The Grand Palais. Photography by Matthieu Croizier for Art Basel.
Art Basel Paris 2024
Art Basel announces exhibitors and first highlights for its 2024 show in the French capital, which will be renamed Art Basel Paris to coincide with its inaugural edition at the Grand Palais.
– In conjunction with the move to the iconic Grand Palais and upon consultation with local partners and interlocutors, Art Basel’s show in the French capital has been renamed to Art Basel Paris.
-194 galleries from 42 countries and territories, including 51 first-time participants and 64 galleries operating spaces in France, will present the best of their programs at Art Basel’s inaugural edition at the newly renovated venue.
-Art Basel’s 2024 show in Paris will be the first fair to take place in the building after three years of renovations.
-The show will feature a new sector, Premise, bringing together nine highly singular presentations that echo the fair’s mission to foster a more inclusive definition of the art historical canon.
– An ambitious public program, realized in collaboration with the city’s leading cultural institutions, will unfold across several locations of the French capital.
-Art Basel will further highlight its galleries’ diverse programs with Oh La La!, a new initiative for which exhibitors are invited to exhibit rarely seen work in their booths from Friday, October 18 to Saturday, October 19, energizing the second half of the show week.
-Powering a bustling week of world-class cultural events and exhibitions in the French capital, Art Basel Paris will take place from October 18-20, 2024, with VIP Preview Days on October 16 and 17.
Art Basel is delighted to announce the participating exhibitors and first details of its 2024 edition in Paris, taking place from October 18-20, 2024 in the newly renovated Grand Palais, one of the world’s most iconic and storied exhibition venues. 194 galleries from 42 countries and territories, including 64 galleries operating spaces in France, have been invited to showcase the best of their programs, offering local and international audiences a one-of-a-kind experience of artistic excellence, cultural heritage, and curatorial rigor.
The move to the Grand Palais represents both a celebration and a culmination of Art Basel’s deep connection with the French capital and its extraordinary cultural ecosystem. The show’s 2024 edition will be the first fair to take place in the newly refurbished building – inaugurated in 1900 on the occasion of the Paris Universal Exposition – after three years of renovations.
Known since 2022 as Paris+ par Art Basel, the show has been renamed to Art Basel Paris in conjunction with its upcoming move to the Grand Palais. This decision was taken in agreement with Rachida Dati, France’s Minister of Culture, and follows extensive consultations with Art Basel’s local partners and interlocutors, including the French Ministry of Culture; the City of Paris;
Art Basel Paris 2023
GrandPalaisRmn, the organization in charge of the building; and Parisian galleries, whose strong presence at the fair is one of its key markers. In 2024, they will once again, as in previous years, represent over a third of all exhibitors.
With this new name, Art Basel reinforces 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 for the third year by Clément Delépine, the show will welcome 40 additional galleries compared to its 2023 iteration — held at the Grand Palais Éphémère, a temporary venue — representing a 26% increase year-on-year and allowing Art Basel to shed a brighter light on important art scenes and movements in France and beyond.
Art Basel Paris will be structured across three exhibition sectors: Galeries, in which exhibitors present the full breadth of their program; Emergence, formerly known as Galeries Émergentes, dedicated to emerging galleries and artists; and the newly introduced Premise sector, featuring nine galleries presenting highly singular curatorial proposals that may include work made before 1900. Ten galleries have opted to share a booth at the fair, a record number in recent Art Basel history.
Clément Delépine, Director of Art Basel Paris, said: ‘The impressive list of exhibitors participating in our 2024 show highlights the fair’s leading role as a dynamic platform for galleries, as well as Paris’ position as cornerstone of the global art market, bolstered by the city’s unparalleled offerings across the broader cultural field. Galleries are evidently prepared to bring exceptional works to the fair, and we look forward to creating the best possible environment for them, their clients, and our visitors. I am excited to welcome gallerists, artists, collectors, institutional representatives, and art enthusiasts to Art Basel Paris come October.
Tickets to the show are now available on artbasel.com, including offers at reduced rates for students and senior citizens, as well as premium experiences.
Art Basel will once again activate sites beyond the fair with an ambitious, freely accessible public program, realized in collaboration with the City of Paris and local cultural institutions. Locations and details will be revealed in the next few months. The show’s Conversations program will take place for the first time at the Petit Palais, located in front of the Grand Palais, and will be curated for the third year by Paris-based curators Pierre-Alexandre Matéos and Charles Teyssou. Furthermore, the show will act as a lynchpin for a bustling week of world-class exhibitions and activations across the city, including ambitious surveys of Surrealism at the Centre Pompidou and Arte Povera at the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection.
From Friday, October 18 to Saturday, October 19, galleries in the fair’s main sector will be able to contribute to Oh La La!, a new initiative for which exhibitors are invited to present rarely seen work in their booth, creating a playful itinerary across the Art Basel Paris show floor and energizing the second half of the show week.
Art Basel Paris 2023
Galeries
Galeries brings together 169 of France and the world’s leading Modern, postwar, and contemporary art dealers, presenting the full breadth of their distinguished program, including works by 20th-century masters, contemporary blue-chip artists, mid-career practitioners, and emerging voices. Twenty-eight of them are first-time participants. They include:
-Athr Gallery (Jeddah, Al-Ula, Riyadh), with a selection of works by Sara Abdu, Mohammad AlFaraj, Asma Bahmim, and Muhannad Shono, four mid-career artists from Saudi Arabia
-Di Donna (New York), with a presentation showcasing masterpieces by 20th-century luminaries Yves Tanguy, Alicia Penalba, Agustín Cárdenas, and Wifredo Lam
– Goodman Gallery (Johannesburg, Cape Town, London), with a booth showcasing works by artists whose practices reflect upon the complex histories and identities of the Global South, including William Kentridge, Kapwani Kiwanga, Cassi Namoda, and Leonardo Drew
– Casey Kaplan (New York), with a selection of works by significant artists from the gallery’s program, including Igshaan Adams, Kevin Beasley, and Jordan Casteel
– Kiang Malingue (Hong Kong), with a presentation of works by Brook Hsu, Hiroka Yamashita, Carrie Yamakoa, and Ellen Pau, four female artists of diasporic backgrounds
– Labor (Mexico City), with a solo booth by American artist Jill Magid, consisting of an ambitious installation on the theme of flowers, made especially for the fair
– Prats Nogueras Blanchard (Madrid, Barcelona), with a presentation exploring the idea of the body as a landscape, featuring work by artists such as Ana Mendieta, Anne-Lise Coste, and Wilfredo Pieto
– The Modern Institute (Glasgow), with a booth entirely dedicated to an installation by Turner Prize-winning Scottish artist Martin Boyce, engaging with the Grand Palais’ architecture
– Sprovieri (London), with a booth foregrounding the gallery’s connection to Arte Povera and including works by representatives of the movement such as Giovanni Anselmo, Jannis Kounellis, and Marisa Merz, among others
– Standard (Oslo), with a three-pronged presentation of works by Danish artist Nina Beier, American painter Julia Rommel, and the late Paris-based, Romanian artist Simona Runcan.
Returning exhibitors include:
– christian berst art brut (Paris), with a solo presentation of canonical outsider artist Carlo Zinelli
– Carlos/Ishikawa (London), with a solo presentation of works by Senegalese painter Libasse Ka
– Xavier Hufkens (Brussels), with a selection bringing together works drawn from represented estates and by contemporary artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Thomas Houseago, and Ulala Imai
– Kukje Gallery (Seoul, Busan), showcasing a selection of works by 20th-century Korean masters and contemporary artists, together with select works by international artists from the gallery’s program
– Galerie Le Minotaure (Paris), with a group presentation addressing the centenary of the Surrealist manifesto including works by Jean Arp, Max Ernst, and Victor Brauner –
– David Zwirner (New York, Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, Paris), with a dialog between Gerhard Richter and Luc Tuymans
Echoing Art Basel’s mission to accompany young galleries in their growth, the sector will also include five galleries who exhibited in Galeries Émergentes in 2023. These galleries are:
– Emalin (London), who will be sharing a booth with newcomer Commonwealth and Council (Los Angeles)
– LC Queisser (Tbilisi) and Felix Gaudlitz (Vienna), who will be sharing a booth as well
– Marfa’ Projects (Beirut)
– sans titre (Paris) For the full list of galleries, please visit artbasel.com/paris/galeries. New exhibitors are marked with an asterisk on the list.
For the full list of galleries, please visit artbasel.com/paris/galeries. New exhibitors are marked with an asterisk on the list.
Emergence
Emergence, previously known as Galeries Émergentes, showcases 16 solo booths highlighting the radical work of emerging artists. Fourteen exhibitors of Emergence are participating in Art Basel’s Paris fair for the first time. Newcomers include:
– Exo Exo (Paris), presenting the work of French artist Lou Fauroux, which explores a future in which the internet has disappeared
– Kayokoyuki (Tokyo), presenting a suite of small-scale sculptures by Japanese artist Kenji Ide that evoke the subtle shifts in perception happening during human interactions
– Piktogram (Warsaw), presenting paintings by Polish artist Jan Eustachy Wolski that draw from art historical sources and Wolski’s own, surreal narratives
– Whatiftheworld (Cape Town), presenting an installation by South African artist Lungiswa Gqunta foregrounding decolonial narratives and ancestral knowledge of her native country
–What Pipeline (Detroit), presenting a project by Portugal-born artist Bruno Zhou that explores the liminal space between dressing and addressing, consisting of a textile alphabet and wearable sculptures
The sector’s returning exhibitors are:
– PM8 / Francisco Salas (Vigo), with a presentation of light-based works by Lithuanian artist Marija Olšauskaite
–Fanta-MLN (Milan), with a project combining cardboard sculptures and inspirational texts by Swiss artist Gina Folly
Emergence will unfold across the striking balconies surrounding the central nave of the Grand Palais, providing a symbolic frame for a show that will bridge the past and the present. The Galeries Lafayette group is the Official partner of the Emergence sector, for which Lafayette Anticipations – Fondation Galeries Lafayette awards an artist of the sector every year. Chosen by an international jury, the artist will produce a new piece to exhibit at Lafayette Anticipations the following year.
For the full list of galleries, please visit artbasel.com/paris/emergence.
Premise
The newly introduced Premise sector is dedicated to highly singular projects that may include work created before 1900. Premise provides a platform for presentations that challenge the conventional art historical canon, with a particular focus on compelling yet little-known artistic practices. The sector’s inaugural edition will feature nine galleries, all newcomers to the fair. They are:
– Nara Roesler (São Paulo, New York, Rio de Janeiro), with a duo presentation of works by Tomie Ohtake (1913–2015) and Chico Tabibuia (1936–2007), two visionary Brazilian artists each inspired by non-western sources
– Sies + Höke (Düsseldorf), with a dialog between the little-known photographic work of German masters Sigmar Polke (1941–2010) and Gerhard Richter (b. 1932)
– Bombon (Barcelona), with a presentation of erotically charged drawings by Spanish underground cartoonist Nazario (b. 1944), first realized during Spain’s transition from dictatorship to democracy in the 1970s
– Galerie Dina Vierny (Paris), with a group presentation paying homage to German-born, Paris-based collector Wilhelm Uhde and featuring works by pioneers André Bauchant (1873–1958), Camille Bombois (1883–1970), Séraphine Louis (1864–1942), Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), and Louis Vivin (1861–1936)
– Pauline Pavec (Paris), with a solo booth dedicated to major works by Juliette Roche (1884–1980), a Parisian upper-class artist who in her works empathetically explored both her own milieu and the lives of often marginalized minorities, such as people of color and queer individuals
– Gallery of Everything (London), with a suite of paintings by Janet Sobel (1893–1968), a Ukrainian-born, New-York based artist whose eclectic practice evokes both outsider art and Abstract Expressionism
– Loft Art Gallery (Casablanca, Marrakesh), with a booth showcasing the work of Mohamed Melehi (1936–2020), a Moroccan painter associated with the Casablanca School of the 1960s whose work blends Modernist and traditional Moroccan influences
– The Pill (Istanbul), with a project by seminal Turkish-born, Paris-based artist Nil Yalter (b. 1938) that tells the semi-fictional story of an ambassador’s wife and her collaboration with the Nazis during World War II
– Parker Gallery (Los Angeles), with a booth dedicated to American artist Wally Hedrick’s (1928–2003) ‘Black Paintings’, for which he covered his own works with black paint over and over to protest the wars in which the United States were involved since the 1970s .
The list of participating artists and galleries is also accessible on artbasel.com/paris/premise.
Cultural Events in Paris during the show
Art Basel Paris will once again power a bustling week of world-class exhibitions and events taking place across the French capital. They include:
–Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou ‘Surréalisme. L’exposition du centenaire’
– Musée d’Orsay ‘Gustave Caillebotte – Peindre les Hommes’ Harriet Backer (1845-1932) La musique des couleurs’ ‘Céline Laguarde Photographe’
– Fondation Louis Vuitton
A retrospective of Tom Wesselman’s work
– Musée de l’Orangerie ‘Heinz Berggruen, un marchand et sa collection’ ‘Amélie Bertrand’
– Palais de Tokyo A solo show by Malala Andrialavidrazana
– Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris ‘L’art atomique’ ‘Hans Josephsohn’
– Jeu de Paume A solo show by Tina Barney A solo show by Chantal Ackerman
–Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain A solo show by Olga de Amaral
– Lafayette Anticipations A solo show by Martine Syms
– Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection ‘Arte Povera’, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
– Musée du Louvre ‘Chefs-d’œuvre de la collection Torlonia’
– La MEP- Maison Européenne de la Photographie ‘Science/Fiction, a non-history of Plants’
– Institut du Monde Arabe ‘Arabofuturs’
– Musee du Luxembourg ‘Tarsila do Amaral’
– Reiffers Art Initiatives Mentorship Exhibition – Ugo Rondidone
-Grand Palais Immersif An immersive installation exploring the work of Frida Khalo
– MAD – Musée des Arts Décoratifs ‘L’intime, de la chambre aux réseaux sociaux’
Upcoming Art Basel shows:
Basel, June 13–16, 2024 Paris,
October 18 –20, 2024 Miami Beach,
December 6–8, 2024 Hong Kong, March 2025
