The fair

Drawing Now Paris is the first contemporary art fair exclusively dedicated to drawing in Europe, created in 2007.

For its^19th edition, Drawing Now Paris will return to the Carreau du Temple in the^3rd arrondissement of Paris.

Join us from Thursday 26 to Sunday 29 March 2026 to discover the galleries and artists of this edition!

A selection of international galleries will present their selection of works around contemporary drawing from the last 50 years. The two sectors, Insight and Process, will once again show the most contemporary side of drawing.

The sectors

GENERAL

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Located on the ground floor, this space welcomes galleries that present an artist in focus on at least 30% of the total surface of their stand.

INSIGHT

Located on floor -1, this sector welcomes proposals by one or two French or international artists in a context that promotes immersion in the artistic universe.

PROCESS

Located on floor -1, this sector hosts projects that combine drawing with various mediums such as photography or animation; or to disciplines such as architecture, pedagogy or history, in short a place where drawing tests its limits.

Testimonials

We had a very good impression on the first day; almost all visitors recognized the works of Giulia Dall'Olio, David Tremlett and Anne and Patrick Poirier. Good response to the new proposals (Flavio de Marco, Silvia Listorti, Franco Guerzoni). We met with more public institutions than last year (Solmondo Foundation, Hermès Foundation as well as the directors Chambon Elisabeth Ex Director of the Geo-Charles Museum, Haensler Carole, Director Villa Cedri, Catherine Dobler of the LAccolade Foundation). We also met many old and new collectors, French, Belgian, as well as some Italians and Americans.

Giulia Biafore, Galleria Studio G7

For the gallery, the 2024 edition of Drawing Now Art Fair was a great vintage, one of the best we have experienced.
Damien Cabanes' dogs found their home, and almost all of Katarzyna Wiesiolek's works on display at the stand were sold, including to enthusiasts from the UK, Germany, Lebanon and Belgium. I thank the organizers for their kindness.

Éric Dupont, Galerie Éric Dupont

Despite a quieter start than usual, trading intensified day by day. There were many sales and we salute the quality of the exchanges. We had collectors on our stand but also public institutions and foundations.
Our Romain Bernini Focus aroused a lot of interest and enthusiasm from visitors. Drawing Now 2024 is a success for Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve!

Julien Bouharis, Suzanne Tarasieve Gallery

It's a very nice edition of the Drawing Now fair that is coming to an end! We were happy to meet up with collectors from previous years and met many new people. We sold pieces by the international artists on our stand – Belgium's Stijn Cole, Spain's Guillermo Mora and France's François Réau – and our focus on Polish artist Tatiana Wolska was beautifully crowned with the Drawing Now 2024 award. We are very proud of Tatiana's work and thank the jury for the recognition they have given her. The press coverage resulting from the prize is remarkable, with very beautiful articles in Beaux-Arts Magazine, Connaissance des Arts and Le Monde. The public was there and the benefits at the institutional level are already being felt. We look forward to coming back in 2025!

Amélie Bataille, Irène Laub

Faithful to previous editions, Drawing Now 2024 was the meeting place for many enthusiastic collectors, from various geographical backgrounds, torn between multiple temptations that may have embarrassed them... In a friendly atmosphere, orchestrated by a warm team, we met our usual buyers and met new enthusiasts, all happy to give free rein to their desires.

Avélino Abarca, Galerie Alain Gutharc

We are absolutely delighted with this first participation in Drawing Now. We were very surprised by the number of visitors who were already familiar with Roger Ballen's work. Obviously, his exhibition at the Halle Saint Pierre before Covid has remained engraved in the memory. Our presence on this edition has therefore allowed us to expand our circle of collectors... Our core business being photography, the bet was risky... but it is won! The hybridity of mediums is arousing the interest of a new generation of collectors more than ever. Be continued...

Françoise Morin, Les Douches la Galerie

Very good feedback on the stand on the work of Caroline Corbasson. We have sold a dozen works by the artist, have institutional leads on larger pieces and good contacts.
As for Alice Gauthier, very good feedback with about fifteen works sold and acquisitions pending at the time of writing.
Sales mainly to new customers so we are happy on that side. A positive balance as in 2023 and 2022!

Elsa Paradol, Dilecta

As every year, we are very happy to participate in the Drawing Now Fair, welcomed by a very warm and professional team. We would like to thank: Christine, Carine, Steven, Manon and Pascal.
The public, professionals, collectors, came in large numbers to visit our stand and discover the recent work of the gallery's artists. The work of our artists has been well received, both by collectors and professionals.
We were very proud to be able to present the work of Claude Viallat, the gallery's founding artist, in focus. It was a very positive 17th edition!

Catherine, Pascal and Chloë, Galerie Catherine Issert

We particularly like Drawing Now which allows us to meet (and sell) new collectors in addition to our regulars.
The format of the fair, the reasonable number of exhibitors and the paper medium are perhaps less impressive to the uninitiated. The prices of the drawings make the purchase decision easier, even if during this 2024 edition, we had the impression that a period of reflection was set up between the opening and the beginning of the weekend.
Thank you to the whole team for your work and energy.

Florent Paumelle, Oniris.art

Thank you very much for this very nice edition of Drawing Now. It was a great honor for us to be with you for this edition.
We really appreciated the energy and active presence of the whole team. We were delighted with our location and our neighbors and friends with whom we created a great emulation during these few days.
We welcomed collectors we knew and discovered other collectors and drawing enthusiasts!
We have sold works by Fabien Mérelle, Tudi Deligne and we are still waiting for some feedback!

Lara Sedbon, By Lara Sedbon

Regarding the scenario of the week, we knew that the fair brought together a high-quality audience, collectors, professionals, and visitors who were passionate about drawing. We were not disappointed.
The gallery has benefited from very good press coverage and has managed to place the works of the 3 artists in good collections, several of which are a new meeting for us which is very positive.
It's a satisfying first experience. We hope to be able to come back with a bold new proposal next year.

Nicolas Veidig-Favarel, Double V Gallery

We had a very good impression on the first day; almost all visitors recognized the works of Giulia Dall'Olio, David Tremlett and Anne and Patrick Poirier. Good response to the new proposals (Flavio de Marco, Silvia Listorti, Franco Guerzoni). We met with more public institutions than last year (Solmondo Foundation, Hermès Foundation as well as the directors Chambon Elisabeth Ex Director of the Geo-Charles Museum, Haensler Carole, Director Villa Cedri, Catherine Dobler of the LAccolade Foundation). We also met many old and new collectors, French, Belgian, as well as some Italians and Americans.

Giulia Biafore, Galleria Studio G7

THE PRESS

At Templon, eight works by Abdelkader Benchamma for 3,000 euros were sold at the opening. Nominated for the 2024 Marcel Duchamp Prize, the artist is also preparing a painted "cave" in the Vitry-sur-Seine station of the Greater Paris metro, two pieces of information that have certainly not gone unnoticed by buyers... "We saw, among others, collectors from the regions, from Marseille or Lyon for example, who don't necessarily come during Paris +," says Victor de Bonnecaze on the stand.

THE ART NEWSPAPER, MARCH 21, 2024

Lovers of contemporary drawing flocked to the sunny bays of the Drawing Now fair on Wednesday 20 March, the opening day. For this 17th edition, as for the previous ones, Parisian galleries are playing massively at home, with stands often designed as extensions of their current exhibitions.

LE MONDE, 21 MARCH 2024

Well focused on the practices of the medium from the second half of the twentieth century to the present day, Drawing Now also contrasts with the wiser Salon du dessin at the Palais Brongniart by its hangings. At the Carreau du Temple, many exhibitors and artists stand out among an abundant offer with all-over presentations or spilling over onto the walls of the stands. This is the case with the insects in Indian ink on paper mounted on wood by Florian Song Nguyen at the Arnaud Lebecq gallery.

THE ART NEWSPAPER, MARCH 21, 2024

Abdelkader Benchamma, Maxime Verdier, Catherine Meurisse, Caroline Corbasson...: drawing artists, from different generations and with various practices, meet on the fair's stands to amaze visitors. Don't forget to discover the work of Tatiana Wolska, winner of the Drawing Now 2024 prize. (…) Iridescent in a thousand colors, Tatiana Wolska's beautiful and strange organic forms seem to live and undulate before our eyes.

BEAUX-ARTS MAGAZINE, MARCH 21, 2024

Here, it is today's drawing that is in the spotlight, in all its components, with houses specialising in works on paper, but also galleries such as Nathalie Obadia or Templon. There is drawing mixed with photography with, in particular, a series of works by Roger Ballen, drawing with red thread on an embroidery background (Gloria Herezo at Adrian Ibanez Galeria) or books whose pages have been torn off by the Greek artist Christos Venetis, who then draws on the inside cover. A very beautiful work presented by Martin Kudlek, a gallery from Cologne, which also offers three works mixing drawing and collage by our compatriot Gideon Kiefer.
And these are just some of the wonders to discover in a course that is as pleasant as it is relaxed...

LE SOIR, 22 MARCH 2024

In the family of contemporary art fairs, ask for the drawing one! Open to all and at a reasonable price (unlike most international fairs), Drawing Now brings together the best of the medium every year by inviting galleries from all over the world to exhibit their foal(s). If we will go to discover new favorites, we are also looking forward to seeing some of our favorite artists.

TIME OUT PARIS, MARCH 21, 2024

"Drawing Now allows you to show unique works by prominent artists for less than 10,000 euros," says Nathalie Obadia, who presents a focus on the painter and engraver Roger-Edgar Gillet (1924-2004). The price range of the show ranges from a few hundred euros (350 euros for small drawings full of humour by Gérald Panighi at Eva Vautier) to around 15,000 euros for some large formats by artists (with a few more expensive exceptions, such as deluges by Abdelkader Benchamma, nominated for the 2024 Duchamp Prize, at the Galerie Templon).

LE MONDE, 21 MARCH 2024

Drawing Now (...) continues to have to "en grand", having definitively taken contemporary drawing out of an overly restrictive reading. Drawing Now's strong positioning on the market has also attracted new exhibitors, including the German Carolyn Heinz, who is presenting Gesa Lange, and Nathalie Obadia. For the latter, who has measured the fair's move upmarket, it is a question of highlighting more intimate works on paper, which occupy a growing place in the corpus of its artists, such as Guillaume Bresson.

KNOWLEDGE OF THE ARTS, MARCH 21, 2024

Drawing Now is the fresh and constant meeting place for lovers of contemporary drawing. All of a sudden, everything is possible, the affordable crush and the discovery (the Texan Riley Holloway and his precious self-portraits like miniatures at Backlash, Fabrice Souvereyns and his beautiful work in grisaille at the Hopstreet Gallery in Brussels), the reunion with a beloved artist (the poetic Edi Dubien at Alain Gutharc, the cerebral Jean-Michel Alberola at Maïa Muller, Gaëlle Chotard's paper sculptures at the Galerie Papillon) or the perspective of other artistic scenes that express themselves on paper.

LE FIGARO, 22 MARCH 2024

Until 24 March, Drawing Now is offering a panorama of contemporary drawing at the Carreau du Temple in Paris. With more than seventy international galleries exhibiting, the show founded by Christine Phal and directed by Carine Tissot is a breeding ground for talent who explore the limits of the medium and its derivatives. Even if it means superimposing the image, intertwining it and rubbing it against its double.

PROJECTS, 22 MARCH 2024

At Templon, eight works by Abdelkader Benchamma for 3,000 euros were sold at the opening. Nominated for the 2024 Marcel Duchamp Prize, the artist is also preparing a painted "cave" in the Vitry-sur-Seine station of the Greater Paris metro, two pieces of information that have certainly not gone unnoticed by buyers... "We saw, among others, collectors from the regions, from Marseille or Lyon for example, who don't necessarily come during Paris +," says Victor de Bonnecaze on the stand.

THE ART NEWSPAPER, MARCH 21, 2024