Art Basel Paris 2026

For its fifth edition, Art Basel Paris, led by new Director Karim Crippa, places Paris at the heart of the fair as an essential part of its artistic and cultural identity. Bringing together 211 leading international galleries, including 64 exhibitors operating spaces in France, the 2026 edition reflects the depth of Paris’ gallery ecosystem while extending the fair’s presence into the city’s museums, institutions, public spaces and creative communities.

Art Basel Paris will take place at the Grand Palais from October 23–25, 2026, with Preview Days on October 21 and 22.

The 2026 edition brings together 183 galleries in the Galeries sector, 16 solo presentations in Emergence and 12 historically focused projects in Premise. Thirty-two galleries will participate in Art Basel Paris for the first time, while six galleries graduate from Emergence to Galeries. A record 12 joint booths, bringing together 24 galleries, will create new dialogues between distinct programs and artistic perspectives.

This year, Premise moves into the larger Salon Seine, giving greater space and visibility to research-led presentations that revisit and expand established narratives of art history.

Beyond the fair itself, Art Basel Paris extends across the city through an expanded Public Program, with major commissions and presentations at the Petit Palais, Palais d’Iéna, Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Parvis des Droits de l’Homme, Beaux-Arts de Paris, Avenue Winston Churchill, Square Jean Perrin, Place Clemenceau and the Jardin de la Nouvelle-France.

The program is complemented by the return of Oh La La!, a two-day rehang allowing galleries to transform their booths with new and thought-provoking works on Friday and Saturday. This year’s edition of Oh La La! will be art-directed by French actress Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu around the theme Myths and Legends.

Conversations moves into the Auditorium of the Grand Palais for the first time, bringing artists, museum directors, curators, collectors and cultural figures together for a program of discussions and one-on-one encounters.

This year’s edition builds on the momentum of Art Basel Paris 2025, which welcomed more than 73,000 visitors and representatives from over 240 museums and foundations.

With its international gallery roster, growing network of institutional partnerships and expanded presence across the French capital, Art Basel Paris 2026 further develops its role within one of the world’s most dynamic cultural ecosystems.

According to the Art Basel & UBS Global Art Market Report 2026, sales in France reached USD 4.5 billion in 2025, representing 8% of the global art market and more than half of the EU market by value. France ranks as the world’s fourth-largest art market.

The 2026 edition reflects the breadth and plurality of Paris’ contemporary art scene, where international and French artists, galleries, museums and cultural institutions intersect. Across the fair and the city, practices move between painting, sculpture, installation, photography, performance, literature, dance, film and new media.

The result is an edition that looks beyond the traditional boundaries of the art fair to explore the many ways in which art is produced, presented, experienced and collected.

Galleries

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.

Parisian and French Scene — Highlights

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.

Paris-Based Galleries

• 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.

International Galleries With Established Presence in Paris

• 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 Modernism, Mid-Century, to Contemporary Explorations

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 Mirrawill further question conventions of mapping, borders and movement, revealing how the frameworks through which we organise 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.

Newcomers in Galeries

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 Radziszewskideveloped 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).

Joint Projects in Galeries

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 ofClemen 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 ex

Solo and Duo Presentations in Galeries

This year’s edition also features a series of focused solo and duo booth projects, offering immersive encounters with the practice of artists. 

Highlights include: 

• Galerie Poggi (Paris) will present a dialogue between paintings by Haitian-born, Montreal-based Manuel Mathieu and some of the most recent works by Franco-Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga. Through a distinctive abstract visual language, Mathieu’s work explores the links between individual memory and collective history, addressing questions of identity, resilience and transmission. Kiwanga’s work revisits marginalised or forgotten histories, using a range of materials and media including sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance. The booth will contain Kiwanga’s recent sculpture Sentinel, while her concurrent exhibition at the gallery’s Rue Saint-Martin location will showcase a new work from her ‘Flowers for Africa’ series.
  
• Carlos/Ishikawa (London) will show a solo presentation of new works by South Korean artist Moka Lee, marking her first major presentation in France. Lee excavates online images from social media, distilling facial expressions and poses into enigmatic portraits and lucid reveries that observe cultural performances and a pervasive demand for attention. Often close-cropping reference images drawn from analogue photography, motion pictures, social media and Modern Masters paintings, Lee complicates the parameters of traditional portraiture.
  
• Pilar Corrias (London) will present a solo booth of new paintings and charcoal works on paper by American artist Christina Quarles. It will include the artist’s largest stretched painting to date, Stay Up Late to See the Light/ Stain’ Up Late to See Tha Light/ Staid Up Late to See Tha Light (2026): a monumental triptych with panels that will alternate daily throughout the fair, revealing different orientations of the work. This evolving installation invites viewers to encounter the painting anew with each configuration, gradually unlocking its multiple compositions. The booth, designed by the artist, uses a matte black shadow to dramatically divide the space, playing with contrast and the natural light that enters through the Grand Palais skylights throughout the day.

Emergence

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 (London) 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, Naples), 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.

Premise

Art Basel Paris’ signature sector Premise presents singular curatorial projects that revisit and expand art historical narratives, including underrecognised 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 Gardenand 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 (Tunis), 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.

Public Program

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 leather and velvet sculptures Dollys & 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

Oh La La!

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.

Conversations

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.

Press release from Art Basel

Image: Installation view from Art Basel Paris, 2025. Image courtesy of Art Basel