Art Basel Paris: October 18–20, 2024

Art Basel, the world’s premier art fair for Modern and contemporary art, is excited to announce further highlights of its 2024 Paris edition, set to take place from October 18 to 20 in the newly renovated Grand Palais. The show’s third edition will feature 195 leading galleries from 42 countries and territories, including 64 with spaces in France and 53 newcomers, offering an unparalleled experience of artistic excellence across all media and more than 100 years of art history. The move to the Grand Palais, following 3 years of renovations, marks a significant moment for Art Basel, strengthening its deep connection with Paris and its vibrant cultural scene.

By renaming the show to Art Basel Paris in agreement with France’s Ministry of Culture and the City of Paris earlier this year, Art Basel reinforced its commitment to the city and its dynamic cultural ecosystem, leveraging the impact of the global Art Basel brand to further bolster the Parisian fair, underscore its ambition, and amplify its resonance in Paris and the world.

Led by director Clément Delépine, the 2024 edition will see a 27% increase in participating galleries compared to last year, when it was held in the Grand Palais Éphémère. Art Basel Paris will be structured across three sectors: Galeries, where exhibitors present their full programs; Emergence, dedicated to emerging galleries and artists, with Galeries Lafayette as the Official Partner; and the new Premise sector, where nine galleries will showcase highly singular curatorial presentations. Additionally, the fair will introduce a new initiative named Oh La La!, where galleries will present rarely exhibited, unusual, and thought-provoking works on the Friday and Saturday of the show week. It will also host the second edition of the Art Basel Shop, a novel concept store showcasing a selection of custom products that celebrate and extend the Art Basel experience.

Art Basel will also offer a Public program, entirely free and open to all, unfolding throughout several storied sites of the French capital, with Miu Miu as Official Public Program Partner. This Program is realized in collaboration with the City of Paris and its cultural institutions, such as the Musée du Louvre, the Centre des Monuments Nationaux, the Petit Palais, Paris Musées, and the Palais d’Iéna, seat of France’s Economic, Social, and Environmental Council (ESEC).

Galeries

Art Basel Paris’s main sector, Galeries, will bring together 170 leading Modern, postwar, and contemporary art dealers from France and the whole world, presenting the full breadth of their distinguished programs. Spectacular presentations in this year’s Galeries sector include works by 20th-century masters – luminaries of the past century, who shaped significant art movements and whose influence on art history endures to this day.

• Vedovi Gallery’s (Brussels) presentation for Art Basel Paris 2024 will feature an impressive 1965 painting by Belgian Surrealist master René Magritte, Le Sourire Du Diable, alongside a historical work by Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale (1960), formerly part of French film director Claude Berri’s collection. In conjunction with the opening of the major Tom Wesselmann retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton this fall, the gallery will also present a painting from Wesselmann’s acclaimed ‘Smoker’ series, created in 1975.

• First-time participant Landau Fine Art (Montréal, Lucerne) will present key 20th-century works from Surrealism and Cubism to Art Brut and Pop Art, featuring artists such as René Magritte, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet, and Roy Lichtenstein. A special highlight will be Alexej von Jawlensky’s 1909 oil painting Spanische Tänzerin, which has remained virtually unseen for decades.

• The booth of Richard Nagy Ltd. (London) will showcase parallels between the Viennese Secession, German Dada, and New Objectivity movements. The gallery will showcase Egon Schiele’s artistic evolution with works from different stages of his career; the darkly vivid portrayals of post-war Berlin by German painter George Grosz; as well as a selection of still life paintings by German painter and photographer Christian Schad.

• New exhibitor Gió Marconi (Milan) will showcase significant and rarely seen works by Italian artist and writer Enrico Baj, Ukrainian-born French artist Sonia Delaunay, Italian artist Mimmo Rotella, and American sculptor Louise Nevelson.

• New joiner Prats Nogueras Blanchard (Barcelona, Madrid) will present a suite of five color photographs by Cuban artist Ana Mendieta; Untitled (Grass on Woman) (1972 / 2022) exemplifies Mendieta’s unique synthesis of Body and Land Art, where she fuses her body with nature, transforming herself into elemental forms like fire, earth, and water.

• Van de Weghe (New York) will exhibit Rodo, a 1984 work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, contrasting his earlier intense works with a seemingly serene scene with underlying tension; Keith Haring’s Untitled (For John Sex) (1982), reflecting the energy of the 1980s New York art scene with its vibrant, dynamic composition and Haring’s signature symbols; and Picasso’s 1967 Mousquetaire, reflecting the artist’s enduring creative energy through a richly colored depiction of his alter ego.

Coinciding with major museum exhibitions across Paris, Art Basel Paris will feature gallery presentations highlighting distinct art movements. In celebration of the Surrealist movement’s centennial, several galleries will showcase works by renowned artists associated with it, echoing the major Surrealism exhibition on view at the Centre Pompidou during the fair.

• First-time exhibitor Di Donna (New York) will debut ‘Hallowed Ground’, an exhibition exploring how four artists – French painter Yves Tanguy, Cuban artist Wifredo Lam, Argentine sculptor Alicia Penalba, and Cuban sculptor Agustín Cárdenas – merged their native landscapes with Parisian Modernism and Surrealist influences. The different cultural narratives come to life through an installation where elements of Tanguy and Lam’s paintings blend with Penalba and Cárdenas’s sculptures.

• Galerie Le Minotaure (Paris) will present an array of works from the diverse avant-garde movements of the 1910s to 1930s, including Cubism, Cubo-Futurism, Surrealism, and Abstraction, with a highlight being František Kupka’s abstract oil painting Alternances (1935) and Max Ernst’s Figure anthropomorphe (1929).

• The presentation of Galerie 1900-2000 (Paris, New York) will focus on works from Dada and Surrealism to late 20th century avant-gardes, featuring works by French artist Francis Picabia, German artist Hannah Höch, and Spanish artist Joan Miró, as well as a remarkable ‘four-handed’ ink drawing by Gala and Salvador Dalí, Valentine Hugo, and André Breton.

• Applicat-Prazan (Paris) will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the movement with a booth dedicated to Surrealist masters, featuring landmark paintings by Óscar Dominguez, Wifredo Lam, André Masson, and Roberto Matta.

Several presentations at the show will also home in on the Italian Arte Povera movement, which emerged in the late 1960s. Beyond the show floor, the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection will dedicate a major exhibition to the movement, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev.

• Cardi Gallery’s (Milan, London) presentation will create a formal and historical dialogue between artists associated with Arte Povera, Spazialismo, and more. Central to the display will be the works of Greek-born artist Jannis Kounellis, a pioneering figure in post-war European art and a leading voice in the Italian Arte Povera movement.

• Tornabuoni Art (Paris, Florence, Forte dei Marmi, Milan, Rome, Crans-Montana) will present a selection of exemplary works by some of the movement’s most prominent members, including Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis, and Pier Paolo Calzolari. A centerpiece of the presentation will be a 6-meter-long Mappa (1989-91) by Italian artist Alighiero Boetti, the only one of the artist’s four large-scale world map embroideries that has never been exhibited before.

• Lia Rumma (Milan, Naples) will be displaying a group presentation in four sections, referencing the gallery’s history over the years since its foundation in Naples in 1971 and its key role in the development of Arte Povera. Among others, Lia Rumma’s booth will feature Italian artist Giovanni Anselmo’s celebrated slide projection Particolare (1972/2013).

With 64 exhibitors operating spaces in France, Art Basel Paris’s 2024 edition will offer visitors an unparalleled panorama of the country’s dynamic gallery scene and artistic vitality. This sizeable group includes both long-standing stalwarts of Paris’s cultural ecosystem and more recently established galleries. Highlights include:

• A group presentation by Ceysson & Bénétière (Paris, Luxembourg City, New York, Saint-Étienne), inspired by the collection of Saint-Tropez-based patron Vicky Rémy. The gallery’s booth will feature works by French artists associated with the Supports/Surfaces movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s, such as Pierre Buraglio and Claude Viallat, as well as works that resonate with the movement’s legacy, such as Tania Mouraud’s stark black-and-white interventions.

• A major sculpture by German artist Agnes Scherer, made especially for the fair and depicting an oversized bed, presented by first-time Galeries sector participant sans titre (Paris). Scherer has recently gained institutional and market traction with her ambitious installations that resemble stage designs and brim with both ancient and contemporary symbols.

• Christian berst art brut’s (Paris) solo presentation of works by outsider artist Carlo Zinelli. Known to many simply as ‘Carlo,’ Zinelli was institutionalized at age 30 at San Giacomo Hospital in Verona, Italy, following traumatic experiences during the Spanish Civil War and then World War II, and remained there until his death. His dense and highly unusual oeuvre blends images of animals and references to wartime with calligraphic elements, resulting in a distinct pictorial language.

• A large-scale installation by French artist Jennifer Caubet, presented by Jousse Entreprise (Paris) alongside works by Louidgi Beltrame, Clarisse Hahn, and Madeleine Roger-Lacan. Titled Diffractions (2023), Caubet’s impressive sculpture consists of several interconnected railings and barriers which together form a structure akin to both a wall and a maze, exploring the ways in which architecture impacts the freedom of bodies.

• A work by the late Lebanese-American artist and poet Etel Adnan, presented by Galerie Lelong & Co. (Paris, New York). Adnan’s luminous paintings echo her poetry and often address ideas such as exile, nature’s beauty, and philosophy.

• Perrotin’s (Paris, New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul) group presentation of artists with a strong French connection, such as Anna-Eva Bergman and Hans Hartung, alongside prominent French artists including Jean-Michel Othoniel and Bernard Frize. A special highlight will be the unveiling of a new mural by French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière, who will also launch a solo exhibition at the Palais de Tokyo during the show week.

53 exhibitors across all sectors, hailing from a wide variety of locations such as Beirut, Madrid, New York, and Tokyo, will participate in Art Basel Paris for the first time. 30 will be presenting the best of their programs in the show’s main sector.

• Fergus McCaffrey (Tokyo, New York, Saint Barthélémy), will pay tribute to French art dealer Rodolphe Stadler. Stadler and Fergus McCaffrey share a commitment to Japanese avant-garde postwar artists, to which the gallery’s booth will be dedicated. It will include works by masters such as Kazuo Shiraga and Jiro Yoshihara, as well as an installation by video art pioneer Shigeko Kubota, which interrogates Marcel Duchamp’s artistic output.

• Casey Kaplan (New York) will present a selection of works by artists from its outstanding roster of mid-career practitioners. They include South African textile artist Igshaan Adams; American multimedia artist Kevin Beasley; abstract painter Caroline Kent; and British sculptor Hannah Levy. Works by these artists will only be on view at the gallery’s booth.

• An intergenerational group presentation of works ranging from the 1970s to today will be on view at P420’s (Bologna) booth. The selected works are united by their exploration of nature and its phenomena and include rare porcelain works by Romanian artist Ana Lupaș, a light sculpture by Italian artist Laura Grisi, and the striking assemblages of Spanish sculptor June Crespo.

• Sfeir-Semler (Beirut, Hamburg) will present a powerful display of artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and their diasporas. The gallery, which since the early 2000s has championed creative practices from the region, will present works by renowned artists such as Walid Raad, Wael Shawky, Mounira Al Solh, Tarik Kiswanson, and Yto Barrada.

• Vitamin Creative Space (Guangzhou) will dedicate its booth to the work of Shao Fan. The Chinese artist is known for his meticulously realized ink-on-rice-paper paintings, which explore the border between culture and nature, notable for their stylized depiction of animals and architecture.

Art Basel Paris’s main sector will also boast an array of curated booths, exploring rich themes such as mythology and folklore, engaging with the venue’s storied history, and revealing connections across generations of artists.

• Titled ‘Mystic Sugar’, Pace Gallery’s (New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Seoul, Geneva, London) booth will bring together works by Louise Nevelson, Kiki Smith, Lucas Samaras, and Paulina Olowska, focusing on the figure of the witch and the theme of sorcery. Curated by Olowska, the presentation will explore the poetic connections between these artists, highlighting the freedom and power found in witchhood, which defies patriarchal norms.

• First-time participant The Modern Institute (Glasgow) will propose a site-specific booth dedicated to British Turner Prize winner Martin Boyce, designed around the iconic architecture of the Grand Palais, whose Art Nouveau ironwork and vaulted roof will complement Boyce’s sculptures.

• Galerie anne barrault’s (Paris) presentation will spotlight a group of female artists, including French artist Neïla Czermak Ichti, French-American artist and filmmaker Marie Losier, Canadian artist and writer Jagdeep Raina, Lebanese artist Stéphanie Saadé, and Argentinian-born, Parisbased artist Liv Schulman. Working across various media, such as painting, film, drawing, and embroidery, their works subvert social conventions through makeup and decor, embracing the subversive power of appearances.

• Taka Ishii Gallery’s (Tokyo, Kyoto, Maebashi, Hong Kong) presentation will delve into the enduring fascination with yokai – spirits and gods believed to inhabit objects and nature in Japan. By juxtaposing ukiyo-e artists with contemporary voices like Rosalind Nashashibi, Frieda Toranzo Jaeger, and Hiroka Yamashita, the exhibition underscores the lasting cultural and emotional impact of yokai, evoking both fear and amusement across different eras and cultural contexts.

Once again, the fair will also host work by some of today’s most esteemed contemporary artists. Presentations with a focus on major contemporary works include:

• A group presentation by Galleria Continua (San Gimignano, São Paulo, Beijing, Havana, Boissy-leChâtel, Paris, Rome, Dubai), featuring recent works by Algerian-French artist Adel Abdessemed, British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor, and Cameroonian artist Pascale Marthine Tayou, as well as Ai Wei Wei’s large-scale toy brick-depiction of Peter Paul Rubens’s The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (1618).

• A selection of contemporary works across various media and materials, presented by Galerie Buchholz (Cologne, Berlin, New York). Highlights include a new bronze cast by German artist Anne Imhof, Untitled (2024); photographic works by German artist Wolfgang Tillmans, spanning from the 1990s to the present; and Kai (2000), a wood and metal sculpture by German artist Isa Genzken.

• Untitled (4 Women) (1989) by the Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss, whose works are characterized by a special fondness for everyday objects and situations that are easily overlooked, presented by Sprüth Magers (Berlin, London, Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong). The gallery will also present a new digital print by American artist Barbara Kruger.

• Hauser and Wirth (Zurich, Gstaad, St Moritz, London, Somerset, Los Angeles, New York, Hong Kong, Monaco, Mahon, Paris, Basel) will be showcasing a selection of highlights from their contemporary and Modern gallery program, including recent works by British artist Frank Bowling and American visual artist and sculptor Barbara Chase-Riboud.

Ten galleries have opted to share a booth at Art Basel Paris 2024. While each gallery will also bring their own works to the show, the concept of shared booths creates new ways of collaboration and new dialogues between diverse gallery programs.

• Emalin (London) and Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles, Mexico City) will jointly present works by American artist Nikita Gale, known for creating immersive environments that explore the interplay of sound, light, and raw materials. The booth will also showcase works by Leslie Martinez (Commonwealth and Council) and Daiga Grantina (Emalin), with all three artists employing a distinct material vocabulary to investigate everyday objects, focusing on themes of residue and accumulation.

• Having partnered for several years on their shared project ‘LA MAISON DE RENDEZ-VOUS’ in Brussels, Lambdalambdalambda (Pristina) and Misako & Rosen (Tokyo), who will open a joint gallery in Paris this year, will continue to foster their collaborative spirit at the fair. The shared booth will host a group exhibition, featuring works by Tatjana Danneberg, Hana Miletić, Brilant Milazimi, and Nora Turato (Lambdalambdalambda), as well as Reina Sugihara, Motoyuki Daifu, Naotako Hiro, and Trevor Shimizu (Misako & Rosen).

• Hannah Hoffman (Los Angeles) and Candice Madey (New York) will present a solo exhibition of American artist Darrel Ellis’s historic works from the 1980s, including photographs, paintings, and works on paper that showcase his radical approach to portraiture. A key figure in both the Bronx art scene and downtown New York, this presentation will bring Ellis’s groundbreaking oeuvre, which was recently part of major museum exhibitions throughout the United States, to the attention of an international audience.

• The presentation by Felix Gaudlitz (Vienna) and LC Queisser (Tbilisi) will focus on Georgian artist Tolia Astakhishvili and German artist Simon Lässig, whose practices are rooted in cinematic narratives, sceneries, and image making.

• Franco Noero (Turin) and Meyer Riegger (Berlin, Karlsruhe, Basel), who have already shared a booth during the first two editions of Art Basel’s Paris show, will continue their successful collaboration this year and present a carefully curated and diverse roster of international artists. Among them are Swiss artists Caroline Bachmann, Miriam Cahn, and Meret Oppenheim, German artist Katinka Bock, Egyptian artist Anna Boghiguian, Mexican artist Mario Garcìa Torres, American artists Sam Falls and Sheila Hicks, and American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

The full list of exhibitors is available on artbasel.com/paris/galeries.