Nearly 300 galleries will take part in this year’s edition of Art Basel, when the fair returns to the Swiss city where it all began. The world’s most prestigious art fair will feature 290 exhibitors from 43 countries and territories, organisers say, including 21 first-time exhibitors representing a wider footprint than previous editions, with participating dealers hailing from the Ivory Coast to Saudi Arabia.
“For one week, Basel becomes the central meeting point of the art world,” Maike Cruse, the fair's director, said in a statement. “This edition reflects both the enduring strength of the field and the exciting directions it is taking next, reinforcing Basel’s role as the global reference point for the art market.”
The main Galleries sector will include the usual global names like Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian, David Zwirner and Pace. Art Basel will also welcome 12 first-time participants in the section, including eight galleries graduating from Art Basel’s other fair sectors. Notable names include Jessica Silverman from San Francisco, Silverlens from Manila and Pippy Houldsworth from London. In addition, four galleries—Berry Campbell and Ortuzar from New York, Tim Van Laere Gallery from Antwerp and Phillida Reid from London—will make their Art Basel debuts directly in the main sector.
A number of galleries that took part in the fair last year will not return; those include Jeffrey Deitch, Fraenkel Gallery, Alexander Gray Associates, Garth Greenan Gallery, Nicolas Krupp, Kate MacGarry and David Nolan Gallery.
After several years of soft art sales, 2025 proved reassuring as the top end of the market appeared to begin to rebound at both fairs and auctions. Still, many notable galleries closed during that time; galleries that took part in last year’s Art Basel fair that have since closed include Blum, Stephen Friedman Gallery and Sperone Westwater.
Statements, the fair's section dedicated to solo projects by emerging artists, will feature galleries like Wschód from Warsaw, Marfa' Projects from Beirut and Kosaku Kanechika from Tokyo.
The fair’s newest section, Premiere, has expanded from ten to 17 presentations to showcase work created within the past five years, while Unlimited, Art Basel’s sector dedicated to ambitious, large-scale works, will be curated this year by MoMA PS1’s Ruba Katrib.
Two major commissions by the inaugural Art Basel Awards winners, Nairy Baghramian and Ibrahim Mahama, will debut on the Messeplatz outside the fair and the Münsterplatz in Basel's historic centre, respectively. The Parcours programme will once again place site-specific installations and performances throughout the city. This year, curator Stefanie Hessler, the director of the Swiss Institute in New York, will centre projects on conviviality, or the joy and challenges of living together.
The fair's VIP previews will take place on 16 June and 17 June, and public days will last until 21 June.
