Paris+ par Art Basel
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Paris+ par Art Basel was the name of an art fair in Paris that ran in 2022 and 2023 in a temporary space at the Grand Palais Éphémère on the Champ de Mars[1] before being rebranded Art Basel Paris in 2024 as it moved to the renovated Grand Palais exhibition hall.[2][3] It features a more public section of the fair outside the walls of the Grand Palais as well, which don't require Art Basel tickets to attend. The fair partnered with Miu Miu on the public programming section in 2024.[1]
Paris+ par Art Basel took over a calendar slot traditionally occupied by Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, known as FIAC, which was France’s flagship art festival that had run for almost five decades, much of it in the Grand Palais.[4] The change was made in a surprise announcement by the management of the Grand Palais in January 2022.[5][6]
The announcement that the native-run FIAC being displaced by a Swiss-managed art fair was met with shock and ambivalence by the Paris-based art community. Philippe Boutté, the gallery director of Magnin-A, called it “sad and violent.”[7]
In response to the change, the organizers of FIAC, RX Group, released a statement that it: "strongly regrets this decision taken abruptly by the public institution, at the end of a procedure which RX believes was hasty and flawed."[8] Michel Filzi, the president of RX France, said in the statement, “This is a huge disappointment for our teams and all the clients and partners who support us."[8]
Leadership
The current director of Art Basel Paris is Karim Crippa, who took charge in November 2025 after the surprising departure of its previous director.[9]
The first director of the event was Clément Delépine, who was the former co-director of Paris Internationale, a highly regarded fair for emerging artists.[2]
Art Basel also announced that Jennifer Flay, the long-serving director of FIAC, would join the Paris+’s management team as president of the fair’s advisory board in March 2023.[2]