Los Angeles-founded Post-Fair is expanding internationally for the first time, launching a Paris edition during Art Basel Paris 2026 with 34 galleries spread across two historic buildings in the Marais.
Running 19th–24th October 2026, the fair marks Post-Fair’s first expansion beyond Los Angeles, bringing its gallery-led model to one of the world’s leading contemporary art capitals. Located across neighbouring spaces at 74 and 79 Rue du Temple, the fair will present 34 solo and duo exhibitions from galleries spanning New York, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles, São Paulo, Buenos Aires and Paris.
Founded by American gallerist Chris Sharp, Post-Fair launched in Santa Monica in 2025 as a response to the escalating costs and increasing pressures facing galleries exhibiting at traditional art fairs. Rather than rows of individual booths, the fair adopts an open-plan exhibition format centred on carefully curated solo presentations, encouraging visitors to experience the event more like an exhibition than a commercial fair.
The move to Paris reflects Sharp’s longstanding relationship with the city, where he lived and worked for eight years as a writer and curator before founding the fair. That connection has shaped the decision to bring Post-Fair’s alternative model to Paris during one of the busiest weeks in the international art calendar.
The organisers say the Paris edition is designed to support emerging and mid-sized galleries, project spaces and independent exhibitors by reducing participation costs while creating stronger opportunities for dialogue between artists, galleries, collectors and institutions.
“We are thrilled to launch the first international edition of Post-Fair in Paris during Art Basel Paris,”
said Chris Sharp, Founder and Director of Post-Fair.
“Like our inaugural fair in Santa Monica, this new edition has grown directly from conversations with emerging and mid-sized galleries and project spaces looking for more equitable, responsive ways to present ambitious programmes, connect with new audiences and build lasting international relationships.”
Sharp added that Paris was “one of the world’s great contemporary art cities” and said the fair hopes to create “stronger exhibitions, richer dialogue and a more sustainable ecosystem for contemporary art” by lowering barriers to participation.
The fair will unfold across two historic buildings on Rue du Temple, creating a connected route through the Marais. Rather than treating architecture as a neutral backdrop, Post-Fair places it at the centre of the visitor experience, encouraging audiences to move fluidly between presentations and experience the fair as a single curated exhibition.
Post-Fair arrives as galleries continue to explore alternatives to the conventional art fair model. Following its Los Angeles debut, the move to Paris signals growing confidence in formats that prioritise focused exhibitions, lower operating costs and a slower, more considered way of engaging with contemporary art.
Post-Fair Paris, 19th–24th October 2026 at 74 & 79 Rue du Temple post-fair.com
