Galerie Imane Farès

In 2010, Imane Farès founded the eponymous gallery in Paris with the ambition of promoting the practices of contemporary artists from diverse cultural backgrounds. Initially focused on the African continent and the Middle East, reflecting the founder’s dual Lebanese and Senegalese identity, this approach has gradually expanded to include voices from a variety of geographical contexts.

Recognized for its contribution to redefining the maps of contemporary art, the gallery now represents a selection of artists whose work is rooted in in-depth research. Their practice explores fundamental questions related to society, politics, history, and identity through a wide range of mediums, including installations, sculptures, films, photography, drawings, novel and theatrical writing, music, and exhibition curation. Driven by a desire for experimentation and inquiry, the represented artists go beyond mere aesthetic production, aiming to foster critical reflection and deep engagement.

The gallery is committed to providing continuous support for the artists it represents while fostering the emergence of critical discourse around their projects. By regularly collaborating with various cultural actors—museums, art centers, production houses, publishers—it actively contributes to the development and dissemination of their work. These collaborations have led to co-produced exhibitions with prestigious institutions such as the Palazzo Pitti, the Vienna Secession, the Institut Giacometti, Frac Bretagne, Beaux-Arts de Paris, WIELS, the Smith College Museum of Art, and many others. The gallery also supports film production, with works frequently awarded at international festivals such as the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, the Locarno International Film Festival, IFFR, FID, and CPH:DOX. Additionally, it collaborates with renowned publishers to produce ambitious monographs (Dilecta, Autograph, Kerber Verlag, Lenz, etc.).

A journal is published for each exhibition, featuring literary contributions from figures such as Karim Kattan, Lotte Arndt, Roxana Azimi, N’Goné Fall, Loïc Le Gall, Simon Njami, Smooth-Ugochukwu C. Nzewi, Natasa Petresin-Bachelez, Akram Zaatari, among others.

The gallery also takes pride in seeing major works by its represented artists now integrated into significant public and private collections, including the MoMA (New York), the Pinault Collection (Paris, Venice), Tate Modern (London), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), the Art Institute of Chicago, MAXXI (Rome), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York) and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, the Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt), the Rietberg Museum (Zurich), MCA Chicago, the Centre Pompidou (Paris) and KANAL-Centre Pompidou (Brussels), the Art Jameel Collection (Dubai), Cnap (Paris), Mathaf (Doha), the Museum of Civilizations (Rome), and many more. The gallery’s artists are also present in the most prestigious international exhibitions (Biennales, Documenta, etc.).