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PhotoFairs San Francisco Opens This Week
20 February 2018
PhotoFairs San Francisco opens Thursday for its second edition. The Fair runs through Sunday at the Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center.
Maroesjka Lavigne. Shadowmountains, 2017 Courtesy of Robert Mann Gallery.
Featuring 40 leading international and U.S. galleries, PhotoFairs San Francisco is a highly curated, boutique fair offering collectors and curators access to artists and galleries rarely seen in the Bay Area.
The Fair's First Look opening night event on Thursday, Feb. 22, will benefit SFMOMA's photography program, supporting an acquisition of works by three contemporary Chinese artists that will be presented at the fair.
For more information see the news release below.
PhotoFairs San Francisco Opens This Week
40 galleries from 15 countries and 26 cities representing emerging and internationally recognized artists
First Look opening night event to benefit photography program at SFMOMA
SAN FRANCISCO -- PhotoFairs San Francisco, the cutting-edge contemporary art fair dedicated to photography and moving image, opens this week for its second edition. The Fair runs Thursday, Feb. 22 to Sunday, Feb. 25 at the Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center.
Featuring 40 leading international and U.S. galleries, PhotoFairs San Francisco is a highly curated, boutique fair that offers collectors and curators access to artists and galleries never seen before in the Bay Area.
The Fair's First Look opening night event on Thursday, Feb. 22, will benefit SFMOMA's photography program, supporting an acquisition of works by three contemporary Chinese artists that will be presented at the fair.
2018 HIGHLIGHTS
Spotlight: Hai Bo "The Southern"
This exhibition highlights an international artist of particular relevance and importance to the contemporary photography market. For, distinguished Chinese artist Hai Bo will debut his latest work "The Southern." Hai Bo's highly conceptual photographs document the changing social, economic and environmental climate of contemporary China. The work is brought to PhotoFairs San Francisco by partner Branding Shanghai together with Pace Gallery and Zephyr Art.
Insights: "The Poetry of Silence"
A unique exhibition featuring 50 works for private sale by 45 artists. Exploring photography's ability to be quiet, calming and self-reflective, featured artists and galleries include: Gagosian Gallery (artists Taryn Simon & Vera Lutter); Jessica Silverman Gallery (artists Matt Lipps & Tammy Rae Carland); Gallery Wendi Norris (artists Yamini Nayar & Eva Schlegel); Anthony Meier Fine Arts (artist Erica Deeman) and Bruce Silverstein Gallery (artist Penelope Umbrico), among many others.
SFMOMA -- Chinese Photography Now!
From the fourth edition of PHOTOFAIRS | Shanghai, SFMOMA selected twenty-eight pictures by
three different Chinese artists: South Ho Siu Nam, Chen Wei and Chen Xiaoyun. Those photographs, displayed at our San Francisco edition, will enter the SFMOMA collection through the generous acquisition support of PHOTOFAIRS.
Connected: "The Channel of Democracy: Womanhood, Power & Freedom in Video Art"
A new annual exhibition dedicated to contemporary video and new media art, meeting the increased demand by collected for this expanding genre of photography. The edition will feature 16 female and queer (non-cisgender binary) artists who each challenge social issues in visually powerful and political ways. Featured artists are Shiva Ahmadi, Zeina Barakeh, Sophie Clements, Kate Gilmore and Pixy Liao.
Conversations
Running throughout the fair, the talks program explores key themes regarding the international fine art photography market and offers collectors insights and access to artists via in-depth discussions. Participating artists and expert speakers include: Mandy Barker (artist), Nion McEvoy (collector); Sarah Meister (Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New York); Abelardo Morell (artist) and Thyago Nogueira (Curator, Instituto Moreira Salles, Sao Paulo).
Staged
A curated platform featuring photographers pushing the boundaries of the photographic medium. The edition includes new works by Darren Harvey-Regan (The Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam) will be presented alongside original pieces by Mona Kuhn (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York & Zurich), Meghann Riepenhoff and Klea McKenna (both EUQINOMprojects, San Francisco) and Roman Signer (Galerie Stephan Witschi, Zurich).
2018 GALLERIES AND ARTISTS
PhotoFairs San Francisco will offer contemporary photography and moving image by emerging and internationally recognized artists. Highlighted artists include: Yang Fudong (ShanghART Gallery, Beijing, Singapore & Shanghai), Noémie Goudal (Les filles du calvaire, Paris), Abelardo Morell (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York & Zurich), Michal Rovner (Pace Gallery, Geneva, New York, Palo Alto, London, Paris, Seoul & Beijing), Alec Soth (Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis), Juergen Teller (Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris) and Wolfgang Tillmans (SAGE, Paris).
Confirmed galleries debuting at the Fair are: acb Gallery (Budapest), Almanaque (Mexico City), GALLERY 1/1 (Seattle), Les filles du calvaire (Paris), Robert Klein Gallery (Boston), KLV Art Projects (Vienna), Robert Morat Galerie (Berlin), Scott Nichols Gallery (San Francisco), Christine Park Gallery (London & New York), Parrotta (Cologne), Rademakers Gallery (Amsterdam), The Ravestijn Gallery (Amsterdam), SAGE (Paris), ShanghART Gallery (Beijing, Shanghai & Singapore), Bruce Silverstein (New York), Tang Feng Gallery (Miaoli City), Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve (Paris) and Weinstein Hammons Gallery (Minneapolis).
Returning galleries include: CAMERA WORK (Berlin), Casemore Kirkeby (San Francisco), De Soto Gallery (Los Angeles), East Wing (Doha), EUQINOMprojects (San Francisco), Peter Fetterman Gallery (Santa Monica), Flowers Gallery (London & New York), In The Gallery (Copenhagen), Edwynn Houk Gallery (New York & Zurich), Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco), M97 Gallery (Shanghai), Robert Mann Gallery (New York), Pace Gallery (New York, Geneva, Palo Alto, London, Paris, Seoul & Beijing), Ratio 3 (San Francisco), Three Shadows +3 Gallery (Beijing & Xiamen), Upfor (Portland), Galerie Stephan Witschi (Zurich) and Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery (New York).
The Fair's Books & Editions partners are The Lapis Press (Los Angeles) and Nazraeli Press (Paso Robles) and non-profits include Aperture (New York), Leica (San Francisco) and SF Camerawork (San Francisco).