The Brussels Ancient Art Fair – 10th edition – 6-10/06/2012

Welcome to the new website of BAAF.

BAAF always brings to Brussels and to the Grand Sablon an unrivalled array of Ancient Art.

The Brussels Ancient Art Fair (BAAF) was created completely from scratch on a whim in 2003 by two antiquities dealers, both members of the International Association of Dealers in Ancient Art (IADAA), Vincent Geerling and Jacques Billen.

From the beginning, this specialist fair became the most important fair worldwide for antiquities collectors and soon after developed a branch in Switzerland, in Riehen, also named BAAF ( i.e. the Basel Ancient Art Fair).

To mark its 10th anniversary, the Brussels Ancient Art Fair is proud to welcome 2 new distinguished exhibitors, newly members of the IADAA. The first one is Karl Stimm (Akanthos), an art historian based in Antwerp. The second is Randy Hixenbaugh (Hixenbaugh Ancient Art), a former classical archeologist from New York, who was trained in art dealing by Dr. Jerome Eisenberg.

For this 10th jubilee edition, we have arranged a large Egyptian art exhibition, entitled Ancient Egypt: Masterpieces from Collectors and Collections. The exhibition will take place at Cercle de Lorraine, 5’ walk from the Grand Sablon, opposite the Palais de Justice. A superb printed catalogue, produced by around a dozen renowned Egyptologists, publishes all of the pieces in the exhibition.

As in previous years, two other fairs will take place at the Sablon during BAAF: BOAFair (oriental art) and BRUNEAF (tribal art). Visitors from all around the world, from specialists of Egyptian art to collectors of Greek antiquities, stroll between the host galleries of Grand Sablon. If you have a passion for ancient art, you owe it to yourself to be in Brussels -and nowhere else- for these 5 unrivalled days of BAAF.

The fair is exceptional in every way.

View of the Place du Grand Sablon in Brussels, around which the gallery walk takes place.