Art Basel 2026 Parcours Highlights

This is a tour of the Parcours sector at Art Basel 2026. Parcours is Art Basel’s sector dedicated to site-specific public art installations, sculptures, and interventions presented in urban spaces around Basel. For the 2026 edition, curator Stefanie Hessler (Director of Swiss Institute, New York) has selected the theme “Conviviality,” exploring themes of living together, including rituals, ecological relations, public space, memory, resistance, and technology. The program features over 20 mostly new works by an international roster of artists from Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia. Projects are located along Clarastrasse, in a church, hotels, restaurants, a distillery, and other semi-public venues. Notable participants include Kader Attia, Nicole Coson, Pélagie Gbaguidi, Amol K. Patil, Haegue Yang, Miao Ying, and Edi Rama. Running concurrently with the fair (Preview Days June 15–17, Public Days June 18–21), Parcours is open daily with free public access. It provides an accessible counterpoint to the indoor fair, fostering encounters between contemporary art and the city environment.

The video above is an excerpt. For the comprehensive, nearly hour-long tour of the Parcours sector at Art Basel 2026 for VernissageTV members visit our website.