Art Basel 2024: A Comprehensive Guide

The 2024 edition of Art Basel in Basel features 285 of the world’s leading galleries, showcasing the highest quality of works across all media, including painting, sculpture, photography and digital artworks. This year’s Art Basel includes 22 first-time participants, who join a robust lineup of European exhibitors and returning galleries from around the globe. In addition, there are 70 large-scale installations and performances in the show’s Unlimited sector, while the Kabinett sector has returned for the second time to Art Basel’s Swiss edition to spotlight distinct, curated exhibitions within the main booths of exhibitors.

Unlimited
Art Basel’s unique sector for large-scale projects features monumental installations, colossal sculptures, boundless wall paintings, comprehensive photo series and expansive video projections.
Discover more about Unlimited here: artbasel.com/basel/unlimited

Parcours
Art Basel’s public art sector unfolds along Clarastrasse up to the Middle Bridge, connecting the fairgrounds with the Rhine. The concept for Parcours is a curated exhibition that meanders through empty stores and operational shops, a hotel, a restaurant, a brewery, and other quotidian spaces on Basel’s Clarastrasse, featuring more than 20 site-specific public art installations.
Discover more here: https://www.artbasel.com/basel/basel/parcours-overview

Parcours Night
The Parcours Night will be hosted on Wednesday, June 12, from 8 to 11pm, offering a festive night filled with live performances and other acts along Clarastrasse and at the Merian. All Parcours locations will have extended opening hours to provide visitors a unique experience.

Messeplatz
The city’s Messeplatz features a major work by conceptual artists Agnes Denes. Denes’ artistic practice is distinctive in terms of its aesthetics and engagement with socio-political ideas. As a pioneer of environmental, ecological, and land art, she presents the piece Honoring Wheatfield – A Confrontation (2024), referring to her iconic land artwork from the 1980s. The work remains on the Messeplatz throughout the summer until its harvest. Born in 1931 in Budapest, Hungary, raised in Sweden, and educated in the United States, Agnes Denes today lives in New York City. 

The Merian
The Merian, situated right at the Middle Bridge along the Rhine in Kleinbasel and across Basel’s Old Town, features a hotel bar, restaurant, and terrace that will host a continuous, around-the-clock program. The façade of the former Hotel Merian will be taken over by When The Sun Goes Away We Paint The Sky, an artwork by Petrit Halilaj symbolizing guidance and commemorating the 30th anniversary of the partnership between UBS and Art Basel. Evenings will be curated and enlivened by various members of the global and local arts community including.

Film 
For its 25th edition, the Film program presents a week of extraordinary artists’ cinema projects. This year’s program addresses topics such as ecology, intimacy, history, and politics in a series of short film programs, surveys, and feature films. 
Discover more about the Film program here: artbasel.com/basel/film

Conversations
Art Basel’s flagship talks program returns for its 20th anniversary edition with an exciting lineup, curated for the first time by Berlin-based art critic Kimberly Bradley. Bringing together more than 25 thought leaders, the 2024 edition features 11 focused panels, all relating to the pressing issue of how to build and shape contemporary culture’s future. Conversations take place from June 13 to 16 at the Auditorium in Hall 1 and is free to attend.
Discover more here: artbasel.com/stories/conversations

Kabinett
The sector dedicated to curated and thematic presentations featured in a separate section within galleries’ main booths, Kabinett will present 22 projects by 23 galleries for the second year. 
Discover more here: artbasel.com/basel/kabinett

The Art Basel Shop
The Art Basel Shop is a new concept store marking the brand’s first step into retail, launching in Hall 1.0 at Art Basel in Basel from June 11-16. Curated by Sarah Andelman – co-founder and former creative director of the iconic Parisian concept store Colette, and founder of Just An Idea –, The Art Basel Shop showcases a selection of bespoke lifestyle products that celebrate and extend the Art Basel experience and conjure the unique spirit of the contemporary art world. Among them are new, exclusive, and rare and special-edition collectibles across art, design, fashion, and publishing, available to fair visitors and the public.