RULES AND CONDITIONS
Drawing Now Art Fair I The 2025 Contemporary Drawing Fair.
Art.1 - General provisions
Drawing Now Art Fair I The 2025 contemporary drawing fair will be held from Thursday, March 27 to Sunday, March 30, 2025 at the Carreau du Temple, with the opening on Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
Anyone wishing to exhibit must make a request to the organizers in order to receive an application. Galleries will be admitted to participate according to the artist in focus they propose and subject to the available location corresponding to him/her.
Unless the organizer refuses to participate, the sending of this application file constitutes a firm and irrevocable commitment to pay the full price of the stand rental and related costs.
The galleries selected by the selection committee will be admitted to exhibit at Drawing Now Art Fair I The Contemporary Drawing Fair 2025 and undertake to respect, without any restriction or restraint, the clauses of these regulations and any new provisions that may be imposed by the circumstances and adopted by the organizers in the interest of Drawing Now Art Fair I The Contemporary Drawing Fair 2025.
Art.2 - Exhibitors
Exhibitors are considered to be professional galleries of painting, sculpture, photography, new media – in the accepted definitions of original works – press organs, the commercial register being proof of the activity. Exhibitors, French or foreign, who have selected a stand must respect the nomenclature of elements allowed to be exhibited by the organizers. It should be noted that no multiple, apart from cartoons, is allowed at the Show.
Art.3 - Selection
The applicant is asked to provide a file on the works and artists that will be represented during the event. The selection committee may or may refuse to present it without giving any reason.
Under no circumstances does previous participation in the fair give rise to a right to a subsequent participation in this fair.
Art.4 - Booking and payment
- Galleries selected by the selection committee will receive a letter stating that they are admitted to exhibit at Drawing Now Art Fair I The Contemporary Drawing Fair 2025.
- The acceptance of the application file by the organizers entails the exhibitor's definitive adherence to all the clauses of these rules. The payment of the invoice must be made in two instalments according to the current schedule of the registration file. The exhibitor will only be admitted to his stand after having paid all the fees due (in case of payment by bank transfer, he must bring proof).
- If one or more invoices due to CPCT Arts&Events remain unpaid no later than 15 days after their date of issue, this non-payment will automatically and without prior notice of default result in the forfeiture of the right to the location, without prejudice to the other provisions of this article and these General Terms and Conditions. It follows that in this case, CPCT Arts&Events will be able to freely dispose of the space and re-let it to another candidate exhibitor.
Art.5 - Cancellation
The full amount of the rental is due upon acceptance of the application by the selection committee. In the event of withdrawal of membership by the exhibitor, the latter will remain liable for the payment of the pitch invoice as long as the organisers do not have the possibility of re-renting under the usual conditions. Even if the organizers re-rent the stand, 10% of the amount of the stand will be kept by Drawing Now Art Fair I The Contemporary Drawing Fair if the cancellation took place before January 10, 2025. From 10 January 2025, the full amount of the participation is due.
SPECIAL COVID 19 CLAUSE
If, for health reasons, the show does not take place, the organiser undertakes to reimburse the sums already paid by the exhibitors for the rental of the stand and the technical supplements ordered.
Art.6 - Allocation of stands
- CPCT Arts&Events alone determines the method of allocating the spaces, which will be allocated taking into account the selection criteria.
- An exhibitor may send any objections duly substantiated within five days of the communication by CPCT Arts&Events of the allocated location. After taking note of this, CPCT Arts&Events will make a reasoned decision on this matter. This decision will be final and notified in writing to the exhibitor.
- CPCT Arts&Events reserves the right to move an assigned location, to modify its form, or to transfer one or more locations allocated to an exhibitor or a group of exhibitors to one or more other locations, if general organizational reasons require it.
The implementation by CPCT Arts&Events of such a right will in no way give rise to any compensation in favour of the exhibitor. Any decision by the owner or operator of the Building, which would be likely to modify a location or change its appearance, cannot engage the responsibility of CPCT Arts&Events.
Art.7 - Assembly / Disassembly
The assembly and dismantling times will be communicated in the exhibitor's technical guide. Works arriving after the opening of the event can only be brought to the stands outside public opening hours. In the event that one of the exhibitors has not collected his goods within the allotted time, the organizers will proceed to secure the goods at the carrier, approved by the show, at the expense of the exhibitor. Any damages and additional costs that may occur during this security cannot be the responsibility of the organizers in any way. Each stand must be occupied at all times during the opening hours of the fair until the last day inclusive. Exhibitors must leave the locations, decorations and equipment made available to them in the condition in which they found them.
Art.8 - Layout of the stands
Exhibitors undertake to respect the artistic proposal made in their participation file, and in particular the presentation of an artist focusing on at least a third of the stand. Any decorations or animations that deviate from the general provisions provided for in the organization of a fair open to the public must be submitted to the opinion of the artistic direction and may not be carried out without the prior agreement of the latter. The exhibitor will be liable for any damage caused by an installation not provided by the organizer. Exhibitors must maintain a good maintenance of their stand, the management reserving the right to intervene to restore this good condition.
Art.9 - Sales
Sales are allowed during the event. However, for security reasons, no goods may leave the show hall without an exit voucher describing the goods taken, signed by the exhibitor and stamped by the organisers.
Art.10 - Security
- All the necessary measures will be taken by the organisers to ensure that the general security of the show outside opening hours is effective. It is the responsibility of each exhibitor to exercise vigilant control over his or her own equipment.
- Any person who enters duly signposted prohibited areas will do so without CPCT Arts&Events being held liable.
Art.11 - Cleaning
The cleaning and permanent maintenance of the floors (circulation, entrance and free floor space) will be provided by the care and at the expense of the organizers. No waste may be deposited in the corridors after the cleaning service has passed through (carried out after the public has closed). The cleaning of the stand remains at the expense of the exhibitors.
Art.12 - Insurance
Apart from the coverage of the risks of the compulsory insurance, exhibitors must insure with their usual company that all other risks are covered, in particular theft, damage to works or exhibition equipment. Exhibitors release the organizers from any liability in the event of fire, explosion, flood, various disturbances, and for any element not attributable to the organizers, agents and attendants. In particular, damages may not be claimed from the organisers in the event that the rented property cannot actually be used by the exhibitors as a result of events of a force majeure nature.
Art.13 - Miscellaneous prohibitions
- Unless expressly authorised by the organisers, exhibitors are prohibited from:
- rent all or part of their pitch free of charge, against payment or exchange of service
- to play music on their stand, or to demonstrate machines likely to disturb the other exhibitors, unless agreed by the artistic direction.
- In accordance with the applicable legal provisions, smoking is completely prohibited. Exhibitors must ensure compliance with this ban on and around their location.
Art.14 - Responsibility of the organizers
The organisers may, in the event of force majeure and in particular in the event of a transport strike, postpone the show, modify its opening hours, exclude the public. They can cancel or close it before the scheduled date. In all these cases, the contracts concluded with the exhibitors remain fully valid and the payment of the rental of the stands and any other service is due in full.
Art.15 - Application of this regulation
The organisers reserve the right to rule at any time on all disputed cases, or those not provided for in these rules. These decisions, even if transmitted verbally, are final and immediately enforceable.
The organisers reserve the right to amend these rules in the general interest of the show.
Art.16 - Complaints
Exhibitors' complaints must be submitted, for the purpose of an amicable settlement, to the organizers by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt within 15 days of the end of the show. After this period, complaints will no longer be admissible. Any dispute will fall exclusively under the jurisdiction of the courts of Paris and will be subject to French law. For the interpretation of the Regulation, only the French text is authoritative.
