Art Gallery, Lebreton, Elisabeth Lillo-Renner, M.-F. Toninelli Art Moderne, Opera Gallery, Galerie Adriano Ribolzi, Sotheby’s, Teos Gallery Monte-Carlo, Wannenes Art Contact and Ward Moretti at Moretti Fine Art
**193 Gallery, Air de Paris, Almine Rech, Bastian, Bienvenu Steinberg & J, Christine König, Cortesi, Esther Schipper, Eva Meyer, Franco Noero, Hauser & Wirth, HdM, Hoffmann Maler Wallenberg, Laurent Godin, LGDR, Lito Editions, Magnin-A, Marlborough, Mennour, Nathalie Obadia, Opera, Perrotin, Pietro Spartà, Poggiali, Retelet, Richard Saltoun, Robilant+Voena, Sébastien Bertrand, Van de Weghe, Vedovi, Ward Moretti, White Cube, Wizard, Xippas