From May 21-25, 2025, Révélations returns to occupy the monumental spaces of the Grand Palais, a historic symbol of the French capital. Organizedby Ateliers d’Art de France, the seventh edition of the International Biennial of Artistic Crafts and Creation comes with growing numbers: 550 creators from 35 countries, representing a 43 percent increase over the 2023 edition. The event is thus confirmed as a central event in the international arts and crafts scene. Hosting the event is the Grand Palais, reopened to the public after years of restoration work that restored its original structure, enhancing the proportions of the Nef and the zenithal luminosity of the architecture. The biennial thus rediscovers its symbolic setting, complemented by a scenography designed to enhance the works through a visual path based on transparency and fluidity, signed once again by set designer Adrien Gardère.
“The biennial,” says Stéphane Galerneau, president of d’Ateliers d’Art de France and Révélations, "is above all a business meeting for creators who meet there with the best architects, decorators, art directors, and also great collectors and art enthusiasts in search of savoir-faire of excellence and unique pieces. Since its beginnings Révélationshasalso had a strong institutional responsibility. Today craftsmanship still has this have to be made visible, be attractive to the public powers but also with the general public who could discover it vocations and noble paths."
The public entrance will feature a colorful enameled lava work made by the Italian company Ranieri, introducing from the start the thematic focus of the edition:Italy, the guest of honor country. The choice falls on a nation that has also built its identity through the richness and diversity of art crafts. The Italian participation, coordinated by ICE - Italian Agency for Foreign Trade, includes a selection of 22 creators representing the territorial and material variety of the national craftsmanship. From Carrara marble to Murano glass, from Florentine semi-precious stones to Como silk and Torre del Greco coral, the works on display offer a dialogue between tradition and innovation, technical expertise and formal research.
Among the names on display are Riccardo Gatti, who works with marble by transforming it into plastic sculpture; Florence-basedAtelier Terre, which specializes in inlays on semi-precious stones; Karin Putsch Grassi, a German ceramist settled in Tuscany; Jules Vissers, a textile artist working in Florence; and Memmo Venezia artistic glassworks. Some of the selected foreign creators work permanently in Italy, contributing to the vitality of the local scene. The Italian contribution will also be visible in the Le Banquet section, the international exhibition that represents the conceptual backbone of the Biennale. Located at the center of the Nef, Le Banquet will host the creations of four young Italian artists, whose works traverse the territories of the Peninsula and reinterpret techniques such as mosaic, weaving and stonework. They will be joined by other countries, including Quebec, already the guest of honor in 2023, South Korea, Georgia, Greece, Ireland, and several unseen delegations such as Bangladesh, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Southeast Asia makes its entrance into the Biennale with a focus on the social and creative condition of Bangladeshi women artisans, active in the Karail community in Dhaka. Their works, made from salvaged materials, narrate everyday life with symbolic imagery that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. The Ibero-American collective, on the other hand, presents artisanal productions from six countries (Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru), rooted in their original cultures and reinterpreted with a contemporary gaze.
The seventh edition of Révélations also confirms the importance placed on knowledge transmission and public education. The program includes a series of thematic conferences and a European symposium dedicated to the promotion of art crafts as a cultural and economic resource. Partners include Ateliers d’Art de France, the Villa Medici, and scholars working on topics such as artificial intelligence and cross-cultural collaboration between Europe and Africa. A central role is reserved for young creators, who are given privileged placement in the balconies of the Grand Palais. Among the initiatives aimed at them is the Prix de la Jeune Création Métiers d’Art, active since 1960. The winners of the 2024 and 2025 editions, Yanis Miltgen (brodeur) and Sophie Autard (orfèvrerie and engraving), respectively, will participate with dedicated stands. They will be joined by Atelier Tison, which specializes in polished metal furniture-sculpture, selected for its ability to translate a solid material into reflective and fluid surfaces. The school public is also involved: in collaboration with the association De l’or dans les mains, there will be free educational workshops, upon reservation, dedicated to the techniques of gilding, stained glass, engraving and weaving.
The initiative aims to promote new vocations and raise awareness of manual skills and creativity among the younger generation. Completing the program is a Hors les Murs itinerary that extends the event to the city of Paris through satellite exhibitions at Galerie Collection, Talents boutique, Galerie Giopato & Coombes, and Galerie de Sèvres, contributing to the dissemination of the Biennale’s content outside the Grand Palais. Visual symbol of the 2025 edition is the glass workRock Mountain #1 by Maria Bang Espersen, a Danish artist based in Sweden. The sculpture, made from hand-blown, bent and shaped glass, explores the relationship between appearance and matter, simultaneously evoking metallicity and fluidity. The choice of glass as the central medium marks a novelty for Révélations, which for the first time dedicates its “pièce emblématique” to this material.
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