This year’s fair foregrounds Modernism’s global dialogues, tracing how artists across continents reimagined perception and form to forge new visual vocabularies throughout the twentieth century. Collectively, these presentations invite a renewed reading of the Modernist canon through transcontinental dialogue and experimentation.

Highlights include:

• Berry Campbell (New York) revisits women’s contributions to Abstract Expressionism through works by Alice Baber, Bernice Bing, Elaine de Kooning, Lynne Drexler, Helen Frankenthaler, Judith Godwin, and Ethel Schwabacher, including a large-scale Drexler painting from the 1960s, the artist’s most important period. The gallery also debuts the estates of sculptor Mary Ann Unger and painter Louisa Chase, expanding the historical narrative of postwar American abstraction.
• Johyun Gallery (Busan, Seoul) makes its Miami Beach debut with a booth under the theme Matter and Time, Coincidence and Intervention, featuring Park Seo-Bo, Lee Bae, Kishio Suga, Lee Kwang-Ho and Bosco Sodi. The presentation spans five decades of process-based abstraction — from Park’s meditative Écriture works to Suga’s interventions with raw materials and Sodi’s pigment-rich clay surfaces — underscoring shared concerns with time, gesture, and transformation.
• Sicardi Ayers Bacino (Houston) assembles key works by Latin American masters who redefined optical, geometric, and conceptual art. Centered on Lygia Clark’s O dentro é o fora (The Inside is the Outside) (1963), a pivotal metal construction marking the culmination of her Bichos series, the booth includes Carlos Cruz-Diez’s Physichromie Panam (2015), a late example of his kinetic exploration of color, and works by León Ferrari, Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Mercedes Pardo, Fanny Sanín, and Xul Solar, collectively illuminating Latin America’s foundational role in postwar abstraction.
• Tornabuoni Art (Florence, Paris, Milan, Rome, Forte dei Marmi, Crans Montana) unites Italian postwar pioneers Alighiero Boetti, Alberto Burri, and Dadamaino, centered on Boetti’s Mappa series (1971–94) — intricate embroidered cartographies that chart geopolitical flux. The booth also features Lucio Fontana’s Concetto Spaziale, Attese (1967); Burri’s Combustione Plastica (1960), a rare painting created through controlled burning; a dream-like Piazza d’Italia (1950–51) by Giorgio de Chirico; and Dadamaino’s Oggetto ottico dinamico indeterminato (1963–65), recently shown at the Centre Pompidou and the Guggenheim Bilbao in Women in Abstraction.
• Locks Gallery (Philadelphia) surveys seven decades of American modernism through works by Louise Bourgeois, Isamu Noguchi, Robert Motherwell, and Lynda Benglis, alongside paintings by Willem de Kooning, Pat Steir, Mary Corse, Jennifer Bartlett, and Edna Andrade. From Noguchi’s biomorphic forms to Benglis’s poured latex and metal pieces, and from Motherwell’s gestural canvases to Corse’s luminous minimalist surfaces, the presentation reveals the formal and conceptual evolution of abstraction across sculpture and painting.
• Van de Weghe (New York) presents Grevy’s Zebra (1983), Andy Warhol’s vivid silkscreen from his Endangered Species series, alongside two Alexander Calder sculptures: a painted-metal work from c. 1938 and a sheet-metal and wire construction from c. 1949.
• Alisan Fine Arts (Hong Kong, New York) joins Art Basel Miami Beach for the first time with a historical showcase of Chinyee, Walasse Ting, and Ming Fay — three Chinese American artists whose pioneering yet underrecognized contributions bridge Eastern and Western abstraction through lyrical color, gesture, and philosophy.
• Mayoral (Paris, Barcelona) stages a transatlantic encounter between Spain’s postwar avant-garde and its Caribbean echoes. The booth juxtaposes Joan Miró’s Femme, Oiseaux (1975), painted shortly after Francisco Franco’s death and acquired directly from the artist’s family, with works by Antoni Tàpies, Manolo Millares, Eduardo Chillida, and Wifredo Lam, who is currently the subject of a major U.S. retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Works by contemporary painters Marria Pratts and Rachel Valdés extend these legacies into the present.

Galleries from across the region revisit cultural inheritances through process-driven approaches, historical reflection, and social imagination. Intergenerational dialogues reveal the breadth of artistic practice in Latin America and the Caribbean today, bridging geographies and perspectives and affirming Art Basel Miami Beach’s role as a vital platform for exchange between the Global South and North.

Highlights include:

• Leon Tovar Gallery (New York, Bogotá) spotlights three trailblazing women of Latin American modernism — Feliza Bursztyn, Tecla Tofano, and Emma Reyes — whose radical approaches to sculpture, ceramics, and painting combined personal narrative with political critique. Bursztyn’s welded assemblages, Tofano’s satirical clay figures, and Reyes’s vividly painted recollections of everyday life each embody a distinct form of feminist resistance within the Modernist canon.
• Galleries newcomer Galatea (São Paulo, Salvador) and Isla Flotante (Buenos Aires) collaborate for the first time in a presentation that bridges generations of Latin American experimentation, bringing together postwar masters Adario dos Santos, Lygia Clark, Rubem Valentim, Mira Schendel, and Antonio Dias with younger voices including Mariela Scafati, Pablo Accinelli, and Rosario Zorraquín.
• El Apartamento (Havana, Madrid, Miami) — Art Basel Miami Beach newcomer and the first Cuban gallery founded on the island to participate — considers the notion of otherness as both a site of exclusion and a tool for cultural affirmation, with works by Diana Fonseca, Ariamna Contino, Roberto Diago, Orestes Hernández, and Miki Leal. From Diago’s textured wooden reliefs addressing Afro-Cuban identity to Fonseca’s urban fragments and Contino’s intricate cut-paper works, the artists collectively explore symbolic and political difference within and beyond the Cuban context.
• A Gentil Carioca (Rio de Janeiro) convenes artists examining migration, belonging, and collective agency across the Afro-Atlantic and Indigenous Americas. Arjan Martins’ cartographic paintings of diasporic movement are shown alongside Agrade Camíz’s textile-based installations and Denilson Baniwa’s multimedia reinterpretations of Amazonian cosmology. Works by OPAVIVARÁ! and Renata Lucas invite viewer participation, translating civic imagination into shared spatial experience.
• Almeida & Dale (São Paulo) presents Maxwell Alexandre (in a solo Kabinett presentation within the booth), Tunga, José Leonilson, Jaider Esbell, Alex Červený, Ivan Campos, Rebeca Carapiá, Lidia Lisbôa, and Alice Shintani, among other Brazilian artists, alongside Zimbabwean artist Moffat Takadiwa and Georgian-born Nino Kapanadze, whose practices expand the dialogue beyond Brazil. Takadiwa’s intricate wall sculptures fashioned from discarded materials and Kapanadze’s ethereal, light-driven paintings highlight shared sensibilities across diverse geographies, exploring ideas of transformation, memory, and connection.
• Mendes Wood DM (São Paulo, Brussels, Paris, New York) brings together new and recent works by Paulo Nazareth, Sonia Gomes, Rosana Paulino, Pol Taburet, and Mimi Lauter, whose practices collectively span painting, sculpture, and textile. Taburet’s vivid portraits, and Lauter’s luminous pastel compositions evoke the material and emotional textures of place and memory.
• kurimanzutto (Mexico City, New York) spotlights recent work by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco that extends his long-standing exploration of geometry, chance, and perception. Developed in dialogue with his Samurai Tree series, recent paintings — including The Eye of Go (Blue) (2024) — apply Orozco’s rule-based systems of circular form and chromatic variation to new compositional rhythms, transforming diagrammatic precision into a meditation on movement and play.

• Galerie Lelong (Paris, New York): Rarely exhibited drawings from the 1960s trace Etel Adnan’s turn toward the visual, capturing her fluid translation of language into form. Created amid the countercultural ferment of Northern California, the works — executed in watercolor and ink — pulse with the lyricism and introspection that define Adnan’s lifelong exploration of perception and place.
• Edel Assanti (London): Edel Assanti presents a selection of small-scale assemblages, sandstone works, and painted sculptures by Lonnie Holley, surveying two decades of his transformative practice. The works on view exemplify Holley’s ability to transform discarded materials into layered meditations on resilience, spirituality, and the Black experience. His works — part ritual, part reclamation — extend the American vernacular beyond the realms of myth and survival, conveying histories that are both autobiographical and collective. The presentation precedes exhibitions of Holley’s work at the Stedelijk Museum (Netherlands) and Castello di Rivoli (Italy) in 2026.
• Roberts Projects (Los Angeles): In honor of Betye Saar’s forthcoming centennial in 2026 — and coinciding with her recognition in the Icon Artist category of this year’s Art Basel Awards — Regen Projects debuts Lost and Found, a new site-specific installation by the American artist. Juxtaposing man-made and natural materials, Saar transforms an upright vintage boat into a shrine-like assemblage filled with found objects that evoke ancestral memory, spirituality, and personal history. Infused with organic textures and sensory presence, Lost and Found creates an immersive environment charged with sacred energy, reflecting on time, transformation, and the enduring power of ritual.
• Garth Greenan Gallery (New York): Garth Greenan Gallery presents a focused Kabinett dedicated to Sadao Hasegawa (1945–1999), known for his fantastical, richly referential homoerotic paintings. Drawing equally from the erotic illustrations of Tom of Finland and Go Mishima and the visual traditions of Southeast Asian mysticism, Japanese folklore, and Ovidian myth, Hasegawa’s work fuses sensuality with metaphysical inquiry. The display — staged in a low-lit violet interior — features four major works from the 1970s and early 1980s, including Untitled (1976), Toucan (1978), and In Compensation for Darkness (1980). These dazzling, mythic compositions, populated by chiseled figures and cosmic iconography, reveal Hasegawa’s vision of eroticism as both ecstatic release and spiritual transcendence.
• Jenkins Johnson Gallery (New York, San Francisco): Marking the centennial of Robert Colescott’s birth, this presentation revisits early paintings from the 1960s, created during the American artist’s formative years in Egypt and France. These vivid compositions anticipate the politically charged figuration that later defined his practice. Coinciding with major institutional retrospectives, the presentation reconsiders Colescott’s radical reworking of art history through satire, subversion, and color.
• Sies + Höke (Düsseldorf): In Allegories of Resistance and Hope, New York–based Canadian artist Marcel Dzama continues his fusion of myth and politics through new large-scale gouache and ink paintings. Populated by hybrid figures and dreamlike rituals, the works trace a poetic continuum between protest and play, anxiety and grace.

• Frittelli arte contemporanea (Florence) met à l’honneur la série radicale des Volumi (1959–1960) de Dadamaino (1930–2004), où les toiles découpées activent l’espace environnant comme un élément vivant de l’œuvre. Héritière de Fontana et Manzoni mais profondément originale, Dadamaino a étendu la peinture dans un dialogue avec la lumière, le volume et le vide.

• Château Shatto (Los Angeles) associe Emily Kame Kngwarreye (1910–1996), artiste aborigène australienne dont les peintures tardives célèbrent le lien intime avec sa terre, et Alan Lynch (1926–1994), dont les œuvres reflètent une harmonie zen de couleur et de forme. Tous deux dépassent les traditions occidentales pour inventer des lexiques visuels puissants et personnels.

• Gordon Robichaux (New York) et Stars (Los Angeles) présentent Janet Olivia Henry (née en 1947), dont les dioramas et assemblages transforment la collection en acte de liberté. Peuplés de poupées, chaussures et objets du quotidien, ses univers miniatures interrogent pouvoir, identité et hiérarchies invisibles dans l’art et la société.

• Tina Kim Gallery (New York) met en lumière l’artiste sud-coréenne Lee ShinJa (née en 1930), qui dans les années 1950 et 1960 a transformé les traditions textiles en un langage d’abstraction. À travers broderie, teinture et tissage, elle a élevé le tissu du statut d’artisanat domestique à celui d’expérimentation avant-gardiste, entremêlant mémoire, nature et poésie dans la forme.

• Galerie Eric Mouchet (Paris) dédie son stand à Ella Bergmann-Michel (1896–1971), rare femme du mouvement Bauhaus et pionnière de la photographie, du film et du collage. Son travail, mené sur plusieurs décennies, fusionne abstraction, lumière et mouvement, contrivuant un chapitre essentiel mais longtemps ignoré au modernisme du XXe siècle.

Established in 2003, Nova has become a celebrated platform for discovering innovative work created within the last three years. This year, 23 galleries present 22 thematically focused booths — many of them solo presentations — that chart the newest trajectories in contemporary practice. Eight galleries join the sector for the first time.

Highlights include:

• Heidi (Berlin): First-time Art Basel Miami Beach participant Heidi presents a new series of scratch-off paintings by American-Jamaican artist Akeem Smith, drawn from his extensive archive of Caribbean Dancehall ephemera. The presentation marks the artist’s first U.S. solo since No Gyal Can Test (Red Bull Arts, 2020–21).
• Pequod Co. (Mexico City): Presenting Villa Purificación, a new body of work by Mexican artist Renata Petersen that extends her exploration of faith, gender, and power. Through hand-painted ceramic murals, vases, and a central blown-glass installation, Petersen constructs a kaleidoscopic environment that evokes cult architecture and vernacular shrines. Drawing from her mother’s fieldwork on spirituality across Latin America, she merges personal mythologies with collective belief systems to reflect on how devotion, control, and aesthetics intertwine.
• Candice Madey (New York): Making its Art Basel Miami Beach debut, Candice Madey presents a solo by American artist Liz Collins, whose work fuses art, fashion, and design through an experimental approach to textile. Collins unveils her most intricate needlepoints to date alongside new woven reliefs that blur distinctions between surface and structure, handcraft and abstraction — continuing her inquiry into queerness, tactility, and the politics of making.
• Silverlens (Manila, New York): In Between Ports, Silverlens pairs seminal Filipino artist Bernardo Pacquing with London-based emerging artist Nicole Coson, bridging generations and geographies through material transformation. Pacquing’s tactile assemblages, made from Manila’s urban detritus, channel improvisation and resilience, while Coson’s monochromatic “print paintings” and 3D-printed Vanitas sculptures transform packaging into reflections on trade and migration. Together, their works meditate on movement, memory, and the unseen economies shaping contemporary life.
• Luis De Jesus Los Angeles (Los Angeles): Hugo Crosthwaite’s Ex-Voto series reinterprets devotional painting as storytelling at the U.S.–Mexico border. Each acrylic and colored pencil vignette chronicles acts of survival and grace drawn from the artist’s decades-long observation of the Tijuana crossing. The presentation extends Crosthwaite’s narrative realism into a meditation on migration, resilience, and faith.

For young galleries showcasing ambitious solo presentations by rising artists

Positions offers collectors, curators, and institutions a deeper encounter with singular, forward-looking practices through solo booths by emerging artists. This year, 16 galleries participate - 10 of them newcomers - presenting works that probe materiality, perception, and the post-human condition.

Highlights include:

• Nicoletti (London): French artist Josèfa Ntjam presents a new freestanding triptych of photomontages set within a movable pine larch structure. The installation continues Ntjam’s exploration of colonial legacies, mythology, and Afro-diasporic cosmologies through layered compositions that merge archival imagery, speculative fiction, and biomorphic forms. Produced alongside her participation in the 36th Bienal de São Paulo, the work imagines time as a nonlinear network — where ancestral histories and futuristic visions converge.
• Margot Samel (New York): Inmortalistas by Argentine-born, Mexico-based artist Carolina Fusilier explores the material afterlife of technology and its entanglement with organic life. Using industrial debris, biological remnants, and mechatronic activations, Fusilier constructs interconnected sculpture-paintings where images appear to capture the intangible silence of technology. The installation suggests a post-human mythology — machines dreaming of their rebirth, materials remembering their former lives — as cycles of collapse and rebirth.
• Theta (New York): In Cinemaworld reboot (Deluxe), Kelsey Isaacs scales her cinematic still-life paintings to immersive, life-sized environments. Working from photographs taken in a disused movie studio, Isaacs transforms spotlit arrangements of plastic miscellany into luminous, near-abstract compositions that echo the artifice of Hollywood’s golden age. Embedded LCD screens loop endoscopic videos of her painted subjects, creating an interplay between spectacle and surface, illusion and revelation.
• Lomex (New York): Presenting Japanese artist and animation designer Yoshitaka Amano, Lomex stages an installation bridging fantasy and fine art. Known for his work on G-Force, Battle of the Planets, and Final Fantasy, Amano’s large-scale paintings and works on paper expand his visual universe into gestural abstraction and dreamlike figuration, situating his oeuvre within the continuum of postwar visual culture.
• Zielinsky (Barcelona, São Paulo): Chinese-Afro-Panamanian artist Cisco Merel transforms the booth into a living architecture through a sculptural environment activated by Junta de Embarra, a communal stepping ritual drawn from traditional Panamanian quincha construction. Merging performance, sculpture, and architectural form, Merel reinterprets ancestral building techniques as acts of cultural resistance and collective creation.
• Galeria Dawid Radziszewski (Warsaw, Vienna): Polish artist Aleksandra Waliszewska presents new paintings merging medieval iconography with the uncanny intimacy of contemporary life. Her dreamlike compositions — peopled by spectral figures, animals, and allegorical hybrids — draw on Gothic and Symbolist traditions to articulate psychological and moral tensions that feel both timeless and unsettlingly current.

For galleries highlighting artistic practices of historical relevance

Survey foregrounds presentations that revisit art-historical practices of lasting resonance — from rediscoveries of overlooked figures to renewed readings of canonical artists whose work continues to shape the language of contemporary art. The sector brings together 18 galleries, 12 of them new participants, presenting projects that illuminate cross-generational influence and the evolving contexts through which artistic legacies are re-examined today.

Highlights include:

• David Peter Francis (New York): Pat Oleszko’s inflatable installation Big Foots (1995) anchors the gallery’s solo presentation, offering a rare glimpse into the American artist’s five-decade exploration of humor, protest, and performance. The towering, air-powered sculptures — part prop, part persona — capture Oleszko’s concept of “pedestrian art,” merging theater, costume, and feminist satire. The presentation precedes Oleszko’s 2026 survey at SculptureCenter in New York, reaffirming her status as a seminal voice in performance-based sculpture.
• Ryan Lee (New York): A booth of rarely seen paintings by Emma Amos revisits the late artist’s Athletes series (1980s), monumental portraits depicting celebrated athletes such as track and field stars Carl Lewis and Evelyn Ashford and football player Emmitt Smith. Characterized by bold color fields and dynamic figuration, the works combine Amos’ painterly virtuosity and handmade weaving with her lifelong commitment to racial and gender equity. Presented amid renewed institutional attention on the artist’s legacy, the presentation reasserts Amos' position as a vital figure in American modernism and the feminist avant-garde.
• Voloshyn Gallery (Kyiv, Miami): Ukrainian-American artist Janet Sobel — long overlooked despite her pioneering role in gestural abstraction — returns to focus through a presentation of wartime portraits from the 1940s. Created after emigrating to the United States, these haunting depictions of women and children draw from memories of Ukraine and the displacements of World War II. The presentation underscores Sobel’s influence on postwar abstraction and her rightful place within its history.
• Pavec (Paris): Marking the gallery’s Art Basel Miami Beach debut, Pauline Pavec presents early works (1911–1940) by Juliette Roche, a key yet underrecognized figure of the early twentieth-century avant-garde. A member of the Dada and Section d’Or circles, Roche’s paintings and works on paper trace her pioneering engagement with Cubism, abstraction, and feminist discourse.
• Paci contemporary (Brescia, Porto Cervo): Leslie Krims: A Rake’s Revisionist Regress brings together rare vintage photographs by American conceptualist Leslie Krims, a central figure in the rise of staged photography during the 1970s. Known for his satirical and often provocative compositions, Krims used constructed imagery to critique political correctness and media manipulation. The presentation situates Krims within the lineage of artists — alongside Cindy Sherman and Sandy Skoglund — who transformed photography into a vehicle for performance and social commentary.

Organisé au Petit Palais, le programme de discussions phare d’Art Basel inscrit les voix d’aujourd’hui dans la tradition avant-gardiste parisienne. L’édition 2025 réunit notamment les artistes Marta Minujín, Tyler Mitchell, Cai Guo-Qiang, Josèfa Ntjam et Kiddy Smile ; les dirigeant·e·s d’institutions Chiara Parisi et Chris Dercon ; l’architecte Frida Escobedo ; le galeriste Emmanuel Perrotin ; et bien d’autres.

Cette année marque également le lancement d’un nouveau format pour les Conversations : une journée entière conçue par l’éditeur de mode britannique Edward Enninful, à l’occasion du lancement de sa nouvelle société de médias et divertissement, EE72. Pensé comme un prélude à son exposition The 90s prévue à la Tate Britain en 2026, le programme d’Enninful – présenté le vendredi 24 octobre – propose des entretiens en tête-à-tête avec quatre artistes majeurs révélés dans les années 1990 aux côtés d’Enninful : Yinka Shonibare CBE, Juergen Teller, Sonia Boyce et Mark Leckey.

Autres temps forts du programme Conversations :

• L’artiste argentine Marta Minujín revient sur ses happenings radicaux à Paris dans les années 1960, en dialogue avec l’architecte Frida Escobedo, qui partagera sa vision pour le renouvellement du Centre Pompidou à l’horizon 2030, dans une discussion modérée par Hans Ulrich Obrist.

• Le photographe américain Tyler Mitchell, dont la première exposition institutionnelle personnelle en France ouvre à la Maison Européenne de la Photographie, parlera du rôle en constante évolution de la photographie dans la construction de la mémoire culturelle.

• Emmanuel Perrotin, Chiara Parisi et Mina Soltangheis réfléchiront à la manière dont l’écosystème artistique français équilibre identité locale et rayonnement international, en conversation avec Martin Bethenod.
  
  
• Le directeur général de la Fondation Cartier, Chris Dercon, échange avec l’artiste Cai Guo-Qiang – dont l’usage singulier de la poudre a profondément élargi le langage de l’art contemporain – pour revenir sur la relation de longue date qui unit l’artiste à la Fondation, à la veille de sa grande réouverture. La conversation sera modérée par Coline Milliard, rédactrice en chef d’Art Basel.

• L’artiste William Mapan et le le commissaire Philippe Bettinelli, modérés par Dr Jeni Fulton, responsable éditoriale d’Art Basel, examineront comment Paris soutient les pratiques numériques, des premières collections de médias aux débats actuels sur l’intelligence artificielle.
  
  
• Les artistes Kiddy Smile et Josèfa Ntjam exploreront le récit comme forme de résistance, à travers la culture ballroom, le cinéma et le mythe spéculatif.

Le programme complet des Conversations est disponible sur artbasel.com/paris/conversations

Art Basel’s flagship talks program, Conversations, brings together leading voices from across art, culture, and ideas for three days (December 4–6) of live dialogue at the Miami Beach Convention Center Auditorium, located in the Grand Ballroom on Level 2 North. The program is free and open to the public. 

The 2025 edition unfolds through a series of boundary-pushing discussions that reflect Miami’s spirit of cross-pollination between disciplines, generations, and perspectives. From art’s entanglement with sport and technology to questions of legacy, memory, and new forms of patronage, this year’s Conversations convenes artists, collectors, curators, and thinkers shaping the cultural landscape today. 

The program opens on Thursday, December 4, which will be dedicated to the intersection of art and sport — exploring the creative, cultural, and social intersections between two worlds of performance and discipline. Across four dynamic sessions, artists and athletes examine parallels between the studio and the stadium, from endurance and community support to legacy and representation.

• Malcolm Jenkins, two-time Super Bowl champion and collector, in conversation with Tavares Strachan on what artists and athletes can learn from each other.
• Elliot Perry, former NBA star and collector, with art advisor Gardy St. Fleur, on building legacy beyond the court.
• Suzanne Lacy, Los Angeles–based artist and educator, with Angel City Football Club and New Zealand Women's National Team captain Ali Riley, discussing gender and leadership in sport. Moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the panel expands on Lacy’s film What Do Women (Footballers) Want, created for Obrist’s exhibition Football City. Art United (Manchester, 2024).
• A fourth session, developed with the media platform Offball, examines how sport is represented in art and the museum — from SFMOMA’s Get in the Game (now touring to Crystal Bridges Museum of American in Bentonville, Arkansas) to new curatorial frameworks that consider sport as image, object, and cultural arena.

On Friday, December 5, the program turns its lens to the future of art itself — the systems that sustain it, the stories that define it, and the communities that reimagine its stewardship:

• Building the Future of the Art World, with an introduction by Noah Horowitz, CEO, Art Basel. András Szántó, Larissa Buchholz, Pablo León de la Barra, and Mia Locks examine how institutions and markets can evolve with resilience and imagination, drawing from Szántó’s The Future of the Art World: 38 Dialogues.
• Writing History Now: Artists, Memory, and the Shaping of the Present. Hank Willis Thomas and Anne Helmreich, Director of the Archives of American Art, discuss how artists are reframing collective memory and visual storytelling to address inherited histories and imagine new ones. Moderated by Sandra Jackson-Dumont, former director and CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles.
• Visionary Giving: How Black Collectors Are Reshaping Philanthropy. Victoria Rogers, Co-founder, Black Trustee Alliance, and Dr. Joy Simmons consider how Black collectors are influencing institutional priorities and redefining cultural representation, and how philanthropy can become an act of legacy and care. Moderated by Thomas Moore, art collector, philanthropist, and Executive Director of American Friends of the Louvre.

Coinciding with the launch of Zero 10, the Conversations program will also host a daily Digital Dialogues session, exploring the evolving relationship between art and technology. These talks will gather leading artists, curators, and innovators to discuss new paradigms of art-making, exhibition, and collecting — from AI and on-chain practices to extended reality and the future of ownership. Full details of speakers and topics will be announced closer to the show.

Additional panels with partners and special guests will further enrich the program, with updates to be shared in due course.

Launched in February 2025, the Art Basel Awards, presented in partnership with BOSS, represent the first global distinction of their kind — honoring exceptional achievement across the contemporary art world. Selected annually by an international jury of leading experts, Art Basel Awards Medalists are recognized for their vision, skill, community engagement, and global impact. Beyond recognition, the initiative provides meaningful, flexible support through honorariums, collaborations, and high-profile commissions designed to propel creative practice onto new international platforms.

This December, Art Basel Miami Beach marks a new milestone with the unveiling of the inaugural class of Art Basel Awards Gold Awardees. The Gold Awards honor 11 exceptional practitioners and institutions spanning visual art and adjacent creative disciplines. Chosen through a peer-driven process — in which this year’s Medalists voted among themselves — the Gold Awards introduce a new, community-based model of recognition: one in which the future is elevated by those shaping it. 

A major new moment on the Art Basel calendar, the first Art Basel Awards Night will take place on December 4 at the Frank Gehry–designed New World Center in Miami Beach, supported by the City of Miami Beach and the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau. The celebration will unite leading voices from across the art world for an evening that embodies the Awards’ spirit of creativity, collaboration, and cultural exchange. Guests will experience a black-carpet arrival, live performance, and the formal presentation of the Gold Awards — honoring practitioners whose work continues to shape contemporary art across disciplines and generations.

Each Gold Awardee will receive a unique handcrafted glass object, created in collaboration between Jacques Herzog of Herzog & de Meuron and Glassworks Matteo Gonet, both based in Basel - a tribute to the fair’s origins and to the city’s enduring spirit of craftsmanship and innovation.

Art Basel is once again proud to work with world-class partners across art, design, fashion, finance, hospitality, and technology, whose activations and commissions embody the fair’s commitment to cross-industry collaboration and cultural dialogue. Visitors will encounter a dynamic program of installations, exhibitions, and experiences — both within and beyond the halls of the Miami Beach Convention Center — that together animate the show campus and its surroundings.

UBS is Art Basel's Global Lead Partner.

• The UBS Art Studio presents Beyond Pop: Art of the Everyday, a vibrant selection from the UBS Art Collection spotlighting artists who transform everyday objects into reflections of contemporary life — where the ordinary becomes extraordinary and fine art meets popular culture. Anchored by Katherine Bernhardt’s Pink Panther screenprint and Magic Mushroom Beanbag creations, the presentation also includes works by Anne Collier, Michael Craig-Martin, Do Ho Suh, and Pae White. A hands-on workshop program, inspired by the Pop Art-themed display, will run near Zero 10 on the east end of the show floor and will be open to all Art Basel Miami Beach ticket holders from December 3–7, 2025.

• UBS has a long history of supporting contemporary art and artists. The firm maintains one of the world’s most significant corporate art collections and advances global dialogue around the art market through its partnership with Art Basel and co-publications including the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report and the Survey of Global Collecting. UBS also supports leading museums, institutions, and art events worldwide and provides clients with insights into collecting, the art market, and legacy planning through its UBS Art Advisory and UBS Collectors Circle.

Art Basel Miami Beach's Premium Partner is Qatar Airways.

• Named the World’s Best Airline for a record ninth time at the 2025 Skytrax World Airline Awards, Qatar Airways connects over 170 destinations worldwide. As Art Basel’s Premium Partner, the airline supports all the fair's global editions — including the newly launched show in Qatar — and continues to champion discovery and cultural dialogue through its engagement with the arts.

Art Basel Miami Beach's Associate Partners are the Hong Kong Tourism Board, Audemars Piguet, and NetJets.

• As the first tourism organization to establish a global partnership with Art Basel, the Hong Kong Tourism Board (HKTB) brings the city’s vibrant cultural spirit to the world stage. Through this collaboration, HKTB invites the world to discover Hong Kong’s dynamic art scene, East-meets-West identity, and world-class lifestyle — from contemporary galleries to culinary artistry and luxury travel through its unique blend of culture, creativity, and sophistication.
• Audemars Piguet believes that creativity feeds culture, connects people and gives purpose to our lives. Through its dedicated contemporary art program, Audemars Piguet Contemporary, international artists are commissioned to create artworks across a variety of scales and media, enabling artists to explore new territories in their practice.
• NetJets will welcome VIP clients to its private lounge at the fair featuring works by artist Diane Benoit du Rey.

Showcasing the breadth of collaboration across fashion, design, music, gastronomy, and technology, this year's partner activations bring new experiences and creative perspectives to Miami Beach:

Arts & Cultural Partnerships

Airbnb

Airbnb and Art Basel continue their multi-year global partnership offering travelers one-of-a-kind stays in cultural capitals worldwide alongside immersive experiences led by major voices in art, design, and culture.

To champion artistic mobility on a global scale, Airbnb has launched the Airbnb Arts Travel Grant, developed in collaboration with Art Basel. With a commitment of USD 1.2 million over three years, the program supports travel for emerging artists and galleries participating in Art Basel fairs. Each year, recipients are nominated by Art Basel’s fair directors, spotlighting new exhibitors, ambitious practices, and pioneering voices that shape cultural discourse across the arts and beyond.

In Miami Beach, Airbnb will debut exclusive experiences tied to the 2025 show, including a curated fair tour with director Bridget Finn, an artist-led walkthrough of Jack Pierson: The Miami Years at The Bass Museum of Art, and a hands-on creative workshop with designer Kelly Wearstler. All three experiences are available to book on Airbnb starting today.

Building on this initiative, the partnership also expands beyond Art Basel’s host cities, introducing a series of global art experiences co-developed by Airbnb and Art Basel in major cultural hubs. The program invites audiences to engage with contemporary art through behind-the-scenes encounters with leading artists, galleries, institutions, and cultural figures — including Pace Gallery and VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES in Los Angeles, and Estudio Max Cetto and Flores Cosmos in Mexico City. Following a successful debut this month at the UESHIMA MUSEUM in Tokyo, the program will continue to expand through 2026–27, creating new touchpoints of connection across Art Basel’s international community. All global experiences are available to book on Airbnb starting today.

Tribeca Festival

The Tribeca Festival celebrates its fourth edition at Art Basel Miami Beach, featuring two nights of live performances at the iconic Miami Beach Bandshell, presented by Google Gemini. This year’s lineup spotlights emerging artists redefining contemporary culture. On Friday, December 5, the Bogotá-based and Latin Grammy-nominated ensemble Monsieur Periné will take the stage with its joyful fusion of Latin swing and pop. On Saturday, December 6, the otherworldly instrumental duo Hermanos Gutiérrez will perform, bringing their hauntingly cinematic sound that has captivated global audiences. Tickets are now available for purchase, with additional performances and guests to be announced in the coming weeks.

Extending the program’s focus, Tribeca and ESPN will also co-host an exclusive invitation-only preview of two new short films celebrating stories at the intersection of sports and the Latino community. The event centers on a discussion with the directors, moderated by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Rudy Valdez.

Ray-Ban

Official Show Partner Ray-Ban unveils the Ray-Ban House, an immersive, multi-day installation set within the historic Carl Fisher Clubhouse, blending art, music, and style in a space dedicated to cultural experimentation.

Design Takeovers

Salone del Mobile.Milano

Joining Art Basel for the first time as Official Partner, Salone del Mobile.Milano curates the Collectors Lounge in collaboration with Lissoni & Partners. A roster of leading Italian design brands will contribute furnishings to the space, expressing the dialogue between material innovation, artisanal excellence, and contemporary design culture.

Design Within Reach and Moooi

Official Partners Design Within Reach and Moooi unite at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 to transform the fair’s East Salon through bold beauty and meticulous craft, featuring signature pieces such as Moooi’s Knitty Chair and Raimond II light. The collaboration reflects both brands’ belief in beauty as a form of purpose and in the power of artful design to connect people.

Fashion Collaborations

Marc Jacobs

Host Partner Marc Jacobs presents JOY, a limited-edition capsule collection created in collaboration with artists David Shrigley, Derrick Adams, and Hattie Stewart. The collection celebrates the intersection of art and fashion through bold, expressive design, complemented by an interactive private lounge and curated pop-ups throughout the fair and a VIP event on December 2 at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden debuting a new artist collaboration fragrance collection.

Pucci

Pucci reprises its takeover of the Miami Beach Convention Center, conceived by Artistic Director Camille Miceli. Transforming all the entrances towards Art Basel Miami Beach into a vibrant "Pucci-fied" experience, the activation immerses guests in the brand’s distinctive visual universe.

Zegna 

Zegna will again create co-branded tote bags for VIP guests distributed across official partner hotels in Miami Beach and celebrating the brand’s deep ties to art and craftsmanship across all Art Basel shows.

Art Basel Miami Beach's Show Partners are Airbnb and Sotheby's International Realty.

• For the 3rd consecutive year, Sotheby's International Realty is proud to support Art Basel Miami Beach. As curators of extraordinary properties around the world, we invite you to visit our global gallery in the Collectors Lounge for privileged access to architecturally significant and prestigious homes for sale in more than 80 countries and territories

Art Basel Miami Beach's Host Partners are Ruinart, Four Seasons, Chubb, Marc Jacobs, and Ray-Ban.

• Chubb collaborates with Miami-based studio Moniomi Design and the Chubb Fellows at the New York Academy of Art to create an immersive environment for its private lounge at the fair, bridging fine art, design, and craftsmanship. The installation reflects on the aesthetics of collecting and the dialogue between art and interior space, transforming the lounge into a site of creative exchange and material refinement.
• Ruinart, the official Champagne of Art Basel globally, will host a bar and present a solo exhibition by artist Sam Falls, continuing its Conversations with Nature series — a reflection of the Maison's long-standing commitment to restoring harmony in the natural world and sparking dialogue through art.

Art Basel Miami Beach's Official Partners are Samsung, BMW, Zegna, The Tribeca Festival, Dorsia, Casa Dragones, Lavazza, Salone del Mobile.Milano, Muuto, Design Within Reach, Moooi, Quintessentially, Louis M. Martini, Neaū Water, and Cerveceria La Tropical. 

• Samsung presents the Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 Art Store Collection, available to global subscribers. At the fair, its immersive booth in the Grand Ballroom will showcase Samsung's Art TV lineup, transforming the space into a living-room of digital creativity. 
• As a dedicated Global Automotive Partner of Art Basel for over two decades, BMW is proud to return to Miami Beach providing a dedicated premium VIP car service for First Choice guests. Additionally, BMW and American artist and sculptor Kennedy Yanko will collaborate once again during a private event with The Cultivist celebrating a special iteration of the high-performance BMW XM Label alongside an original piece by the artist.  
• Dorsia returns as a partner under a new multi-year, multi-city agreement, reinforcing its long-term commitment to culture and the art community. This year, Dorsia will offer Art Basel Miami Beach VIPs exclusive access to its network of global dining destinations through the Art Basel App, while continuing to offer highly-sought-after art world experiences for its members worldwide. With the launch of the Afters program, Dorsia will bring the "art of night" to life through curated late-night gatherings in Miami Beach. 
• Since 2009, Casa Dragones has celebrated the intersection of art and tequila, collaborating with leading artists such as Gabriel Orozco, Danh Vo, Pedro Reyes, and Petrit Halilaj to explore craftsmanship in all its forms. This year, Casa Dragones returns to Art Basel Miami Beach with their iconic Art-Tender Series, an immersive cocktail experience inspired by contemporary art and the shared pursuit of creativity, precision, and expression. 
• Lavazza will host the Lavazza Lounge in the Grand Ballroom of the Miami Beach Convention Center, celebrating the U.S. launch of the 2026 Lavazza Calendar, Pleasure Makes Us Human. The calendar’s debut will be marked by a special event on Wednesday, December 3, at 4:30 pm in the Auditorium, featuring Francesca Lavazza, photographer Alex Webb, and Art Basel’s Vincenzo de Bellis in conversation.
• Muuto will furnish the fair’s VIP and hospitality spaces at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden with Scandinavian design classics. 
• Quintessentially serves as Concierge Partner for Art Basel Miami Beach, offering bespoke experiences, curated city-guides, private access to events, and on-demand lifestyle services to its VIP guests in its private lounge at the fair. 
• Louis M. Martini, the official red wine partner of Art Basel Miami Beach, provides wine service at the East Salon and showcases The Gryphon, its newest release that bridges the worlds of art and winemaking. Through its art program curated by Georgia Horn, the winery invites artists to create permanent, site-specific works that explore the passage of time, environmental beauty, cultural heritage, and sensory experience. 
• Neaū Water will serve as the Official Hydration Partner of Art Basel Miami Beach. Guided by science and driven by sustainability, Neaū harnesses its proprietary H.A.R.T.™ Technology to restore water’s natural molecular harmony, delivering the cleanest, most balanced hydration experience possible. 

Art Basel Miami Beach's Official Hotel Partners are the Ritz-Carlton South Beach, Grand Beach Hotel Miami Beach, W South Beach, and The Shelborne by Proper. Official Hotel Partners host Art Basel guests and partners throughout the week, offering exclusive experiences and preferred access.

Art Basel Miami Beach anchors a week of cultural activity across Greater Miami and South Florida, featuring premier museum exhibitions, landmark private collection viewings, and dynamic public programming that reflect the region’s cultural vitality and global outlook.

During the fair week, leading institutions across Miami Beach, Downtown Miami, and beyond present ambitious projects that speak to the city’s cross-cultural dynamism and its place at the nexus of the Americas. From major museum surveys to cutting-edge contemporary commissions, these exhibitions shape a rich portrait of artistic exchange and experimentation.

Highlights include:

The Bass Museum, Miami Beach

The Bass presents a trio of ambitious exhibitions that reimagine architecture, perception, and place:

• Lawrence Lek: NOX Pavilion, a site-specific digital environment blending speculative design and virtual simulation.
• Jack Pierson: The Miami Years, revisiting the artist’s formative engagement with Miami’s queer and visual culture.
• Faire Foyer: Sarah Crowner in Dialogue with Etel Adnan, a poetic conversation between two modernist colorists across generations.
• Isaac Julien: Vagabondia, an early film installation reflecting on representation, class, and museology.

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami)

A powerhouse program of international contemporary voices includes:

• Joyce Pensato, the late American painter celebrated for her anarchic reworking of cartoon icons.
• Richard Hunt: Pressure, spotlighting the pioneering African American sculptor’s monumental and intimate works in metal.
• Igshaan Adams: Lulu, Zanele, Zandile, Savannah, a tapestry-based exploration of kinship and migration.
• Masaomi Yasunaga: 記憶の足跡 | Traces of Memory, a striking series of unglazed ceramic works exploring material memory.
• Andreas Schulz: Special, a conceptual survey bridging photography and object-making.

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)

PAMM anchors Miami’s institutional offerings with major exhibitions spanning sculpture, conceptual photography, and performance-based practice:

• Woody De Othello: coming forth by day, new ceramic and bronze sculptures exploring transformation and ritual.
• Language and Image: Conceptual and Performance-based Photography from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection.
• Mark Dion: The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit, a site-specific installation merging art and ecological inquiry.
• Elliot and Erick Jiménez: El Monte, a photographic homage to Afro-Cuban spirituality.
• Worlds Apart and One Becomes Many, thematic exhibitions on global interconnectivity and collectivity.

The Legacy Purchase Program 

For the seventh consecutive year, the City of Miami Beach will acquire one standout work from an exhibiting gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach for its esteemed public art collection. The program welcomes participation from exhibitors in Nova and Positions, as well as newcomers and recent entrants to the Galleries sector presenting emerging or early-career artists. Decided by public vote, the selected artwork and gallery will be announced closer to the show. The Legacy Purchase Program deepens the City’s longstanding partnership with Art Basel and reaffirms its commitment to fostering the next generation of artists and galleries — supporting a cultural legacy that celebrates art’s power to shape the future.

CPGA–Villa Albertine Etant donnés Prize 

The Comité Professionnel des Galeries d’Art (French Professional Committee of Art Galleries, or CPGA) and Villa Albertine will join forces for the fifth edition of the CPGA-Étant Donnés Prize, which recognizes a major work by a contemporary French or France-based artist participating at Art Basel Miami Beach and their exhibiting gallery. The prize winner will be selected by an appointed jury of international curators and collectors and will receive a $15,000 cash prize, split equally between the artist and their gallery. In 2024, the prize was awarded to Johanna Mirabel and Galerie Nathalie Obadia.

Art Basel & UBS School Group Program 

Art Basel greatly values the attendance of students and school groups at our shows. For the fourth year, Art Basel and UBS will partner to offer complimentary admission to Art Basel Miami Beach for registered schools, an initiative that provides enriching educational experiences in the world of Modern and contemporary art. 

Rosa de la Cruz Student Participation Program 

Launched by Art Basel in honor of the late Miami art patron and philanthropist Rosa de la Cruz — and her enduring commitment to education and public engagement with contemporary art — the annual Rosa de la Cruz Student Participation Program will once again fund 100 students from Miami’s Design and Architecture Senior High School (DASH), a school she passionately supported, to attend Art Basel Miami Beach.

Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 Visitor Information 

Opening Hours 

Preview days (by invitation only): 

• Wednesday, December 3, and Thursday, December 4, 2025 

Public days (access with a ticket or invitation): 

• Friday, December 5, 2025, 11am–6pm 
• Saturday, December 6, 2025, 11am–6pm 
• Sunday, December 7, 2025, 11am–6pm 

For further information on tickets and Premium Experiences, visit our Ticket Shop. 

Venue 

Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139 

Media Access

Online registration for press accreditation for Art Basel Miami Beach is now open. For further information or to apply, visit artbasel.com/accreditation. 

Press releases and high-resolution images can be downloaded directly from artbasel.com/press. 

Media interested in profiling exhibitors or artists, or accessing VIP opportunities, are invited to contact Art Basel’s press office. 

Press Contacts 

Art Basel, May Mansour, press@artbasel.com 

PR Representatives for the Americas, SUTTON, Gill Harris and Julia Debski, Tel. +1 423 402 5381, gill@suttoncomms.com & julia@suttoncomms.com 

PR Representatives for Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, SUTTON, Khuroum Bukhari and Joseph Lamb Tel. +44 7715 666 041, khuroum@suttoncomms.com & joseph@suttoncomms.com 

PR Representatives for Asia, SUTTON, Beth Corner, Tel. +852 9160 6976, beth@suttoncomms.com 

Upcoming Art Basel shows 

Miami Beach, December 5–7, 2025 

Qatar, February 5–7, 2026 

Hong Kong, March 27–29, 2026 

Basel, June 18–21, 2026  

Paris, October 23–25, 2026