Miu Miu, Public Program Official Partner

Art Basel is proud to announce Miu Miu as Public Program Official Partner. As part of the partnership, Miu Miu will present a special project, titled ‘Tales & Tellers’, at the Palais d’Iéna, the headquarters of France’s Economic, Social, and Environmental Council.

The project is conceived by interdisciplinary artist Goshka Macuga, and convened by Elvira Dyangani Ose, director of MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona. ‘Tales & Tellers’ will draw from two key creative ventures initiated by Miu Miu: its prestigious, bi-annual film commission ‘Women’s Tales’, which since 2011 has invited female filmmakers such as Mati Diop, Miranda July, and Agnès Varda to explore vanity and womanhood, as well as the videos taken from the artistic interventions from Miu Miu runway shows since Spring/Summer 2022 and time-based media works by artists such as Sophia Al-Maria, Cécile B. Evans, and Jeong Geum-hyung, presented within the context of the brand’s runway shows since 2021.

Clément Delépine, Director of Art Basel Paris, said: ‘Ambitious in scope and unprecedented in its nature, our partnership with Miu Miu also marks an important milestone in the show’s history, illustrating the role of Art Basel Paris as an organization that creates bridges and fosters fruitful exchanges between creative industries.’

Learn more about ‘Tales & Tellers’ at the Palais d’Iéna here and on miumiu.com

New locations of the Public Program

This year, five new venues have been added to the public program. Avenue Winston Churchill, Petit Palais, Cour de l’Hôtel de la Marine, Domaine National du Palais-Royal, and Hôtel de Sully will join the previous years’ locations: Palais d’Iéna, Beaux-Arts de Paris – Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, Parvis de l’Institut de France, and Musée National Eugène-Delacroix. From October 16 to 20, students from the École du Louvre will present the projects to visitors at all locations.

Learn more about the public program here.

Conversations

Conversations will take place for the first time in the Petit Palais, located just across from the Grand Palais, and curated for the third year by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou. The flagship talk series will feature 11 panel discussions in English and French as well as two performances by Aho Ssan and Christian Falsnaes. The program will explore themes such as Paris as an epicenter of Queer culture; the vibrant and evolving artistic landscape of Dakar, one of West Africa’s artistic hubs; the role of hip-hop, graffiti, and dub poetry as forms of artistic resistance and emancipation; and the multifaceted life and work of French writer, director, playwright, and activist, Jean Genet. Conversations will be inaugurated by the Premier Artist Talk with Turkish-born Paris-based artist Nil Yalter, recipient of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2024 Venice Biennale.

Learn more about Conversations here.

Premise sector

The Premise sector is new for the 2024 edition of Art Basel Paris and is dedicated to singular projects that can include work created before 1900. It aims to provide a platform for presentations that go beyond the conventional art historical canon and examine little-known artistic practices. The nine galleries of Premise are all newcomers to the Paris fair: Bombon, The Gallery of Everything, Loft Art Gallery, Parker Gallery, Pauline Pavec, Nara Roesler, Sies + Höke, The Pill, Galerie Dina Vierny.

Discover Premise here.

The Art Basel Shop

After being introduced in Basel last June, The Art Basel Shop will land in Paris. The concept store will showcase a selection of bespoke lifestyle products that celebrate and extend the Art Basel experience. Curated for the second time by Sarah Andelman, the debut Paris edition will present exclusive collectibles across art, design, fashion, and publishing.

The Art Basel Shop will present the first Paris iteration of ‘AB by Artist’, a collection of products developed by Art Basel in collaboration with an artist presenting at the fair. Available exclusively at Art Basel Paris 2024, the line will feature works in the style of Claire Fontaine, a collective, feminist, conceptual artist, established in Paris in 2004 by the Italian-British duo Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill.

The shop will be located on the ground floor of the Grand Palais and will be open from October 18 to 20, with VIP Preview access on October 16 and 17. To celebrate its opening at Art Basel Paris, The Art Basel Shop will host a series of meet-and-greets, product signings, and live events open to fairgoers throughout the show week.

Details of these events and participating artists and brands will be revealed in the coming weeks.

Oh La La!

For the third edition of its Paris show, Art Basel is pleased to introduce Oh La La!

Oh La La! Is a new initiative inviting exhibitors to stage a creative re-hanging of rarely exhibited and unusual artworks. Unfolding across 31 booths on Friday, October 18 and Saturday, October 19 at the Grand Palais, Oh La La! will create a playful itinerary through the fair and offer the visitors an opportunity to (re)discover the stands from a new perspective, underscoring the continuously shifting make-up of the show. The works and projects of this inaugural edition of Oh La La! will explore themes such as love, eroticism, history, the legacy of Surrealism, and Queer identity.