From October 24–26, with previews on October 22 and 23, the Grand Palais will again shimmer beneath autumn light as Art Basel Paris gathers 205 galleries from 41 countries. Inside its vast glass dome, centuries of aesthetic daring will mingle—French, American, African, Asian, and Latin American visions crossing paths in the city’s most storied salon.
Leading Dealers and Debuts at Art Basel Paris
Gala Porras-Kim, “202 ivory objects at Carnegie Museum of Art or at Carnegie Museum of Natural History, “2025,
Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council.
Photograph by Paul Salveson.
In Galeries, 179 leading dealers—from Parisian anchors like Mennour, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, and Thaddaeus Ropac to international forces including kaufmann repetto, Acquavella, and Landau Fine Art—will unveil a sweep of Modern, postwar, and contemporary works.
Robert Mapplethorpe,
Courtesy of the artist and Galleria Franco Noero, Torino.
“Centuries of aesthetic daring will mingle,”
Debuts from Voloshyn Gallery, Crèvecœur, 47 Canal, Lodovico Corsini, David Nolan, Jan Kaps, The Approach, Stevenson, Soft Opening, and Chapter NY join solo highlights: Evelyn Taocheng Wang with Carlos/Ishikawa, Gala Porras-Kim with Commonwealth and Council, Jasper Marsalis with Emalin, Binta Diaw with Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, and Abraham Lincoln Walker with Andrew Edlin.
Emergence and Premise Offer Vibrant Shows
Duyi Han, “Ordinance of the Subconscious Treatment,” 2021;
Courtesy of the artist and BANK.
Emergence offers 16 solo presentations suspended above the central nave, including Ethan Assouline’s refreshing sculptures at Gauli Zitter, Mira Mann’s mirrored universe with Drei, Dora Budor’s hybrid forms alongside Molitor, Alexandre Khondji’s site-specific work at Sweetwater, Siyi Li’s film with Cibrián, and Tanoa Sasraku’s monumental piece from Vardaxoglou Gallery.
“Emergence offers 16 solo presentations suspended above the central nave,”
Premise brings 10 deeply focused curations which span time and continents. Look forward to rapturous textiles by Korean fiber artist Lee ShinJa with Tina Kim Gallery, a photographic spectacle of American artist Liz Deschenes and Hungarian Bauhaus photographer Lucia Moholy at Kadel Wilborn, an historical voyage with American conceptual artist Robert Barry at Martine Aboucaya, a rare show of Dadamaino at Frittelli arte contemporanea, and much more.
Paris Dazzles this October
Stefan Rinck, Courtesy of Semiose, Paris,
Photograph by Aurélien Mole.
The project will take place on Avenue Winston Churchill in Paris.
Art Basel Paris reaffirms the French capital’s historic role as a crucible for the avant-garde. The fair’s unifying theme—experimentation across generations—traces a lineage from the radical modernisms of the early 20th century to the global voices redefining contemporary art today.
In the main Galeries sector, historic masterpieces meet pioneering rediscoveries. Galerie Le Minotaure revives the spirit of Dimensionism—a movement born from Einstein’s theory of relativity—through rare watercolors by Fernand Léger and photograms by László Moholy-Nagy. Galerie 1900–2000 juxtaposes Marcel Duchamp’s 9 moules malic study with Hannah Höch’s Kubistische Komposition I (1923) and embroidered surrealist works by Mimi Parent. At Gió Marconi, reliefs by Louise Nevelson converse with gouaches by Sonia Delaunay, while Van de Weghe bridges eras with Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 1983 silkscreen placed in dialogue with Picasso and Warhol.
Ugo Rondinone, The project will take place at Parvis de l’Institut de France in Paris.
Contemporary galleries carry that spirit of disruption forward. At Galerie Max Hetzler, monumental works by Albert Oehlen and Katharina Grosse meet the debut Art Basel Paris presentation of Sabine Moritz. Xavier Hufkens unites generations of defiant voices—Louise Bourgeois’s bronze of 2005, Tracey Emin’s new painting Hunter (2025), Charline von Heyl’s Menelaos (2024), and Cecilia Vicuña’s Corazones (2024)—in a choreography of emotion and form. Beirut’s Sfeir-Semler continues to champion cross-cultural narratives with Etel Adnan, Samia Halaby, and Tarik Kiswanson, among others, in a dialogue that resonates across geographies.
Paris’s own galleries ground the fair in its home city’s enduring creative pulse. Galerie Nathalie Obadia pays tribute to Shirley Jaffe’s bold color fields, while Loevenbruck bridges generations through Alina Szapocznikow’s Głowa VI (1961) and Ashley Hans Scheirl’s exuberant interventions. Galerie Christophe Gaillard stages Simon Hantaï’s Tabula (1975) alongside new works by Hélène Delprat and Eric Baudart, and Jousse Entreprise assembles Humeur aqueuse, a poetic study of reflection and liquidity.
Art Basel Paris; Courtesy of Art Basel.
Beyond the booths, collaborative presentations—such as Chapter NY with Soft Opening and Michael Rosenfeld with Jeffrey Deitch—emphasize solidarity and exchange. The public program expands that spirit into the city, with Helen Marten’s immersive 30 Blizzards. at the Palais d’Iéna, realized in partnership with Miu Miu, setting the tone for a fair that celebrates Paris as a living, breathing laboratory of art past and present.
