With a high proportion of Paris-based galleries, Art Basel Paris 2025 marked a high-point in Paris’s art-calendar, underscoring the city’s rising prominence in the global art-market scene — not just as a host city but as a producer of culture.
The combination of major galleries (such as Lisson Gallery or Hauser & Wirth), institutional shows, emerging-gallery focus, and off-site cultural programming demonstrates how the fair is evolving into a multi-dimensional art week, rather than a standalone trade show.
A few highlights:
* At the Fondation Louis Vuitton: Gerhard Richter retrospective spanning 270 works from 1962–2024.
Gerhard Richter Retrospective. Fondation Louis Vuitton.
* At the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection: “Minimal” — an expanded exhibition dedicated to Minimalist art, with works by Donald Judd, Lee Ufan, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Agnes Martin among many others.
“Minimal” Bourse de Commerce-Pinault Collection
* At the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain: The inauguration of its new Paris space with Exposition Générale, over 600 works by more than hundred artists that have been part of Fondation Cartier from 1984 to the present.
Fondation Cartier ‘Exposition Générale’
* At the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris: the most significant exhibition to date of George Condo’s work.
Installation view of George Condo at Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris ©Pierre Antoine/whitewall
* At the Musée d’Orsay: Bridget Riley in dialogue with Seurat, focusing on the formative influence of Georges Seurat on Bridget Riley’s art.
Bridget Riley ©Musée d’Orsay
More than a commercial fair, this edition positioned Paris once again as a powerhouse in the international art circuit. If Art Basel’s goal was to make the French capital not just a destination but a conversation, we can say this year’s edition succeeded brilliantly.
