Meeting Claude Fain is meeting the future of international art dialogue. If you attend the VIP opening of ASIA NOW or glide through Paris’s art soirées in October, keep your eyes open.
He’s the man who brought Asia to Paris — and Paris to the world.
Paris is full of characters who shape the art world, but few have redefined it with the precision, passion, and international curiosity of Claude Fain, the founder of ASIA NOW, Europe’s first boutique art fair dedicated entirely to contemporary Asian art. For VIP collectors, museum patrons, global tastemakers, and cultural insiders, Fain is more than a fair organizer — he is the quiet architect of a new artistic bridge between East and West.
And if you navigate the right rooms at the right hour, you might just meet him.
A Parisian Visionary With an Eye on the East
Claude Fain’s story is one of instinct meeting opportunity. Long before “Asian contemporary art” became a buzzword in Europe, he recognized the emerging force, talent, and cultural energy rising across China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East.
While the major Western fairs focused on established global names, Fain looked elsewhere — to new voices, new aesthetics, and new markets. The result was ASIA NOW, founded in Paris, a fair designed with intimacy rather than scale, precision rather than spectacle.
It quickly earned a reputation as:
✨ the place for VIP collectors seeking new discoveries
✨ the Parisian hub for Asia’s most influential galleries
✨ a meeting point for curators, foundations, and serious patrons
✨ a cultural epicenter during the busiest week of the Paris art season
Fain’s approach is personal, thoughtful, and deeply connected. His success comes not from loudness but from curation, conversation, and cultural sensitivity — traits respected across the global art community.
How to Meet Claude Fain During Paris Art Week
If you want to cross paths with the founder himself, here’s how to do it like a true insider:
1. Attend the ASIA NOW VIP Opening
The fair’s VIP vernissage is the moment. Fain is always present — welcoming collectors, greeting galleries, speaking with journalists, introducing artists, and ensuring every detail is flawless.
This is where the art-world elite gather: museum directors, philanthropists, major collectors, ambassadors, and fashion personalities.
2. Join the Private Collector Tours
ASIA NOW often organizes private walkthroughs for invited VIP guests. Fain frequently leads or participates in these, offering behind-the-scenes insight into emerging markets and artists he personally champions.
3. Look for Him at Satellite Events in Paris
Claude is often seen at:
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private gallery dinners
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museum previews
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foundation cocktail receptions
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fashion-art collaborations during Paris Fashion Week
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charity galas connected to cultural initiatives
His network spans far beyond the fair itself.
4. Engage Through Art Foundations and Cultural Institutions
Fain collaborates closely with curators, embassies, cultural institutes, and art advisors. Being active in these circles opens doors to more intimate, invitation-only moments.
A Man Who Built a Platform — and a Community
Claude Fain is not just an organizer. He is a connector. A storyteller. A cultural translator. His ability to bring together the established and the emerging, the Eastern and the Western, the traditional and the innovative makes him one of Paris’s most influential art personalities.
Collectors say that meeting him is like being given the “key” to a part of the art world that others haven’t yet discovered.
Artists describe him as open, curious, and genuinely supportive.
Galleries trust him because he builds relationships that last, long beyond the fair.
Why VIP Guests Love ASIA NOW
For the City4VIP audience, ASIA NOW is more than an art fair — it’s a luxury cultural experience:
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exclusive previews
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boutique atmosphere
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global galleries in a refined Parisian setting
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haute-couture meets contemporary art
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collectors flying in from Dubai, Seoul, Singapore & New York
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after-parties that blur the lines between art, fashion, and society
It’s the kind of event where you can discuss a young Korean painter with a museum curator one moment, and share champagne with a designer from Tokyo the next.
And somewhere in the room — always smiling, always attentive — is Claude Fain.
