Archive Note
The convention was created in 1999 by Tin-Tin, born Cyril Auville, a long-established Paris tattooer who also co-founded the French tattoo artists' union, the SNAT, in 2003. The first edition was held at the Bataclan in 1999 and the second at the Trianon in 2000, after which it went dormant for more than a decade; Tin-Tin revived it in 2013 at Le Centquatre, and since 2014 it has run annually at the Grande Halle de la Villette, the nineteenth-century former cattle-market hall in the Parc de la Villette. It now draws on the order of 30,000 visitors and roughly 500 to 550 tattoo artists from around the world per edition, making it one of the largest and most prestigious tattoo gatherings in continental Europe, comparable in standing to the London Tattoo Convention. The 2020 and 2021 editions were cancelled because of the pandemic. A claim circulating in 2025 to 2026 press that the 2026 edition would be its last in Paris is unconfirmed and is not asserted.
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