Since 1970, Art Basel has featured the world’s leading galleries and thousands of artists from across five continents. This year’s fair in Basel – open to the public June 13–16, with preview days on June 11 and 12 – will include 286 participating exhibitors and citywide programming. Ten of them will be showing at Art Basel in Basel for the first time. A diverse, global group, their programs represent an array of art histories, movements, and mediums, encompassing canonical mainstays, forgotten innovators, and contemporary artists pushing their fields to new limits.

MadeIn Gallery (Galleries sector, China)

Xu Zhen, the youngest artist to represent China at the Venice Biennale, started MadeIn gallery in 2014. Touted as ‘China’s Maurizio Cattelan,’ Zhen is known as a subversive conceptualist and the program at MadeIn follows suit. Located in Shanghai, the gallery’s strength lies in finding young, multidisciplinary talents such as Wang Ziquan, whose 2023 exhibition ‘Psycho Path’ featured a series of figures cast in transparent resin, their brightly-hued nervous systems visible within. MadeIn also represents artists including Li Hanwei, who creates digital images as well as playful foam installations – soft informational overloads. In Basel, MadeIn will share a booth with ShanghART Gallery, another mainstay of the Chinese metropolis’ art scene.

Mayoral (Galleries sector, Spain)

With a focus on Spanish Modernists like Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró as well as contemporary Hispanic artists, Mayoral is a family operation, founded in 1989 by antiques collector Manel Mayoral, and now run by his two sons and daughter. Operating out of two linked spaces in Barcelona and an outpost in Paris, Mayoral also programs lesser-known but equally significant Postwar artists such as Antoni Tàpies, the Abstractionist and Surrealist who turned his hand to Art Informel and even furniture design throughout his long career. Of the spaces in Barcelona, one is dedicated to a contemporary program, which opened this year, showing the likes of Pia Camil and Carolina Caycedo.

Tina Keng Gallery (Galleries sector, Taiwan)

Located in Taipei, Tina Keng Gallery evolved from Lin & Keng Gallery, which ran out of Taipei and Beijing from 1992 to 2009. Whereas Lin & Keng was exclusively devoted to 20th-century Chinese painters like Abstractionist Zao Wou-Ki, Tina Keng shows both contemporary and historic artists, including Tu Wei-Cheng, whose sculptural works envision archeological excavations of an imagined ancient civilization, or the trailblazing – and much sought-after – 20th century Chinese ink painter Sanyu. With the mission of bringing Taiwanese art to international attention, the gallery’s stable also includes artists who epitomize Taiwan's unique cultural hybridity, such as Yang Mao-Lin, whose references range from Star Wars (1977–ongoing) to the mysterious deep-sea anglerfish found off the coast of the island nation.

Yares Art (Galleries sector, US)

Anchored by the exclusive representation of American painter Larry Poons, Yares Art was founded in Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1964. The gallery is credited with introducing Color Field Abstraction, the painting movement that formed in New York in the 1940s, as well as an array of other artists to American Southwest audiences. It currently represents 50 Modern and contemporary artists, including Frank Stella, Morris Louis, and Helen Frankenthaler, and has locations in Santa Fe, New York, and Beverly Hills. On the heels of its 60th anniversary, Yares will be showing at Art Basel in Basel for the first time. Alongside canonical blue-chip American Modernists, European painters figure strongly in the gallery’s program as well, including Jules Olitski, Ilya Bolotowsky, and Esteban Vicente.

Karma (Galleries sector, US)

With five locations between New York and Los Angeles (as well as a bookstore, a temporary space in Maine, and a Chelsea gallery on the horizon), Karma has quickly expanded its prolific program since opening in 2011. Focused on emerging names and various artists’ estates, with around 25 exhibitions a year plus a robust schedule of programming and publishing, founder Brendan Dugan and the rest of the team at Karma have established a conversation-setting contemporary gallery. Elegant figurative painting is one of Karma’s strengths – with artists such as Ann Craven and Henni Alftan on its roster – supplemented by historical surveys of works by trailblazers including Lee Lozano and Gertrude Abercrombie.

Parker Gallery (Feature sector, US)

Sam Parker runs his eponymous gallery out of a 1924 Tudor-style house at the foot of Griffith Park in Los Angeles. Since 2017, Parker has shown solo and group presentations by an intergenerational cadre of artists, both emerging and undiscovered – often due to their unique aesthetics. These include Bay Area figurative painter Joan Brown and 1970s downtown Manhattan stalwart Scott Covert. With a penchant for unexpected pairings – Hairy Who founding member Gladys Nilsson (who will be showing in Basel) with emerging Egyptian Surrealist painter Hend Samir, for instance – Parker’s mission is to elevate those artistic voices who have been overlooked.

Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou (Statements sector, France)

In the Marais district of Paris, emerging gallerist Anne-Sarah Bénichou has pursued a diverse, intergenerational program of artists from both France and abroad. Her roster includes artist Marion Baruch, born in Romania in 1929 but resident in Italy for many years, who creates sculptures out of fabric that offer an innovative vision of architecture. Also in the stable is Chourouk Hriech, whose black-and-white drawings of landscapes and figures have the feel of graphic novels, as well as ascendant contemporary still-life painter Mireille Blanc. One of the younger gallerists to be invited to Art Basel in Basel, Bénichou will have a presentation in the young galleries sector Statements, dedicated to French sculptor Juliette Minchin.

Almeida & Dale (Feature sector, Brazil)

Staging museum-quality surveys of some of the most significant Brazilian artists from the past 100 years is the vocation of São Paulo gallery Almeida & Dale. This includes Latin American Modernist masters like Tarsila do Amaral, a key proponent of the Anthropophagic movement, whose work helped define a Brazilian aesthetic identity, and Jandyra Waters, a pioneer of Brazilian Abstraction. Directors Antônio Almeida and Carlos Dale have dedicated themselves to preserving and communicating the legacies of Brazilian artists like Rubem Valentim, the Afro-Brazilian dentist-turned-artist who created hybrid alphabets and explored sacred geometrical forms. In Basel, the gallery will showcase the vibrant paintings of Heitor dos Prazeres, a self-taught artist from Rio de Janeiro deeply inspired by music and Afro-diasporic culture.

Larkin Erdmann (Feature sector, Switzerland)

Founded in Zurich in 2014, Larkin Erdmann’s eponymous gallery has focused on the popular giants of various Postwar Modernist movements – Man Ray, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol – as well as those less mainstream, like Agnes Martin and On Kawara. Working closely with the estates and communities surrounding these artists, Larkin Erdmann also produces robust publications to accompany every exhibition, and the gallery has established itself as a key representative of a new generation of rigorous secondary-market dealers. Larkin Erdmann has also presented Kenneth Price’s sculptures and a selection of paintings by Greek Italian artist Jannis Kounellis.

Nome (Statements sector, Germany)

Coming out of the new media scene, Nome gallery founder Luca Barbeni has looked to support artists directly engaged with political life, activism, time-based media, and post-internet art. They include Oglála Lakȟóta artist and composer Kite, South Indian performance artist Sajan Mani, and Filipino multimedia artist Cian Dayrit, whose work will be exhibited in Art Basel’s Statements sector. Located just outside Kreuzberg in Berlin, Nome opened in 2015 with the mission of bringing emerging and mid-career artists to an international stage. Besides exhibitions, Nome also hosts concerts, talks, and other programs, exploring issues ranging from immigration, identity, and surveillance through mixed-media and archival materials.