The fair occupies the Grand Palais from 21 to 25 October 2026: VIP preview and vernissage on 21 and 22 October, public days from 23 to 25. For those public days, tickets are sold on artbasel.com, as are the Premium tickets that grant access to the vernissage on 22 October. No figure appears in our verified dossier; the price is displayed at the online ticket office.
The free route runs through the galleries: a VIP preview card can be obtained from a participating gallery where you are a client, or a serious prospect; Art Basel also issues its own cards through its VIP Relations program. Press accreditation, through Art Basel's portal, opens the VIP days to journalists who can show credentials from a media outlet. Finally, the week can also be experienced without a ticket, in the fair's orbit. Sotheby's Paris, 76 rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, opens free of charge the exhibition for its evening sale "Modernités", scheduled for Friday 23 October 2026 at 5 pm. Artcurial, in the Hôtel Marcel Dassault mansion, 7 Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées, likewise offers a free public vernissage and exhibition around its sale "La Modernité en partage" on Saturday 24 October. To bid, registration is done on sothebys.com or artcurial.com.