Track the future of drawing at Drawing Now. At Carreau du Temple, contemporary drawing continues to enthrall enthusiasts with its range of talents, from the most promising to the most assertive, from the most realistic to the most symbolist.

VALÉRIE DUPONCHELLE, LE FIGARO - MARCH 26, 2025

The five artists nominated for the 18th Drawing Now Prize reflect the diversity of current practices, commitments and tastes in this medium.

ARMELLE MALVOISIN, FINE ARTS - MARCH 1, 2025

This year, conditions were favorable for Drawing Now, which was reflected in the light atmosphere in the aisles and the dynamic sales at the close of the show.

STÉPHANIE PIODA, LE QUOTIDIEN DE L'ART - APRIL 2, 2025

With an assertive artistic direction and a demanding selection committee, Drawing Now Paris 2025 more than ever asserts its role as a graphic design laboratory. A fair on a human scale, conducive to encounters between artists, artworks and audiences, where drawing is as much thought about as it is observed.

ÉTAPES — 25 MARS 2025

L’éloge du trait. Avec 300 artistes et 71 galeries c’est le retour en force de la foire Drawing Now Paris qui investit Le Carreau du Temple pour y célébrer sa 18e édition.

SABRINA SILAMO, IDEAT — 1 MARS 2025

Drawing Now Paris celebrates drawing as the fifth element. The show, which runs until March 30, brings together works by a number of artists who play with water, fire, stone or plants. [...] In the course of the booths, drawing becomes striated earth, with Clément Bagot (galerie 8+4), or wind, with Jacqueline Salmon, who attempts to capture the thousand breaths in a photograph of a sky (galerie Eric Dupont); it is born of soap bubbles or smoke, with Jiri Georg Dokoupil.

EMMANUELLE LEQUEUX, LE MONDE — 27 MARS 2025

As for the lively Drawing Now, founded in 2007, it brings together over seventy galleries, large and small, under the glass roof of the Carreau du Temple, around the thousand expressions of this technique, from pure line to watercolor, from drawing on video to performance drawing. Something for everyone...

LAURENT BOUDIER, TELERAMA — 26 MARS 2025

Drawing Now, the contemporary drawing fair, is back again, with its annual crop of young talent. Our best-of list of artists to watch. Louis Lanne, 30, a fiery artist. [...] Robin Wen, 31, the Bic virtuoso. [...] Raphaëlle Peria, 35, the goldsmith of disappearance.

SOLINE DELOS, ELLE — 27 MARS 2025

Drawing Now, "le" rendez-vous du dessin contemporain. Avec cette 18e édition, Drawing Now Paris célèbre son entrée dans l’âge adulte. Le médium du dessin est en renouvellement constant et la sélection été remaniée pour près d’un tiers des exposants.

ANNE-CÉCILE SANCHEZ, LE JOURNAL DES ARTS — 14 MARS 2025

Rendez-vous à Drawing Now Paris pour constater que le dessin contemporain ne cesse de se réinventer et d’évoluer. Plein de nouveaux exposants parmi les 70 galeries annoncées, Pierre Yovanovitch en guide affûté, des visites guidées ainsi qu’un copieux programme d’entretiens avec des artistes et de performances.

LES ÉCHOS — 28 MARS 2025