Paris+ par Art Basel has become Art Basel Paris and first details have been revealed.
Taking place from October 18th-20th, 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; 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
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 18th to Saturday, October 19th, 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.
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, 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 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
