Art Basel 2023: Galleries at Huge Switzerland Fair Prepare for Wobbly Market

At Art Basel in Switzerland, galleries bring the best of the best. Will that be enough?

Nicolas Party's Mountains, from 2023.

James Tarmy

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All art fairs are not made equal. While each has its own selling point (some less convincing than others), Art Basel in Switzerland is incontrovertibly at the top.

"Basel is the only fair where really, all the important market players come together," says Marc Payot, co-president of megagallery Hauser & Wirth. "The dealers, collectors, curators and also, a lot of artists and auction house people. No other fair attracts, to this extent, these different actors in our industry."