The event will be held across two major venues, the M7 and the Doha Design District. Under the artistic direction of Doha-based artist Wael Shawky, Art Basel Qatar’s curatorial theme is “Becoming,” which Shawky describes as a “meditation on humanity’s constant transformation and the systems that shape how we live, believe, and create meaning.”
This first edition will feature 87 galleries, including 16 making their Art Basel debut. Among them are Hafez Gallery (of Jeddah and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Gallery Misr (Cairo), Le Violon Bleu (Tunis, Tunisia), Saleh Barakat Gallery (Beirut), and Tabari Artspace (Dubai, UAE). They will join leading international galleries, such as Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, Pace Gallery, and David Zwirner, alongside established regional galleries, including Athr Gallery, Green Art Gallery, Gypsum Gallery, Loft Art Gallery, and The Third Line.
Vincenzo de Bellis, Art Basel’s chief artistic officer and global director of fairs, emphasised the importance of including new galleries in the lineup. “With this first-year fair, we wanted to give a platform to galleries that otherwise would not have that platform,” he told ARTnews. He also said, “With approximately 50 percent of the artists coming from the MENASA region, there are going to be a lot of discoveries for many people, both for those from the region but especially those coming from abroad.”
According to de Bellis, this intergenerational aligns closely with Shawky’s vision, noting that the fair won’t be organised according to chronology, region, or medium.
The full exhibitor list follows below:
Mira Madrid / Mira Archiv (Madrid) - Nil Yalter
Acquavella Galleries (New York, Palm Beach) - Jean-Michel Basquiat
al markhiya gallery (Doha) - Bouthayna Al Muftah
Ames Yavuz (Singapore, Sydney, London) - Pinaree Sanpitak
Sabrina Amrani (Madrid) - Manal AlDowayan
ArtTalks | Kanafani Gallery (Cairo) - Ahmed Morsi
Athr Gallery (Jeddah, Riyadh, AlUla) - Ahmed Mater
Barakat Contemporary (Seoul) - Yunchul Kim
Saleh Barakat Gallery (Beirut) - Walid Salek
BB&M (Seoul) - Minouk Lim
Cardi Gallery (Milan, London, Ibiza) - Jannis Kounellis
carlier gebauer (Berlin, Madrid) - Nida Sinnokrot
Chemould Prescott Road (Mumbai) - Rashid Rana
Sadie Coles HQ (London) - Alvaro Barrington
Galleria Continua (San Gimignano, São Paulo, Beijing, Havana, Boissy-le-Châtel, Paris, Rome) - Pascale Marthine Tayou
Paula Cooper Gallery (New York) - Terry Adkins
Lodovico Corsini (Brussels) - Meriem Bennani
Galerie Chantal Crousel (Paris) - Mona Hatoum
Massimodecarlo (Milan, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Beijing) - Matthew Wong
Galerie Eigen + Art (Berlin, Leipzig) - Neo Rauch
Selma Feriani Gallery (London, Tunis) - Nadia Ayari
Stephen Friedman Gallery (London, New York) - Huguette Caland
Gagosian (New York, Beverly Hills, London, Paris, Le Bourget, Basel, Gstaad, Rome, Athens, Hong Kong) - Christo
François Ghebaly (Los Angeles, New York) - Meriem Bennani
Gladstone Gallery (New York, Brussels, Seoul) - Alex Katz
Gray (Chicago, New York) - Torkwase Dyson
Green Art Gallery (Dubai) - Maryam Hoseini
Grosvenor Gallery (London) - Rasheed Araeen
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art (Lisbon) - Ângela Ferreira
Gypsum Gallery (Cairo) - Mohammed Monaiseer
Hafez Gallery (Jeddah, Riyadh) - Lina Gazzaz
Hauser & Wirth (Zurich, New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Monaco, Ciutadella de Menorca, Basel, Gstaad, St. Moritz, London, Somerset, Los Angeles, West Hollywood) - Philip Guston
Leila Heller Gallery (Dubai, New York) - Wassef Boutros-Ghali
Gallery Isabelle (Dubai) - Hassan Sharif
Kalfayan Galleries (Athens, Thessaloniki) - Farida El Gazzar
Karma (New York, Los Angeles) - Milton Avery
Karma International (Zurich) - Simone Fattal
Sean Kelly (New York, Los Angeles) - Hugo McCloud
David Kordansky Gallery (Los Angeles, New York) - Lucy Bull
Sylvia Kouvali (London, Athens) - Iman Issa
Galerie Krinzinger (Vienna) - Maha Malluh
kurimanzutto (Mexico City, New York) - Gabriel Orozco
Lawrie Shabibi (Dubai) - Amir Nour
Lehmann Maupin (London, New York, Hong Kong, Seoul) - Nari Ward
Galerie Lelong (Paris, New York) - Pinaree Sanpitak
Lisson Gallery (London, Los Angeles, New York, Shanghai) - Olga de Amaral
Loft Art Gallery (Casablanca, Marrakech) - Mustapha Azeroual
Luxembourg + Co. (London, New York) - Katsumi Nakai
Magician Space (Beijing) - Timur Si-Qin
Marfa’ Projects (Beirut) - Caline Aoun
Matthew Marks Gallery (New York, Los Angeles) - Charles Ray
Fergus McCaffrey (New York, Tokyo, St Barthélemy) - Shigeko Kubota
Anthony Meier (Mill Valley) - Etel Adnan
Mendes Wood DM (São Paulo, Brussels, New York, Paris) - Solange Pessoa
Mennour (Paris) - Claire Fontaine
Mignoni (New York) - Donald Judd
Victoria Miro (London, Venice) - Idris Khan
Gallery Misr (Cairo) - Souad Abdelrasoul
Nature Morte (New Delhi, Mumbai) - Imran Qureshi
neugerriemschneider (Berlin) - Shilpa Gupta
October Gallery (London) - El Anatsui
Galleria Lorcan O’Neill Roma (Rome, Venice) - Rachel Whiteread
Pace Gallery (New York, Los Angeles, London, Geneva, Berlin, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo) - Lynda Benglis
Perrotin (Paris, London, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Seoul, Dubai) - Ali Banisadr
Pilot Galeri (Istanbul) - Halil Altındere
Raster (Warsaw) - Slavs and Tatars
Niru Ratnam (London) - Kutluğ Ataman
Almine Rech (Paris, Brussels, New York, Shanghai, Monaco, Gstaad) - Ali Cherri
Thaddaeus Ropac (Salzburg, Paris, Pantin, Milan, Seoul, London) - Raqib Shaw
Rossi & Rossi (Hong Kong) - Siah Armajani
Lia Rumma (Milan, Naples) - Shirin Neshat
Sargent’s Daughters (New York) - Aiza Ahmed
Esther Schipper (Berlin, Paris, Seoul) - Anicka Yi
Galerie Thomas Schulte (Berlin) - Matt Mullican
Sfeir-Semler Gallery (Beirut, Hamburg) - MARWAN
Sprüth Magers (Berlin, London, Los Angeles, New York) - Otto Piene
Tabari Artspace (Dubai) - Hazem Harb
Galerie Tanit (Munich, Beirut) - Adel Abidin
The Third Line (Dubai) - Sophia Al-Maria
Tornabuoni Art (Florence, Milan, Forte dei Marmi, Crans Montana, Paris, Rome) - Alighiero Boetti
Van de Weghe (New York) - Pablo Picasso
Axel Vervoordt Gallery (Antwerp, Hong Kong) - Kimsooja
Le Violon Bleu (Tunis) - Farid Belkahia
Waddington Custot (London, Dubai) - Etel Adnan
Michael Werner Gallery (New York, London, Beverly Hills, Berlin) - Issy Wood
White Cube (London, Hong Kong, Paris, New York, Seoul) - Georg Baselitz
David Zwirner (New York, Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, Paris) - Marlene Dumas
