The highly anticipated Art Basel will be held in Basel from June 19 to 22, 2025. This art feast brings together many remarkable masterpieces. From rare Guston paintings to iconic Duchamp works, each exhibit is a treasure in the field of art and is worth savoring by art lovers. The editorial department of Art Basel carefully selected these key artworks to reveal the highlights of the exhibition to the audience in advance.

Time and Place

Art Basel Basel 2025

📅Exhibition time

June 19-22, 2025

(VIP days are June 17 and 18)

📍Exhibition location

Messe Basel

Exhibition Highlights

◾Art Basel The Basel Art Fair will bring together 291 top art galleries from 42 countries and regions, and will join hands with the international art elite to once again join in the celebration in June this year.

◾18 galleries from Europe, Asia and America will participate in the exhibition for the first time.

◾This year, Art Basel will launch the new “Premiere” exhibition area, providing galleries with an exclusive platform to showcase pioneering works created by up to three outstanding artists in the past five years.

◾Basel’s world-class cultural institutions will host exciting events across the city, complementing the exhibition’s diverse artistic perspectives. This project highlights Basel’s unique urban charm and consolidates its position as an important cultural destination.

“I am very much looking forward to welcoming the world’s art world elite to Basel again in June to celebrate this art event together. Art Basel in 2025 will be of great significance, bringing together outstanding artworks, inspiring international dialogue, and further consolidating its influence in the global art world. With an unparalleled lineup of galleries, the launch of the new exhibition area ‘Art in the Making’, the return of the ‘City Art Journey’ exhibition area and Katharina Grosse’s immersive installation, Art Basel will continue to play a powerful platform role to promote artistic exploration and cultural exchange, and promote artistic innovation and diverse expression.”

At the same time, Basel’s most prestigious cultural institutions will host exciting events throughout the city to complement the diverse artistic perspectives of the fair. This dynamic program will showcase Basel’s unique urban charm, highlight Art Basel’s important local influence, and consolidate Basel’s position as an important cultural destination.

Recommended works

work: Carrie Mae Weems,Painting the Town #17, 2021
Exhibition Gallery:Fraenkel Gallery, Booth A13
importance: This photograph, which looks almost like an abstract painting, shows a boarded-up window following the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, Oregon, with layers of censored slogans hidden beneath, documenting themes of racial justice and the erasure that follows civil unrest.

work: Marcel Duchamp,LHOOQ Rasée, 1965
Exhibition Gallery:Galerie 1900-2000, Booth G6
importance: This late version of Duchamp’s sensational 1919 Dada masterpiece — originally a mustachioed Mona Lisa whose title spelled out a crude French pun — has the mustache whimsically removed, continuing Duchamp’s subversion of the sanctity of art and the reverence of culture.

work: László Moholy-Nagy,CH Space 6, 1941display
Gallery:Galerie Le Minotaure, Booth F17
importance: These seven works reflect Moholy-Nagy’s pioneering approach to abstraction in the Industrial Age, using modern materials and techniques to explore light, movement, and perception – principles that fundamentally shaped Bauhaus pedagogy and modern design thinking.
 

work: Martin Kippenberger,Modell Interconti, 1987, with a painting by Gerhard Richter on the table, 1973
Exhibiting Gallery: Layr, Booth L16
importance: Kippenberger purposely purchased the monochrome grey Richter painting and transformed it into a coffee table, a move that challenged the old artist’s authority and boldly marked a generational shift in postwar German art.
 

work: Kara Walker,The Gates of Hello!), 2024
Exhibiting Gallery:Sikkema Malloy Jenkins, Booth R16
SignificanceKara Walker’s collage Infinity (2024) is beautiful and heartbreaking. Delicate paper cut-out silhouettes fall, as if thrown into the sea during the “Middle Passage” or dumped into a mass grave. The work captures some of Walker’s fundamental themes with great efficiency.

work: Paul Thek,Sicily, 1962-63
Exhibiting Gallery: Pace Gallery, Booth A7
importance: This semi-abstract work was inspired by Teck’s first trip to Europe. The deep reds and browns of the earth depicted in the work seem to foreshadow the artist’s most celebrated “technical reliquary” series, which were inspired in part by Palermo’s famous Capuccina Catacombs.

work:Niki de Saint Phalle,I woke up last night, 1994
Exhibiting Gallery: Georges Philippe and Nathalie Valois Gallery, Booth E10
Significance:Niki de Saint Phalle, known for her monumental female sculpture Nana, pays tribute to her late husband Jean Tinguely. Brightly coloured, I Woke Up Last Night is equipped with light sensors that sense the viewer’s presence and trigger Tinguely-like dynamic effects. It’s a beautiful ode to kinship in art.
 

work: Helen Frankenthaler, Swan Lake 1,1961
Exhibiting Gallery: Yares Art, Booth E14
Significance:This is a classic Frankenthaler painting, but with a hint of novelty. Featuring vivid lake-like blue and beach-like yellow, this work by one of the leading figures of the Color Field painting movement holds surprises. In the blank space left by the blue, bird forms emerge, exploring the blurred line between abstraction and representation.

work:Maria Lassnig,Blauer Weicher,1998
Exhibiting Gallery: Petzel, Booth A3
Importance:This introspective, unusually abstract self-portrait from 1998 has never been exhibited publicly.

work:Philip Guston,Migration, 1978
Exhibiting Gallery: Hauser & WirthGallery, Booth C10
importance:A large-scale museum-quality work:MigrationThe theme of the exhibition is forced migration caused by war, a very relevant theme. Also on display are two other rare works by Guston.
 

work:Jean Tinguely,Baluba II, 1961
Exhibiting Gallery: Hauser & WirthGallery, Booth E16
Importance:Tinguely revolutionized sculpture by introducing movement, transforming static art into a dynamic experience.Baluba IIThis is a prime example of this practice.

work:Pierre Soulages,Drawing 130 x 88.5 cm, 1955
Exhibiting Gallery: Application-Prazan, Booth E16
importance:This extraordinary painting is paired with another rare work from the same period, created during a period of intense experimentation by the French master—perfectly echoing the artist’s interest in gesture, calligraphy, and, of course, the color black.

work: Wade Guyton,Untitled, 2024
Exhibiting Gallery: Galerie Gisela Capitain, Booth R8
Importance:Known primarily for his abstract paintings made with large-scale printers, Wade Guyton has also explored sculpture—a medium he approaches with the same alluring taste for ambiguity and radicalism that permeates his canvases, as exemplified in this 2024 work.
 

work: Carmen Herrera,Untitled, 1948
Exhibiting Gallery: Lisson Gallery, Booth U17
Significance:Early works by Herrera, the late master of geometric abstraction, are rarely seen at art fairs, but in this small but majestic canvas from 1948, the Cuban-American painter’s precision and ability to create tension shine through.

work:Julius von Bismarck,Across the Ocean, Another Sun is Burning, 2025
Exhibiting Gallery:Esther Schipper, Booth S1
importance:Made from a macabre array of materials, including plants, stuffed octopus, and sponges, the triptych was created using an innovative pressing technique and can be folded or unfolded, like an altar to the endless possibilities of the natural world.

List of participating galleries

Galleries

303 Gallery

47 Canal

A Gentil Carioca

Miguel Abreu Gallery

Acquavella Gallery

Air de Paris

Antenna Space

Application-Prazan

The Approach

Arcadia Missa

Art : Concept

Alfonso Artiaco

Balice Hertling Gallery

von Bartha

Beijing Commune

girl benítez

Bernier/Eliades

blank projects

Blum Gallery

Marianne Boesky Gallery

Tanya Bonarda Gallery

Bortolami

Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi

BQ

The Breeder

Brown Gallery

Galerie Buchholz

Cabinet

Emanuela Campoli

Canada

Galerie Gisela Capitain

Cardi Gallery

Carlier Gebauer

Carlos/Ishikawa Gallery

Casas Riegner

Galeria Pedro Cera

Chemould Prescott Road

Chert Lüdde

Mehdi Chouakri

James Cohan Gallery

Sadie Coles HQ

Commonwealth and Council

Contemporary Fine Arts

Galleria Continua

Paula Cooper Gallery

Corres Gallery

Galleria Raffaella Cortese

Craver Cole Gallery

Santa Gallery

Croy Nielsen

Thomas Dane Gallery

MDC Gallery

Jeffrey Deitch

Dependance

Di Donna

Ecart

Eigen Gallery

Elpa Gallery

Emalin

Empty Gallery

Experimenter

Konrad Fischer Galerie

Foksal Gallery Foundation

Fortes D'Aloia & Gabriel

Fraenkel Gallery

Peter Freeman, Inc.

SFG Gallery

Frith Street Gallery

Gaga

Gagosian

Galerie Christophe Gaillard

Galerie 1900-2000

Galleria dello Scudo

François Ghebaly

Gladstone Gallery

Gomide & Co

Girl 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

Max Hetzler Gallery

Hollybush Gardens

Hofken Gallery

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 Gallery

Karma

Karma International

kaufmann repetto

Shankelly Gallery

Keng Gallery

Colin Gallery

Anton Kern Gallery

Kewenig

Edouard Ma Gallery

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

Lelong Gallery

Li Weige

Lisson Gallery

Luxembourg + Co.

Kate MacGarry

Magazzino

Mai 36 Gallery

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

Mellonh Gallery

McShea Gallery

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

Eva Persson Huber Gallery

ProjecteSD

Galeria Dawid Radziszewski

Almine Rech

Reena Spaulings Fine Art

Regen Projects

Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery

Lia Rumma

Deborah Schamoni

Schipper Gallery

Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle

Thomas Schulte Gallery

Sfeir-Semler Gallery

Jack Shainman Gallery

ShanghART Gallery

Sies + Höke

Sikkema Malloy Jenkins

Scarlett

Skopia / P.-H. Jaccaud

Society

Galerie Pietro Spartà

Sperone Westwater

Sprovieri

Schbutt-Maeger Gallery

Nils Stærk

Galerie Gregor Staiger

Stampa

Standard (Oslo)

Galleria Christian Stein

Stevenson

Luisa Strina

Take Ninagawa

Galerie Bene Taschen

Templon

The Third Gallery Aya

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

Werner Gallery

White Cube

Barbara Wien

Jocelyn Wolfe Gallery

Yares Art

Galerie Thomas Zander

ZERO...

David Zwirner

Limited 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 Gallery

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

Ultraviolet Prospects

PSM

ROH Projects

Sans titre

Soft Opening

Premiere

Broadway

Chapter NY

Edel Assanti

Gypsum Gallery

Jacky Strenz

Kosaku Kanechika

LC Queisser

Magician Space

Selma Feriani Gallery

Silverlens

These editorial picks were written by members of the Art Basel editorial team:

Alicia Reuter, Patrick Steffen, Karim Crippa: Senior Editors
Juliette Amoros: Associate Editor
Kimberly Bradley: Commissioning Editor
Coline Milliard: Executive Editor
Anna Sze: Chinese Assistant Digital Editor
Jeni Fulton: Editorial Director
Suzanne Lai: Content Manager, Asia Market
Patricia Li: Regional Director of Marketing and Communications, Asia
 

Header Image Caption: Katherine Bernhardt,Enoki, 2025. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner.

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