Art Basel Paris 2025: Public Programme
Art Basel Paris’ Public Programme, presented in collaboration with Miu Miu for the second consecutive year, is born out of a rich and fruitful dialogue with prestigious Parisian institutions, with projects unfolding across nine exceptional and storied venues of the French capital.
Helen Marten, Fabio Cherstich, Beatrice Dillon: 30 Blizzards.
When Oct 22 – 26, 2025
Where Palais d’Iéna
Artists Helen Marten, Fabio Cherstich, Beatrice Dillon Presented by Miu Miu
Developed by British artist Helen Marten with theatre director Fabio Cherstich and composer Beatrice Dillon, combines five sculptures, five videos, and live performance by thirty characters. Through objects, song, and speech, it explores themes of childhood, sexuality, community, interiority, and loss.
Alex Da Corte: Kermit the Frog, Even (2018)
When Oct 20 – 26, 2025
Where Place Vendôme
Artist Alex Da Corte
Presented by Sadie Coles HQ (London)
The inflatable sculpture presented by Alex Da Corte is based on the collapse of a Kermit balloon during New York’s 1991 Thanksgiving Day Parade. Half-deflated yet still afloat, the figure hovers in a state of suspended vulnerability, its sagging body transforming an icon of childhood joy into a monument of fragility and delusion.
Fabienne Verdier: Mute
When Oct 22, 2025 – Feb 16, 2026
Where Cité de l’architecture et du patrimonie
Artist Fabienne Verdier
Curator Matthieu Poirier
Presented by Galerie Lelong (Paris, New York) and Waddington Custot (London, Dubai, Paris) The exhibition features 40 large-format abstract paintings. The title resonates in English with ‘silence’ and in French with the imperative muter – to mutate –underscoring the artist’s exploration of stillness, transformation, and flux.
Chromoscope
When Oct 22, 2025 – Feb 16, 2026
Where Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine
Artists Matthieu Poirier, Thomas Downing, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Adolph Gottlieb, Morris Louis, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons,
Frank Stella
Presented by Yares Art (New York, Beverly Hills, Santa Fe)
This group exhibition examines Color Field and Post-Painterly Abstraction movements between 1955 and 1992. Installed in the Murals Gallery, among the medieval chapels and frescoes, it brings together 23 large-scale paintings from artist estates and private collections.
Harry Nuriev: Objets Trouvés
When Oct 21 – 26, 2025
Where Chapelle des Petits-Augustins
Artist Harry Nuriev
Presented by Sultana (Paris)
This participatory installation transforms the Chapelle des Petits-Augustins into a space of circulation and exchange. Super-market boxes, neatly arranged in rows, are filled with objects brought by visitors. Each person leaves behind something they no longer need and takes an item left by others.
Julius von Bismarck: The Elephant in the Room (2023–2024)
When Oct 21 – 26, 2025
Where Petit Palais
Artist Julius von Bismarck Presented by Sies + Höke (Düssel- dorf) and The Ranch (Montauk)
The exhibition features a pair of monumental kinetic sculptures that continually collapse and reassemble. A life-sized taxidermy giraffe stands beside a reduced replica of an equestrian statue of Otto von Bismarck. Both seem stable yet repeatedly fall apart, their segmented bodies controlled by hidden mechanisms.
Ugo Rondinone: The innocent (2024)
When Oct 17 – 28, 2025
Where Parvis of the Institut de France
Artist Ugo Rondinone
Presented by Galerie Eva Presenhu- ber (Zurich, Vienna), Gladstone Gallery (New York, Rome, Brussels, Seoul) and Mennour (Paris)
Composed of stacked blocks of bluestone that suggest heads, torsos, and legs, the monumental sculpture stands over four meters tall, rising with archaic simplicity yet shifting with light and weather throughout the day.
Nate Lowman: After Delacroix (2025)
When Oct 22 – Nov 2, 2025
Where Musée national Eugène-Delacroix
Artist Nate Lowman
Presented by Massimodecarlo (Milan, London, Hong Kong, Paris) and David Zwirner (New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Hong Kong)
The project reinterprets the Romantic painter’s legacy through a contemporary lens, unfolding as a constellation of works – including new can- vases, light sculptures, and small-format paintings – that filter Delacroix’s influence through echoes
of Théodore Géricault and Cecily Brown.
Joël Andrianomearisoa: Les Herbes folles du vieux logis (2020–2025)
When Oct 10 – Nov 02, 2025 Where Hôtel de la Marine
Artist Joël Andrianomearisoa
Presented by Almine Rech (Paris, Brussels, New York, Shanghai, Monaco)
Composed of two vast panels of richly colored and textured fabric, the piece is a monumental textile work enveloping the viewer in an imagined landscape.
Avenue Winston-Churchill
When Oct 21 – 26, 2025
Where Avenue Winston-Churchill
Artists Thomas Houseago, Leiko Ikemura, Wang Keping, Vojtěch Kovařík, Muller Van Severen, Arlene Shechet, Stefan Rinck
Connecting the Petit Palais and the Grand Palais, the avenue is pedestrianised for the duration of the fair presenting a sequence of large-scale sculptures, allowing visitors to encounter seven major projects conceived for the public realm.
