LOOP Fair Barcelona 2020

In an effort to readjust to this special and difficult year, the 18th edition of LOOP Fair Barcelona will present a hybrid programme of online and offline activities, to keep supporting the artists, their galleries as well as those who are involved in making the moving image community grow stronger. 

This year the Fair will host a high quality selection of videos by 28 galleries from 17 countries online. On view on LOOP Barcelona’s website from November 17 to 26, the offer will be enriched by the LOOP Talks, an engaging programme of conversations with international art experts.

Despite the complex circumstances, LOOP will maintain its physical offer transforming the traditional LOOP Fair into LOOP Salon, a curated exhibition at the Museu d´Història de Catalunya showcasing a selection of videos from the overall fair’s offer from November 17 to 19.

Curated by the Fair’s Director Aurélien Le Genissel, the exhibition titled Tales From an Old World reflects on the meaning of approaching narratives and images that today seem taken from another time, the one before the pandemic. The exhibited works will outline a series of “pre-Covid” issues as seen by our new gaze and updated by our new concerns.

LOOP Salon will also include a special curated section by Amira Solh, proposing a focus on Beirut and presenting a selection of galleries from the Lebanese capital after the disaster of August 4, 2020.

Participating galleries:
Galerie C, Neuchâtel with Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques, Sub Rosa. Galerie Eric Mouchet, Paris, with Pierre Gaignard Bagnolet Chamanique 4K. The Goma, Madrid, with Cristina Garrido, Boothworks. BERG Contemporary, Reykjavik, with Sigurður Guðjónsson, Lightroom. Galeria Presença, Porto, with Nikolaj Larsen, Rush Hour. Galería Albarrán Bourdais, Madrid, with Cristina Lucas, The People That Is Missing (El Pueblo Que Falta). Galería SENDA, Barcelona, with Miralda, QUARANTINETRAINS III: Rodalies. àngels barcelona, Barcelona, with Gerard Ortin, Future Foods. Zahorian Gallery, Bratislava, with Lucia Papčová, 24 hours and 35 years for Mariana. Osnova Gallery, Moscow, with Kirill Savchenkov, Knowledge Editing Division. HESTIA, Belgrade, with Vangjush Vellahu, Fragments I. Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona, with Ester Partegàs, From one fleeting wish to another. Marfa’ Projects, Beirut, with Rania Stephan, Threshold. Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, with Akram Zaatari, Twenty Eight Nights and A Poem: 1975. Galerie Tanit, Beirut, with Roy Dib, Mondial 2010. Smac Gallery, Cape Town, Lhola Amira, IRMANDADE - The Shape Of Water in Pindoram. acb Gallery, Budapest, with Igor and Ivan Buharov, Most of the souls that live here. Analix Forever, Chêne-Bourg, with Laurent Fiévet, Tuesday. Galeria Nara Roesler, New York, with Cao Guimarães, Limbo. Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, with Grada Kilomba, The Desire Project. Galerie Anne Barrault, Paris, with Marie Losier, Tony Conrad, Dreaminimalist. Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg, with Penny Siopsis, She Breathes Water. Yamamoto Keiko, London, with Magda Stawarska-Beavan, Who/Wer. Cob Gallery, London, with Joe Sweeney, 28 Days in March. Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, with Helen Dowling, Queen of Lemons. Galerie Kornfeld, Berlin, with Tezi Gabunia, Breaking News : The Flooding of the Louvre. Chi-Wen Gallery, Taiwan, with Chang Li-Ren, Battle City 1 - The Glory of Taiwan. Proyecto Paralelo, Ciudad de Méjico, with Melanie Smith, Parte y Pedazo.

The fair committee, formed by Haro Cumbusyan, Renee Drake, Josée & Marc Gensollen, Isabelle Lemaître, and chaired by Jean-Conrad Lemaître, has valued the strength of the galleries’ programs and the quality of the artists’ works.

The fair’s jury for Acquisition Award will be formed by Ferran Barenblit (Director, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona – MACBA, Barcelona), Daniela Zyman (Chief Curator and Artistic Director, TBA21, Vienna), Dirk Snauwaert (Artistic Director, WIELS, Brussels), Andrea Lissoni (Artistic Director, Haus der Kunst Munich) and Benjamin Weil (Artistic Director, Centro Botín, Santander).