An annual report on the status of the art market Artprice asked the opinion of gallery owners and collectors about the prospects of the Paris market of contemporary art, and about where else to look at and buy Contemporary Art

The report found a place not just dry facts and figures, but also the subjective opinions: a resource interviewed a number of collectors and gallery owners, hoping to find out what role they believe is Paris in the market of contemporary art, as well as where they still prefer to watch and buy Contemporary Art.

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From the perspective of the Parisian gallery owner Levenbruka Herve (Herve Loevenbruck), the advantage of Paris is a huge variety of art works and a large number of sites of contemporary art. It follows from this and the lack that marks the gallery owner: the proposal is too vast galleries, so it's hard sometimes to make a choice. Among the shortcomings of the Paris art scene Levenbruk notes some uncertainty with respect to French political leaders in the contemporary art market, which needs their support and development: without it we can the recognition of an important player in the French contemporary international art market.

On According to Mauro Nicoletti (Mauro Nicoletti), director Roman galleries Magazzino Gallery, Paris has the potential to be an international platform Contemporary art market. French museums, says Nicoletti, are facing the contemporary art and with the help of the National Fund of Contemporary Art (Fondation nationale d ' art contemporain - FNAC) and regional funds for contemporary art (fonds regionales d'art contemporain - FRAC) promote contemporary French writers abroad.

Tom Bernard (Thomas Bernard), the gallery director Cortex Athletico of Bordeaux, Paris calls "an important artery of the art market." According to his estimates, the Paris market activity and a variety of different proposals, but he said that Paris is very expensive city, where a young gallery afraid to take risks and to promote new artists. Here it is necessary be at a level that competitors are not squeezed you out of the market, and profits, taking into account all costs, is quite small.

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gallery Vermelho director of Sao Paulo, Akio Aoki (Akio Aoki) notes the historical role of Paris in the development of modern art, but stresses that part of Contemporary Art in Paris for a long time had no special merit. From the fairground where available Contemporary Art, Aoki said the Centre Pompidou and Palais de Tokyo. The latter, along with updated fair FIAC, Aoki finds a giant step forward in the transformation of Paris into a significant position on the map, Contemporary art.

This view is shared by the director of Berlin gallery Contemporary Fine Arts Brunn Bruno (Bruno Brunnet), Nicole Hakert (Nicole Hackert) and Philip Haverkampf (Philipp Haverkampf). Paying tribute to the place in Paris art history, they tend to think of his rookie Contemporary market. More recently, according to gallery owners, Paris was not in the list of capitals of contemporary art. The current changes seem to them the first steps along the way. However, the challenge to instill quite conservative Parisian public interest in contemporary art seems to Berlin dealers uneasy.

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Interior Parisian contemporary art center Palais de Tokyo Source: palaisdetokyo.com

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On question about other cities that are attractive in terms of contemporary art, collectors sometimes gave unexpected answers. For example, a collector Jean-Francois Keller (Jean-Francois Keller) said that he preferred Paris and Berlin because of the abundance of exhibitions and galleries, but paid special attention to the rather non-obvious at first glance on the map of the modern art world - Vienna. According to Keller, cultural Vienna suddenly "woke up" with the democratization of Eastern Europe and the creation of a huge museum complex - the Museum Quarter. The Collector said that the Viennese private museums such as the Collection Lenikus or Collection EVN filled with works by young artists. Exhibition at Vienna's Museum of Modern Art (MOMUK), at the Kunsthalle and the Museum Albertina also very congenial French collector. He likes and Viennese Art Fair - interesting, in his opinion, the review of German, Austrian and Eastern European art fair in Vienna Keller describes one of the most original fairs in the world. At the fair there is a large number of galleries (Keller cites AMT Project from Bratislava, Zak Branicka from Berlin, Emmanuel Layr from Vienna), which offer interesting works of young, unknown artists to the public at affordable prices.

Quarter Museum in Vienna Source: mqw.at

collector Michel Ogier (Michel Ogier) prefers to Lyon. First, there is located School of Fine Arts was the best art schools in France, according to the magazine Beaux-Arts Magazine. Ogier like, and the Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, and passing in the art-fair Docks, and then that the city opened a large number of galleries and contemporary art centers. Many have already received a recognition by young artists who are now scattered throughout the world, began in his time at Lyon. Among them, Adel Abdessemed said Ogier (Adel Abdessemed), which now lives in New York York, Adam Adach (Adam Adach), Marcel Duchamp Prize nominee in 2007, which travels between Paris, Warsaw and New York; Delpra Nicolas (Nicolas Delprat) and Rachel Labasti (Rachel Labastie), living in Brussels, Assan SMAT (Assan Smati), which has chosen their place of residence in Berlin. Ogier also says that trust in the individual galleries of Saint-Etienne, Marseille and Paris, but it was Lyon became the place where he discovers the young artists.

Unlike Ogier, collectors Daniel and Florence Guerlain (Daniel and Florence Guerlain) do not have a specific geographic preference. In the words of Florence Guerlain, she and her husband," travel the world, admiring the art. "Madame Guerlain said that their choice entirely determined by the artist and the quality of his work, and not a place where they are acquired.

collector Han Nefkens Source: artprice. com

According to a Dutch collector of Khan Nefkensa (Han Nefkens), first associations that arise in his mind when the phrase "modern art", it's London, New York, Berlin, perhaps - Paris. Overall, however, on a very specific issue of geographical preferences Nefkens gave poetic and vague answer: art, where you see him.

American collector Manuel de Santarém (Manuel de Santaren) shared not particularly original, but probably a fairly common opinion that the best city for contemporary art hunter - New York City. Despite participation in an endless cycle of trade fair, due to which collectors look like migratory birds, Santarem still choose items for their growing collection of mostly in New York. With the opening of new galleries in lower Manhattan art collector in New York, according to Santarém, became available a taste of adventure, the missing, in his opinion, the London bohemian quarter of the gallery Chelsea. Those who are not afraid to get outside safely in Manhattan, Brooklyn recommends Santarem, where, he says, has settled a number of interesting galleries, with which it is reckoned.

Prepared Maria Estrova, AI

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