Galeries brings together 183 leading Modern, post-war, and contemporary art dealers from France and beyond, showcasing their programs via solo, duo, and group presentations spanning 20th-century masters, contemporary blue-chip artists, mid-career practitioners, and emerging voices.

France-based galleries continue to play a central role across the sector. Petrine (Paris, Düsseldorf) and The Pill (Istanbul, Paris) make their Galeries debuts — both advancing from Emergence, where they established themselves among the sector's most compelling voices — and join longstanding Paris-based galleries such as Templon, Chantal Crousel, Galerie Lelong, Perrotin, Almine Rech, Art : Concept, Mennour, Applicat-Prazan, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Crèvecœur, mor charpentier, galerie frank elbaz, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, and Galerie Christophe Gaillard, among others.

International galleries with established Paris presences also remain strongly represented, including Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, White Cube, Thaddaeus Ropac, Marian Goodman Gallery, Esther Schipper, Skarstedt, Massimodecarlo, Galleria Continua, Peter Freeman, Inc., Tornabuoni Art, and Galerie Karsten Greve.

The international roster includes more than 160 returning galleries, among them Sadie Coles HQ (London), kurimanzutto (Mexico City, New York), Mendes Wood DM (São Paulo, Paris, Brussels), Goodman Gallery (Johannesburg, Cape Town, London, New York), Galerie Buchholz (Cologne, Berlin, New York), Sfeir-Semler Gallery (Beirut, Hamburg), Taka Ishii Gallery (Tokyo, Kyoto, Maebashi), Kukje Gallery (Seoul, Busan), Vitamin Creative Space (Beijing, Guangzhou), Luisa Strina (São Paulo), Foksal Gallery Foundation (Warsaw), kaufmann repetto (Milan, New York), and Galerie Cécile Fakhoury (Abidjan, Dakar).

Nineteen galleries join the sector for the first time, among them 11 making their Art Basel Paris debut: Isabella Ritter (Paris), ChertLüdde (Berlin), Consonni Radziszewski (Lisbon, Milan, Warsaw), Croy Nielsen (Vienna), Empty Gallery (Hong Kong), Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler (Berlin, Munich), Larkin Erdmann (Zurich), Laveronica arte contemporanea (Modica), Luxembourg + Co. (London, New York), Pace Di Donna Schrader Galleries (New York), and Reena Spaulings Fine Art (New York).

In line with Art Basel Paris’ commitment to supporting the next generation of galleries, the sector also welcomes six exhibitors previously shown in Emergence: Gianni Manhattan (Vienna), PM8 / Francisco Salas (Vigo), Lars Friedrich (Berlin), Catinca Tabacaru (Bucharest, Harare), Petrine, and The Pill.

Far from being defined by a single, unified conception of contemporary art, the Parisian art scene is shaped by the intersection of practices, backgrounds, media, and individual experiences. Painting, installation, performance, literature, dance, and moving image converge to question the ways in which we inhabit the world, represent ourselves, and construct our identities.

Through the works of artists born or based in Paris, including Pol Taburet, Julien Creuzet, Stanislava Kovalcikova, Annie Ernaux, Gisèle Vienne, Tarek Lakhrissi, Neila Czermak Ichti, and Xie Lei, a portrait of Paris emerges as a sensitive and plural artistic landscape — one in which the intimate often becomes a way of speaking to the collective. The following gallery presentations bring these perspectives into dialogue with broader international practices:

• Mendes Wood DM (São Paulo, Brussels) will present a curated selection featuring new works by French artist Pol Taburet. The gallery will also present poetic, materially complex sculptures by French artist Julien Creuzet, whose practice, combining steel, copper, resin, composite materials, and electrical wires, engages installation and ecology. His institutional momentum includes an upcoming solo exhibition at the Centre Pompidou Metz in 2027. Other featured artists are Lucas Arruda, Laís Amaral, Alvaro Barrington, Sanam Khatibi, and Paula Siebra.

• Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi (Berlin) returns to the Galeries sector with a presentation around intimacy, photography, and literature. These themes are explored in fourteen photographs shot by French author and Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux and her husband Marc Marie, which became the basis for their book 'L’Usage de la photo' (Gallimard, 2005). Taken together, the images trace an affair that began in January 2003, unfolding alongside Ernaux’s treatment for breast cancer. The photographs record the domestic aftermath of intimacy — clothes discarded after sex, chairs out of place, remnants of shared meals — arrangements Ernaux found painful to erase.
  

• Galerie Allen (Paris) will present new work by French poet and artist Tarek Lakhrissi, which finds its form in a multi-media chrysalis that argues that the state of becoming is as complex and relevant as the final transformation. Other works in the booth include paintings by Jacqueline de Jong, whose work brings together humour, eroticism, and violence in a visual language that moves between figuration and abstraction; and Jason Dodge’s sculpture Topaz inside of an owl, which presents an owl lying on a cardboard box. The work invites a reflection on hidden interiors, material value, and the limits of observation, allowing an apparently still object to suggest an unseen narrative.
  

• Galerie Anne Barrault (Paris) will feature the works of four Paris-born or -based young artists: Neïla Czermak Ichti, Marie Losier, Ibrahim Meïté Sikely, and Euridice Zaituna Kala. They will all present new works created for the fair. Each artist will be featured in exhibitions in France and abroad this year. Neïla Czermak Ichti, who had a solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris this summer, will present new drawings and paintings that question the conditions of commemoration and remembrance. Ibrahim Meïté Sikely’s practice fuses the visual languages of classical art-historical iconography, comics, manga, and video games. Other works include Marie Losier’s series of costumes adorned with screenprints and watercolor drawings. Finally, Euridice Zaituna Kala will exhibit a new work composed of metal, glass, and photography as part of her ongoing project 'Daylighting', which explores the relationship between water, nature, and human narratives.
  

• Previously exhibiting in the Emergence sector, The Pill (Paris, Istanbul) will present a curated booth exploring the body as a site of transformation shaped by time, contact, and lived experience. Bringing together three artists across generations, including Paris based painter Apolonia Sokol and Turkish artist Cem Örgen, the presentation will move between processes of birth, aging, erosion, and repair across video, painting, collage, and sculpture.
  
• Galleria Continua (San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins, Havana, Rome, São Paulo, Paris) will present several works from Eva Jospin, Michelangelo Pistoletto, and Hank Willis Thomas.
  

• Semiose (Paris) will present a project uniting new works produced specially for the fair by five of the gallery’s artists: Amélie Bertrand, Françoise Pétrovitch, Stefan Rinck, Moffat Takadiwa, and Xie Lei. Each artist has enjoyed noteworthy museum exposure and considerable international visibility in 2026 at institutions including Musée de l’Orangerie (Paris), MO.CO. (Montpellier) and the Marmottan Monet Museum (Paris).

• Sultana (Paris) will present a focused selection of new works by Jesse Darling, Bettina Samson, and Nanténé Traoré, bringing together three distinct approaches to materiality, transformation, and image-making. Jesse Darling’s altered illuminated sign transforms a familiar urban object into a poignant reflection on fragility and decay. Bettina Samson’s glazed porcelain sculpture draws on organic and scientific forms, blurring the boundaries between natural phenomena and speculative narratives. Completing the presentation, Nanténé Traoré’s velvet print lithium explores the circulation of images, materials, and resources through a visually striking and evocative composition.

• Crèvecœur (Paris) returns to Art Basel Paris with a booth inspired by the complexities of a world shaped by both nature and human intervention. Photographs by Brassaï, the Hungarian-French photographer who documented Paris' marginal spaces in the 1930s, anchor the presentation. The booth will also include work by 12 other artists from the gallery's program, including mixed-media sculpture by Naoki Sutter-Shudo, architectural collage by Martine Bedin, and landscape painting by Daisuke Fukunaga.

• mor charpentier (Paris) will present works by nine artists exploring how the body carries traces of history, violence, and healing. Kader Attia’s wooden busts, made in collaboration with African artisans and based on photographs of soldiers injured in World War I, continue his research into repair. Teresa Margolles’ couture gown, encrusted with shards of glass from shootings in Mexico, acts as a critique of violence, while fragmented portraits by Oscar Muñoz explore the shifting image of the self.

• White Cube (London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris, Seoul) will present works by Georg Baselitz, Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, Louise Giovanelli, David Hammons, Marguerite Humeau, Suleman Aqeel Khilji, Ibrahim Mahama, Giorgio Morandi, and Francis Picabia, among others. Highlights include Tracey Emin’s visceral painting Waiting For A moment of You (2025). Featuring a reclining female figure, the work evokes the fragility and imperfection of human existence and echoes the artist’s presentation at the Parvis des Droits-de-l’Homme. The booth will also include Ibrahim Mahama’s textile and metal work Nyamuthia (2025-26); two gold paintings by Georg Baselitz titled Große schwarze Volksflügel (Large Black Popular Wings) and Gold ohne Hemd (Gold Without Shirt) (both 2025); and a sculpture by 2026 Turner Prize nominee Marguerite Humeau titled Venus of Planina, A 37-year-old female human has ingested an olm's brain (2024).

• Esther Schipper (Berlin, New York, Paris, Seoul) will bring together the distinct practices of Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Anri Sala, Pierre Huyghe, Ann Veronica Janssens, Étienne Chambaud, Merikokeb Berhanu, and Celeste Rapone. The booth will offer an exploration of material transformation, perceptual experience, technological innovation, and contemporary forms of storytelling.

• Hauser & Wirth (Zurich, London, New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Hong Kong, Menorca, Monaco, Basel, St. Moritz) returns with a presentation that will honor renowned artist Louise Bourgeois, who is the subject of a solo exhibition at Bibliothèque nationale de France opening on October 20, 2026. The booth will also showcase a powerful example of Jenny Holzer’s Redaction Paintings, complementing the artist’s major survey at Musée d’Orsay. Works by leading French contemporary artists Hélène Delprat and Camille Henrot will be accompanied by international voices, including Henry Taylor, William Kentridge, and George Condo, while historic highlights include works by Francis Picabia, Carol Rama, Alina Szapocznikow, and Eduardo Chillida.

From mid-century modernism and post-war abstraction to contemporary experimentation, the following gallery presentations bring together a diverse range of artistic practices, tracing evolving approaches to gesture, materiality, space, and perception.

• Galerie Karsten Greve (Cologne, Paris, St. Moritz) will bring a presentation centered on international avant-garde masters, including collage by Joseph Cornell, painting by Pierre Soulages, and a suite of ceramic sculptures by artist Lucio Fontana, which traces the progression of the artist’s style as he moved between France, Argentina, and Italy.

• Applicat-Prazan (Paris) will present a selection of works by the great masters of the Second School of Paris including four leading figures of post-war abstraction: Pierre Soulages, Hans Hartung, Jean-Paul Riopelle, and Gérard Schneider. Bringing together works dating from the mid-20th century, the presentation will explore the diversity of approaches to gesture, materiality, light, and space that emerged during a pivotal period in the history of abstraction. From Soulages’ exploration of transparency and opacity, to Hartung’s measured gestural language, Riopelle’s vibrant palette-knife technique, and Schneider’s lyrical abstraction, the selection will highlight the richness of post-war artistic experimentation. A 1952 walnut-stain work on paper by Soulages will be presented alongside significant paintings by Hartung, Riopelle, and Schneider, each reflecting a distinct moment in the artists’ evolving practices.

• Peter Freeman, Inc. (Paris, New York) will present historically significant pieces in dialogue with works by Dove Allouche, Elisabetta Benassi, Mel Bochner, Robert Filliou, Fernanda Gomes, Park McArthur, Hendl Helen Mirra, Matt Mullican, Catherine Murphy, Roman Ondak, N.H. Pritchard, Gerhard Richter, and Thomas Schütte. From Matt Mullican’s historical map of Haussmann’s Paris to Park McArthur’s reflection on public signage, the presentation will examine the visual markers that structure our environments. Works by Roman Ondak, Elisabetta Benassi, and Hendl Helen Mirra will further question conventions of mapping, borders, and movement, revealing how the frameworks through which we organize the world also shape our understanding of it. A new sculptural work by Fernanda Gomes will also be presented.

• Tim Van Laere Gallery (Antwerp) will present a booth featuring eight contemporary artists working across figuration and abstraction. Highlights include a fragmented portrait by Adrian Ghenie, which examines how digital culture shapes self-perception; a painting by Bram Demunter inspired by religious iconography, historical narratives, and modern events; and a playful aluminum sculpture by Franz West, which invites viewers to touch or sit on the work.

• Karma (New York, Los Angeles) will feature painting and sculpture, including new works by Mungo Thomson, whose solo exhibition ‘Monument’ opens at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris on October 21, and paintings by Reggie Burrows Hodges, whose installation A Theater of Passions opens at the Getty Center in Los Angeles on October 20. The booth will also include works by Yvonne Jacquette and Peter Bradley, ahead of Bradley’s inclusion in the group exhibition ‘Hard Art’, which opens at MoMA PS1 in New York on November 5. The presentation will also include works by Gertrude Abercrombie, Henni Alftan, Milton Avery, Dike Blair, Ann Craven, Jane Dickson, and Marley Freeman.

Among the 32 galleries making their Art Basel Paris debut, 11 are joining the main sector. Their presentations range from historical movements such as Dada, Pop Art, and Arte Povera to contemporary practices that revisit dominant histories, foreground postcolonial perspectives. Across these presentations, artists engage with themes of anticolonial and antifascist resistance, collective memory, and global ecological concerns.

Highlights include:

• For its inaugural booth at Art Basel Paris, Larkin Erdmann Gallery (Zurich) will show key works that trace the lineage from the Parisian avant-gardes to postwar conceptual and Modernist practices. Highlights include Man Ray’s photograph Violon d’Ingres, which came to be a defining image of Surrealism, and L.H.O.O.Q., Marcel Duchamp’s moustached reproduction of the Mona Lisa. On Kawara’s date painting NOV 7, 1977 returns to the market for the first time in nearly half a century, having been in the same collection since 1978.

• Laveronica arte contemporanea (Modica) will make its debut with a group presentation exploring erasure and resistance. Adelita Husni-Bey’s installation documents censored journalists in Egypt, while Jonas Staal’s miniature models propose alternative parliaments for stateless communities. Daniela Ortiz’s painting series honors antifascist resistance, with some works turned to the wall to represent recent struggles. Prints by Uriel Orlow — whose work is also on view in the Venice Biennale — trace colonialism through the botanical archive.

• Following their collaboration at Art Basel Paris 2025, Madragoa and Galeria Dawid Radziszewski developed the shared vision that ultimately led to their merger, and now return as the unified entity Consonni Radziszewski (Lisbon, Milan, Warsaw). The presentation assembles five distinct practices with a shared impulse to destabilize the familiar. Spanning painting, installation, video, performance, and sculpture, works by Krzysztof Grzybacz, Rodrigo Hernández, Steffani Jemison, Tomasz Kowalski, and Aleksandra Waliszewska enact a rigorous perspective shift.

• Other newcomers to the Galeries sector include ChertLüdde (Berlin), Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler (Berlin, Munich), Isabella Ritter (Paris), Luxembourg + Co. (London, New York), Empty Gallery (Hong Kong), Reena Spaulings Fine Art (New York), Croy Nielsen (Vienna), and Pace Di Donna Schrader Galleries (New York).

A record 12 pairs of galleries will share booths at Art Basel Paris 2026, bringing together 24 galleries in collaborative presentations. Eight of the participating exhibitors are new to the Galeries sector this year, including Lars Friedrich and Petrine, both graduating from the Emergence sector, and Gianni Manhattan and PM8 / Francisco Salas, who return to the fair following previous participation in Emergence. This year’s presentations range from focused two-artist dialogues to broader thematic group exhibitions, with recurring explorations of the body, identity, technology, materiality, and overlooked or evolving art histories.

Highlights include:

• Lars Friedrich (Berlin) and Petrine (Paris, Düsseldorf), having both graduated from the Emergence sector, will participate in Galeries with their first joint presentation at Art Basel Paris. Bringing together works by Boz Deseo Garden, Sophie Kovel, Sena Sasaki, Marie Angeletti, and Flora Klein, the presentation explores questions of history, memory, property, and representation. Highlights include Garden’s film Harriet (Verso), which takes as its starting point an 1851 archival bond concerning an enslaved woman named Harriet, and new works by Sasaki examining the fragmented histories and contested symbolism of his native Hokkaido.

• Jeffrey Deitch (Los Angeles, New York, West Hollywood) and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (New York) will return with their second joint presentation at Art Basel Paris, assembling two generations of American abstractionists. Works by Beauford Delaney, who settled in Paris in 1953, will be shown alongside a new body of work created by Alteronce Gumby, revealing resonances in the artists’ respective explorations of light, color, materiality, and spirituality. The presentation follows Delaney’s inclusion in the Centre Pompidou’s landmark 2025 exhibition ‘Paris Noir’.
  
  ChertLüdde (Berlin) —participating in Galeries for the first time—and Ellen de Bruijne Projects (Amsterdam) will bring together three generations of feminist artistic practices through the works of Clemen Parrocchetti and Pauline Curnier Jardin. From Parrocchetti’s feminist textile assemblages of the 1970s to Curnier Jardin’s contemporary exploration of aging and the female body, the presentation examines evolving approaches to gender, desire, sexuality, and representation.

• Tina Kim Gallery (Seoul, New York), graduating from Premise, and Take Ninagawa (Tokyo) jointly focus their presentation on post-war and contemporary practices from across Asia and its diasporas. Featuring artists including Pacita Abad, Kim Lim, Lee ShinJa, Tsuruko Yamazaki, Kazuko Miyamoto, Aki Sasamoto, Ha Chong-Hyun, and Suki Seokyeong Kang, the presentation foregrounds cross-generational dialogues and the contributions of women artists, while spanning textile, string, collage, painting, sculpture, and industrial materials
  

• Gianni Manhattan (Vienna) and PM8 / Francisco Salas (Vigo), both returning to Art Basel Paris following previous participation in Emergence, join forces for a presentation examining the instability of everyday experience. Through works by artists including Algirdas Šeškus, Gintautas Trimakas, Sebastian Jefford, Rosalind Nashashibi, and Marina Faust, the galleries will explore domestic space, architecture, memory, desire, absence, and the passage of time.

Emergence presents 16 solo booths dedicated to emerging artistic practices across the balconies of the Grand Palais’ central Nave. The 2026 edition is marked by significant renewal, with 12 first-time participants and broad geographic representation from Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Many presentations are newly commissioned or produced specifically for the fair, with a focus on installation-based and cross-disciplinary practices.

Highlights from the 12 first-time participants to Emergence include:

• KIN (Brussels) will present a solo booth of works by Angharad Williams (Ynys Môn, 1984), based on a chapter from the Welsh artist’s 2023 book Eraser. Five large-scale oil paintings depict schools of trout in various formations, while a new video work casts viewers as the chapter’s narrator in the moments before they bite into a live fish, breaching the boundary between desire and consumption. Shot in first-person perspective, the video is inspired by the logic of POV gaming, fantasy, and inner worlds.

• P21 (Seoul) will make its debut at Art Basel Paris with a solo project by South Korean artist Haneyl Choi (Seoul, 1991). Titled Sleepwalking, the presentation will comprise four mixed-media sculptures that treat the body as a site of transformation and instability. Drawing from Choi’s own experiences with sleepwalking and teeth grinding, the project coincides with the October opening of his solo show of the same name at Art Sonje Center in Seoul.

• Oskar Weiss (Zurich) will present a solo project by Zurich-based Italian artist Lorenza Longhi (Lecco, 1991), whose practice investigates pop culture’s influence on fine art. The booth’s floor will be covered with a site-specific silkscreen and PVC work, inspired by an ancient Roman mosaic and debris from the artist’s studio. The booth will also include Longhi’s largest painting to date, as well as a gift bag concealing a spy camera, serving as a comment on surveillance in late-stage capitalism.

Other first-time exhibitors in Emergence include:

• Lo Brutto Stahl (Paris, Basel), presenting a sculptural installation by Clémentine Adou (Paris, 1988), which uses dismantled umbrella structures and cardboard forms to reference Parisian retail displays and examine systems of spectacle, circulation, and control.

• Mariposa (Los Angeles, New York), presenting large-scale paintings by Drake Carr (Flint, 1993), which merge Mannerist composition and the visual language of queer nightlife

• 243 Luz & Co (Margate) presenting wall-based works by Solomon Garçon (London, 1991), which draw on the visual language of reality television and recontextualize aspirational props and signifiers within the art fair environment

• Green Art Gallery (Dubai) presenting ceramic works and drawings by Asma Belhamar (Dubai, 1988), which explore how rapid urban development in the UAE reshapes spatial perception and collective memory

• Brunette Coleman (London), presenting analogue photography and electroplated objects by Nat Faulkner (London, 1995), made using recycled X-ray film to render visible the material conditions of image production

• Schiefe Zähne (Berlin), presenting collaged paintings by Anna Clegg (London, 1998), constructed from repeated party photographs reorganized into unstable architectural compositions

• ermes ermes (Rome), presenting an environment of new site-specific sculptures by Beatrice Bonino (Turin, 1992), exploring ancient Sanskrit conceptions of existence through everyday materials divorced from their original purpose

• Eli Kerr (Montreal), with a sculptural installation by artist duo Rosario Aninat (Santiago, 1993) and Simon Shim-Sutcliffe (Toronto, 1997), which reimagines ancient Chinese cong and bi forms in stone, glass, plaster, metal, and wood

• Wschód (Warsaw, New York), with a site-specific sculptural collage by Cudelice Brazelton IV (Dallas, 1991), assembled from the dismantled remains of his 2025 installation Pomade House to explore labor and the mortality of material.

Highlights from returning exhibitors to Emergence include:

• Exo Exo (Paris), presenting an installation of large-scale oil paintings by Yann Stéphane Bisso (Cameroon, 1998), inspired by the painted backdrop in a childhood studio photograph and probing themes of identity and postcolonial memory

• ROH (Jakarta), presenting new silk and lacquer paintings by Thảo Nguyên Phan (Ho Chi Minh City, 1987), which draw on postcolonial architecture and traditional Vietnamese abstraction

• Bank (Shanghai, New York), with six metal-cast sculptures by Yibei Zhang (China, 1992), which reframe hunger and freedom not as opposing concepts, but as primal images of the human spirit

• Galeria Stereo (Warsaw), presenting an installation by Ant Łakomsk (Toruń, 2001), in which light from a carousel slide projector seems to set sculptures and paintings in motion, echoing the movement of passersby.

Full list: artbasel.com/paris/emergence

Art Basel Paris’ signature sector Premise presents singular curatorial projects that revisit and expand art historical narratives, including underrecognized practices and, in selected cases, works produced before 1900. Twelve galleries will participate in 2026, including nine first-time Art Basel Paris exhibitors, with presentations spanning historically grounded, research-led approaches to Modern and contemporary art histories.

This year, Premise moves into the larger Salon Seine, allowing Art Basel Paris to welcome three additional projects compared to the previous edition.

Premise is notably anchored by Paris-based galleries: Eric Mouchet (Paris, Brussels) and Pavec (Paris) return to the sector following their 2025 presentations — the former with approximately 20 works from Robert Michel's (1897–1978) Weimar Dada period (1919–1921), accompanied by a newly commissioned scholarly catalogue; the latter with three monumental canvases from Jacqueline Lamba's (1910–1993) Sources series (1960–1980), drawn directly from the artist's estate and selected for the forthcoming 2027 retrospective at the Musée Cantini in Marseille. Galerie Zlotowski (Paris) also returns to Art Basel Paris for the first time since with a Premise debut dedicated to Vera Molnár (1924–2023), tracing the conceptual foundations of the pioneer of computer art’s later algorithmic practice through works from 1947–1956.

New participants include:

• Olney Gleason (New York), with a presentation of works by Robert Indiana (1928–2018) and Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015), drawing from Indiana’s personal collection spanning 1956–1960, including previously unseen works that reconsider the artists’ reciprocal influence during their years at Coenties Slip

• Amanda Wilkinson Gallery (London), with tar paintings by Derek Jarman (1942–1994) from his ‘Black Paintings’ series (1989–1991), in which embedded objects, crucifixes, and mirrors activate scorched surfaces as meditations on memory, alchemy, and AIDS-era visibility, developed alongside The Garden and Prospect Cottage

• kó (Lagos), presenting works by Uche Okeke (1933–2016), Obiora Udechukwu (b. 1946), and El Anatsui (b. 1944), mapping the Nsukka School’s post-independence trajectory and its engagement with uli traditions — a visual language drawn from Igbo wall painting — as a framework for abstraction and critique

• Almeida & Dale (São Paulo), with paintings and works on paper by Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973), tracing her Pau Brasil and Anthropophagic phases — key movements in Brazilian modernism — and reaffirming her central role in shaping a global modernist language, following a major retrospective at the Musée du Luxembourg

• Blue Velvet (Zurich, Madrid), with a presentation dedicated to Sibylle Ruppert (1942–2011), centered on Curval, a major large-scale work never before exhibited, coinciding with upcoming institutional shows at MO.CO (Montpellier) and the Neue Nationalgalerie (Berlin)

• Le Violon Bleu (Sidi Bou Said), with works by Farid Belkahia (1934–2014), tracing his transition from academic training in Prague to a practice rooted in leather, pigment, and Moroccan geometric traditions

• Galeria Raquel Arnaud (São Paulo), with a selection of largely unseen works by Arthur Luiz Piza (1928–2017), populated by stylized figures with Surrealist-leaning forms that reflect the spirit of experimentation underpinning his prolific career as a printmaker, as well as the Painted Mosaics for which he is best known

• Danysz Gallery (Paris, Shanghai) with a solo display dedicated to Futura (aka Lenny McGurr) (b. 1955), tracing his influence on contemporary art and the way he pushed the boundaries of graffiti to develop a radically new abstract visual language. These museum-quality works, rarely exhibited, will be shown in an art fair setting for the first time

• Durazzo (Paris), with a selection of works on paper by Hilla Rebay (1890–1967), the visionary artist and curator who conceived the Guggenheim Collection and the eponymous New York museum. Alongside her curatorial practice, she developed a significant body of graphic work, now being rediscovered as a major contribution to the early twentieth-century avant-garde.

Full list: artbasel.com/paris/premise

On the occasion of its upcoming edition, Art Basel Paris deepens its integration into Parisian cultural life through its Public Program. Across nine storied venues, the initiative features monumental installations and major international artistic projects presented in the Grand Palais area and other key historical venues throughout the capital.

Miu Miu is the Public Program Official Partner.

This year's projects and venues are:

Palais d’Iéna
Geste de Consolation, a special project by Alice Diop, presented by Miu Miu  

Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine
Kennedy Yanko’s sculptures (2026), curated by Matthieu Poirier

Parvis des Droits-de-l’Homme - Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine
Tracey Emin’s bronze sculptures I lay here for you (2018), I Followed You to the End (2024), and I Will Not Be Alone (2025), presented by White Cube

Chapelle des Petits-Augustins des Beaux-Arts de Paris 
Kutluğ Ataman’s 40-screen video installation Küba (2004), presented by Niru Ratnam

Petit Palais 
Cosima von Bonin’s plush sculptures The Dollys & The Beaux (2026), presented by Petzel, Gaga, Neu

Jardin de la Nouvelle-France
Boz Deseo Garden’s steel sculptures Celia, or the Misfortunes of Virtue (2026), presented by Petrine

Square Jean Perrin
Lionel Sabatté’s bronze sculptures Champs d'Oiseaux (2026), presented by Ceysson & Bénétière

Place Clemenceau
Robert Indiana’s steel sculpture LOVE Wall (1966-2006), presented by Almine Rech

Avenue Winston-Churchill (in presentation order from Place Clemenceau)
Marcello Maloberti, Yinka Shonibare, Simone Fattal, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Manfred Pernice, Alicja Kwade, Carmen Herrera, Keita Miyazaki

Discover further details below.

A special project by Alice Diop
Geste de Consolation
Presented by Miu Miu

As part of the 2026 Public Program, Miu Miu presents Geste de Consolation by French filmmaker Alice Diop at the Palais d’Iéna. Diop’s very first foray into exhibition-making extends her cinematic vision beyond the screen into narrativized space, bringing together film, photography, sculpture, poetry, dance, music, and performance as a montage of encounters and emotions.

‘I want my curation to center on acts of consolation conceived by Black women artists, each active in their own discipline, to repair the fetishizing gaze to which centuries of art history have confined us’, Diop says. In Geste de Consolation, she gathers women who ‘have healed me, who have nourished me,’ into a journey across four interconnected spaces, each organized around a different discipline, voice, and architectural atmosphere.

The itinerary includes contributions by Zanele Muholi, Mary Lee Bendolph, a video installation by Alice Diop, readings of Penda Diouf, Zora Neale Hurston, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Marie Ndiaye, Zadie Smith, and performances by Nadia Beugré, Angel Bat Dawid and Sistazz of the Nitty-Gritty, culminating with Simone Leigh's monumental bronze sculpture Sentinel (Mami Wata) (2020–21).

Diop conceives of Geste de Consolation as a form of montage, with the guided path moving from one part of the exhibition to another, functioning like a film edit moves from one shot to the next, offering a scenographic journey of remembrance and repair.

The project is open to the public from October 21 until October 25. Online registration for exhibition guided tours will be available on miumiu.com from October 8, 2026.

Miu Miu is the Public Program Official Partner of Art Basel Paris 2026. The project is realized in collaboration with the Palais d’Iéna, seat of France’s Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE).

Tracey Emin
I lay here for you (2018), I Followed You to the End (2024), and I Will Not Be Alone (2025)
Presented by White Cube (London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris, Seoul)

Art Basel Paris, White Cube and the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine will present three monumental bronze sculptures by Tracey Emin: I lay here for you (2018), I Followed You to the End (2024), and I Will Not Be Alone (2025), which explore the female body as a site of vulnerability, endurance, and transformation.

In I lay here for you, a prone, elongated figure oscillates between exposure and withdrawal, its tactile surface conveying intimacy, desire, and fragility. In I Followed You to the End, the body rises into a kneeling form with sprawled legs ambiguously parted as tender invitation or brutal subjugation.

Finally, I Will Not Be Alone presents a seated figure poised on a rock. Her veiled face shifts the work beyond portraiture, allowing it to operate as a collective embodiment of strength and emotional endurance. Here, love and connection emerge not as sentiment but as a necessary condition against isolation.

Across the three works, the body moves from prone to kneeling to seated, tracing a progression from surrender to insistent resilience.

The sculptures will be on view from October 20 to 25, marking the first Public Program project realized by Art Basel Paris installed at the Parvis des Droits-de-l’Homme.

Kennedy Yanko
Curated by Matthieu Poirier

Kennedy Yanko presents a new body of sculptures conceived in dialogue with the casts of the Galerie Carlu. Working with salvaged materials, primarily metal, Yanko creates irregular structures covered with large, flexible ‘skins’ of acrylic paint, poured on the floor, dried, and cut before being assembled with the metal forms.

Presented in the Cité’s Galerie des moulages, the works enter into dialogue with masterpieces of French monumental sculpture. Installed among portals and sculpted figures, they extend the play of folds, volumes, and materials, while revealing the usually unseen reverse of architectural structures.

The exhibition will be on view from October 16, 2026 to January 3, 2027.

Kutluğ Ataman
Küba (2004)
Presented by Niru Ratnam (London)

For Art Basel Paris 2026, Kutluğ Ataman presents Küba (2004), a 40-screen video installation. Shown on television screens placed among mismatched armchairs and salvaged furniture, the work brings together the testimonies of forty residents of Küba, a former informal settlement on the outskirts of Istanbul founded in the late 1960s by people fleeing political persecution. Each person speaks directly to the camera, recounting memories, beliefs, fears, and aspirations. The overlapping narratives form a collective portrait of a community shaped by migration, poverty, mutual protection, and survival.

Ataman’s work explores how identity is formed through storytelling and how communities represent themselves from within. More than two decades after its creation, Küba remains a powerful meditation on displacement, belonging, and the conditions of listening.

The work will be on view from October 20 to 25, marking the fifth Public Program project realized by Art Basel Paris in collaboration with Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Cosima von Bonin
The Dollys & The Beaux (2026)
Presented by Petzel (New York), Gaga (Mexico), and Neu (Berlin)

This presentation brings together a body of work by Cologne-based artist Cosima von Bonin, whose emblematic lexicon of plush sea creatures and canines enters a playful yet incisive dialogue with its surroundings. Engaging with the Petit Palais’ history as the Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, the installation establishes a conversation with the institution and its architectural and historical context. In this setting, von Bonin’s sculptures subtly echo those that usually inhabit the museum’s sculpture gallery.

Installed as a mise-en-scène, the exhibition invites visitors to move among the sculptures, encountering them as if in a shared room rather than as distant objects. A St. Bernard, a pair of scallops, a bulldog, an octopus, a whale, and hermit crabs populate the space. Ocean creatures and domesticated animals have long been central to von Bonin’s practice, recurring across decades as figures that are at once disarming and elusive. Rendered as soft, anthropomorphic sculptures, they occupy an ambiguous space between decorative object, character, and critical agent.

Well known for her sculptures and installations created from fabric and readymades, von Bonin often uses comedy and pop culture to question social constructions and relations. In this iteration, the sculptures are newly staged and adorned with theatrical elements including tartan textiles, silk scarves, and other accessories, extending a dialogue with fashion and performance.

This is the third Public Program project realized by Art Basel Paris at the Petit Palais. The work will be on view from October 20 to 25.

Boz Deseo Garden
Celia, or the Misfortunes of Virtue (2026)
Presented by Petrine (Paris, Düsseldorf)

At the Jardin de la Nouvelle-France, Boz Deseo Garden presents Celia, or the Misfortunes of Virtue (2026), a pair of tall, narrow steel sculptures installed along one of the park’s pathways. The works are modelled on a lightning rod that washed ashore from the Bristol Channel, once a major route in the transatlantic slave trade and the site where a sunken slave ship was discovered in the 1990s.

With statues of Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain, and a name borrowed from a former French colony, the Jardin de la Nouvelle-France carries a complex colonial history. Garden’s intervention introduces another layer to this setting, continuing the artist’s research into how the legacy of slavery shapes systems of representation, memory, and public space.

This is the first Public Program project realized by Art Basel Paris at the Jardin de la Nouvelle-France. The work will be on view from October 20 to 25.

Lionel Sabatté
Champs d'Oiseaux (2026)
Presented by Ceysson & Bénétière (Paris, New York, Lyon, Geneva, Saint-Étienne, Luxembourg)

Lionel Sabatté presents Champs d’oiseaux (2026), a group of bronze birds perched on tall columns. Clustered together, the birds appear to pause in mid-migration, creating a fragile sense of balance between stillness and movement, ground and sky.

Sabatté, a finalist for the 2025 Marcel Duchamp Prize, is known for his use of materials such as dust, metal, and volcanic stone, as well as for works that explore the transformation of living things over time. Birds recur throughout his practice as descendants of dinosaurs and witnesses to an ancient evolutionary history.

This is the first Public Program project realized by Art Basel Paris at Square Jean Perrin. The work will be on view from October 20 to 25.

Robert Indiana
LOVE Wall (1966-2006)
Presented by Almine Rech (Paris, Brussels, New York, Shanghai, Monaco)

At Place Clemenceau, Robert Indiana presents LOVE Wall (1966-2006), a monumental Cor-Ten steel sculpture based on the artist’s iconic LOVE motif. Composed of four stacked LOVE forms, two upright and two inverted, the work transforms one of Indiana’s most recognizable images into an architectonic structure that can be encountered from multiple perspectives.

A central figure in American art since the 1960s, Indiana described himself as an ‘American painter of signs.’ His work brought together language, abstraction, and popular imagery to explore American identity, personal history, and the emotional force of words. First developed in the mid-1960s, LOVE became one of his defining subjects, revisited across paintings, prints, and sculptures throughout his career.

This is the first Public Program project realized by Art Basel Paris at Place Clemenceau. The work will be on view from October 20 to 25.

In presentation order from Place Clemenceau.
Marcello Maloberti, Yinka Shonibare, Simone Fattal, Niki de Saint-Phalle Manfred Pernice, Alicja Kwade, Carmen Herrera, Keita Miyazaki

Avenue Winston-Churchill will once again host a sequence of large-scale sculptures and installations in the public realm. Connecting the Petit Palais and the Grand Palais, the avenue will allow visitors to encounter major projects that explore questions of transformation, memory, urban life, cultural identity, and the shifting relationship between monumentality and fragility. The works featured are:

• Alicja Kwade’s L’Élévation des Mondes (2026) (presented by Mennour), a new iteration of a sculpture composed of stone spheres originating from different regions of the world. The work evokes geological time, planetary history, and fragile systems of order, while also recalling the Tower of Babel and humanity’s desire to construct universal structures of meaning.

• Carmen Herrera’s Angulo Amarillo (2017) (presented by Lisson), an aluminium and acrylic sculpture from the artist’s late ‘Angulo’ series, translating the sharp geometry of her paintings into three dimensions through a dynamic yellow chevron form.

• Keita Miyazaki’s A Symbiotic Form (2025) (presented by Rosenfeld), a monumental installation made from recycled car parts and waterproof Japanese paper, bringing together industrial fragments and brightly colored organic forms that appear to spread and mutate in response to the architecture of the Grand Palais.

• Manfred Pernice’s bank-group (2026) (presented by Anton Kern and Neu), a group of four concrete benches fitted with metal rods and ceramic details, functioning at once as seating, sculpture, and architectural markers within the public space.

• Marcello Maloberti’s CIEL (2026) (presented by Raffaella Cortese), a neon installation suspended around 20 metres above the avenue by an aerial platform, with the word 'CIEL' written in the artist’s hand and inverted as if addressed to the sky.

• Niki de Saint Phalle’s Cat Head Totem (2000) (presented by Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois), a mosaic-covered totem connected to the artist’s late project ‘Queen Califia’s Magical Circle’ in California, drawing on myth, color, spirituality, and the visual language of her monumental gardens.

• Simone Fattal’s Door (2024) (presented by Karma International, Balice Hertling, Greene Naftali, kaufmann repetto, Hubert Winter), a monumental bronze sculpture whose fractured vertical elements recall a gateway or remnants of a wall, evoking memory, displacement, and the passage of time.

• Yinka Shonibare’s Abstract Bronze VIII (presented by Mennour), an abstract bronze sculpture painted with Dutch wax patterns that point to layered histories of trade, identity, and cultural exchange.

This year’s edition of Oh La La! — Art Basel Paris’ special initiative inviting galleries to present new works at their booths on Friday and Saturday of the fair — will be art-directed by French actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu. The theme of this year's edition is Myths and Legends.

Exhibitors are invited to present works that explore the many forms that myths and legends can take — from foundational narratives that transcend cultures and generations to personal and contemporary mythologies.

The theme invites us to consider myth not as a story belonging to the past, but as a way of inhabiting the world, forging connections, and contributing to its re-enchantment. Rather than illustrating familiar stories, the theme encourages works that open spaces for mystery, wonder, and contemplation, leaving room for dreams, the invisible, and the imagination.

It also invites an exploration of the relationship between humans and nature, as well as the symbolic, spiritual, and cosmic dimensions of existence, through works that spark curiosity and leave room for interpretation.

Participating booths will explore ideas such as metamorphosis and transformation; dreams and the unconscious, animals and nature; rituals and beliefs; mythologies; reimagined foundational narratives, imaginary landscapes; constellations and the cosmos; connections between the visible and the invisible; ancestral memories; contemporary fables; the magic of everyday life; objects carrying legends or memories; archetypes and universal figures (hero, guide, guardian, double).

Artists featured in the rehang will include: Nina Childress, Ossip Zadkine, Portia Zvavahera, and Philippe Mayaux Butterfly.

Held for the first time in the Grand Palais Auditorium, Art Basel’s flagship talks program, Conversations, brings together major figures from across art and culture – from Louvre director Christophe Leribault and French TV icon Claire Chazal to performer Jordan Roth and critic Linda Yablonsky. Artists one-on-ones offer intimate conversations with artists including Zanele Muholi and Ibrahim Mahama. All panels are free and open to the public.

Thursday, October 22

2:15–3:00 pm
Among friends: Simone Fattal and Hans Ulrich Obrist

Simone Fattal, artist, Paris
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine, London

Simone Fattal and Hans Ulrich Obrist pick up their ongoing conversation. Taking Fattal’s forthcoming exhibition, ‘Cities at the Bottom of a Lake’ at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris – and her work in Art Basel Paris’ Public Program – as their point of departure, they revisit the questions and discoveries that have animated their exchange over the last decades. Much like the exhibition, their conversation will be expansive, covering half a century of work from early landscapes to ceramics and collages. Part trip down memory lane, part portrait at close range, it offers the rare pleasure of hearing two friends revisit some of Fattal’s major artistic achievements.

3:30–4:15 pm
How do you build a monument? Eva Jospin and Laurent Dumas

Laurent Dumas, Chairman, Emerige Group, Chairman, Le Large, and collector, Paris
Eva Jospin, artist, Paris
Moderated by Coline Milliard, Executive Editor, Art Basel, London

Each in their own way, collector Laurent Dumas and artist Eva Jospin have explored what happens when artists are free to express themselves on a monumental scale. Their collaboration includes La Traversée (2018), Jospin’s cardboard forest commissioned by Emerige for Beaupassage on the Left Bank in Paris. As Dumas opens Large, an ambitious art center on the Île Seguin, they discuss how commissions develop between artist and patron, and what it requires to take an idea from sketch to reality.

4:45–5:30 pm
Can an experience be the artwork? Alexandre de Betak and Massimiliano Gioni

Alexandre de Betak, artist, London 
Massimiliano Gioni, Toby Devan Lewis Director, New Museum, New York

From mountaintop installations in Gstaad, Switzerland, to immersive fashion environments around the world, Alexandre de Betak creates temporary worlds designed to linger on in the mind. After decades shaping fashion’s visual language behind the scenes, he is now presenting his work as an artistic practice in its own right, using light and space to alter perception. In conversation with Massimiliano Gioni, de Betak reflects on this evolution and considers whether experience itself can become an artistic medium.

Presented in partnership with Qatar Creates Talks

Friday, October 23

11:30 am–12:15 pm
Museum futures: Centre Pompidou – the next 50 years

Laurent Le Bon, President, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris
Claire Chazal, journalist, Paris

Fifty years after the Centre Pompidou opened, its landmark building has closed for a major transformation. But renovation is only part of the story. In conversation with journalist Claire Chazal, Centre Pompidou President Laurent Le Bon looks beyond the 2030 reopening to ask what the institution should become over the next half-century. Together, they consider how it can remain both radical and popular if its identity extends beyond a single building, and what success would look like, not in 2030, but in 2077.

2:15–3:00 pm
Artist one-on-ones | Ibrahim Mahama

Ibrahim Mahama, artist, Tamale, Ghana
Aby Gaye-Duparc, curator, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris

For ‘Artist one-on-ones’, artists take to the Conversations stage for a closer look at their careers and recent projects. Ibrahim Mahama, a 2025 Art Basel Awards Gold Medalist, speaks to Aby Gaye-Duparc, curator of his first exhibition in Paris, ‘The Harvest Season’, at the Fondation Cartier. They discuss the cultural institutions the artist has founded in Tamale, northern Ghana, and how working with local communities has become central to his practice.

3:30–4:15 pm
Artist one-on-ones | Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi, activist, Cape Town
Pascale Obolo, independent curator, filmmaker-researcher, and editor-in-chief of Afrikadaa, Paris

‘Artist one-on-ones’ cedes the Conversations stage to artists for a deep dive into their careers and recent projects. Against the backdrop of ‘Remember Me’, a major exhibition marking the bicentenary of photography at the Bourse de Commerce, visual activist Zanele Muholi speaks to filmmaker and curator Pascale Obolo about the camera as a means of claiming a place in history. Bringing together two practices shaped by archives and marginalized narratives, they consider how images can resist erasure and who gets to be remembered.

Presented in collaboration with The Californien Agency

4:45–5:30 pm
Artist one-on-ones | Stanislava Kovalcikova

Stanislava Kovalcikova, artist
Caroline Bourgeois, advisor to the Pinault Collection, Paris

This focused dive explores the work of Stanislava Kovalcikova, newly awarded the 2026 Reiffers Initiatives Prize. Curator Caroline Bourgeois joins her to discuss a practice built up slowly through layers and revisions, populated by figures that can feel intimate or unsettling. Their conversation examines the peculiar psychology of Kovalcikova’s images and the theatrical environments she creates around them.

Saturday, October 24

11:30 am–12:15 pm
Museum futures: The Louvre’s renaissance

Christophe Leribault, President-Director, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Claire Chazal, journalist, Paris

Christophe Leribault took the helm of the Louvre in February 2026, charged with leading the world’s most-visited museum through a period of renovations and transformation. In conversation with journalist Claire Chazal, he looks beyond the practical demands of the ‘Louvre – Nouvelle Renaissance’ project to consider what the institution must become. How can millions of visitors be welcomed without reducing the Louvre to its most iconic exhibits? And how can the museum change while preserving the scholarship that lies at its core?

2:45–3:30 pm
Painting beyond the canvas Renée Levi, artist, Basel

Audrey Teichmann, Curator Audemars Piguet Contemporary
Moderated by Nicolas Trembley, art critic, curator, advisor, and Artistic Director, Syz Collection, Geneva and Paris

For more than three decades, Swiss artist Renée Levi has developed a distinctive approach to painting in which color, gesture, scale, and the body are closely connected to architecture and the spaces in which her work is encountered. Her latest project, September (2026), a large-scale public commission for the Hayward Gallery in London, co-commissioned with Audemars Piguet Contemporary (APC), extends this exploration onto the gallery’s Brutalist façade. Levi and Audrey Teichmann, curator at APC, Audemars Piguet’s contemporary art program, are joined by moderator Nicolas Trembley to discuss the making of this ambitious work alongside Levi’s broader practice, and APC’s ongoing support of artists to develop new commissions.

3:30–4:15 pm
How to build an artist’s legacy

Pauline Pavec, Co-founder, Galerie Pavec, Paris
Jeffrey Deitch, galerist, New York and Los Angeles
Moderated by Marine Van Schoonbeek, Executive Director and cofounder of Thanks for Nothing, Paris

The building of an artist’s legacy begins long before their death. Drawing on their work with artists and estates across generations, Pauline Pavec and Jeffrey Deitch examine how gallerists help secure an artist’s place in history, and the responsibilities they assume once that person is gone. What allows an artist to enter the canon? How can exhibitions and scholarship keep the work relevant without trapping it in a familiar story or attempting to repeatedly reinvent it? Moderated by Marine Van Schoonbeek, the discussion considers how reputations can be built to last.

4:45–5:30 pm
Life as art: Jordan Roth and Linda Yablonsky

Jordan Roth, artist, actor, and producer, New York
Linda Yablonsky, author and art journalist, New York

Seven-time Tony Award-winning Broadway producer Jordan Roth spent decades bringing other people’s visions to the stage. He is now sharing his own. This autumn, his installation To Think of the Tranquil Life of Things takes over the Hotel de Guise with photographs from Roth’s former apartment printed on textiles and draped over the furniture they depict, turning a record of domestic life into functional sculpture. In conversation with Linda Yablonsky, Roth asks what happens when life becomes material and a producer becomes an artist.

Art Basel is delighted to once again collaborate with outstanding partners from France and around the world.

Art Basel Paris’ Premium Partners are UBS and Qatar Airways.

UBS has a long history of supporting contemporary art and artists. The firm has one of the world’s most important corporate art collections of contemporary art. UBS seeks to advance the international conversation about the art market through its global lead partnership with Art Basel, and as co-publisher of the ‘Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report’ and the ‘Art Basel and UBS Survey of Global Collecting’. UBS also supports some of the world’s most important arts institutions, events, and fairs. For more information about UBS’s commitment to contemporary art, visit ubs.com/art.

For the first time, UBS will open its UBS Salon to the public from Friday through Sunday during Art Basel Paris, offering visitors the opportunity to experience Earthly Paradise: Nature Reimagined, with artworks from the UBS Art Collection. A public program will accompany the presentation, with further details to be announced.

UBS is Art Basel's Global Lead Partner.

Qatar Airways continues to leverage its global network to connect people, places, and cultures worldwide. As Art Basel’s Premium Partner, the national airline of the State of Qatar serves as a catalyst for discovery and cultural dialogue. Through this long-term alliance, the airline supports Art Basel’s prestigious annual exhibitions in Basel, Paris, Hong Kong, Miami Beach, and Qatar, helping connect audiences with exceptional artistic experiences and fostering cultural exchange on a global scale.

Inspired by the cultural significance of the majlis, Qatar Airways, along with Qatar Sports Investments and QC+, presents the Qatar Lounge: a space that invites guests to experience quintessential Qatari hospitality through Chef Noof Al-Marri’s distinctive culinary offerings. Conceived as a gateway to the destination, the Lounge brings together art, culture, fashion, and sport through curated programming and exclusive designer-created pieces, showcasing Qatar’s creative energy, global outlook and distinctive cultural identity.

Art Basel Paris’ Associate Partners are BMW, Louis Vuitton, Audemars Piguet, NetJets, and the Hong Kong Tourism Board.

• BMW has been partnering with Art Basel for over twenty years now as part of the company’s cultural engagement spanning more than half a century with hundreds of initiatives worldwide. BMW is always guided by the belief that absolute creative freedom is as essential for artists to create meaning away from the bling-bling as it is for BMW’s engineers and designers to come up with the best solutions for individual mobility, both today and tomorrow.

• Louis Vuitton will once again host a booth at the fair as an Associate Partner, celebrating the House’s longstanding connection to the arts and reaffirming its role as a House of Culture.

• 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 their VIP clients in their private lounge, featuring works by contemporary artist Brent Wadden.

• Hong Kong is the international art hub in Asia, standing at the forefront of Asia’s cultural landscape, offering a dynamic blend of world-class art fairs, cutting-edge exhibitions, and vibrant creative districts. Through this collaboration, Hong Kong Tourism Board 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.

Art Basel Paris is proud to announce Airbnb as its Show Partner.

• Art Basel and Airbnb will continue their global partnership this fall for Art Basel Paris, building on a first year that offered travelers unique stays and connected them to the artists and tastemakers shaping the art world. During the fair’s fifth edition, this year’s partnership brings two new exclusive experiences, bookable on Airbnb on September 24: a hands-on painting workshop with artist Szabolcs Bozó, overlooking the fair from the Grand Palais terrace, and a private after-hours tour with Arthur Hadade, CEO of CUR8, viewing key works as galleries hang new pieces for the following day. Additionally, Airbnb is opening the doors of a private Airbnb Luxe residence steps from the fair, with immersive programming for select fair attendees. Airbnb is also continuing its $1.2 million Travel Grant Program, supporting travel for emerging artists and galleries. Each Art Basel fair director will nominate recipients, highlighting new exhibitors and ambitious practices.  

Art Basel Paris’ Public Program Official Partner is Miu Miu.

For its 2026 commission as Art Basel Paris Public Program Official Partner, Miu Miu has invited French filmmaker Alice Diop to conceive Geste de Consolation (Gesture of Consolation), a major project at the Palais d’Iéna.

Art Basel Paris’ Host Partners are Ray-Ban and Guerlain.

Ray-Ban presents ‘Impossible Frames’, an exhibition challenging young visionary artists to reject the logic of materials, structure, and function in favor of pure acts of visual defiance. Moving beyond the merely feasible, this exhibition explores the threshold where authentic art is born. The space serves as a sanctuary where imagination dissolves limits, allowing entirely new worlds to take shape.

To celebrate the launch of its new L’Heure Bleue fragrance, Guerlain will stage an exhibition of modern and contemporary art inspired by the mystery of the 'blue hour', this suspended moment that belongs neither entirely to the day, nor yet to the night, when imagination awakens and new possibilities unfold.

Art Basel Paris' Official Partners are Samsung, Dorsia, Zegna, Vitra, illycaffè, JNBY, and its Official Champagne Provider is Maison Ruinart.

• Samsung as the Official Art TV Partner of Art Basel, Samsung Art Store will introduce a new Art Basel Paris collection, bringing a curated selection of artworks from participating galleries and artists to audiences around the world through its Art TV series.

• Dorsia as Official Partner, will provide its members with tech-driven VIP access to the fair and Dorsia-curated event programming, including a private reception hosted at the Grand Palais, while bringing its seamless hospitality reservation platform to Paris as part of its continued global expansion.   

• Zegna will provide co-branded tote bags for Art Basel Paris VIP guests across official partner hotels.

• Vitra, the Swiss furniture company renowned for its innovative designs and collaborations with iconic designers and architects, will furnish Art Basel's Collector's lounge in Paris.

• illycaffè, the global coffee brand renowned for its unique communication with the world of contemporary art, will welcome fair visitors in a public lounge, featuring coffee cups from the 2026 Art Biennale illy Art Collection.

• JNBY, the global platform for the past, present and future, will return as Art Basel’s official Global Host Uniform Partner.

• Art Basel Paris' Official Champagne Provider, Maison Ruinart, will host a bar and present a solo show by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata, continuing the 2026 series of Conversations with Nature.

Art Basel Paris' Official Hotel Partners are Le Royal Monceau-Raffles Paris, Shangri-La Paris, Castille Paris, SAX Paris, and B Signature Hotels & Resorts.

Coinciding with Art Basel Paris, an extraordinary constellation of exhibitions and artistic events unfolds across the city, autumn one of the most compelling moments to experience Paris' cultural scene.

Resonating with many of the themes and artistic currents on view at the Grand Palais, this season notably foregrounds women artists, many of whom will also be represented at the fair, through major exhibitions dedicated to Mary Cassatt and Jenny Holzer at the Musée d’Orsay, Simone Fattal at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Prune Nourry and Eva Gonzalès at the Petit Palais, and Louise Bourgeois at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

The Dada movement is also celebrated through a major exhibition on Kurt Schwitters at the Musée Picasso. Photography takes center stage as part of the bicentenary of its invention, with landmark exhibitions at the Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection, the Jeu de Paume featuring Stan Douglas, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie showcasing Irving Penn and his relationship with fashion. Artists of African and African American heritage are likewise at the heart of major institutional presentations, including Kerry James Marshall at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris and Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain.

Must-see shows and events include:

• Musée d'Orsay
  'Mary Cassatt: Le choix de l'indépendance'
  'Jenny Holzer: J’ai vu'

• Musée de l'Orangerie
  'Monet: peindre le temps'

• Musée Picasso
  'Total Schwitters'

• Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
  'Kerry James Marshall: The Histories'
  'Simone Fattal'
  Prix Marcel Duchamp 2026

• Fondation Louis Vuitton
  'Gustave Fayet'
  
• Grand Palais
  'Cezanne et nous'

• Musée du Luxembourg
  ‘Andy Warhol. La ligne et l'image’
  

• Jeu de Paume
  'Stan Douglas'

• Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
  'Ibrahim Mahama: The Harvest Season'

• Lafayette Anticipations
  'Yu Nishimura'
  'Hélène Fauquet'

• Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collectio
  'Remember Me' (On the occasion of the bicentenary of the invention of photography : a major group exhibition featuring nearly 700 works by more than 70 artists)

• Petit Palais
  'Eva Gonzalès'
  'Prune Nourry'

• La MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie
  'Irving Penn: PENN & FASHION'

• LE BAL
  ‘L’espace entre nous’

• Musée de la BnF
  ‘Louise Bourgeois, Extrême tension’

• Institut du Monde Arabe
  'Mariages (Algérie-Maroc-Tunisie)'

• MAD Musée des Arts décoratifs
  ‘Look ! 40 ans de mode au musée’
  ‘Rafael Pavarotti, photographe’

• Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères
  ‘PASSAGES – Pas sages’ Exhibition on the occasion of Art Basel Paris

• Le Large - Île Seguin
  ‘Moteur Imaginaire’ - opening exhibition

A selection of exhibitions on view in Parisian galleries during Art Basel Paris week:

Acting as a catalyst for the city's artistic energy and the public's appetite for discovery, Art Basel Paris fosters remarkable momentum for cultural activations throughout the capital.

To further enrich the fair experience, visitors are invited to explore the city's vibrant gallery scene throughout the week. Alongside their presentations at the fair, many galleries will unveil a dynamic program of exhibitions in their Paris spaces.

Highlights include:

Gagosian
Lee Krasner - ‘Works from the 1960s’ - October 19 – December 18, 2026

Mariane Ibrahim
Amoako Boafo - ‘The Home I've Never Had’ - October 19 – December 19, 2026

Semiose
Drew Dodge - ‘Earth-Pourers’ - August 29 – October 31, 2026
Mathieu Cherkit - ‘Tendrement’ - August 29 – October 31, 2026

Crèvecœur
Ladji Diaby - ‘Godspeed You! Black Emperor’ - September 5 – October 31, 2026

Galerie Anne Barrault
Marie Losier - ‘Arrière-train fantôme’ - September 5 – October 31, 2026

Galerie Karsten Greve
Cy Twombly - ‘Sperlonga Drawings’ September 12 – November 10, 2026

Perrotin
Alma Allen – From October 17 – December 19, 2026

Petrine
Sophie Kovel - ‘Demos' - September 16 – October 31, 2026

Galerie Allen
Rita Ackermann - ‘Vivre sa Vie’ - October 17 – November 28, 2026

Galerie Nathalie Obadia
Clément Cogitore – ‘Ferdinandea' - September 5 – October 31, 2026
Robert Kushner - ‘Summer Sun: Open my Heart’ - September 5 – October 31, 2026
Wang Keping - ‘Sculptures érotiques’ - September 9 – 14 November 2026

Galerie Poggi
Manuel Mathieu - ‘Ayizan’ - October 21 – November 28, 2026
Kapwani Kiwanga - October 21 – November 28, 2026

Fondation Le Corbusier – Maison La Roche, in collaboration with the Jocelyn Wolff Gallery
Katinka Bock - High and Dry – October 13 – 31 October 2026

Art Basel Paris venue
Grand Palais, Avenue Winston Churchill, 75008 Paris

Art Basel Paris 2026

Preview
By invitation only
Wednesday, October 21, 10am–8pm
Thursday, October 22, 11am–2pm

Vernissage
Access with a Vernissage ticket or invitation
Thursday, October 22, 2pm–8pm

Public opening dates
Access with a ticket or invitation
Friday, October 23, 11am–7pm
Saturday, October 24, 11am–7pm
Sunday, October 25, 11am–7pm

Tickets

There are many ways for visitors to discover and experience the fair. Art Basel Paris offers a range of ticket options.

General

Day Ticket | €47
Single-day access on October 23, 24, or 25. One entry only. Re-entry is not permitted.

Reduced Ticket | €30
For students, visitors under 26, and holders of Louvre Jeunes, Louvre Professionnels, or Louvre Famille cards. Proof of eligibility is required.

Evening Ticket | €40
Access on Friday, October 23, from 5pm to 7pm. One entry only. Re-entry is not permitted.

Vernissage Ticket | €120
Access on Thursday, October 22, from 2pm to 8pm, with a complimentary glass of champagne or non-alcoholic drink.

Permanent

Permanent Ticket | €130
Access throughout the public days, October 23–25, from 11am to 7pm.

Permanent+ Ticket | €220
Access to the Vernissage on October 22, from 2pm to 8pm, and throughout the public days, October 23–25, from 11am to 7pm.

Art Basel Paris exclusive experiences

Premium Connection Pass
Vernissage access with a complimentary drink, permanent access during the public days from October 23–25, VIP Lounge access, VIP entrance, VIP assistance, an exclusive Art Basel gift, concierge service, and access to a curated program of experiences.

Premium Pass
Vernissage access with a complimentary drink, permanent access during the public days from October 23–25, VIP Lounge access, VIP entrance, VIP assistance, a guided tour of the fair, and concierge service.

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

Media access

Online registration for press accreditation for Art Basel Paris 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.

Media contacts

Art Basel, Gabrielle Lacombe
press@artbasel.com

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

PR representatives for the Americas
Sutton, Sara Fox and Julia Debski
Tel. +1 423 402 5381
saraf@suttoncomms.com
julia@suttoncomms.com

PR representatives for Asia
Sutton, Erica Siu and Beth Corner
Tel. +852 6015 1016
erica@suttoncomms.com
beth@suttoncomms.com

Upcoming Art Basel shows

Miami Beach, December 4–6, 2026
Qatar, January 28–30, 2027
Hong Kong, March 25–27, 2027

The Art Basel Shop offers a curated extension of the fair, bringing together artist-designed products, limited editions, and exclusive collaborations that reflect the spirit and creativity of the global art world.

Find the Shop upstairs, on the balcony by Salon d'Honneur

Highlights include:

• The Paris introduction of the Art Basel Studio line expands the Art Basel Basic and Monogram collections with a new expression of the brand’s creative identity. Bringing together apparel, accessories, and everyday objects, Studio reflects the spirit of contemporary art through a distinctly Art Basel lens. The offering on-site includes the Art Basel Basic line, alongside Monogram totes, hats, and crewnecks, as well as Art Basel Studio t-shirts, tools, and key cloches, made in France.

• The AB by Artist Collection features six selected works by Beauford Delaney (1901–1979), brought to life across a range of objects created exclusively for the Art Basel Shop in Paris, the city he called home for more than 25 years and where his artistic vision reached further depths of expression.

Delaney developed a deeply personal visual language shaped by observation, emotion, and the transformative power of color. Inspired by music, spirituality, and lived experience, he used color as a means of expressing hope, resilience, and transformation. Featuring his work across a range of thoughtfully conceived pieces, the collection includes custom watercolor sets made in France by La Nouvelle Vogue, postcard portfolios of his works, an exclusive LOQI tote and a limited edition umbrella.

Link to the Art Basel Shop