Art Basel 2025

For its highly anticipated 2025 edition, Art Basel will unite 289 premier international galleries from 42 countries and territories, showcasing exceptional artworks across all media—from painting and sculpture to photography and digital art. Featured artists will range from iconic early-twentieth-century Modern pioneers to groundbreaking contemporary talent. Art Basel in Basel will once again solidify its unrivaled position as the premier event for the global art market, serving as a hub for discovery, connection, and a driving force for the global art world.

The fair’s remarkable diversity of artistic perspectives will be complemented by vibrant events and activities across the city, engaging Basel’s most renowned cultural institutions. This dynamic program will highlight the city’s distinctive appeal, underscoring the profound impact Art Basel has on its hometown and reinforcing Basel’s position as a unique cultural destination.

Maike Cruse, Director of Art Basel in Basel, said: ‘I am excited to once again welcome the global art world to our flagship event in June. Art Basel 2025 promises to be a defining moment, showcasing a diverse range of extraordinary artworks, sparking international dialogue, and reinforcing its position as one of the most influential events on the global art calendar. With an unmatched line-up of galleries, the introduction of exciting new sectors like Premiere, the return of Parcours, and a stunning immersive installation by Katharina Grosse, Art Basel continues to be a powerful platform for discovery and a driving force for cultural exchange, innovation, and artistic expression.’

Enhancing Art Basel 2025, the fair will debut 18 new galleries from Europe, Asia, and the Americas, enriching its global reach with fresh perspectives. Among them, Arcadia Missa (London) and François Ghebaly (Los Angeles, New York) will enter directly into the main Galleries sector, while 14 galleries will join for the first time in the Feature and Statements sectors.

First-time exhibitors in Feature:

• Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles)
• Jean-Kenta Gauthier (Paris)
• Galería Leandro Navarro (Madrid)
• Polka Galerie (Paris)
• Repetto Gallery (Lugano)
• Galerie Oskar Weiss (Zurich)

First-time exhibitors in Statements:

• Nir Altman (Munich)
• Artbeat (Tbilisi)
• Fanta-MLN (Milan)
• Ginny on Frederick (London)
• Franz Kaka (Toronto)
• Kayokoyuki (Tokyo)
• Eli Kerr (Montreal)
• Gunia Nowik Gallery (Warsaw)

A standout addition to the fair this year is the new Premiere sector, which offers galleries a platform to showcase new, pioneering works created in the past five years by up to three artists. Premiere will provide visitors with a unique opportunity to discover new and innovative voices, further solidifying Art Basel’s role as a key platform for artistic discovery. The sector features a total of 10 galleries, while welcoming two new joiners to the fair:

First-time exhibitors in Premiere:

• Edel Assanti (London)
• Kosaku Kanechika (Tokyo)

Art Basel’s Special Sectors

The fair’s acclaimed Parcours sector will return in 2025, curated by Stefanie Hessler, Director of New York’s Swiss Institute (SI). The 2025 edition of Parcours will center on the theme of Second Nature , bringing together artists and works that explore the increasingly blurred lines between life and lifelikeness. This thoughtfully curated public art exhibition will stretch along Clarastrasse towards the Rhine, including the Merian, transforming the urban environment into a captivating journey of artistic discovery. Parcours offers visitors a unique opportunity to engage directly with art in public spaces, enriching the cultural experience of the city and inviting both locals and visitors to encounter art in unexpected and inspiring settings.

In another exciting highlight, renowned artist Katharina Grosse will take over the Messeplatz and the surrounding structures with her spray gun, transforming the space into a vivid chromatic environment. Curated by Natalia Grabowska, Curator at Large, Architecture and Site-Specific Projects at Serpentine, London, this thought-provoking work will be one of the standout features of Art Basel 2025, momentarily transporting visitors as they arrive at the exhibition hall, while highlighting the fair’s commitment to presenting art in remarkable and impactful settings.

Curated by Giovanni Carmine, Director of the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Art Basel’s unique Unlimited sector will again offer a platform for large-scale installations and performances that transcend the traditional art fair booth. The sector, exclusive to Art Basel’s flagship fair in Basel, will feature around 70 monumental works across all media. The Kabinett sector returns for its third edition, offering exhibitors the opportunity to present thoughtfully curated installations within their main booths.

Further details on the presentations in Parcours, Unlimited, Kabinett, Messeplatz, and other programs will be announced in the coming months.

Galleries

The fair’s main sector will showcase 237 of the world’s leading galleries, presenting an exceptional selection of painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, photography, video, digital art, and editioned works, all of the highest quality. With installations and displays designed to evoke the immersive experience of a museum-quality exhibition, the sector will present art at its most refined and thought-provoking. Notably, five galleries that previously exhibited in Feature or Statements will now graduate into the main sector, demonstrating the breadth and depth of their programs with a full spectrum of their most distinguished works.

• Beijing Commune (Beijing) features emblematic works from four generations of artists, including pioneers Zhang Xiaogang and Wang Luyan, alongside contemporary figures like Ma Qiusha and Chang Yuchen, exploring identity, memory, globalization, and materiality.
• Emalin (London) will present new works by Nikita Gale, Megan Plunkett, Kate Spencer Stewart, and Sung Tieu, exploring built environments and the deceptive neutrality of space, including sculpture, painting, photography, and sound installation.
• hunt kastner (Prague) presents the work of four visionary artists—Olga Karlíková, Eva Koťátková, Basim Magdy, and Anna Hulačová—who draw inspiration from the animal world to explore its profound parallels with human existence. Through diverse media, their works reflect on the intersections of nature and humanity, offering powerful insights into our shared struggles and connections.
• Galerie Le Minotaure (Paris) will present a focused exploration of early 20th-century geometric abstraction, highlighting key movements such as Constructivism, Concrete art, and Neoplasticism, alongside works by Jean Arp, Fernand Léger, František Kupka, and a special emphasis on László Moholy-Nagy.
• The Third Gallery Aya (Osaka), a classical gallery for photography, highlights three pioneering Japanese female photographers—Yamazawa Eiko, Okanoue Toshiko, and Ishiuchi Miyako—showcasing rare vintage prints, collages, and iconic works that celebrate their groundbreaking contributions to the medium.

The two first-time participants will present:

• Arcadia Missa (London) presents a group booth featuring works by Lewis Hammond, Jesse Darling, Penny Goring, Jan Vorisek, Onyeka Igwe, and duo Hannah Quinlan & Rosie Hastings, united by their dreamlike, transcendental qualities and incisive critique of societal and artistic frameworks.
• François Ghebaly (Los Angeles, New York) spotlights Christine Sun Kim, Meriem Bennani, Candice Lin, Max Hooper Schneider, Farah Al Qasimi, Kathleen Ryan, Sayre Gomez, Rindon Johnson, and Neïl Beloufa, whose experimental practices and depth of research have paved the way for major institutional recognition.

For the full list of exhibitors in Galleries, please visit artbasel.com/basel/galleries.

Feature
With a unique focus on art-historical projects, the sector will include 16 curated presentations by 17 galleries and welcome six first-time exhibitors. Highlights include:

• Galeria Raquel Arnaud (São Paulo) presents a landmark exhibition of Sergio Camargo, showcasing his iconic Carrara marble and black Belgian stone sculptures alongside his celebrated wood reliefs, which redefine form, light, and shadow in Brazilian art history.
• Anat Ebgi (Los Angeles) showcases Tina Girouard’s iconic 1970s works, including Sky Above, Earth Below (1974), major pieces from the Wallpaper and Test Pattern series, and performance documentation, marking her first solo exhibition in Europe since 1982 and her return to the fair since 1977.
• Madragoa (Lisbon) presents a seminal selection by Swiss, Basel-based artist Annette Barcelo’s series of bathtubs (late ’80s–early ’90s), a rediscovered body of work exploring womanhood, motherhood, and artistic practice through a lens of personal and collective mythology.
• Parker Gallery (Los Angeles) showcases a curated selection of early works by Franklin Williams, showcasing his pioneering soft sculptures and embroidered paintings from a formative period, where his experimental approach to sexuality, desire, and mortality first emerged.
• Polka Galerie (Paris) presents a selection of unique vintage prints by Luigi Ghirri and Franco Fontana, whose reinterpretations of the Italian landscape from half a century ago continue to offer a thoughtful dialogue on nature and modernity.
• First-time participant Galerie Oskar Weiss (Zurich) alongside returning Galerie Mueller (Basel) will jointly present Klaudia Schifferle, one of Switzerland’s most important artists, presenting a selection of her paintings and sculptures from 1980–1987, following the success of her 2024 exhibition and first monograph.
• Jessica Silverman (San Francisco) showcases Mother Earth, a solo exhibition of Judy Chicago, featuring feminist minimalist paintings, rare ‘Atmosphere’ photographs, plates from The Dinner Party (1974-79), and embroidered tapestries, highlighting her groundbreaking exploration of women, biology, and ecology.

For the full list of exhibitors in Feature, please visit artbasel.com/basel/feature.

Statements
Dedicated to emerging artists from across the globe, Statements will feature 18 solo presentations and welcome eight new participants. Highlights include:

• Nir Altman (Munich) presents Ndayé Kouagou’s installation Here and Elsewhere (2025), featuring a 3.5-meter LED video wall displaying a newly produced video in which a reporter conducts street interviews about an undefined event, creating an uncanny atmosphere through its interplay of language and media, all within a minimalist booth setting.
• Artbeat (Tbilisi) presents Nika Kutateladze with an immersive installation that blurs the boundaries between reality and the surreal, reimagining a living room in a decaying Gurian village as a space where nature and human history intertwine, featuring portraits, landscapes, and spectral elements that evoke a haunting narrative of confusion and transformation.
• Fanta-MLN (Milan) presents Swiss artists Michèle Graf and Selina Grüter, who will showcase five new sculptures that deconstruct clocks and re engineer their mechanisms into kinetic works, challenging linear notions of time through a unique language of motion.
• Franz Kaka (Toronto) presents Elif Saydam, featuring two paintings on found toilet stall doors and a trompe l’oeil painting on canvas, alongside sculptural exit signs, exploring queer and trans themes through the symbol of doors as thresholds of hospitality and hostility, disrupting notions of privacy and offering imagined escapes.
• Gunia Nowik Gallery (Warsaw) presents Ukrainian artist Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, showcasing a new body of work that explores themes of identity, displacement, and memory through evocative mixed-media sculptures and installations.
• Jahmek Contemporary Art (Luanda) presents Zimbabwe artist Felix Shumba’s work Emissaries of Amnesia (2025), a multi-sensory installation reflecting on the Chimoio massacre and the role of spiritual healers in the liberation struggle, weaving together a charcoal mural, paintings, and a wooden box sound sculpture to explore historical erasure, covert power, and colonial violence.
• ROH Projects (Jakarta) presents Fabric of the Earth (2025) by Bagus Pandega, an installation exploring the Sidoarjo mudflow disaster by reconstructing lost homes and reinterpreting a fabrication laboratory within the gallery booth. Merging technology, memory, and maker culture, the work serves as both an archive of disappearing communities and a platform for activism and storytelling.

The 26th Annual Baloise Art Prize, comprising a cash prize of CHF 30,000 per winner, will be awarded to up to two artists exhibiting in Statements. In addition, Baloise will acquire works by the selected artists to donate to two leading European museums, which will hold solo exhibitions of the artists’ works.

For the complete list of exhibitors in Statements, please visit artbasel.com/basel/statements.

Premiere
Art Basel’s new sector Premiere features 10 galleries presenting works created within the last five years by up to three artists. The galleries joining the sectors are:

• Broadway (New York) presents Fugue (2025), a multi-channel video installation by Abbey Williams, featuring five synced video channels with sound on pedestal-mounted monitors.
• Chapter NY (New York) showcases a two-person exhibition featuring Antonia Kuo’s multimedia photochemical paintings and Erin Jane Nelson’s ceramic wall works and sculptures, both exploring photography’s ability to capture light, time, and material traces.
• Edel Assanti (London) features a solo booth dedicated to Lonnie Holley, highlighting new works on social justice through monumental sculptures, assemblages, and paintings.
• Gypsum Gallery (Cairo) brings together new paintings by Dimitra Charamandas and analog photographs by Basim Magdy, reflecting their ongoing dialogue on coastal and volcanic landscapes as sites of change, erosion, and regeneration.
• Jacky Strenz (Frankfurt) presents a solo survey of late sculptor Lin May Saeed (1973–2023), showcasing her innovative use of form and materials alongside works addressing animal liberation, human-animal relationships, and ecological responsibility.
• Kosaku Kanechika (Tokyo) showcases LOGOS – What Can Be Said (2025) a new work by Japanese artist Junko Oki, whose unique, abstract embroidery practice weaves together histories, narratives, and emotions while challenging traditional techniques.
• LC Queisser (Tbilisi) presents Tolia Astakhishvili, Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, and Simon Lassig, three contemporary artists exploring the notion of boundarylessness between bodies, images, authorship, and narratives.
• Magician Space (Beijing) presents Liu Ding’s new work Survivors (2025), a room-size installation of his own works alongside pieces from his personal collection, reflecting on survival amidst historical and contemporary traumas.
• Selma Feriani Gallery (Tunis, London) showcases a group show bringing together works by Sara Ouhaddou, M’barek Bouhchichi, and Nadia Ayari, exploring North African heritage and symbolism through ceramics, weavings, sculpture, and painting, bridging past and present in both material and concept.
• Silverlens (Manila, New York) showcases Taloi Havini and Patricia Perez Eustaquio, two mid-career Asia Pacific artists whose works explore craft, memory, and resistance, with Havini’s copper pieces referencing Bougainville’s mining history and Eustaquio’s monumental rope sculptures and digital tapestries abstracting Filipino colonial-era history.

For the complete list of exhibitors in Premiere, please also visit: artbasel.com/basel/premiere.

Edition
Spread across both floors of Hall 2, the sector will feature seven leading galleries in the field of prints and editioned works: Cristea Roberts Gallery (London), Gemini G.E.L. (Los Angeles), knust kunz gallery editions (Munich), Carolina Nitsch (New York), René Schmitt (Westoverledingen), Susan Sheehan Gallery (New York), and STPI (Singapore). For the full list of exhibitors in Edition, please visit artbasel.com/basel/edition.

Cultural events in Basel
Throughout Art Basel week, the city of Basel will present an exceptional array of events and special projects. In addition to the fair, the city’s renowned museums and foundations will showcase a diverse selection of extraordinary exhibitions. Key shows coinciding with Art Basel include:

• Fondation Beyeler
  ‘Vija Celmins’
  ‘There is only one thing I fear in life, my friend: One day, the black will swallow the red. Presentation of the collection with works by Mark Bradford from the Daros Collection’
  ‘Jordan Wolfson: Little Room’
• Kunstmuseum Basel
  ‘Medardo Rosso. Inventing Modern Sculpture’
  ‘Verso. Tales from the Other Side’
  ‘Open Relationship. Contemporary Collection’
• Kunsthalle Basel
  ‘Dala Nasser’
  ‘Ser Serpas’
  ‘Marie Matusz: Canons and Continents’
• Kunsthaus Baselland
  ‘Whispers from Tides and Forests
  Caroline Bachmann, Johanna Calle, Lena Laguna Diel, Abi Palmer, Nohemí Pérez, Ana Silva, Julia Steiner, Surma, Liu Yujia, and other artists’
• Museum Tinguely
  ‘Suzanne Lacy: By Your Own Hand’
  ‘Tinguely100 – Scream Machines – Art Ghost Train by Rebecca Moss & Augustin Rebete’
  ‘Julian Charrière. Midnight Zone’
  ‘La roue = c’est tout. Permanent exhibition Jean Tinguely’
• Schaulager
  ‘Steve McQueen Bass’
  A site-specific new work by renowned artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen
• Vitra Design Museum
  ‘The Shakers: A World in the Making’
• Vitra Schaudepot
  ‘Science Fiction Design: From Space Age to Metaverse’

Press release from Art Basel

Image: Art Basel in 2024. Image courtesy of Art Basel