Lehmann Maupin is pleased to return to Art Basel Paris with a presentation that will foreground artists with programming in the city and around Europe. Highlights include works by French-Alergian artist Kader Attia, on the heels of his Louvre Museum residency and ahead of his solo exhibition at Lehmann Maupin in New York; McArthur Binion, whose work is included in the Pinault Collection exhibition Minimal at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris; Cecilia Vicuña, ahead of her solo exhibition Reverse Migration, a Poetic Journey at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin; and Erwin Wurm, whose work is on view at The Academy of Ceramics in Gmunden, Austria. Notably, the presentation will also include new paintings by Tammy Nguyen, Dominic Chambers, and Arcmanoro Niles, as well as works by acclaimed photographer Catherine Opie, who has a forthcoming solo exhibition opening at the National Portrait Gallery in London in March 2026.
The gallery’s presentation will foreground new and recent works by French-Algerian artist Kader Attia. Drawing from his experience of living within two disparate cultures, Attia has developed a dynamic practice that examines the intricacies of social, historical, and cultural differences across the globe, demonstrating how individual and cultural identity is constructed within the context of colonial domination and conflict. Often using artifacts, discarded quotidian objects, and wartime ephemera, Attia’s works create spaces of introspection, allowing the viewer to become aware of the complicated and often inaccurate depiction of our multiple histories. In addition to presenting works by the artist at the fair, Lehmann Maupin will open a solo exhibition of new work by Kader Attia in New York on October 30. This comes on the heels of a string of institutional activity around the world, including the solo exhibition The Lost Paradise at CAAC Sevilla in Spain, as well as Attia’s inclusion in the 36th São Paulo Biennial and his recent artist residency at the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The gallery will also debut new paintings by McArthur Binion at the booth. Binion is known for his intensely personal works that are deeply dedicated to the rigorous process of making a painting. In new canvases from his series Under:Ground, he combines collage, drawing, and painting to create autobiographical abstractions of painted minimalist patterns over an “under-conscious” of personal documents and photographs, which are concealed and abstracted by grids of oil stick. The series revisits his long-standing interest in shaped canvases, drawing from a personal and artistic history that stretches back decades. A list of root vegetables written in the 1980s and still pinned to his studio wall acts as a quiet but persistent symbol in this body of work. These everyday roots, according to Binion, relate to lineage, grounding, and the foundational elements of memory. Concurrent to the fair, Binion’s work is on view in the Pinault Collection exhibition Minimal, curated by Dia Art Foundation director Jessica Morgan, at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris through January 19, as well as in the solo exhibition Notes on Form (Intimate Structures) at Georgetown University Art Galleries in Washington, DC through December 14.
Chilean artist and activist Cecilia Vicuña integrates practices of poetry, performance, Conceptualism, and textile craft in response to pressing concerns of the modern world, including ecological destruction, human rights, and cultural homogenization. On view at the fair, Vicuña’s painting La Habana (1978/2024) belongs to a body of work that recreates, in oil on canvas, drawings Vicuña made in 1978 but which have since been lost or destroyed, existing only in the artist’s memory and in limited photographic documentation. Many works in the series reference Orixás––deities worshiped in the Yoruba religion which Vicuña learned of during her travel across the Amazon––combined with images collected from her dreams, popular songs, common phrases, and other vernacular sources. Paintings from the series bring these original drawings of hybrid Orixás back to life through various embodiments including mermaids (Iemanjá), goddess figures, and others. On November 7, Vicuña’s solo exhibition Reverse Migration, a Poetic Journey opens at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, Ireland. The exhibition marks the artist’s debut show in Ireland and traces her ancestral roots in the country.
The presentation also includes several sculptures by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm, including a new sculpture depicting an anthropomorphic, flattened pair of pants and jacket mid-stride, titled Nightmare (Substitutes) (2025). Wurm’s work is currently on view in the solo exhibition Bad People at the Academy of Ceramics in Gmunden, Austria through January 31. Additional highlights include several new paintings by Tammy Nguyen, concurrent to her solo exhibition of artist books at The Cooper Union Library in New York; and works by Catherine Opie, ahead of her 2026 solo exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Additional highlights include works by Loriel Beltrán, Dominic Chambers, Mandy El-Sayegh, Teresita Fernández, Todd Gray, Kim Yun Shin, Arcmanoro Niles, Anna Park, Alex Prager, David Salle, Liu Wei, and Billie Zangewa.