Art Basel Paris has just opened its doors for art enthusiasts from around the globe and will run through 20th October 2024 showcasing latest trends and talents of contemporary art. The fair inaugurates the newly renovated Grand Palais in the heart of Paris just off the Champs Élysées.

Art Basel Paris certainly comes amid a wave of optimism in the City of Lights after a largely successful Olympic Games this summer, with hopes that it might restore some energy to an art market grown stagnant amid high interest rates, geopolitical crises and uncertainties around the American presidential election.

“There is definitely a dynamism in Paris right now, which is palpable,” Clément Delépine, director of Art Basel Paris, says. His team has been busy for two years to prepare the much-anticipated move to the monumental Grand Palais, with its Art Nouveau architecture and glass ceilings. The new space has more than 100,000 square feet to offer, which has allowed the fair to add 40 additional galleries for a total of 195 exhibitors and expand the fair’s programming. 

New features include a larger emerging gallery sector called Emergence, which will be perched on the balconies surrounding the building’s central nave, made newly accessible thanks to the renovation.

In addition, the fair will introduce Premise, a new section dedicated to curatorial projects by nine newly participating galleries that challenge the art historical canon. “We needed a space for curatorial freedom,” Delépine adds, indicating that the section is designed as a meeting place that encourages “visitors to slow down and listen to the stories being told to them.”

A free, public program of exhibitions and installations held in venues across the city has ballooned to nine locations, with a new official partner: fashion brand Miu Miu.

The aisles of the fair inside the Grand Palais are brimming with international collectors on the first day, including Edward Carminiac, Charles Carmeniak, Gracina Kulczyk, Pamela Joyner, Maja Hoffman, Mira and Don Rubell, Candice and Philip Aarons, as well as internationally known curators and directors.

Watch out for some highlights like the booths of Skarstedt Gallery (B26) showing works by George Condo, Eric Fischl, KAWS, Nicolas de Stael and Sue Williams or Max Hetzler Gallery (C33) presenting Glenn Brown, Albert Oehlen, Katharina Grosse, and Guenther Foerg or Kamel Mennour Gallery (B32) with a selection of artworks by Daniel Buren, Alicja Kwade, Lee Ufan, Anish Kapoor and Joan Mitchell or Sadie Coles Gallery (B41) representing Isabella Ducrot, Urs Fischer, Sarah Lucas, Helen Marten, Ugo Rondinone and Wilhelm Sasnal

ART BASEL
GRAND PALAIS
PARIS, FRANCE
16-20 October 2024
https://www.artbasel.com/

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