Paris

Cultural institutions

In 2025, Art Basel Paris teamed up with Paris&rsquo;s finest institutions to offer an artistic program radiating throughout the capital.&nbsp;

The Arab World Institute is a cultural hub resulting from a partnership between France and the Arab League states. Equipped with a museum, temporary exhibition spaces, a library, an auditorium, a center for Arabic language and civilization, and a bookstore, the IMA offers a rich program covering all areas of art and culture in the Arab world: heritage, visual arts, photography, music, dance, theater, cinema, talks, and educational activities for young audiences.

Arab World Institute

Located in a former secondary school near Paris, Artagon Pantin is a place of work, production, training and resources for artists and cultural professionals at the beginning of their career, working in all art fields. It welcomes 50 artists and professionals for 18-month promotions. Spread over more than 6,000 m2, it is committed to promoting the emergence of new and diverse voices, ideas and practices, in close collaboration with local partners and its neighbors. Throughout the year, Artagon Pantin offers training courses, meetings and events, as well as an extensive cultural program.

Artagon Pantin

The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a place of training and artistic experimentation, of exhibitions, of conservation of historical and contemporary collections and a publishing house. The School&rsquo;s primary vocation is to train artists of the highest level.

Beaux-Arts de Paris

Founded in 2003, B&eacute;tonsalon is a center for art and research located within the University of Paris Cit&eacute; since 2007. The program includes solo and group exhibitions by emerging, re-emerging, established and forgotten artists; multidisciplinary events with emphasis on attentiveness and interchange; cultural liaison and research into experimental and educational methods; research and creation residencies; and a miscellany of off-site activities for various publics, built in collaboration with local, national and international organisations.
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Betonsalon

The Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection, a restored historic building transformed into a museum, creates a unique dialogue between heritage and contemporary creation. Open to all disciplines and to all audiences, the Pinault Collection offers a committed, singular and constantly renewed look at the art of our time.

Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection

The CENTQUATRE-PARIS is a space dedicated to artists residencies, production and diffusion. It gives access to the whole range of current arts, of all disciplines, across a firmly popular, contemporary and challenging program. It is an atypical place, surrounded by shops and restaurants, and offers free spaces for artistic practices and early childhood activities.

CENTQUATRE-PARIS

The Cit&eacute; internationale des arts is an artists&rsquo; residency that brings together artists in the heart of Paris, and allows them to implement a creative or research project in all disciplines.&nbsp;
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Cité internationale des arts

The Cognacq-Jay museum houses the collections bequeathed to the City of Paris by Ernest Cognacq (1839-1928). The museum gathers a rich collection of paintings, sculptures, porcelains and decorative arts from the 18th century.&nbsp;

Cognacq-Jay Museum

Founded in 1947, the Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art represents galleries in France and defends their interests with the political, institutional and administrative authorities. It takes part in the elaboration of art market regulations and contributes to cultural policies favouring the development of the whole sector.

Comité professionnel des Galeries d’Art

At once a creative space for artists and a place where art and the general public can meet, the Fondation Cartier pour l&rsquo;art contemporain is dedicated to promoting and raising public awareness of contemporary art.

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain

The Fondation Fiminco has rehabilitated a former industrial site in Romainville, just outside Paris and accessible by metro, turning it into a resource center for artists open to everyone. This new FAST cultural district brings together in a single location all the ingredients needed to create a genuine ecosystem for contemporary creation: an artists&rsquo; residency, exhibition and mediation spaces, galleries, and soon performing arts structures, craftspeople and a 600-seat auditorium.
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Fondation Fiminco

Driven by its mission to serve the public, the Fondation is committed to making art and culture accessible to all. To promote the arts both nationally and internationally, it hosts temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, presents works held in its collection, commissions artists to create site-specific pieces, and stages events across the cultural spectrum.

Fondation Louis Vuitton

The identity of the Fondation d&rsquo;entreprise Pernod Ricard is shaped by the people who infuse it with life, every day: artists, curators, authors, intellectuals&hellip; Convinced that art provides a path to freedom and to living together better, the foundation promotes all forms of artistic creation and aims to make art accessible to all.<a href="https://www.fondation-giacometti.fr/fr/institut" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> </a>
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Fondation Pernod Ricard

The Fonds r&eacute;gional d&rsquo;art contemporain &Icirc;le-de-France carries out an essential project to support contemporary artistic creation. Its collection of more than 2,000 works covers all fields of creation while being particularly focused on the emergence of new generations of artists.

FRAC Île-de-France – Le Plateau

The Giacometti Institute, located in the Montparnasse district where Alberto Giacometti lived and worked for the entirety of his career, is home to the artist&rsquo;s reconstructed studio as well as temporary exhibitions and a Modern art reference library.&nbsp;

Giacometti Institute

Since September 2022, Grand Palais Immersif occupies a section of the Op&eacute;ra Bastille&rsquo;s &ldquo;modular hall&rdquo; as a new location dedicated to digital exhibitions. It holds two exhibitions a year, both offering memorable experiences by bringing audiovisual, narrative, interactive and immersive content together in a space the public can explore freely.
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Grand Palais Immersif

After four years of renovation, the Grand Palais - one of Paris's most iconic monuments - began reopning progressively with the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2024. It now hosts exhibitions and events as part of a vibrant and festive program led by GrandPalaisRmn. As a central partner in the Centre Pompidou's constellation, the Grand Palais presents four major exhibitions each year in its main galleries, co-produced with the Centre Pompidou. Its nave, auditoriums, and other spaces are home to performances and large-scale events, while the Salon Seine features dedicated spaces for young audiences and educational programming designed by the Centre Pompidou.

GrandPalaisRmn x Centre Pompidou

Hangar Y - a cultural and event venue at the crossroads of art, science and technology, history and nature &ndash; is an out-of-the-ordinary place with its historical building, emblematic of late 19th century industrial architecture, surrounded by a park stretching out over 10 hectares. Every year, two exhibitions, conceived by guest curators and the Hangar Y teams, will provide a new dimension to the historical building&rsquo;s rich heritage, between dreams for flight, a thirst for adventure and celestial fascination.
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Hangar Y

The&nbsp;Institut Su&eacute;dois offers free admission to contemporary art exhibitions and multidisciplinary events&mdash;music, cinema, literature, performing arts...&mdash;as well as a permanent exhibition of 18th-century paintings and engravings. Since its opening in 1971, it has been housed in a private mansion in the heart of the Marais. The FIKA caf&eacute;, located in the courtyard, serves a seasonal menu inspired by the S&ouml;rmland region. The garden provides a peaceful haven year-round, punctuated by 20th-century sculptures. The Institut Su&eacute;dois is Sweden&rsquo;s only cultural institute abroad. It fosters cultural and artistic exchange between France and Sweden through its programming, artist and researcher residencies, and Swedish language courses.

Institut Suédois

The Jeu de Paume is an arts center and exhibition space dedicated to all forms of mechanical and electronic imagery (photography, film, video, etc.). It produces and coproduces exhibitions, film programs, symposiums, seminars, and educational activities, and publishes printed works.

Jeu de Paume

KADIST is a non-profit contemporary art organization that believes artists make an important contribution to a progressive society. Its local hubs in Paris and San Francisco organize exhibitions, physical and online programs, host residencies, and develop international collaborations with leading museums too.
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KADIST

La Ga&icirc;t&eacute; Lyrique is a City of Paris cultural center that seeks to address pressing cultural, social, democratic and climate issues. The Factory of our times project combines creation and social engagement to help people put ideas into practice as they gather together for a concert, roundtable, drink, performance, workshop or screening. La Ga&icirc;t&eacute; Lyrique is open daily to support a new generation of talents, break down barriers between practices and audiences, and build new narratives on a European scale.&nbsp;
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La Gaîté Lyrique – Factory of our times

Lafayette Anticipations is a public-interest foundation structured around activities that produce and support contemporary creation. It provides diverse artists unique, made-to-measure conditions in which to produce, experiment, and exhibit.
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Lafayette Anticipations

LE BAL is an independent exhibition, publishing, reflection and educational center, dedicated to contemporary images in all their forms: photography, video, cinema, new media. Its educational center, La Fabrique du Regard, has been working since 2008 to train young people in and through the image.

LE BAL

The Magasins G&eacute;n&eacute;raux are a cultural venue created by BETC in 2017. Open to all, the Magasins G&eacute;n&eacute;raux are a place for creativity, ideas and emerging voices. Housed in a renovated industrial building &mdash; a former 1930S general store &mdash; located on the banks of the canal de l&rsquo;Ourcq in Pantin, the Magasins G&eacute;n&eacute;raux curate a year-round program of exhibitions and events with the purpose of identifying, supporting and showcasing today&rsquo;s emerging artistic and cultural scene.
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Les Magasins Généraux

The MAC VAL - Mus&eacute;e d&rsquo;art contemporain du Val-de-Marne is the only museum to have been devoted exclusively to the art scene in France since the 1950s. The museum&rsquo;s project has been developing for some fifteen years, following the creation in 1982 of the Fonds D&eacute;partemental d&rsquo;Art Contemporain. The collection comprises 2,500 works by nearly 400 artists. Among them are works by major artists on the art scene, as well as works by emerging artists, confirming the MAC VAL&rsquo;s commitment to being as close as possible to contemporary creation. 
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MAC VAL

The Maison de l&rsquo;Am&eacute;rique latine is a privileged venue for hosting meetings and exhibitions for the Latin American cultural and diplomatic community in Paris. It is a crossroads of cultures, a place for encounters and exchanges, where all forms of artistic expression come together.

Maison de l’Amérique Latine

Since opening in 1996, the MEP remains the primary French institution dedicated to photography in all its forms. Our exhibition programme includes both internationally recognised and emerging photographers and film-makers, highlighting the diversity of artistic approaches to contemporary lens-based practices. Including a world-class collection of photographic prints and artists films from the post-war period, and one of the largest specialised research libraries in Europe, the MEP is without equal in Paris.

Maison Européenne de la Photographie

Within walking distance of Montparnasse, the Bourdelle Museum combines the charm of its studios with the poetry of its sculpture gardens. These premises were once home to the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929), who was Rodin's assistant and Giacometti's teacher, until his death in 1929. The layout of the museum takes visitors through the variations in his sculptural work.&nbsp;
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Musée Bourdelle

Housed in a magnificent 17th-century town house, the Mus&eacute;e d'art et d'histoire du Juda&iuml;sme presents a collection on Judaism in Europe and around the Mediterranean, from Antiquity to the present day. Its extensive permanent collection, temporary exhibitions and contemporary art installations make it one of the must see places of the Marais art trail.

Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme

The collections of the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris feature works from all major artistic movements since the beginning of the 20th century. The museum exhibits exceptional in situ works of art such as the first two versions of Matisse&rsquo;s Dance (1909-1910) and Raoul Dufy&rsquo;s masterpiece The Electricity Fairy (1937).

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris

The Mus&eacute;e d&rsquo;Orsay showcases artistic creation of the Western world from 1848 to 1914, in all its forms: painting, architecture, sculpture, decorative art, and photography.

Musée d’Orsay

The collection of the Musée de l’Orangerie showcases exceptional pieces of 20th-century art, such as the panoramic Water Lilies (1914-1926) by Claude Monet, or the collection of Paul Guillaume and Domenica Walter, with works by Renoir, Cézanne, Soutine, and even Modigliani.
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Musée de l’Orangerie

Boasting nearly 800,000 pieces, the Mus&eacute;e des Arts D&eacute;coratifs (MAD) collection is worldwide one of the most important. It features an unrivalled panorama of the history of furniture, glass, ceramics, gold and silverware, jewelry, design, textiles and fashion, graphics and advertising.

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

In 1750, the Mus&eacute;e du Luxembourg was the first museum of ancient art open to the public. At the doorstep of the Senate and the Luxembourg Gardens, it now hosts two temporary exhibitions per year, on both contemporary and historical themes.
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Musée du Luxembourg

Located on the banks of the Seine, the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum strives to give the full measure of the importance of the Arts and Civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, at the crossroads of multiple cultural, religious and historical influences. In this place of scientific and artistic dialogue, exhibitions, shows, conferences, workshops and screenings punctuate the cultural program.

Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac

Inaugurated in 1889, the Mus&eacute;e Guimet today houses one of the richest collections of Asian art in the world, and the largest in Europe, with some 60,000 pieces spanning 7 millennia of history - from Afghanistan to Japan, via India, China and South-East Asia.
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Musée Guimet

For its quality and scope, as well as the range of art forms it encompasses, the collection of the Mus&eacute;e national Picasso-Paris is the only public collection in the world to present Picasso&rsquo;s completed works along with a precise record of the artist&rsquo;s creative process.

Musée national Picasso-Paris

Since the artist&rsquo;s donation in 1916, the Mus&eacute;e Rodin boasts, in an eighteenth-century mansion and its sculpture garden, the greatest collection of works by the French sculptor. The splendor of the setting and the beauty of Rodin&rsquo;s art combine in an extraordinary harmony that makes the Mus&eacute;e Rodin a haven of peace at the heart of Paris.

Musée Rodin

The Palais d'I&eacute;na is home to the headquarters of the Economic, Social and Environmental Council of France. Opened in 1937, this building is the architectural chef d'oeuvre of Auguste Perret. Usually close to the public, it hosts an art exhibition once a year.
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Palais d’Iéna

An untamed rebel with the air of a Palace, an anti-museum in permanent transformation, the Palais de Tokyo has kept Paris on its toes since 2002. It is a place in which to learn, experience, feel, and live: a place from which the unexpected springs forth.&nbsp;

Palais de Tokyo

The Mus&eacute;e de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, housed in the Palais Galliera, recounts a history of fashion from the 18th century to the present day and gives the public the opportunity to discover different approaches to fashion, between artistic creation and socio-cultural phenomenon, as well as to discover its major figures.
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Palais Galliera

The Paris Museums network includes a variety of cultural places to visit in the City of Paris, from art and history museums to artists’ studios and the homes of writers and collectors. These 14 museums and heritage sites house exceptional collections in the heart of the capital. Fine arts, Asian arts, fashion, history, literature and archaeology… More than a million works are now preserved or exhibited, demonstrating the extraordinary cultural richness of Paris and its history.

Paris Musées

Listed as a historical monument, the Carr&eacute; de Baudouin dates back to the 18th century and&nbsp;has housed a variety of private, social and educational functions.&nbsp;It is attached to the 20th arrondissement town hall and dedicated to contemporary art.
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Pavillon Carré de Baudouin

The Petit Palais, built for the 1900 Universal Exhibition by architect Charles Girault, became the Mus&eacute;e des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris in 1902, and displays a stunning collection of paintings, sculpture, furniture, and objets d&rsquo;art dating from antiquity up to 1914.
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Petit Palais

POUSH is an innovative structure dedicated to contemporary artistic practices. In addition to studio spaces, POUSH offers artists educational programs in areas such as artistic direction, production, and communication, as well as administrative, legal, and fiscal support.<a href="https://www.sevresciteceramique.fr/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> </a>

POUSH

Reiffers Art Initiatives is a philanthropic foundation devoted to emergent contemporary artists, with a special emphasis on cultural diversity. Located just a short walk from the Arc de Triomphe, the foundation showcases artists from the French art scene or with a strong connection to the country. Its annual program includes two notable exhibitions: the Mentorship Exhibition during Art Basel Paris and the Reiffers Art Initiatives Prize Exhibition in April.
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Reiffers Art Initiatives

The BnF&rsquo;s new Museum covers the full extent of the Library&rsquo;s collections, from Antiquity to the present day. Rare, emotive and often surprising items are on exhibition within its walls, along an itinerary that takes in the Richelieu site&rsquo;s most beautiful areas. From books to manuscripts, by way of jewellery, coins and medals, maps and plans, musical scores, prints, posters, costumes and photographs, almost 900 outstanding works await your discovery in the heart of Paris.
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The BnF Museum

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Our institutional partners are museums and cultural entities who actively support us with the promotion and organization of Art Basel Paris.
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Institutional partners

Paris: Cultural institutions

Cultural Institutions | ABP25 Post-Show

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Intro

G1. Pompidou, MAM, Tokyo

G1. Pinault, Vuitton, Orsay

G1. Orangerie, CPGA, Paris Musees

G2. Beaux-Arts, Jeu de Paume, Picasso

G2. Cartier, Ricard, Petit Palais

G2. Iéna, Galliera, Lafayette

G2. Luxembourg, Branly, MAD

G2. IMA, MAHJ, MAC VAL

G2. Rodin, GPI, MEP

G2. Pavillon Carré de B, Reiffer, Bourdelle

G2. Musée Guimet, BNF, Cognacq-Jay

G3. Bal, Giacometti, Magasins Généraux

G3. Suédois, Frac, POUSH

G3. Cité, 104, Maison Amérique Latine

G3. Hangar Y, Genius Loci, Kadist

G3. Artagon Pantin, Gaîté Lyrique, Fiminco

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