October 22 – 24, 2027
Paris
Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand Palais
The Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand Palais is a cultural operator whose mission is to promote access to culture throughout France and beyong. It has many savoir-faire in the artistic and museographic sphere. The organization’s expertise in the artistic and museographic spheres enables it to play a unique role in the world of culture, and pursue its prime ambition: to enable as many people as possible to interact with art from all cultures, eras and in all its forms.
The Grand Palais is the emblem of the organization: there, it deploys its multi-faceted expertise, including the production of large-scale exhibition and cultural events. The Rmn – Grand Palais lends its expertise to ambitious and innovative cultural projects in Paris – in the Musée du Luxembourg – and all over France.
Photograph by Matthieu Croizier for Art Basel.
Ville de Paris / Fonds d’art contemporain – Paris Collections
The Fonds d'art contemporain - Paris Collections presents its 2026 acquisitions.
Established in 1816, the City of Paris collection comprises more than 23,000 works. It brings together “historical” works dating from before 1914, modern works produced between 1914 and 1969, and contemporary works from 1970 to the present day, spanning all media.
The Fonds d'art contemporain is enriched each year through an ambitious acquisitions policy. Its distinctive feature lies in making the collection accessible beyond its walls, through a range of arts education, cultural outreach and public engagement programmes.
Discover the Fonds d'art contemporain on its website.
Photo credit: Courtesy of Fonds d’Art Contemporain – Paris Collections.
Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine
Inaugurated in 2007 at the Palais de Chaillot, the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine continues a story that began in the late 19th century with the creation of the musée de Sculpture comparée and the École de Chaillot. It was established in 2004 through the merger of three major institutions dedicated to architecture and heritage. At once a museum, archive center, specialized library, observatory of architectural creation, and training center, the Cité offers a comprehensive vision of architecture, bridging past and present. Open to both professionals and the general public, it hosts exhibitions, debates, workshops, and publications, fostering an ongoing dialogue with creative disciplines and contemporary issues.
Palais d’Iéna
Commissioned to create an urban plan for the 1937 ‘Exposition Internationale’, architect Auguste Perret proposed a monumental thoroughfare that would link the Place d’Italie and the Chaillot hill; a ‘Champs-Élysées of the Left Bank.’ The fall of the Daladier government in 1934 led to the abandonment of this grandiose project. However, Perret did win two prestigious commissions, the Mobilier National (1936) and the Musée des Travaux Publics (1939) – now the Palais d’Iéna – which enabled him to fulfill his dream of erecting a classical monument using reinforced concrete.
Perret sought to establish the use of reinforced concrete as a discipline in its own right, as part of the grand traditions of architecture. With the Palais d’Iéna, he defined a classical order whose proportions flow directly from the logic of the material. Slender columns carry the roof in a single sweep, under which a second building slides. The interplay of these two frameworks creates a setting of perfect proportions. The columns flare out towards the top, joining the edge beam in a pyramid-shaped trunk adorned with plant motifs. The hypostyle hall, staircase, and amphitheater provide a noble setting. The colonnade of the Avenue d’Iéna captures light and shadow across its textures and moldings in a remarkable expression of the ‘reinforced concrete order’ that was Auguste Perret’s contribution to a thousand-year-old architectural discipline.
Photograph by Marion Berrin for Art Basel.
Petit Palais
Built for the Exposition Universelle of 1900, the Petit Palais building is a masterpiece by architect Charles Girault. In 1902, it became the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts and presents a very beautiful collection of paintings, sculptures, furnishings and art objects dating from Antiquity to 1914.
Among the museum treasures are an exceptional collection of Greek vases and a very large group of Flemish and Dutch paintings from the seventeenth century, displayed around the famous Self-Portrait with Dog by Rembrandt. A magnificent collection of French paintings from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries includes major works by Fragonard, Greuze, David, Géricault, Delacroix, Courbet, Pissarro, Monet, Sisley, Cézanne and Vuillard. The museum is also very proud of a very beautiful collection of sculptures by Carpeaux, Carriès and Dalou. The Petit Palais also holds a wide collection of decorative art as well as an outstanding graphic arts room.
Since 2015, contemporary artists like Kehinde Wiley, Andres Serrano, Valérie Jouve, Yan Pei-Ming, Laurence Aëgerter, Jean- Michel Othoniel, Ugo Rondinone, Loris Gréaud and this year Street artists, have been invited to exhibit in the Petit Palais permanent collections in order to create a dialog with these paintings and reveal links between their works and those of the museum.
Photograph: Courtesy of the Petit Palais.
École du Louvre
A public establishment of the French Ministry of Culture founded in 1882, the École du Louvre is a place of higher education dedicated to art history, archeology, epigraphy, history of civilizations, anthropology and museology.
A place for studies open to the world and boasting several national and international partnerships, as well as a dynamic research center, the École du Louvre also organizes panel discussions, study days, and seminars; furthermore, it publishes educational literature as well as an online research publication.
Photograph © Majid Boustany