Asia Now Is a Paris Art Fair, Festival, and Incubator
Hà My Nguyễn, Galerie Bao | booth H12, installation view at Asia Now, Monnaie de Paris, 2025.
Photo : Nancy Karam. Courtesy of Galerie Bao.
PARIS — “Go ahead, feel them!” gallerist Lê Thiên-Bảo encouraged visitors to her booth at Asia Now fair. Emboldened by her enthusiasm, I broke the well-worn rule of not touching artworks and caressed the fleshy ceramics of Vietnamese artist Hà My Nguyễn. Inside the grand halls of La Monnaie de Paris, just steps from the Louvre, the fair’s mood remained undisturbed by the museum’s recent brazen heist, which has shaken the country. The crowd — international, multicultural, and sharply focused — reinforced the fair’s boutique reputation.
Running until October 26, and now in its 11th edition under the title GROW, Asia NOW brings together close to 70 galleries from 28 territories across Asia. The fair prides itself on a program curated in collaboration with institutions and curators from across the continent, such as the Lahore Biennale Foundation and COLOMBOSCOPE. It features installations and performances (mostly staged in the courtyards of La Monnaie), as well as children’s workshops and conversations…
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