Karim Crippa, Director, Art Basel Paris, said: “Art Basel Paris has grown, edition by edition, into a genuine part of the cultural fabric of this city — a fair whose closest interlocutors are the galleries, institutions, collectors, artists, and creative communities of Paris itself. What distinguishes it is not only the quality of the presentations within the Grand Palais, but the extraordinary concentration of activity around it: the institutional exhibitions, cross-disciplinary encounters, and conversations that make Paris fair week a moment of singular cultural and market consequence. The 2026 edition reflects both the vitality of the Paris scene and the commitment of the international gallery community to what is being built here. My focus is to continue strengthening a platform shaped by the city, for the city, and in generative dialogue with the international art and cultural community.”
The 2026 edition arrives amid renewed momentum for the French art market. According to the Art Basel & UBS Global Art Market Report 2026, sales in France reached USD 4.5 billion in 2025, a 9% year-on-year increase following two years of contraction and a return above 2019 levels. France accounts for 8% of the global art market, ranking as the fourth-largest market worldwide and the largest in the European Union, representing more than half of the EU art market by value.
More than 60 of this year’s exhibitors operate spaces in France, underscoring the sustained depth of local participation. They are joined by galleries from across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East — including the United States, China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Lebanon, Indonesia, South Africa, Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, and Tunisia — with nearly 30 galleries participating in Art Basel Paris for the first time.
Entering its fifth year, Art Basel Paris has become a defining platform within this context — bringing the strength of the French gallery ecosystem into deeper dialogue with the international art world and reinforcing Paris as a major site of contemporary artistic, institutional, and market exchange.
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