Daily Program
A curated program of Art & Installations, Performances, Screening program, Craft exhibition, Prizes and Conversations unfolding across La Monnaie de Paris throughout the days of the fair.
Tuesday 21.10
Tuesday 21.10
Tuesday 21.10
Tuesday 21.10
Tuesday 21.10
Tuesday 21.10
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
01:30 – 02:30
Reenactments of Lost Rhythms: Thinking through resistance and renewal
Colomboscope
Speakers
Hajra Haider Karrar, the Guest Curator of Colomboscope 2026
Basir Mahmood, Artist
02:30 – 03:30
When East meets East: The Rise of Inter-Asian Dialogues in Contemporary Art
Speakers
Jay Junghee Kim
Mizuho Yamazaki
Arnaud Morand
Han Mengyun
Moderator
Sophie Mayuko Arni
03:30 – 04:30
Bharti Kher, Mythologies
Speakers
Annette Johansen, Director of the Thorvaldsen Museum
Kathy Alliou, Curator and Director of département des Œuvres, Beaux-Arts de Paris
Bharti Kher, Artist, represented by Perrotin, Hauser & Wirth and Nature Morte
05:30 – 06:30
The Edge is the New Centre: Experiments in Formats
The Saudi Arabia’s Visual Arts Commission
Speakers
Vittoria Matarese, Independent Curator, Artistic Director, Riyadh Art Week
John Tain, Head of Research, Asia Art Archive; Board Member, Lahore Biennale Foundation
Anissa Touati, Independent Curator, Cultural Strategist, and Visiting Scholar at Brown University
Moderator
Arnaud Morand, Independent Curator and Head of Arts at Afalula
Performances
Performances
Performances
Performances
Performances
Performances
10:00
06:30
The Ghost of Today and Tomorrow
Ahaad Alamoudi
Presented by Art & Ideas – an Initiative by the Saudi Visual Arts Commission
01:00
05:00
Under the Aegis of the Moon
Han Mengyun
Presented by AFALULA
03:00
From hand to hand to hands
Fazal Rizvi & Baneen Mirza
Presented by Colomboscope
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
06:30 – 08:00
NOWNESS
Coming Soon
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
12:00 – 01:00
Matsutani Prize
Jury:
Takesada Matsutani – Artist
Kate Van Houten – Artist
Nathanaëlle Herbelin – 2019 Laureate
Jean-Philippe Bourgeno – Collector, Publisher
Tom Laurent – Art Critic
Finalists artists:
Liang Fu (Nicodim gallery)
Daiga Grantina (Emalin gallery)
Séquoia Scavullo (sans titre gallery)
Natsuko Uchino (Sorry We’re Closed gallery)
02:00
ORBI
Performance by Lee Hyun Joung
Presented by Louis & Sack
Wednesday 22.10
Wednesday 22.10
Wednesday 22.10
Wednesday 22.10
Wednesday 22.10
Wednesday 22.10
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
12:00 – 01:00
From Japan to France: Crossed Perspectives on Contemporary Japanese Ceramics
Musée Cernuschi
Speakers
Pierre Gautier, Curator of the Japanese collections at Musée Cernuschi
Yoshimi Futamura, Artist
Performances
Performances
Performances
Performances
Performances
Performances
03:00
Healing Tree
Hiromi Tango
Presented by Cuturi Gallery
05:00 – 06:00
Threaded Whole
Pascal Hachem
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
05:00 – 09:00
Mapping a Shift, Shifting a Map
Curated by Zohreh Deldadeh
Films:
Pooya Razi (Iran/Uk) / Not Being / 9”
Pooya Abbasian (Iran/France) / Maltournée / 24”
Azin Feizabadi (Iran/Germany) / In Transit / 24”
Elahe Esmaili (Iran/Uk) / A Move / 26”
Parisa Aminollahi (Iran/Netherlands), A Place to Call Home / 10”
Siavash Naghshbandi (Iran) / Dissociative Amnesia / 6”
Mina Keshavarz (Iran/France) / Phobos / 15”
Sara Rajaei (Iran/Netherlands) / City of Poets / 21’22”
Sogol & Joubeen (Iran/France) / Slowly, We Drift Apart, 11’58”
Arash Fayez (Iran/Spain) / Yek Video-ye Bedoun-e Onvan), 5’40”
Thursday 23.10
Thursday 23.10
Thursday 23.10
Thursday 23.10
Thursday 23.10
Thursday 23.10
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
11:00 – 12:00
Monuments of Memories : South Asian Art and its Voices in Global Contexts
Speakers
Sumakshi Singh, Artist and EducatorAmin Jaffar, Director of The Al Thani CollectionShubhankar Bharti, Curator and Co-founder of TAK Contemporary
Moderator
Sayali Mundye, Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art
12:00 – 01:00
Fondation SHŌEN x Matsutani Prize
Speakers:
Kate Van Houten, Artist, Co-founder and Vice President of the SHŌEN Foundation
Tom Laurent, Art critic, Head of support for creation and publications at the SHŌEN Foundation
Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Artist, Winner of the Matsutani Prize in 2019 and Member of the jury in 2025
Moderator
Liyu Yeo, Asia NOW VIP Ambassador
01:00 – 02:00
“For the Time Being” – The Sixth Edition of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Speakers
Dr. Shwetal A. Patel, Founding Member, Kochi-Muziris Biennale
Nikhil Chopra, Artist & Curator of Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025
Anissa Touati, Researcher at Brown University, USA, Curator of the Biennale BCK in Greece
02:00 – 03:00
Inspiration, Emulation, Invitations: The Sèvres Manufactory and Asia from 1740 to the Present Day
Manufacture de Sèvres
Speakers
Céline Paul, Director of the National Museum of Ceramics, National Manufactories – Sèvres; Mobilier National
03:00 – 04:00
Regenerative Thinking and Creative Practices
91530 Le Marais
Speakers
Victoire de Pourtalès, Curator, 91530 Le Marais
Désiré Moheb-Zandi, Artist
Marion Flament, Artist
Emanuele Coccia, Philosopher
Moderator
Benjamin Eymère, Co-founder, 91530 Le Marais
04:00 – 05:00
Creative Intersections: Navigating the Art and Digital Ecosystem
K11 Art Foundation Salon
Speakers
CRO – Alexis Loisel-Montambaux, Curator and Writer
Vivien Zhang, Artist
Moderator
John Tain, Curator, Art historian, Writer
Performances
Performances
Performances
Performances
Performances
Performances
06:30
The Ghost of Today and Tomorrow
Ahaad Alamoudi
Presented by Art & Ideas – an Initiative by the Saudi Visual Arts Commission
Friday 24.10
Friday 24.10
Friday 24.10
Friday 24.10
Friday 24.10
Friday 24.10
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
12:00 – 01:00
Diasporas asiatiques – créativité et multiculturalité
Asia Society
Speakers
Anthony Phuong, Co-founder and Director of A2Z Gallery
Pierre-Antoine Donnet, Journalist and Editor, Founder of Asia Magazine
FU Liang, Artist, Matsutani Prize Candidate
Moderator
Jean-Michel Dumont, Co-founder and General Secretary of Asia Society France
03:00 – 04:00
Should Artists Have Their Own Currency?
Soilonic
Speakers
Sébastien Borget, Co-founder, The Sandbox
Sébastien Devaud Agoria, Artist and Musician
Victoire de Pourtalès, Cultural Entrepreneur
Moderator
Benjamin Eymère, Founder, Soilonic
Performances
Performances
Performances
Performances
Performances
Performances
12:00
From hand to hand to hands
Fazal Rizvi & Baneen Mirza
Presented by Colomboscope
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
06:00 – 08:00
Artists’ Cinema / Artist’s Cinema
Special Screening: Raqs Media Collective at Asia NOW
Curated by Dr. Shwetal A. Patel
Following the inaugural edition of Artists’ Cinema / Artist’s Cinema at the Jaipur Centre for Art in the summer of 2025, curator Dr. Shwetal A. Patel will present a special screening of seminal moving image works by the New Delhi-based Raqs Media Collective at Asia NOW.
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
Events
05:00 – 06:00
RAK Art Foundation Prize – Ceremony
Ceremony of the RAK Art Prize Foundation, honoring two artists chosen by a distinguished jury from among the participants of Asia Now.
Jury composed of Benedica M. Badia de Nordenstahl, Art Patron (Argentina-USA-Singapore); Emre Baykal, Director of Arter Foundation (Turkey); Dr. Sara Raza, Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the Center for Contemporary Arts in Tashkent, (Uzbekistan); Salma Tuqan, Director of Nottingham Contemporary (United Kingdom); and Anissa Touati, Researcher at Brown University (United States) and Co-Curator of the Biennale BCK, Greece.
In the presence of Yasmin Sharabi, Director of the RAK Art Foundation (Bahrain).
Saturday 25.10
Saturday 25.10
Saturday 25.10
Saturday 25.10
Saturday 25.10
Saturday 25.10
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
02:00 – 03:00
Myths, Dreams and New Realities: Three Artists Who Reimagine Traditions and Futures
The Bagri Foundation
Speakers
Hoa Dung Clerget, Artist
Noor Mahnun (Anum), Artist
Macha Pangilinan, Artist
Moderator
Chelsea Pettitt, Director of the Bagri Foundation and Curator at the Saatchi Gallery, London
04:00 – 05:00
Collaborations in Practice: Artistic Dialogues at Musée d’Art et Culture Soufis MTO®
Musée d’Art et Culture Soufis MTO®
Speakers
Golzar Yousefi, Curatorial Advisor, MACS MTO®
Nirvana Asili, Member of Zendeh Delan ensemble
Performances
Performances
Performances
Performances
Performances
Performances
05:00 – 05:45
Music and samāʿ with MTO Zendeh Delan
MTO Zendeh Delan Ensemble
Music by:
Sahar Akrami (Harp)
Payam Akrami (Daf)
Aida Eftekhari (Tar)
Muriel Bocarra (Guitar & Vocals)
Sama: Afsoon Rezaei and Golzar Ojani
06:00 – 07:00
Threaded Whole
Pascal Hachem
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
05:00 – 08:00
Of Mountains and Seas
The Lahore Biennale Foundation
Curated by John Tain
Complementing Lahore Biennale Foundation’s presentation of artworks in the Monnaie de Paris, Asia Now also presents a video program from Of Mountains and Seas, the 2024 edition, featuring video commissioned by the Lahore Biennale Foundation from Bani Abidi, Stolon Press (Simryn Gill and Tom Melick), Niamat Nigar, Fazal Rizvi, and Zheng Bo, as well as works by Gidree Bawlee. The program, like the works on view throughout the Monnaie de Paris, offer a vision of ecological awareness from Asian perspectives. Powered by the French Embassy to Pakistan.
Zheng Bo, Phoenix, 2024
Gidree Bawlee (Salma Jamal MOUSHAM; Kamruzzaman SHADHIN), Lost Shadows, 2021
Nigar Niamat, The Blinks, 2024
Rizvi Fazal, How to Become a Rock – a fall, a poem, a wish, a score, a manifesto, 2024
Sin Wai Kin, The Fortress, 2024
Abidi Bani, KM-32, 2024
Stolon Press (Simryn Gill & Tom Melick), Hustle Culture, 2024
Sunday 26.10
Sunday 26.10
Sunday 26.10
Sunday 26.10
Sunday 26.10
Sunday 26.10
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
Conversations
01:00 – 02:00
Love, Labour, Loneliness: Conversation with Marcos Kueh and Jo-Lene Ong
esea contemporary
Speakers
Marcos Kueh, Artist
Jo-Lene Ong, Curator, esea contemporary
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
Cinema NOW
04:30 – 05:30
Laughing Against the Machine
Curated by Eunice Tsang
In the face of oppressive structures, laughter can be a radical act. These films handpicked by curator Eunice Tsang explores how artists utilise humor as a double-edged blade. Commenting on issues ranging from police brutality, censorship, to gender politics, these films navigate complex terrains through the absurd and satirical, using laughter not to comfort, but to provoke a deeper, more disquieting form of cultural reflection.
