The fair lasts three public days — the week around it is where the serious viewing, dining, and conversation happen
Art Basel Paris is the French edition of the international contemporary art fair, held each October at the Grand Palais. It was launched in 2022 as Paris+ par Art Basel, and has carried the full Art Basel name since 2024. The 2026 edition is the fifth, with more than 200 galleries from 41 countries and territories. Around it, Paris builds a full week of fairs, museum openings, and private viewings.
Paris has a long tradition of the autumn art fair. The Grand Palais slot was held for close to half a century by the Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain before Paris+ replaced it. What changed in 2022 was the weight of the name. The fair is now the centrepiece of what the art world calls Paris Art Week, a concentration of fairs and exhibitions across the city.
For a collector, the setting matters as much as the stand. The Grand Palais was built for the Universal Exposition of 1900 and reopened in 2025 after a multi-year restoration. Few fair venues in the world offer such a room for looking at art.
The fair runs on a graduated schedule. The invitation-only Avant-Première, for galleries and their principal clients, is on Tuesday 20 October 2026. The preview days follow on 21 and 22 October, and the fair opens to the public from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 October 2026.
The dates are fixed, and the 2026 edition is close. Rooms in the neighbourhood of the Grand Palais, and tables near it, fill early in the week.
The public days are ticketed by the organiser, with online sales through the Art Basel website.
The preview days are different. Access is by invitation from participating galleries, or through the fair’s own client programme, and cannot be bought or promised by a third party. We do not resell tickets, and we do not offer access to invitation-only days. What we can do is help a guest whom a gallery has already invited to make the week work: the hotel, the evenings, the transfers, and the viewings that surround it.
Tell us which days and which galleries matter, and we will plan the week around them
Many of Paris’s major institutions open exhibitions to coincide with the fair, and Art Basel itself runs an off-site programme across the city. For anyone who wants to see more than the stands, a private tour or an early-morning viewing is worth arranging well before the week begins.
The evenings are as important as the days. Dinners between collectors, gallerists, and artists are hosted in restaurants and private rooms that fill early. We hold tables through our fine dining and nightlife service, and for those travelling with colleagues or advisers, our business concierge service coordinates the rest.
If Paris is one stop in a longer season, our guides to Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach cover the other editions.
A hotel placed within reach of the Grand Palais, a driver timed to the preview days, tables held for the evenings around the fair, private viewings at museums and galleries beyond it, and a single contact if a plan shifts. Where a guest holds an invitation to the preview, the week is arranged around it.
The fair is open to the public from 23 to 25 October 2026 at the Grand Palais, with the invitation-only Avant-Première on 20 October and preview days on 21 and 22 October.
At the Grand Palais, on Avenue Winston-Churchill between the Champs-Élysées and the Seine.
Public days are ticketed online by the organiser. The preview days are by invitation. We do not resell tickets, and we arrange the week around the fair.
No. Preview access is by invitation from galleries or through the fair’s own programme. We can help a guest who has been invited to plan the surrounding week.
Yes. The fair is also held in Basel in June, in Miami Beach in early December, and in Hong Kong, with a Qatar edition added from 2026.
