9 Must-See Shows During Art Basel Paris 2025

Art is in the air in Paris as artists, collectors, dealers and collectors descend on the Grand Palais for art week. With energy spilling out of the fairgrounds and into the streets, a number of museums and galleries across the French capital are ushering in visitors to experience some of the year’s most talked about exhibitions.

From Gerhard Richter’s monumental retrospective, an ode to sci-fi luminary H.R. Giger and the centennial celebration of Robert Rauschenberg, to Tyler Mitchell’s breakout Paris solo and Helen Marten’s Miu Miu-backed Palais d’Iéna takeover, this season’s calendar offers a captivating mix of contemporary icons and disruptors on the rise. Here’s the Hypeart roundup of shows to check out during Art Basel Paris 2025.

Gerhard Richter’s Louis Vuitton Retrospective

Gerhard Richter has shown a particularly tight grip on Paris this week, with two concurrent exhibitions at LV and David Zwirner, and a 1987 painting, “Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting),” leading VIP-day sales at $23 million USD. Fondation Louis Vuitton is currently hosting Richter’s most comprehensive career survey to date, mounting over 270 works across its 10-gallery space. On view through March 2, 2026, the showcase features everything from his early figurative experiments to more recent abstract works, presenting a portrait of an artist with a limitless, painterly curiosity.

Fondation Louis Vuitton
8 Av. du Mahatma Gandhi,
75116 Paris

Helen Marten’s ‘30 Blizzards’

Miu Miu returns as an Art Basel Paris partner, this time, tapping Turner Prize winner Helen Marten to transform the neoclassical Palais d’Iéna with 30 Blizzards, a newly-conceived, multidisciplinary project. Running through the fair’s final day, October 26, the installation brings together five sculptures, five films and a 30-person performance, which collectively capture the strange choreography of human existence in a balancing act of chaos and tenderness, absurdity and grace.

Palais d’Iéna
9 Pl. d’Iéna,
75016 Paris

Bourse de Commerce’s ‘Minimal’

The seductive cool of Minimalism takes center stage at Bourse de Commerce, with a sprawling exhibition of works drawn from the Pinault Collection on view through January 19, 2026. The institution’s first major showcase dedicated to minimalist art, the showcase presents over 100 works by pioneers to contemporaries — Donald Judd, Susumu Koshimizu, Lee Ufan, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Agnes Martin, among them⁠ — mapping the evolution and essence of the movement.

Bourse de Commerce
2 Rue de Viarmes,
75001 Paris

Precious Okoyomon’s ‘It’s important to have ur fangs out at the end of the world’

For their first solo exhibition at Mendes Wood DM, on through January 17, 2026, Precious Okoyomon explore the relationship between ecology, intimacy and emotion through wallpaper, dioramas, drawings, and a constellation of plush bears. Echoed in its title, It’s important to have ur fangs out at the end of the world, the presentation reimagines fragility and tenderness as a radical act of strength. Themes of belonging and transformation in lush, playful and deeply emotional inner worlds the erotic and innocence coalesce.

Mendes Wood DM
25 Pl. des Vosges,
75004 Paris

H.R. Giger at Long Story Short

Long Story Short’s has recently unveiled an eponymous exhibition dedicated to Swiss visionary H.R. Giger, running through November 15. Presented in collaboration with Mai 36 Galerie and Kaleidoscope magazine, the show traces the evolution of Giger’s haunting worlds, from drawings created in late 1960s to the emblematic appearance of a life-size Necronom from Alien III. An architect of the dystopian horror look, even a decade after his death, his work continues to feels fresh, collapsing dream and nightmare through fleshy, mechanic forms

Long Story Short
23 Rue Charlot,
75003 Paris

Meriem Bennani’s ‘Sole Crushing’

Moroccan artist Meriem Bennani stages of symphony of soles at Lafayette Anticipations with Sole Crushing, now on view through February 8, 2026. The kinetic installation figures 192 flip-flops and slippers flapping in a “ballet-symphony-riot” of North African rhythm, and explores ideas of living together, individuality and belonging. Since its original presentation at Fondazione Prada last year, the work has been rescored by Reda Senhaji and redesigned to complement the institution’s architectural character.

Lafayette Anticipations
9 Rue du Plâtre,
75004 Paris

Harry Nuriev’s ‘Objets trouvés’

At the École des Beaux-Arts, design starlet darling Harry Nuriev invites you take part in Objets trouvés, a new participatory installation. Running through October 26, the piece reconstellates new relationships with everyday items into art objects of chance. Visitors are encourage to leave a personal objects and take another in return, looking to bartering as a form of communion and shared authorship, while challenging conventional ideas of value.

École des Beaux-Arts
14 Rue Bonaparte,
75006 Paris

Tyler Mitchell’s ‘With This Was Real’

After making stops in Helsinki, Lausanne and Berlin, Tyler Mitchell’s early-career survey Wish This Was Real lands in Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), marking the artist’s much-anticipated Parisian solo debut. Running through January 25, 2026, the show traces Mitchell’s evolution across photography, video and sculpture, amplifying visions of Black leisure, beauty and utopia against the backdrop of historical complexity and violence. A monograph of the same name will be launched later this year, and will be available in English and French.

MEP
5/7 Rue de Fourcy,
75004 Paris

Robert Rauschenberg’s ‘Gluts’

Thaddaeus Ropac opened Gluts, Robert Rauschenberg‘s last sculpture series, just a few days ahead of what would’ve been the artist’s 100th birthday. The title draws inspiration from the 1985 oil glut-turned economic crisis in his native Houston. Comprising of various scrap metal assemblages, the exhibition breathes new life into otherwise discarded exhaust pipes, bicycle frames and radiator grilles. “I think of the Gluts as souvenirs without nostalgia,” the artist once explained. “What they are really meant to do is give people an experience of looking at everything in terms of what its many possibilities might be.”

Thaddaeus Ropac
7 Rue Debelleyme,
75003 Paris

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