The 10 Best Booths at Art Basel 2026

Esther Schipper’s booth is designed like a navigational system. Conceived around the idea of a compass, the presentation is divided into routes—North, West, East, and South—that guide visitors through a maze-like arrangement of compartments, each opening onto a different group of works. Enter from one direction and Pierre Huyghe’s film Of Ideal (2019), which uses AI to meld together amorphous shapes and figures, comes into view. Approach from another and Philippe Parreno’s new installation Marquee (2026), a flickering porch roof resembling a cinema entrance, takes over, turning the booth into a fun exercise in orientation and discovery.

Rather than flatten the range of its artists into a single fair-friendly hang, Esther Schipper uses architecture to give these major works room to operate. Around them, the presentation moves between monumental and uncanny themes: Ugo Rondinone’s massive the earthly + the celestial (2026) sculpture, for example, turns stacked stone forms into a pair of archaic figure-like shapes.

Elsewhere, Tauba Auerbach’s standout Pointillist painting Foam (2026) depicts the titular material in close detail, while Saâdane Afif’s Old Shelton Wet/Dry 5 Gallon, Old Hoover Convertible Doubledecker (2026) stacks two obsolete vacuum cleaners into a glowing, deadpan monument that humorously recasts Jeff Koons’s similarly named work.

As Florian Wojnar, co-owner of the gallery, put it, Art Basel remains the place where the gallery can present “major works” under the right conditions. Its compartments slow the viewer down, creating pockets of attention within the fair’s broader rush. Prices range from $10,000 to $1 million apiece.