Independent is an invitational art fair devised by and for gallerists, which reexamines traditional methods of presenting, viewing, and experiencing contemporary art.
Independent was conceived and initiated in 2009 by Elizabeth Dee, Darren Flook, Matthew Higgs and Laura Mitterrand, with a consortium of like-minded commercial and non-profit galleries. The first edition took place in the former Dia Center for the Arts and former home of X Initiative at 548 West 22nd Street. This was the first fair to take place in a former museum, a landmark building in Chelsea’s gallery district. The inaugural edition included 40 international exhibitors in March 2010.
The fair has supported a year-round Belgian gallery residency program (Independent Régence) which hosts exhibition programming in Brussels in collaboration with Independent's extended gallery network. Now in its third year, in 2018 the program will expand beyond its original location to a citywide format.
☆Donation:
Cost of Sojourn: Survival and actions revealed in unspecific sites
Yayoi Kusama: I want tears to flow with the words I gave
Damien Hirst: Archaeology Now
Living as an Artist: Uncertain Life of Artists, Certain Artworks
BXL UNIVERSEL II : MULTIPLI.CITY
JOHN AKOMFRAH_Vertigo Sea, Montréal
JULIAN OPIE AT LISSON GALLERY SHANGHAI
Ai Weiwei 360
MODERNA MUSEET: JOHN BALDESSARI
