The partnership supports artist Selma Selman as Lyon’s 18th contemporary art biennale prepares to connect global practices with the city’s industrial and cultural fabric.
Artmarket.com, through Artprice by Artmarket, and La Demeure du Chaos have partnered with the 18th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, renewing a relationship that began when they supported the event’s 2000 edition. The release reported that the partners would support the work of Selma Selman, whose practice encompasses performance, painting, photography and video. The biennale was reported as scheduled to run in Lyon from 19 September to 13 December 2026, placing the partnership within a large, internationally oriented cultural programme.
The 2026 edition, titled Passer d’un rêve à l’autre, was reported as bringing together more than 70 international artists representing more than 30 nationalities. Its programme gives particular attention to artistic scenes from Australia and New Zealand alongside French and other European participants. Curator Catherine Nichols has organised the edition around the idea of a “poetic economy”, drawing on Robert Filliou to consider relationships, circulation, narratives, labour and different forms of value beyond a narrowly financial definition.
The programme extends across institutions, heritage settings, industrial locations and public spaces, including macLYON, Les Grandes Locos, the Musée des Confluences and the Institut d’art contemporain. Other reported locations include the Croix-Rousse traboules, the garden of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Fondation Bullukian, a Saint-Antoine car park and the Gare Part-Dieu metro station. The release listed press days for 16–18 September 2026, professional preview days for 17–18 September, an opening preview on 18 September and public opening on 19 September.
Within that framework, the support for Selman links the partners to the biennale’s focus on labour, material value and transformation. The release described her work as using several media to embody the struggles of her community and question how labour, objects and bodies are valued. It also connected her practice with industrial materials, making the selection closely aligned with a curatorial project rooted in Lyon’s histories of commerce, circulation, silk production and industry.
For Artmarket.com, the partnership places its Artprice identity alongside an event designed to convene artists, curators, institutions, foundations, collectors and art-market participants. The biennale presents itself not only as an exhibition but as a site for producing new work, professional exchange and public participation across the city. By returning with La Demeure du Chaos after 26 years and concentrating support on one participating artist, Artprice by Artmarket is tying its institutional presence to the edition’s central questions of production, work and value.
