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September, and relocated it from the RAI Centre to the Kromhouthal, an event space in a former factory at the Nieuwendammerham in North Amsterdam. Since this format accommodated fewer Dutch galleries, the name KunstRAI was revived for an art fair in May at the RAI Centre under the former director Erik Hermida, at which 70 galleries, all from the Netherlands, showed art. This was more loosely organised; one gallery owner said: "It's a spontaneous fair with a lot of freedom... There are no rules, everybody can show what they want to." Having attracted fewer registrants than expected, Art Amsterdam 2012 was cancelled.
65:, who became director in 2002, participation was reduced to a smaller number of galleries selected by a committee. Beginning in 2006, KunstRAI changed its name to Art Amsterdam to better reflect its international character and emphasise its connection to the city. In 2007, galleries showing crafts and ethnographica were excluded. The 25th anniversary fair, in 2009, was celebrated with the publication of an anniversary book and solo shows by all 120 participating galleries.
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Hoping to raise the prestige of the fair and fit it better into the international art calendar, for the 27th edition in 2012 the organisers reduced the number of participating galleries from 135 to approximately 90, over one third of those from outside the
Netherlands. They moved the time of the fair
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founded the Art Fair
Foundation with Martijn Sanders and was the first director; he was succeeded in 1989 by Jacob Witzenhausen, and then a year later by Erik Hermida. In 1992 the RAI Centre acquired the fair from the foundation. The fair was international in scope from the beginning and was a
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Amsterdam was begun as a rival event in 1994 by galleries with a more radical and internationalist focus, originally in the former stock exchange building. In 1996, it merged with KunstRAI, and under Anneke Oele, the former curator of the
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