Dotted around the main part of the fair and the young gallery sector, the 24 monographic exhibitions allow visitors to discover or rediscover in depth the work of modern, contemporary and emerging artists.

As far as historical artists are concerned, Galerie de l'Elysée has chosen to focus on the later years of Bernard Buffet (1928- 1999), a figurative artist who marked the post-war period with his "miserabilist" style. Koren Gallery is showcasing a key figure in European Pop Art, Erró (b. 1932), whose paintings combine the conventions of American comics with mainstream cultural motifs and structures inherited from modernism to compose a unique narrative and critical visual language. The work of the renowned Taiwanese painter and sculptor A-Sun Wu (b. 1942) - who is well-known internationally, while remaining relatively unknown in France – will feature in a solo show at baudoin lebon. Finding inspiration in tribal art, A-Sun Wu works across a variety of mediums (painting, wood carving and sculpture using reclaimed materials) to produce contemporary works that establish a connection with the art of the past. Galerie 9e Art is paying tribute to Hugo Pratt (1927-1995) – an iconic creator of comic books known in particular for his fabled character Corto Maltese – with a selection of rare drawings and watercolours from the 1980s.

Solo shows of contemporary artists include German artist Christiane Löhr (b. 1965) on the stand of Argo Fine Arts. Löhr (who studied under Jannis Kounellis) is known for sculptures and installations that are both part of the minimalist tradition and close to the land art movement. Starting from her explorations of natural materials, such as seeds, feathers and blades of grass, she creates delicate works that question the relationship between Man, nature and space. Galerie Maria Lund has opted for a solo show by South African artist Lyndi Sales (b. 1973). Full of visual musicality, the latter's three-dimensional creations are guided by her research into perception and a cosmic representation of the world.

At Oniris.Art, the abstract, gestural paintings of Soo Kyoung Lee (b. 1969) reveal how the artist employs colour and spontaneous movement to facilitate the emergence of free, often rounded forms, which are set against intense monochromatic backgrounds. The Ben Arpea (b. 1989) solo show at 193 Gallery showcases his abstract paintings composed of colourful geometric shapes inspired by the modern painters he admires. Belgian artist Johan van Mullen (b. 1959) is exhibiting his recent "chromatic" landscape oil paintings at Loo & Lou Galerie. These works bear witness to his constantly evolving research in which colour, matter and subject establish a dialogue that gives rise to a subtle feeling of tension between appearance and erasure.

A certain number of solo shows showcase the vitality of contemporary ceramic and crafts. Capazza is devoting its stand to recent works by pioneering ceramic artist Bernard Dejonghe; EDJI Gallery is presenting an immersive installation by Philippine d'Otreppe that pays homage to the Parisian brasserie, whereas La Peau de l’Ours is exhibiting the animal ceramics of Rémy Pommeret that illustrate a new take on the conventions of the decorative arts, while developing a new approach to the Anthropocene; finally, Double V plays the theatrical and folklore card with a new series of ceramics by Maximilien Pellet inspired by parades and rituals.

Textile art takes centre stage on the stand of Sur le stand de la Pol Lemétais in an Aurélia Jaubert solo show that brings together dozens of small tapestries Jaubert collects and with which she composes massive composite tapestries, multifaceted visual frescoes that juxtapose different styles and periods in a fertile exchange. At 22,48 m², Nicolas Boulard (b. 1976) explores the limits between art, food and ritual in textile painting-sculptures that start from images of living matter such as cheese or bread.

Figurative painting is still in vogue with the younger generation, for example with the solitary figures of Lara Bloy (Galerie Pauline Renard) or the recumbent figures of François Malingrëy (Paris-B), the evanescent still lifes of Luxembourg artist Pit Riewer (Reuter Bausch Art Gallery), the portraits of combative and inventive youth by Brazilian artist Ian Salamente (Salon H) and the scenes of family life imagined by Moroccan artist Yasmine Hadni (AA Gallery) in which memory meets fiction, introspection and social commentary. As for drawings, the crepuscular charcoal compositions of Sam Kaprielov (b. 1970) exhibited on the stand of Galerie Albert Benamou – Véronique Maxé associate a characteristic film noir atmosphere with comic book art in a journey to the end of the night.

Cuturi Gallery is showcasing the work of Singaporean sculptor Mahalakshmi Kannappan (b. 1981), who places the many shades of black at the heart of her practice. In so doing, she conveys a whole gamut of experiences and emotions in a fine and delicate play of texture that uniquely captures immobility and flow, permanency and the ephemeral.

To mark the centenary of the death of Monet in 2026, Julie Navarro (b. 1972) is presenting an immersive panorama of screenlike paintings at Galerie Wagner. Together these works made up of repeated pixel-like micro units on layers of tulle – unstable, misty, almost evanescent landscapes in the style of the Impressionists – create a dynamic visual unity.

Finally, in the work of Justin Weiler (b. 1990), the painting becomes a space to cross rather than a surface to contemplate. Galerie Mélanie Rio Fluency is presenting an ensemble of his geometric paintings on sheets of glass: light passes through matter in these constructions that play with perception, diffracting into colours and becoming, in so doing, a truly poetic experience.