Art Basel Expands With New Sector for Its 2025 Edition

Art Basel’s flagship fair in Switzerland is set to welcome 291 galleries from 42 countries this June, marking a return to pre-pandemic scale, and introducing a new sector dedicated to cuttinge-edge contemporary works. Led by director Maike Cruse, the 55th edition will launch a new Premiere sector, showcasing recently created works by emerging and established artists.

The total number of exhibitors is slightly up from last edition’s 287, with 18 new galleries from Europe, Asia, and the Americas joining for the first time. The fairs exhibitor numbers have hovered under 290 since 2019, before the pandemic. As usual, it will run at the Messe Basel from June 19 to 22, with VIP previews on June 17 and 18.

Among the newcomers this year are London’s Arcadia Missa and François Ghebaly of Los Angeles, both of which will participate in the main and highly competitive Galleries sector alongside blue-chip stalwarts such as Pace, David Zwirner, and Thaddaeus Ropac. The fair also promoted five galleries that previously exhibited in the smaller Feature or Statements sectors to the main section. They include Beijing Commune from Beijing, London’s Emalin, Hunt Kastner from Prague, Paris-based Galerie Le Minotaure, and The Third Gallery Aya from Osaka.

Other outfits making their Basel debut include L.A.’s Anat Ebgi and Polka Galerie from Paris in the Feature sector, which focuses on art historical projects. Additionally, Galerie Oskar Weiss will participate for the first time alongside returning Galerie Mueller; the Swiss galleries will jointly present works by Klaudia Schifferle, one of Switzerland’s leading contemporary artists and the co-founder of the all-women punk band Kleenex. The collaboration continues a growing trend of galleries sharing booths at major art fairs.

Art Basel 2024. Courtesy of Art Basel.

The new Premiere sector, a platform dedicated to works created within the past five years, will feature 10 galleries with each gallery presenting up to three artists. Among them are London’s Edel Assanti and Kosaku Kanechika from Tokyo, both first-time exhibitors. Other participants include Chapter NY, showcasing Antonia Kuo’s multimedia photochemical paintings and Erin Jane Nelson’s ceramics, and Beijing’s Magician Space, which will present Liu Ding’s new work Survivors (2025), an immersive installation reflecting on survival amidst historical and contemporary traumas.

Statements, which spotlights emerging artists from around the world, will feature 18 solo booths. Eight of them are first time exhibitors, they include Munich’s Nir Altman, Artbeat from Tbilisi, Fanta-MLN in Milan, London’s Ginny on Frederick, Toronto’s Franz Kaka, Kayokoyuki from Tokyo, Eli Kerr from Monstreal, and Warsaw’s Gunia Nowik Gallery.

Meanwhile, German artist Katharina Grosse will be the star of Messeplatz, where Agnes Denes’ Honoring Wheatfield grew last year. Known for her brightly colored, site-specific installations, Grosse will create an immersive work outside the exhibition hall in a special project curated by Natalia Grabowska, curator at large of architecture and site-specific projects at the Serpentine Gallery in London. Stefanie Hessler, director of Swiss Institute in New York, will return to create another edition of Parcours sector, an exhibition of public art around the city of Basel.

“With an unmatched line-up of galleries, the introduction of exciting new sectors like Premiere, the return of Parcours, and a stunning immersive installation by Katharina Grosse, Art Basel continues to be a powerful platform for discovery and a driving force for cultural exchange, innovation, and artistic expression,” said Cruse, who took over direction of the fair in 2023. This will be the second edition of the fair under her leadership.

See the full list of galleries below.

Galleries

303 Gallery
47 Canal
A Gentil Carioca
Miguel Abreu Gallery
Acquavella Galleries
Air de Paris
Antenna Space
Applicat-Prazan
The Approach
Arcadia Missa
Art : Concept
Alfonso Artiaco
Balice Hertling
von Bartha
Beijing Commune
galería elba benítez
Bernier/Eliades
blank projects
Blum
Marianne Boesky Gallery
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Bortolami
Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi
BQ
The Breeder
Ben Brown Fine Arts
Galerie Buchholz
Cabinet
Emanuela Campoli
Canada
Galerie Gisela Capitain
Cardi Gallery
carlier gebauer
Carlos/Ishikawa
Casas Riegner
Galeria Pedro Cera
Chemould Prescott Road
ChertLüdde
Mehdi Chouakri
James Cohan Gallery
Sadie Coles HQ
Commonwealth and Council
Contemporary Fine Arts
Galleria Continua
Paula Cooper Gallery
Pilar Corrias
Galleria Raffaella Cortese
Crèvecœur
Galerie Chantal Crousel
Croy Nielsen
Thomas Dane Gallery
MASSIMODECARLO
Jeffrey Deitch
dépendance
Di Donna
Ecart
Galerie Eigen + Art
galerie frank elbaz
Emalin
Empty Gallery
Experimenter
Konrad Fischer Galerie
Foksal Gallery Foundation
Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel
Fraenkel Gallery
Peter Freeman, Inc.
Stephen Friedman Gallery
Frith Street Gallery
Gaga
Gagosian
Galerie Christophe Gaillard
Galerie 1900-2000
Galleria dello Scudo
François Ghebaly
Gladstone Gallery
Gomide&Co
Galería Elvira González
Goodman Gallery
Marian Goodman Gallery
Maxwell Graham
Galerie Bärbel Grässlin
Gray
Alexander Gray Associates
Garth Greenan Gallery
Greene Naftali
greengrassi
Galerie Karsten Greve
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art
Hauser & Wirth
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert
Herald St
Galerie Max Hetzler
Hollybush Gardens
Xavier Hufkens
hunt kastner
Gallery Hyundai
Taka Ishii Gallery
Bernard Jacobson Gallery
Alison Jacques
Galerie Martin Janda
Catriona Jeffries
Jenkins Johnson Gallery
Annely Juda Fine Art
Kadel Willborn
Casey Kaplan
Jan Kaps
Karma
Karma International
kaufmann repetto
Sean Kelly
Tina Keng Gallery
Kerlin Gallery
Anton Kern Gallery
Kewenig
Kiang Malingue
Galerie Peter Kilchmann
Tina Kim Gallery
David Kordansky Gallery
Sylvia Kouvali
KOW
Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler
Andrew Kreps Gallery
Galerie Krinzinger
Nicolas Krupp
Kukje Gallery
kurimanzutto
Labor
Galerie Lahumière
Landau Fine Art
Layr
Galerie Le Minotaure
Lehmann Maupin
Tanya Leighton
Galerie Lelong & Co.
Lévy Gorvy Dayan
Lisson Gallery
Luxembourg + Co.
Kate MacGarry
Magazzino
Mai 36 Galerie
Gió Marconi
Matthew Marks Gallery
Galerie Max Mayer
The Mayor Gallery
Mayoral
Mazzoleni
Fergus McCaffrey
Galerie Greta Meert
Anthony Meier
Galerie Urs Meile
Mendes Wood DM
Mennour
Meyer Riegger
Galleria Massimo Minini
Victoria Miro
Mnuchin Gallery
Modern Art
The Modern Institute
mor charpentier
Jan Mot
mother’s tankstation limited
“Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie
Schwarzwälder”
Galerie Nagel Draxler
Richard Nagy Ltd.
Edward Tyler Nahem
Helly Nahmad Gallery
Galerie Neu
neugerriemschneider
Galleria Franco Noero
David Nolan Gallery
Galerie Nordenhake
Galerie Nathalie Obadia
OMR
Galleria Lorcan O’Neill Roma
P.P.O.W
Pace Gallery
Maureen Paley
Perrotin
Petzel
Galerie Francesca Pia
Galeria Plan B
Gregor Podnar
Galerie Eva Presenhuber
ProjecteSD
Galeria Dawid Radziszewski
Almine Rech
Reena Spaulings Fine Art
Regen Projects
Thaddaeus Ropac
Lia Rumma
Deborah Schamoni
Esther Schipper
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle
Galerie Thomas Schulte
Sfeir-Semler Gallery
Jack Shainman Gallery
ShanghART Gallery
Sies + Höke
Sikkema Malloy Jenkins
Skarstedt
Skopia / P.-H. Jaccaud
Société
Galerie Pietro Spartà
Sperone Westwater
Sprovieri
Sprüth Magers
Nils Stærk
Galerie Gregor Staiger
Stampa
Standard (Oslo)
Galleria Christian Stein
Stevenson
Luisa Strina
Take Ninagawa
Galerie Bene Taschen
Templon
The Third Gallery Aya
Galerie Barbara Thumm
Tokyo Gallery + BTAP
Tornabuoni Art
Trautwein Herleth
Travesía Cuatro
Galerie Tschudi
“Tucci Russo Studio per l’Arte
Contemporanea”
“Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie
Vallois”
Van de Weghe
Vedovi Gallery
Vielmetter Los Angeles
Vitamin Creative Space
Galleri Nicolai Wallner
Offer Waterman
Michael Werner Gallery
White Cube
Barbara Wien
Galerie Jocelyn Wolff
Yares Art
Galerie Thomas Zander
ZERO…
David Zwirner

Edition

Cristea Roberts Gallery
Gemini G.E.L.
knust kunz gallery editions
Carolina Nitsch
René Schmitt
Susan Sheehan Gallery
STPI

Feature

Almeida & Dale Galeria de Arte
Galeria Raquel Arnaud
Thomas Brambilla
Anat Ebgi
Jean-Kenta Gauthier
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
Kalfayan Galleries
Kasmin
M77 Gallery
Madragoa
Galerie Mueller
Galería Leandro Navarro
Parker Gallery
Polka Galerie
Repetto Gallery
Jessica Silverman
Galerie Oskar Weiss

Statements

Nir Altman
Artbeat
Bridget Donahue
Fanta-MLN
Felix Gaudlitz
Ginny on Frederick
Grimm
Jahmek Contemporary Art
Franz Kaka
Kayokoyuki
Eli Kerr
Marcelle Alix
Gunia Nowik Gallery
Proyectos Ultravioleta
PSM
ROH Projects
sans titre
Soft Opening