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
10:00 am
Performance
Ahaad Alamoudi
An activation of Ghost of Today and Tomorrow, threading sound and light to register memory as vibration. Alamoudi stages the friction where the ancestral meets the contemporary, showing that growth is never only about the new: old voices germinate in the present, seeding future returns.
Presented by Art & Ideas – an Initiative by the Saudi Visual Arts Commission
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Performance
Abuzar Madhu
Working with the Ravi Bachao Tehreek and local communities, Abuzar Madhu highlights the ecological crises affecting the River Ravi, contrasting them with the river’s long-standing cultural and spiritual significance. Partitioned Waters invites audiences to witness the river’s wounds and offer their blessings, reflecting the deep connections between humans and more-than-human entities.
Presented by Lahore Biennale Foundation with the support of the Embassy of France in Pakistan and Pakistan International Airlines
12:00 pm – 01:00 pm
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)
01:00 pm
Performance
Han Mengyun
in collaboration with Reem Ali and Tara Al Dughaither
A performative installation weaving together poetry and video to evoke the quiet majesty of the moon. Structured around poems unfolding with the lunar rise and palm tree cycles, the work honors the night as a space of reflection and poetic expression.
Presented by the French Agency for AlUla Development (AFALULA) and Arts AlUla
01:30 pm – 02:30 pm
Conversation
Colomboscope
The session will expand on the thematic directions of Colomboscope, Rhythm Alliances, with Hajra Haider Karrar, followed by a conversation with Basir Mahmood on his practice.
Speakers
Hajra Haider Karrar, the Guest Curator of Colomboscope 2026
Basir Mahmood, Artist
02:00 pm
Performance
Lee Hyun Joung
Lee Hyun Joung conceived a performance that extends beyond her individual paintings to create a shared space connecting the works. Orbi becomes an immersive experience, where the viewer participates in a living constellation and a shared dialogue.
The performance takes place at the Galerie Louis & Sack stand booth
02:30 pm – 03:30 pm
Conversation
When East meets East: The Rise of Inter-Asian Dialogues in Contemporary Art
This panel explores the vibrant inter-Asian dialogues that reflect this shift, focusing on initiatives bridging West and East Asia—particularly those connecting the Gulf and East Asia.
Speakers
Jay Junghee Kim, Artistic Director, Curator, Founder/Director PUSH TO ENTER
Mizuho Yamazaki, Independent Researcher, Curator
Arnaud Morand, Independent Curator, Member of Asia Now 2025 Curatorial Collective, Head of Arts AFALULA
Han Mengyun, Artist
Moderator
Sophie Mayuko Arni, Independent Curator, Founding Editor of Global Art Daily
03:00 pm
Performance
Fazal Rizvi & Baneen Mirza
Exploring memory, touch, and ritual, the artists turn the preparation and shaping of dough into a poetic and culinary gesture. By creating and sharing hand-shaped savory and sweet recipes, rich with personal and cultural references, they invite the audience to engage sensorially, holding, tasting, and experiencing the material and text together
Presented by Lahore Biennale Foundation with the support of the Embassy of France in Pakistan and Pakistan International Airlines
03:30 pm – 04:30 pm
Conversation
Bharti Kher, Mythologies
Speakers
Annette Johansen, Director of the Thorvaldsen Museum
Bharti Kher, Artist, represented by Perrotin, Hauser & Wirth and Nature Morte
Moderator
Kathy Alliou, Curator
05:00 pm
Performance
Han Mengyun
in collaboration with Reem Ali and Tara Al Dughaither
A performative installation weaving together poetry and video to evoke the quiet majesty of the moon. Structured around poems unfolding with the lunar rise and palm tree cycles, the work honors the night as a space of reflection and poetic expression.
Presented by the French Agency for AlUla Development (AFALULA) and Arts AlUla
05:30 pm – 06:30 pm
Conversation
The Edge is the New Centre: Experiments in Formats
The Saudi Arabia’s Visual Arts Commission
A conversation on hybrid art ecosystems across West and East Asia, where visual art intersects with performance, craft, research, and archives in public space. The panel looks at how cross-sector models—spanning public/private, commercial/non-commercial, and institutional/vernacular—respond to layered histories and emerging publics, favoring adaptability and long-term impact over spectacle.
Speakers
Vittoria Matarese, Independent Curator, Artistic Director, Riyadh Art Week
John Tain, Curator, Lahore Biennale
Anissa Touati, Curator, Visiting Scholar at Brown University and Co-curator of the Biennale BCK in Greece
Moderator
Arnaud Morand, Independent Curator and Head of Arts at Afalula
06:30 pm
Performance
Ahaad Alamoudi
An activation of Ghost of Today and Tomorrow, threading sound and light to register memory as vibration. Alamoudi stages the friction where the ancestral meets the contemporary, showing that growth is never only about the new: old voices germinate in the present, seeding future returns.
Presented by Art & Ideas – an Initiative by the Saudi Visual Arts Commission
06:45 pm – 08:00 pm
Cinema NOW
With an introduction by Gavin Humphries & Ananda Pellerin
Join us for a special screening of films from global video platform NOWNESS, profiling and led by creative talents from across Asia and its global diaspora. Meet visual artists, photographers, video game designers, musicians, drag artists, fashion designers, angels, demons, and people on the street in a visual exploration of legend, contemporary culture, behind-the-scenes realness, and unbridled imagination.
NOWNESS is a global video curation and film production platform presenting the best of arts and culture. Since 2010, Nowness’ unique programming strategy has established it as the go-to source of inspiration and influence across art, design, fashion, beauty, music, dance, food, and travel. We share engaging, sensorial stories designed to provoke inspiration and debate.
Jess Kohl, Photographers in Focus: Yushi Li, 2020
Dan Zhao, NOWNESS China: One Day Someday, 2023 (featuring Leah Dou)
James J Robinson, Video Art Visions: On Golden Days, 2023
Khanh Nguyen & Lam Dao Dao, 0s, 2024 (featuring Antiart)
Kathleen Malay, Anatomy of an Artist: Natasha Tontey, 2024 (featuring Natasha Tontey, commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary)
Linda Brownlee, Simone Rocha Hong Kong Dress, 2015 (featuring Simone Rocha)
Kitty Yeung, Private View: Joshua Serafin, 2025
Haonan, NOWNESS Experiments: Intermission, 2025
Andrew Thomas Huang, Kiss of the Rabbit God, 2019
Roni Shao, Frontiers, 2019
Wednesday 22.10
Wednesday 22.10
Wednesday 22.10
Wednesday 22.10
Wednesday 22.10
Wednesday 22.10
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Fun Fair / Atelier Enfants
Sculpting Softness
Workshop led by Arda Asena
Artist Arda Asena will lead a one-hour workshop for children, during which participants will create soft sculptures from tights, transforming them into colorful and expressive forms.
Inspired by their practice—combining textile sculpture, intuitive gestures, and an exploration of the body as a sensitive landscape—the workshop invites children to give new life to familiar, forgotten objects, reflecting on softness, repair, and shared creativity.
Through this playful yet introspective approach, Arda Asena turns flexible materials into spaces of emotion, memory, and connection, showing how even the most ordinary fabrics can carry stories of care and transformation.
Curated by Thanks for Nothing
12:00 pm – 01:00 pm
Conversation
De l’atelier au musée : regards croisés sur la céramique japonaise contemporaine en France
Musée Cernuschi
Organized by the Musée Cernuschi in summer 2025, The Future of Forms revisits the pioneering 1950 exhibition that first introduced contemporary Japanese ceramics to France.
This conversation with artist Yoshimi Futamura explores her personal journey, the evolving dialogue between ceramic artists and museums, and the place of Japanese ceramics in France today.
Speakers
Pierre Gautier, Responsable des collections japonaises, Musée Cernuschi
Yoshimi Futamura, Artiste
01:00 pm – 02:00 pm
Conversation
Method
As South Asia’s art scene continues to evolve beyond its borders, a new generation of artists, curators, and cultural practitioners are reshaping how the region is seen and understood. In this conversation, curator Sofia Lanusse, artist Sajid Wajid Shaikh, and Sahil Arora, founder of Method (India), explore the shifting terrain of contemporary art across the subcontinent. Together, they discuss the ecosystems that nurture emerging practices, the networks that bridge local and global contexts, and the urgency of building spaces for experimentation and dialogue within and beyond South Asia.
Speakers
Sahil Arora, Founder & Curator, Method
Sajid Wahid Shaikh, Artist (India)
Moderator
Sofia Lanusse, Curator
02:00 pm
Performance
Chathuri Nissansala in collaboration with LiSA DiAMETR and Ro Buur
Nissansala will be performing a new iteration of her ongoing research, This Land is Not Mine, Mother, recalling queering cosmic lineages of healing, encounter, and transgression.
Presented by Colomboscope
02:30 pm – 03:30 pm
Performance
Abuzar Madhu
Working with the Ravi Bachao Tehreek and local communities, Abuzar Madhu highlights the ecological crises affecting the River Ravi, contrasting them with the river’s long-standing cultural and spiritual significance. Partitioned Waters invites audiences to witness the river’s wounds and offer their blessings, reflecting the deep connections between humans and more-than-human entities.
Presented by Lahore Biennale Foundation with the support of the Embassy of France in Pakistan and Pakistan International Airlines
03:00 pm – 04:00 pm
Conversation
Eurasian Perspectives. The Şağylys Collection: A Partnership Between the Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture and Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp
Speakers
Nav Haq, Senior Curator at M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art AntwerpJamilya Nurkalieva, Director, Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture
03:30 pm
Curator’s Tour
Curator’s tour by Anissa Touati
03:30 pm – 04:00 pm
Performance
Hiromi Tango
In one performance entitled Healing Tree, Hiromi will use a form of meditative, restrained movement reminiscent of butoh dance practice to express calligraphic forms that echo the words in the installation. Draped in multiple layers of kimono, she will use gestures to evoke ‘air paintings’ of the words in the exhibition.
Presented by Cuturi Gallery
04:00 pm – 05:00 pm
Conversation
One Steppe Forward*: The Kazakhstani Art Scene Through the Lens of Gender
Curated by AWARE: Archives of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions in collaboration with the Almaty Museum of Arts
This panel brings together art professionals and cultural practitioners from or working in Kazakhstan to explore current developments shaping the country’s artistic landscape through the lens of gender.
Speakers
Aïda Adilbek, Multidisciplinary Artist and Curator, based in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Inga Lāce, Chief Curator, Almaty Museum of Arts, Kazakhstan
Jamilya Nurkalieva, Director, Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture
Dilda Ramazan, Independent Curator, based in Paris, France
Moderators
Carolina Hernández Muñoz, International Networks Manager, AWARE: Archive of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions
Matylda Taszycka, Head of Research Programs, AWARE: Archive of Women Artists, Research & Exhibitions
*This title comes from artist Saule Souleimenova’s 2019 eponymous work.
05:00 pm – 06:00 pm
Performance
Pascal Hachem
Threaded Whole installation / performance voices different memories and lives. It goes beyond a simple cut; it embodies a dormant gesture of the reality we are part of. Yet, by pushing the limits, it reveals how obvious what we are watching truly is.
05:30 pm
Curator’s Tour
Curator’s tour by Sahil Arora
06:30 pm
Performance
Ahaad Alamoudi
An activation of Ghost of Today and Tomorrow, threading sound and light to register memory as vibration. Alamoudi stages the friction where the ancestral meets the contemporary, showing that growth is never only about the new: old voices germinate in the present, seeding future returns.
Presented by Art & Ideas – an Initiative by the Saudi Visual Arts Commission
05:00 pm – 08:30 pm
Cinema NOW
Curated by Zohreh Deldadeh
Change often carries within it the seeds of growth. Whether it unfolds on an intimate scale—such as moving to a new home—or on a vast one—like crossing borders, redefining identity, or reconstructing social belonging—every transformation reshapes us. Growth may come by choice or under the weight of circumstance, but even through struggle, change opens the possibility of renewal.
The artists in this project explore change as both rupture and potential. Their works trace experiences of displacement, transformation, and the fragile in-betweens of belonging. Mina Bozorgmehr and Hadi Kamali Moghaddam reimagine the city through playful journeys among its people, while Parisa Aminolahi’s film lingers in the ambiguity of searching for a place to call home.
Elsewhere, the lens turns inward: Siavash Naghshbandi, Arash Fayez, Sogol and Joubeen offer intimate portrayals of personal transitions, while Mina Keshavarz, Elahe Esmaili, Pegah Keshmirshekan, Pooya Abbasian, and Sara Rajaei situate these narratives at the intersection of the personal and the collective. Pooya Razi confronts the charged moment of departure, and Azin Feizabadi evokes the abstract suspension of being “between here and there.” In Chupan Atashi’s piece (performing by Saman Mahdavi), ritual becomes a way of touching the wound to heal—an oscillation between pain and pleasure that embodies the paradox of growth.
Together, these works map not only the shifts of geography, identity, and memory, but also the inner landscapes reshaped by change. They suggest that growth is less a destination than a continuous negotiation: an act of re-rooting, re-imagining, and redefining what it means to move, to belong, and to begin again.



