20th edition of LOOP Fair

After an exceptional edition at La Pedrera-Casa Milà, LOOP Fair is back to its original hotel format at the Almanac Barcelona. Offering an overview of the latest contributions to moving image creation, the selection will feature the participation of 43 videos presented by a roster of international artists and galleries.

Roger Ballen, Galería Senda (Barcelona); Amie Barouh, Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix (London); Younes Ben Slimane, Le Violon Bleu / Blue Wind Projects (Tunis); Diego Bianchi, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff (Paris); Kévin Bray, Upstream Gallery (Amsterdam); Carlos Bunga, Galeria Vera Cortês (Lisbon); Marco Castillo, Galería Albarrán Bourdais (Madrid); Lenora de Barros, Georg Kargl Fine Arts (Vienna); Dias & Riedweg, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain (Paris); Sebastían Díaz Morales, carlier | gebauer (Berlin / Madrid); Biljana Djurdjević, HESTIA (Belgrade); Ira Eduardovna, Chelouche Gallery for Contemporary Art (Tel Aviv); Arash Fayez, àngels barcelona (Barcelona); Sigurður Guðjónsson, BERG Contemporary (Reykjavik); Frieder Haller, 14a (Hamburg); Laura Hermanides, The Curators Room (Amsterdam / Barcelona); Annika Kahrs, Produzentengalerie Hamburg (Hamburg); Anouk Kruithof, Galerie Valeria Cetraro (Paris) & Gallery Sofie Van de Velde (Antwerp); Nikolaj Larsen, Galeria Presença (Porto); Jawshing Arthur Liou, Chi-Wen Gallery (Taipei); Camille Lobet, Florence Loewy (Paris); Basim Magdy, .artSümer (Istanbul); Diana Markosian, Galerie Les filles du calvaire (Paris); Yoriko Mizushiri, Galerie Miyu (Paris); Neringa Naujokaitė, Meno Parkas Gallery (Kaunas); Nemanja Nikolic, Galerie Dix9 (Paris); Oscar Abraham Pabón, FuoriCampo (Siena); Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza, Galerie Alain Gutharc (Paris); Chantal Peñalosa, Proyectos Monclova (Mexico); Chen Qiulin, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space (Chengdu); Sabrina Ratté, Galerie Charlot (Paris) |Clément Safra, Galerie Kokanas (Marseille); Cemile Sahin, Esther Schipper (Berlin); Hiraki Sawa, Parafin (London); Hans Schabus, Galerie Krinzinger (Vienna) |  Nikita Shokhov, Osnova Gallery (Moscow); Marianna Simnett, Société (Berlin); Marta Skoczeń, Galerie Dohyang Lee (Paris); Melanie Smith, Proyecto Paralelo (Mexico); Leslie Thornton, Rodeo (London / Piraeus); Capucine Vever, Galerie Eric Mouchet (Paris); Nevet Yitzhak, Braverman Gallery (Tel Aviv); Aimée Zito Lema, tegenboschvanvreden (Amsterdam)

The selection is the result of the invaluable work of our specialized committee of collectors, chaired by Jean-Conrad Lemaître and composed by Isabelle Lemaître, Haro Cumbusyan Josée and Marc Gensollen, Renée Drake. Including films, animations or VR videos exploring a variety of topics, LOOP Fair will showcase multiple works, testifying to the ductility of video as a creative and critical tool.

Expanded in a hybrid format, the selection will also be accessible online. From November 15 to 27, all the videos will simultaneously be available for streaming on the LOOP Virtual platform, offering the audience an immersive experience.

To accompany the Fair, also an intense two-day programme of talks around the practices and ethics of collecting featuring the participation of Elvira Dyangani Ose (Director, MACBA. Barcelona), Salma Tuqan (Deputy Director, Delfina Foundation, London), Gala Porras-Kim (artist), Sandra Terdjman (Co-founder of Council and AFIELD Fellowship, Paris), Haro Cumbusyan (founder, collectorspace), Piergiorgio Pepe (Collector, Athens), Evrim Oralkan (Director, Collecteurs, New York), Diego Bergamaschi (Co-founder, Seven Gravity Collection), Joseph Del Pesco (International Director, KADIST, San Franscisco), Sylvia Kouvali (Founding director, RODEO, London / Piraeus), among others.

Simultaneously the LOOP Festival’s programme, will present a series of exhibitions, performances and screenings exploring the notion of “Time” and featuring the participation of local and international artists exhibited in and outside Barcelona.