Art Basel Paris Releases 2026 Exhibitor List: Who’s In? Who’s Out?
By Jo Lawson-Tancred
Art Basel‘s flagship Swiss fair is just around the corner, but the art calendar is unrelenting, and today the firm released the exhibitor list for its Paris edition. The French fair is returning to the Grand Palais for its fifth iteration from October 23 to 25, with preview days on October 21 and 22, and an ultra-exclusive, invite-only day on October 20 dubbed “Avant-Première.” This will be the first Art Basel Paris led by its former head of communications, Karim Crippa.
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More than 200 exhibitors from 41 countries will take part, 181 in the main Galeries section, a slight increase from 177 last year. Newcomers there include Luxembourg + Co (London, New York), Sikkema Malloy Jenkins (New York), the newly formed Pace Di Donna Schrader Galleries (New York), and Tina Kim Gallery (Seoul, New York), which exhibited in Premise, a section dedicated to thematic presentations, last year.
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Additional new entrants to Galeries include Berlin staples Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, ChertLüdde, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, and Lars Friedrich, Vienna galleries Gianni Manhattan and Croy Nielsen, and New York’s Reena Spaulings Fine Art.
Those not taking part this year, after participating last year, include Andrew Edlin Gallery (New York), dépendance (Brussels), Madragoa (Lisbon), Lia Rumma (Milan, Naples), Jan Mot (Brussels), Kiang Malingue (Hong Kong), and Balice Hertling (Paris), which recently told Artnet News columnist Kenny Schachter that it is behind on payments to its artists.
Other absences are to be expected: Air de Paris (Paris) declared bankruptcy earlier this month, and Blum (Los Angeles, Tokyo) shuttered last year.
A record number of galleries, 12, have joined forces to take part this year. They include London’s Nicoletti and Seventeen; Jeffrey Deitch (Los Angeles, New York) and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (New York); Tina Kim and Take Ninagawa (Tokyo); and Petrine (Paris, Düsseldorf) and Lars Friedrich.
“Joint booths have become a real fixture at our Paris show,” Crippa said in an email.
While the arrangements often arise from “practical considerations,” he said, the most successful collaborations “build a genuine curatorial dialogue around the artists to create something more layered and unexpected. The resulting presentation becomes greater than the sum of its parts.”
Here is the full list of exhibiting galleries.
This article was originally published by Artnet News.