Curator Chris Sharp's anti-duopoly fair moves into two Marais buildings: 34 solo and duo presentations, low-cost booths, hung like an exhibition.

Seven-night restaurant inside a Tiravanija installation: chef Dalad Kambhu cooks Thai food in two stainless-steel boats turned communal tables. Billed as the hottest table of art week.

London gallery's temporary Paris presentation: Dayanita Singh, Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, Tacita Dean and Cornelia Parker.

Second edition of the invitation-only preview for galleries and their principal clients, the day before VIP Preview.

The gallerist-founded alternative fair, in a new stripped-back building on the canal: around 60 galleries from 19 countries over three floors.

Fair for artists of Asia and its diasporas; highlight is a Villa Hegra residency show of seven Saudi women artists.

Fourth Paris edition of the collectible-design fair in an 18th-century hôtel particulier.

Image-based fair under the chapel vault: installation, still and moving image. Guest of honor: Ana Mendieta.

Second edition: about 40 galleries of exceptional ceramics and glass; launches the Métamorphose prize.

Art brut fair: 18 galleries from eight countries; Zefrino Chilaule solo at Halle Saint-Pierre.

Art, collectible design and live performance: Mapplethorpe, Avedon, Christopher Wool, Daniel Richter alongside Sophie Dries and Corpus Studio.

The foreign ministry opens the Hôtel du Ministre's historic salons; Thierry Lemaire and Harry Nuriev mix heritage pieces, design and contemporary work.

Eight monumental works on the pedestrianized avenue: Marcello Maloberti's CIEL, Yinka Shonibare, Alicja Kwade, Carmen Herrera, Simone Fattal, Niki de Saint Phalle and more.

Indiana's 3.65m Cor-Ten LOVE Wall at the foot of the Champs-Élysées.

Giant plush sea creatures and dogs, first conceived for a Loewe runway, loose in a sculpture gallery.

Bronze birds on columns cast from foundry residue; the square also leads to a new entrance to the fair's Premise sector.

Two lightning-rod counter-monuments facing the statues of Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain.

Forty CRT televisions, forty armchairs, forty residents of an Istanbul neighborhood telling their lives.

Holzer projects her texts onto Orsay's river façade to open her exhibition J'ai vu. Watch from the quays.

First VIP preview day for First Choice and Preview cardholders.

Filmmaker Alice Diop's first exhibition, centered on Black women artists (Zanele Muholi, Mary Lee Bendolph), ending at Simone Leigh's bronze Sentinel (Mami Wata).

Around 30 artists on the blue hour, marking the launch of Guerlain's new L'Heure Bleue fragrance.

Galeries Lafayette's foundation opens a major show of the Japanese painter in the middle of art week.

Morning stays VIP; the afternoon Vernissage is open to anyone who buys a ticket.

Talks program, in the Grand Palais auditorium for the first time: Simone Fattal with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Eva Jospin, Ibrahim Mahama, Zanele Muholi, Laurent Le Bon on the Louvre.

The fashion-show architect and the New Museum director on whether an experience can be an artwork.

Surkin and Romain Gavras take over the rotunda with a 12m double-sided screen; first Art Basel x Live Nation collaboration.

Modern art, contemporary work and design; this year hosts the Institut du monde arabe and the Claude and France Lemand donation.

Independent art, architecture and theory publishers; produced by LUMA Arles, with talks and signings.

Fifth edition, first under director Karim Crippa: 200+ galleries from 41 countries across Galeries, Emergence and Premise.

The fair's signature rehang initiative, led by a guest collaborator from outside the art world.

UBS opens its salon to the public with Nature Reimagined, drawn from the UBS Art Collection.

Middle East and North Africa focus: 34 galleries from 18 countries on the theme of home, curated by Wassyla Tamzali.

Contemporary art and design centered on Africa; monumental textile installation by Senegalese photographer Gabriel Dia.

Artist Renée Levi with AP curator Audrey Teichmann on her Hayward Gallery façade commission, September (2026).

The Broadway producer on To Think of the Tranquil Life of Things, his installation at the Hôtel de Guise.

Painting workshop with Szabolcs Bozó overlooking the fair, and a private after-hours tour with CUR8's Arthur Hadade during the nightly rehang.

Dorsia, an Official Partner, gives members VIP fair access and a private reception.

The official champagne provider's bar and a solo show by Kawamata, part of its Conversations with Nature series.

Host Partner exhibition challenging young artists to defy material, structure and function.

Three monumental bronzes facing the Eiffel Tower; first time the public program takes this esplanade.

Show on the collector behind a pioneering modern collection; worth a full afternoon during fair week.