The selection committee
Since the first edition, the selection of galleries exhibiting at Drawing Now Paris has been carried out by an independent committee - made up of professionals in the fields of contemporary art and contemporary drawing.
Joana P. R. Neves, appointed Artistic Director in 2018, brings together different personalities each year to choose the projects that make the fair a success. In 2025, she will be joined by Christophe Billard, Frédéric De Goldschmidt, Claudine Grammont, Jenny Graser, Carole Haensler, Catherine Hellier Du Verneuil, Pascal Neveux and Philippe Piguet.
Since the 1stcontemporary drawing fair in 2007 and its itinerant formula for 3 years and Drawing Now Paris at the Carreau du Temple, more than 300 international galleries have contributed each year to the emergence of a new generation of artists and to the rediscovery of nuggets made by more established artists.
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Joana P. R. Neves
Artistic Director of the fair
Joana P.R. Neves, an independent author and curator in London, has directed international galleries and curated exhibitions in France and abroad. Artistic Director of Drawing Now Art Fair since 2018, she also obtained a PhD in 2020 at Kingston University entitled Following the Indexical Line, Etienne-Jules Marey, Douglas Huebler and Sol LeWitt.
His recent publications include As One takes one's pulse, The Technology of Asemantic Writing, Centre d'art de Genève (2019) and Unskilled Beauty or Ugly Truth? (Drawing, research, theoretical practice, 2020). As a curator, she works for museums and galleries; her last group exhibition, Our Ancestors Bloom Overground, took place at the Patrick Heide Gallery (London). She is currently working on her first book, The Female Drawing Machines, on drawing as technology from a feminist perspective (2026, Bloomsbury) and has launched the conversational podcast Exhibitionistas with Emily Harding where they talk about solo exhibitions as a way to explore an artist's entire oeuvre.
Jenny Graser
Curator of 20th and 21st centuries at the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts
Jenny Graser (Dr. phil.) studied art history, media studies and contemporary history in Braunschweig and Rome from 2002 to 2008. She then completed a doctorate at the Freie Universität Berlin on Jean Tinguely's sculpture in motion. From 2015 to 2019, she worked at the Städel Museum (Frankfurt) in the drawings department, first as an assistant, then as assistant curator thanks to a grant from the Gabriele Busch-Hauck Foundation. There, she co-curated a catalog on twentieth-century German drawings and the "Great Realism & Great Abstraction" exhibition (2019/20). From 2020 to 2025, she was curator for contemporary art at Berlin's Kupferstichkabinett, where she organized exhibitions on Tomas Schmit, Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and the Schering Stiftung collection.
Since February 2025, she has been Curator of the 20th and 21st Centuries at the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts, with a particular interest in works on paper.
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Carole Haensler
Director of the Museo Villa dei Cedri in Bellinzona and President of the Association of Swiss Museums
Carole Haensler Huguet was appointed curator of the Museo Civico Villa dei Cedri in Bellinzona in 2013. It is responsible for preserving and enhancing the artistic heritage, redefining the identity of the institution, developing cultural mediation as well as synergies with other local and regional cultural institutions. She also supported the creation of the Ente autonomo di diritto pubblico Bellinzona Musei – the administrative structure that manages the Museo Villa dei Cedri and, eventually, the other exhibition spaces attached to the city – of which she has been director since 1 January 2018.
She holds a master's degree in art history and archaeology from the University of Neuchâtel (1999) and has worked for various private and public collections in Switzerland and Europe (Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation in Lugano and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary - TBA21 - in Vienna). She specializes in modern and contemporary art, in particular French art and literature of the second half of the nineteenth century and French and German art of the period 1900-1950.
Portrait Claudine Grammont © Laurent Thareau.
Claudine Grammont
Head of the Graphic Art Department at the Centre Georges Pompidou
Claudine Grammont is Head of the Graphic Art Department at the Centre Georges Pompidou. She is a recognized specialist in the work of Henri Matisse and was director of the Musée Matisse de Nice fromirector of the Musée Matisse de Nice from 2016 to 2023, where she curated the exhibitions :Matisse 1930s ; Tom Wesselmann ; Hockney-Matisse. Paradise regained ; Agnès Thurnauer ; Pierre Matisse, an art dealer in New York ; Matisse Métamorphoses. La sculpture ; Cinématisse. A painter's dialogue with cinema ; Matisse and Picasso, the comedy of the model..She edited the dictionary Tout Matisse published by Robert Laffont in 2018 and is the author, with Yve-Alain Bois, of the catalog raisonné of the Barnes Foundation's Matisse collection..
Doctor en contemporary her research and publications have focused on the historical avant-garde, as well as on the phenomena of perception and their implications in the field of graphic arts. Claudine Grammont is a member of the Institut and a correspondent for drawing at the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
Catherine Hellier du Verneuil
Art historian and collector
An art historian and ESSEC graduate, Catherine Hellier du Verneuil worked for several European museums (Rijksmuseum, British Museum, Victoria & Albert) before moving into publishing with the Flammarion group. In 1995, with her partner, she founded Éditions Quatre Fleuves, a company specializing in the design and publication of object books and animated books for young people and art. In 2002, she founded Amarante
, a consulting firm specializing in publishing and the arts.
A collector by passion and family tradition, she invested early in classical art (engravings, gouaches, 16th and 17th century Flemish paintings) before starting a collection of contemporary art at the turn of the millennium. In 2009, she joined the association des Amis des Beaux-arts de Paris, chaired by agnès b., to help young artists from the École in their professional careers. Today, she continues to support young artists in her role as a publisher.
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Christophe Billard
Art and Philanthropy Consultant
Christophe Billard puts his passion for art to work for companies, mainly in the finance sector, as an art strategy consultant. For almost 25 years, this ESSEC graduate has kept art as a backdrop to his work as a private bank manager (Société Générale), both personally, to build up his private collection, and in his professional activity, which focuses on international wealth management.
Since 2017, Christophe Billard has been involved in various projects at the crossroads of philanthropy, art and finance. Organizer of exhibitions for artist Jean-Michel Alberola in particular, he is also co-founder of the solidarity project "Les Amis des Artistes" aimed at supporting artists visual artists put in difficulty by the Covid crisis. He also puts his experience to work for IESA students who lead a course on the financing of the cultural economy and on a recurring basis the "Art, Luxury & Corporations" and "Business models in the arts" modules. Christophe Billard is President of the Association of Friends of the Idem Printing House in Montparnasse, a structure that supports lithographic printing work and preserves a unique cultural heritage of the nineteenth century.
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Frederick of Goldschmidt
Contemporary art collector
Frédéric de Goldschmidt is a French collector based in Brussels. After studying management, communications and anthropology, he worked in the media, real estate and film industries.
He has been collecting contemporary art since 2008 and regularly organizes exhibitions in Brussels, including Not Really Really (2015), which he co-curated with Agata Jastrząbek, White Covers (2017) with Carine Fol, and Inaspettatamente (2021) with Grégory Lang, on the occasion of the launch of Cloud Seven, a coworking and art space he founded and runs.
He enjoys supporting emerging artists in their creative process, engaging with curators on exhibition projects and sharing his collection with the public. He is or has been a member of selection or acquisition committees for various prizes (Prix des Amis du Palais de Tokyo, Prix Marcel Duchamp), fairs (Art Brussels, Luxembourg Art Week, Art on Paper) and institutions (Kanal Centre Pompidou, Mécènes du Sud).
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Pascal Neveux
Director of the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Picardie
After a doctorate in Art History, Pascal Neveux worked for Art Public Contemporain and then the Galerie Jean-Gabriel Mitterrand, before joining Madeleine Van Doren in 1992 at the Crédac centre d'art contemporain in Ivry-sur-Seine. From 1999 to 2006, he directed the Frac Alsace in Sélestat, then in 2006 the Frac PACA in Marseille, where he led the architectural project designed by Kengo Kuma.
Since 2013, he has chaired the Marseille Expos association, a network of more than forty contemporary art venues, museums, art centers and galleries. He is also the author of articles on French and foreign artists and curators. Since 2018, he has chaired Cipac, the national federation of contemporary art professionals, and has represented the federation on the Conseil national des professions des arts visuels (CNPAV) since its creation. Since 2020, he has been director of the Frac Picardie in the Hauts-de-France region.
Philippe Piguet
Art critic and independent curator
Historian, art critic and independent curator, Philippe Piguet has been in charge of the contemporary art programme of the Chapelle de la Visitation in Thonon-les-Bains (74) since 2008. From 2010 to 2018, he was the artistic director of Drawing Now Art Fair, the contemporary drawing fair. General curator of the Normandy Impressionist Festival 2020 & 2024, he has been a regular contributor to the magazine Art Absolument since 2002.
While his field of study covers a period from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, his main focus is on the Impressionist period (particularly Claude Monet) and contemporary art as it has developed since the 1960s. Philippe Piguet is the author of numerous catalogue texts for artists such as Monet, Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, César, Rebeyrolle, Villeglé, Raynaud, Garouste, Basquiat, Cognée, Rousse, Combas... and author/director of documentary films.