On the occasion of the 2025 edition of Art Basel Paris, the Public Program, free and open to all, will take over the French capital with exhibitions, monumental installations, as well as a series of talks and debates. Founded in 1993 by Miuccia Prada, fashion house Miu Miu is the Official Partner of the Art Basel Paris Public Program for the second consecutive year.

Discover all the projects below, from Helen Martenʼs highly anticipated Miu Miu project at the Palais dʼIéna to a gigantic Kermit the Frog on Place Vendôme.

Palais dʼIéna
Helen Marten, ʻ30 Blizzards.ʼ
Presented by Miu Miu
From October 22 to 26, 2025, from 11am to 7pm

The Palais dʼIéna, Auguste Perretʼs reinforced concrete masterpiece, will host the Miu Miu project for a second year. ʻ30 Blizzards.ʼ, an exhibition by British artist and Turner Prize winner Helen Marten, gives form to different narratives around femininity, aligning with Miu Miuʼs values and commitments. The multidisciplinary installation will use performance, video, and sculpture to evoke pivotal elements of a womanʼs existence: childhood, community, sexuality, interiority, and loss. ʻ30 Blizzards.ʼ is an invitation to collective emotion, drawing inspiration from poetry, notably from authors like Hélène Cixous and Audre Lorde.

Cité de lʼarchitecture et du patrimoine
Fabienne Verdier, ʻMuteʼ, presented by Galerie Lelong and Waddington Custot
ʻChromoscopeʼ, group exhibition presented by Yares Art
Curated by Matthieu Poirier
From October 22, 2025 to February 16, 2026, from 11am to 7pm

Focusing on abstraction and large-format practices, ʻMuteʼ and ʻChromoscopeʼ will be the first in a series of contemporary art exhibitions proposed by Matthieu Poirier for the Cité de lʼArchitecture et du Patrimoine. With a limited palette and restricted gestures, Fabienne Verdier creates paintings out of silence. For his exhibition ʻMuteʼ, the French artist invites viewers to give their attention to processes of imperceptible transformation. In ʻChromoscopeʼ, on the other hand, color explodes. The group exhibition brings together major names like Helen Frankenthaler and Larry Poons, as well as Frank Stella, whose 23 paintings are a kaleidoscopic deep dive into abstraction.

Avenue Winston Churchill
Thomas Houseago, Flower & Death, 2018–2025 (presented by Lévy Gorvy Dayan and Xavier Hufkens); Leiko Ikemura, Usagi Greeting (440), 2023–2025 (presented by Lisson Gallery); Wang Keping, Découverte, 2022 (presented by Galerie Nathalie Obadia); Vojtěch Kovařík, Atlas calming the troubled world, 2025 (presented by Galerie Derouillon); Muller Van Severen, Concrete Wire, 2024–2025 (presented by Tim Van Laere Gallery); Stefan Rinck, Camarillo in Disguise, 2025 (presented by Semiose); Arlene Shechet, Dawn, 2024 (presented by Pace Gallery)
From October 21 to 26, 2025, from 11am to 7pm

Seven sculptures will rise above the Avenue Winston Churchill, in front of the Grand Palais, welcoming visitors to Art Basel Paris. Usagi Greeting (440) (2023–2025) by Japanese artist Leiko Ikemura features a character from the Usagi Yojimbocomic series. A creature with rabbit ears and a human face is messenger of the gods, protecting all with her bell-shaped bronze skirt. Another notable commission, Atlas calming the troubled world (2025) by Vojtěch Kovařík represents the Titan tenderly cradling the world rather than carrying it on his shoulders as he is traditionally depicted. Traversing universal themes like resilience, spirituality, mythologies, and collective healing, the seven totem-like works provide a mirror to our troubled times but also a beacon of hope.

Petit Palais
Julius von Bismarck
Presented by Sies + Höke and The Ranch
From October 21 to 26, 2025, from 10am to 6pm (until 8pm on Friday and Saturday)

At the Petit Palais, Julius von Bismarck (descendant of German first chancellor Otto) presents two quirky sculptures. A taxidermied giraffe faces a replica equestrian statue of his ancestor, the two forms collapsing and reconstituting themselves, like giant Wakouwa toys. The ʻOOOSBʼ series (2024), composed of panels of compressed plant and animal remains, completes this astonishing installation. Finally, the film Grenzen der Intelligenzen shows insects disoriented by artificial light. In this multimedia proposition, the artist questions the myths of our collective memory, never frozen in time, constantly evolving.

Cour de lʼHôtel de la Marine
Joël Andrianomearisoa, Les Herbes folles du vieux logis, 2020–2025
Presented by Almine Rech
From October 10 to November 2, 2025, from 8am to 1am

The evocative title of this work by Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa derives from his compatriot Maurice Ramarozaka. A writer as well as diplomat, Ramarozaka considered poetry as a way of traversing multiple geographies. Andrianomearisoa brings this philosophy to life with a monumental textile work installed in the cobblestone courtyard of the Hôtel de la Marine. Fiber arts are a cultural tradition in Madagascar and possess symbolic links to national history, memory, and ritual. The lush quality of the work pays homage to natureʼs generosity and opens a window to Parisʼs outdoors.

Place Vendôme
Alex Da Corte, Kermit the Frog, Even, 2018
Presented by Sadie Coles HQ
From October 20 to 26, 2025

Organized annually by department store Macyʼs, during the famous 1991 New York Thanksgiving Parade a balloon of Kermit the Frog, star of the Muppet Show, got caught in a tree on Fifth Avenue. Punctured, the giant frog finished the parade half-deflated and somewhat crestfallen. American artist Alex Da Corte is passionate about pop culture and plums the depths of collective emotion. Here, he recreates the 1991 Thanksgiving Parade on Place Vendôme with a replica of the inflatable frog, frozen in this moment of defeat. A performance will take place on Monday, October 20 at 4pm.

Parvis de lʼInstitut de France
Ugo Rondinone, the innocent, 2024
Presented by Eva Presenhuber, Gladstone, and Mennour
From October 17 to 28, 2025

Succeeding Sheila Hicksʼ and Niki de Saint-Phalleʼs 2023 and 2024 installations on the Parvis de lʼInstitut de France, the innocent (from a series of 9 sculptures) rises as an emblem of corporality. Representing a faceless human body with slender legs,, the work is made of stacks of blue-colored rock. A material dear to the artist, stone evokes the origins of cave-dwelling humanity, and, since time immemorial, central to the burial rites of many cultures. This is a setting that is more fitting for a bronze sculpture of a glorious monarch, but here this anonymous statue stands as marker to the countless lives sacrificed to power and territorial ambition.

Chapelle des Petits-Augustins des Beaux-Arts de Paris
Harry Nuriev, Objets Trouvés, 2025
Presented by Sultana
From October 21 to 26, from 10am to 7pm

Russian artist Harry Nuriev has created an interactive work for the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Visitors are invited to deposit personal belongings they no longer need in the bins provided, and take objects left by others in exchange. The work questions the normalized absurdity of consumerism – the plenitude of stuff we accumulate. Each transaction will result in a certificate, and the entire process will be compiled in a sleek-style catalog.

Musée national Eugène-Delacroix
Nate Lowman, After Delacroix, 2025
Presented by Massimodecarlo and David Zwirner
From October 22 to November 2, from 12 noon to 5:30pm Monday to Friday, and from 10am to 5:30pm on weekends
Free access with an Art Basel Paris ticket until October 26

American artist Nate Lowman engages with a direct conversation with the place in which his works are displayed. With the multimedia installation After Delacroix, Lowman reinvents the 19th-century painterʼs palette and references works by other artists influenced by Delacroix (Cecily Brown, in this case). He uses objects from the modern world like t-shirts and the famous car air fresheners to trace artistic affiliations between the French Romantic painter and contemporary artists. History, here, is not just an abstract and intangible concept, but becomes real matter in the living present.