From Wednesday, October 22, to Sunday, October 26, 2025, Asia NOW is open to the general public on the Monnaie de Paris, with an invitation-only day on Tuesday, October 21. For its eleventh version, the truthful brings collectively greater than 70 worldwide galleries from throughout Asia and its diaspora.
Returning members embrace Esther Schipper (Berlin, Paris, New York Metropolis, Seoul), carlier | gebauer (Berlin), Sabrina Amrani (Madrid), Yeo Workshop (Singapore), NIKA Mission Area (Dubai, Paris), and Kaikai Kiki (Tokyo). Newcomers embrace Arario Gallery (Seoul), Capsule Shanghai (Shanghai), Klemm’s (Berlin), and BAIK ART (Los Angeles, Seoul, Jakarta).
This 12 months, Asia NOW inaugurates the Third Area, a brand new part for experimental and collaborative works. Highlights embrace We Have been At all times Neighbors, curated by Sahil Arora from Methodology Artwork Area (Mumbai); a presentation by Ingahee Gallery (Seoul); Laila Tara H’s kaftan-inspired set up by Hatch Gallery (Paris), and Nani Wijaya’s works offered by Metis Artwork and Jamie QQ Wu.
Underneath the title “Grow,” this 12 months’s Curatorial theme invitations audiences to witness how perceptions take root and remodel our understanding of the world, encouraging us to maneuver past the boundaries which have lengthy outlined East and West, and to think about how geography, tradition, and historical past nurture the methods we see ourselves and others.
Mohammad Alfaraj, “Tomatoes stitch their own wounds” (2025) (picture courtesy the artist, Athr gallery, and Mennour gallery)
A refrain of curators and establishments will form the truthful’s public program throughout the Monnaie de Paris, with contributions from Anissa Touati (Researcher at Brown College, US; Curator of the Biennale BCK in Greece), Arnaud Morand (Unbiased Curator; Head of Arts, Afalula), John Tain (curator of the Lahore Biennale 2024), Natasha Ginwala (Creative Director of Colomboscope), and Hajra Haider (Visitor Curator of Colomboscope Competition 2026).
Amongst many highlights are Ahaad Alamoudi’s “Ghosts of Today and Tomorrow,” a recurring activation offered by the Saudi Visible Arts Fee that makes use of sound and light-weight to discover reminiscence and heritage; “Under the Aegis of the Moon,” a commissioned performative set up by artist Han Mengyun, offered by Afalula; Mohammed Al Faraj’s transformation of the Monnaie entrance with palm tree prints; the Lahore Biennale Basis’s Of Mountains and Seas, that includes works by Hamra Abbas, Feroza Hakim, Mella Jaarsma, Imran Qureshi, Fazal Rizvi, and a efficiency by Abuzar Madhu; Colomboscope’s Reenactments of Misplaced Rhythms, which features a efficiency, screening, and sonic-visual interludes; and a session with Shwetal Patel and Nikhil Chopra in partnership with the Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
Asia NOW goals to proceed difficult and innovating on the standard artwork truthful mannequin, reimagining it as a platform to mirror the heartbeat of up to date practices and shifts rising from throughout the continent and world wide.
Uncover the total program and get tickets at asianowparis.com.
Kunel Gaur “Untitled 1”
Basir Mahmood, “Brown Bodies in an Open Landscape Are Often Migrating” (2024), commissioned and produced by Fondazione In Between Artwork Movie for the exhibition Nebula Complesso dell’Ospedaletto, Venice, 2024, curated by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo Bigazzi (picture courtesy the artist and Fondazione In Between Artwork Movie)
Manal AlDowayan, The Rising XVIII (2025), acrylic on pure linen, 101 × 76 x 3 centimeters (picture courtesy the artist and Sabrina Amrani)
