Shortly after the end of Paris Fashion and Design Week, it’s now the moment when arty lovers have their annual art contemporary week in Paris. After a successful second edition in 2023, Art Basel Paris is back at the Grand Palais from Friday, October 18 to Sunday, October 20, 2024. This year, the fair reveals a line-up of 195 galleries from 42 countries and territories, including 65 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.
Bastardo It’s a beautiful day to be black, 2024 | Courtesy: the artist and A Gentil Carioca
Led for the third year by Clément Delépine, the show will welcome 41 additional galleries compared to its 2023 iteration — held at the Grand Palais Éphémère, a temporary venue — representing a 27% 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.
Julius von Bismarck Zwei Wölfinnen (Wilde Mutter), 2024 | Courtesy the artist and Esther Schipper, Berlin/ Paris/Seoul | Photo © Andrea Rossett
Several storied Parisian sites will welcome freely accessible exhibitions, installations, monumental sculptures, and curatorial projects by prestigious French and international artists, including Jesse Darling, Jean-Charles de Quillacq, Niki de Saint Phalle, Yayoi Kusama, and Thomas Schütte. Five new venues, including the Domaine National du Palais-Royal and the Petit Palais, will be added to this year’s program, underscoring Art Basel’s deep connection with the city and its exceptional cultural heritage.
This year Art Basel Paris unveils a major partnership with Miu Miu as Public Program Official Partner for its upcoming Paris edition. Miu Miu will stage a special project, titled ‘Tales & Tellers’, at the Palais d’Iéna in the frame of the program. The project was conceived by interdisciplinary artist Goshka Macuga, and convened by Elvira Dyangani Ose, director of MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. ‘Tales & Tellers’ will draw from two key creative ventures initiated by Miu Miu: its prestigious, bi-annual film commission ‘Women’s Tales’, which since 2011 has invited female filmmakers such as Mati Diop, Miranda July, and Agnès Varda to explore vanity and womanhood, as well as the videos taken from the artistic interventions from Miu Miu runway shows since Spring/Summer 2022 and time-based media works by artists such as Sophia Al-Maria, Cécile B. Evans, and Jeong Geum-hyung, presented within the context of the brand’s runway shows since 2021.
Vaughn Spann A New Chapter, 2024 | Crédits: © Vaughn Spann / Courtesy of the Artist and Almine Rech | Photo: Dan Bradica
The Art Basel Shop to debut in Paris from October 16 to 20, unveiling new signature apparel and limited-edition product collaborations with premier luxury brands & designers The Art Basel Shop, a novel concept store showcasing bespoke lifestyle products that celebrate and extend the Art Basel experience, will make its Paris debut at the Grand Palais from October 16 to 20, presenting new and special-edition collectibles across art, design, fashion, and publishing available exclusively during Art Basel Paris 2024, including collaborations by Guerlain, Uniqlo x Musée du Louvre, Lafayette Anticipations, Parley Foundation, Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, and more. Launched in June 2024 at Art Basel’s flagship Swiss fair, the Art Basel Shop will be curated for the second time by acclaimed French tastemaker Sarah Andelman, co-founder and former creative director of the iconic Parisian concept store Colette, and founder of Just an Idea.
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