Art Basel

Art Basel

Industry	Art
Founded	1970; 54 years ago (1970) in Basel, Switzerland
Founder	Ernst Beyeler, Trudl Bruckner and Balz Hilt
Number of locations	4 (2024)
Products	Art fairs

Art Basel is a for-profit, privately owned and managed, international art fair staged annually in Basel (Switzerland), Miami Beach (USA), Hong Kong (China) and Paris (France). Art Basel provides a platform for galleries to show and sell their work to buyers, and works in collaboration with host cities' local institutions to help grow and develop art programs.