The Paris Biennial will be held from Monday, September 11 to Sunday, September 17, 2017. With the announcement of its annualization, The Paris Biennial confirms its commitment to renewal and development, adopting a shorter, more dynamic format, while offering two potential weekends to French and international collectors and professionals.

Christopher Forbes, President of The Paris Biennial and of the Biennial Commission (which includes 6 ex-officio members from the SNA Board and 8 other qualified personalities), and Mathias Ary Jan, President of the SNA, present the first list of participants validated by the Biennial Commission to participate in the grand event to be held under the Nave of the Grand Palais.

A total of 94 exhibitors, including 36 international exhibitors, have already confirmed their participation. 

The Syndicat National des Antiquaires have the immense pleasure of announcing a prestigious exhibition to be unveiled on the occasion of the new edition of The Paris Biennial : Les Collections Barbier-Mueller - 110 years of passion.

This exhibition will be unprecedented, singular, and carefully conceived as a celebration of the passion of a collector and of art as heritage. The show will include groups of major and emblematic pieces from Gabriel's collections (Samurai art), Stéphane (numismatics and eighteenth-century painting), and Thierry (contemporary art) Barbier-Mueller, placed in dialogue with works from the collections of their grandfather Josef Mueller, their mother Monique, and their father Jean Paul Barbier-Mueller. Illustrating the fourth generation of this family, the collection of Diane Barbier Mueller will also be on view, comprising a collection of original editions from the 17th and 18th centuries. The pieces to be unveiled at the Paris Biennale are masterpieces, remarkable historical pieces, certain of which never been shown to the public.