The art of business at Lyon's Docks Art Fair
Art is also business – the fifth edition of the “Docks Art Fair” in Lyon brought together 20 French and international galleries to show a diverse range of emerging artists.
The four-day event coincided with the opening week of the Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art and will continue as an exhibition. As there are already many art markets in Europe, it was a challenge for the fair’s founder to establish an additional art market in the southeast of France.
“We have educated the public because we made the approach to art easier – here it’s not intimidating, it’s a jovial environment. The people can easily approach the gallery owners and artists, here they dare to ask for the prices. In a gallery it is very complicated, people often feel too inhibited to enter a gallery, where the approach to buy art is more complex,” says Patricia Houg, Director and co-founder, Docks Art Fair:
“We founded the Docks Art Fair because there was indeed a lack of an art market in Lyon and certainly in t
The four-day event coincided with the opening week of the Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art and will continue as an exhibition. As there are already many art markets in Europe, it was a challenge for the fair’s founder to establish an additional art market in the southeast of France.
“We have educated the public because we made the approach to art easier – here it’s not intimidating, it’s a jovial environment. The people can easily approach the gallery owners and artists, here they dare to ask for the prices. In a gallery it is very complicated, people often feel too inhibited to enter a gallery, where the approach to buy art is more complex,” says Patricia Houg, Director and co-founder, Docks Art Fair:
“We founded the Docks Art Fair because there was indeed a lack of an art market in Lyon and certainly in t