Art Basel

We couldn’t be together this weekend in Paris, so here’s to just some of the many people who make it possible... 🏛️ 211 galleries 🎨 Over 2,000 artists 🖼️ Over 4,500 artworks 🤝 25 hosts 👥 Over 45,000 visitors 🧩 25 partners + teams 🛠️ 300 booth designers 📰 Over 1,000 media 🎙️ 27 Conversations speakers 🚚 746 freight handlers 🧹 98 cleaners 🍽️ 141 catering staff 🎥 20 filmmakers and photographers 🏨 All hotel & restaurant teams ...Representing one art world: Thank You 🙏 🇫🇷 See you at the Grand Palais in 2027 👋 — Global Lead Partner @UBS @UBSglobalart

#ArtBaselStories: Why the art world is favoring those who do it all Today’s creative polymaths are thinking beyond traditional disciplines to effect real change, and the art world is their sandbox: Read in ➡️

For Art Basel Paris, @EfdotStudio transforms his signature cartographic language into a monumental portrait of the city. Streets, neighborhoods, architecture, and landmarks are woven into one composition, then divided into 15 interconnected artworks. Each section stands independently while contributing to a complete portrait of Paris. Sold with authenticated digital components via the @iconic__culture platform. This work will be available through November 1.

RT @iconic__culture: Cities // Paris by @EfdotStudio is now live. Fifteen limited-edition compositions and two unique Master Compositions, created exclusively for Art Basel Paris 2026. Explore and collect:

RT @dohanews: Noah Horowitz, CEO of @ArtBasel, said the organisation aims to strengthen #Qatar’s art scene and connect local artists and cultural practitioners with the global #art market through year-round programmes and international partnerships.⁠ ⁠ Speaking to Doha News on Monday at the UN World Investment Forum in #Doha, Horowitz said Art Basel’s inaugural Doha edition in February attracted more than 17,000 visitors and generated strong sales across the market.⁠ ⁠ Horowitz said interest in the event was growing ahead of #ArtBasel’s second edition in Doha, as the organisation builds on its partnership with Qatar to raise the international profile of the country’s cultural scene.⁠

#ArtBaselStories: When artists become patrons Foundations, residencies, collecting, mentorship, and, most of all, community: Leading artists including Frank Bowling, Julie Mehretu, and Yinka Shonibare reflect on the different ways to support other artists Read in ➡️

RT @EfdotStudio: Cities // Paris is open through Sunday! This Art Basel collab has been a long time coming, huge thanks to everyone who’s collected an edition so far 🙏

‘I picture myself somewhere between alchemist and magician,' explains Ladji Diaby. Drawing on the magic and histories he finds in everyday objects, French-Malian artist Ladji Diaby creates works that tell stories at once personal and collective. Ahead of #ArtBaselParis, spend time with the artist his studio in Ivry-sur-Seine, in the Paris suburbs, where he grew up and still lives. ➡️ Watch the full episode: — Ladji Diaby is represented by Galerie Crevecoeur (Paris). His exhibition ‘Godspeed You Black Emperor’ is on view at Crèvecoeur until November 28, 2026. Meet the artists | Ladji Diaby was produced in collaboration with @nowness.

#ArtBaselStories: Artist-chef Caique Tizzi sees sculptures in pineapples The Brazilian-born creative takes us inside his visual world, sharing the images, ingredients, and artistic references that inform his practice at the intersection of art and gastronomy: Read in ➡️

A final flight over #ArtBaselParis at the Grand Palais. From above, the fair’s many conversations, encounters, and carefully considered presentations come into view. With the unexpected early closure, fewer people than hoped were able to experience them in person – making these moments feel all the more worth revisiting. Thank you again to every gallery, artist, and visitor who shaped this edition.

📣 📣 #JustAnnounced: Discover the 80+ galleries participating in Art Basel Qatar for it’s second edition in January 2027! 🇶🇦 ➡️ — Lead Partner for Art Basel Qatar: Visit Qatar 📣 📣 #إعلان_جديد: تعرّفوا على أكثر من 80 صالة مشاركة في النسخة الثانية من آرت بازل قطر خلال شهر يناير 2027! ➡️ الشريك الرئيسي لآرت بازل قطر: Visit Qatar

Consider this your invitation to pause for un café. ☕️ At Art Basel Paris, illy invited visitors to discover the illy Art Collection, dedicated to Biennale Arte 2026 and celebrating the intersection of contemporary creativity and everyday rituals. Featuring original designs by Biennale Arte 2026 artists Werewere Liking, Alice Maher, Thania Petersen, and Mohammed Z Rahman, each cup transforms a familiar daily object into a canvas for artistic expression.

RT @Gagosian: Art Basel Paris is now open at the Grand Palais! Stop by booth B33 to view Gagosian's presentation of exceptional paintings, sculpture, and photographs that define many of the key artistic movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: @ArtBasel @GrandPalaisRmn

Last night Art Basel Paris, Live Nation, and Iconoclast Music celebrated GENER8ION: GOD HATES SPACE — an immersive new project by GENER8ION, open to the public free of charge at the Rotonde d'Antin, Grand Palais, from October 22 to 25, 2026. Discover the installation via Entrance 4; open 9:30am–8pm on October 22, 24 and 25, and until 10:30pm on October 23.

Take a moment in the UBS Salon and be immersed in nature through art during Art Basel Paris 🍃 In the presentation ‘Earthly Paradise: Nature Reimagined’, discover a selection of works from the UBS Art Collection which explore nature through memory, imagination and experience. The display mixes tradition with distinctly contemporary perspectives, revealing the natural world as a place of contemplation, belonging and transformation. The UBS Salon is open to the public for the first time from Friday, October 23 through Sunday, October 25, 2026.

#ArtBaselStories: A first look at the Art Basel Paris Public Program Discover the first images of this year’s Public Program in Paris, shot by Art Basel’s official photographers, from Tracey Emin’s monumental sculptures to Roberto Indiana’s famous LOVE Wall: Read in ➡️

Conversations at Art Basel Paris 🎙️✨ From Simone Fattal to Jordan Roth and Claire Chazal: book your free seat for Conversations. Join leading figures from the worlds of art and culture as Art Basel's flagship talks program makes its Grand Palais debut. Read more here ➡️

Conversations at Art Basel Paris 🎙️✨ From Simone Fattal to Jordan Roth and Claire Chazal: book your free seat for Conversations. Join leading figures from the worlds of art and culture as Art Basel's flagship talks program makes its Grand Palais debut. Read more here ➡️

#ArtBaselStories: GENER8ION: Surkin and Romain Gavras at the Grand Palais The duo behind the viral video STORM presents a spectacular immersive installation in the Rotonde d'Antin Read in ➡️

We look forward to welcoming visitors holding tickets for Friday admission until 7pm. Saturday and Sunday ticket holders will be contacted directly with further information. We deeply regret that we will not be able to welcome visitors this weekend, and extend our sincere appreciation to our galleries, artists, partners, visitors, and wider community around our fair.