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Agnes Denes\u2019s Wheatfield \u2013 A Confrontation<\/em> (1984) restaged at last year\u2019s Art Basel. Courtesy of Art Basel<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The arrival of June ought to offer a reprieve after a busy May art fair calendar<\/a> packed to the rafters with events both in and outside of New York City. But if the June art fair calendar<\/a> is only refreshingly light because of Art Basel\u2019s global dominance<\/a>, at least the next best thing to a month off is a few weeks on the Rhine. Beyond Art Basel, the sundry Swiss satellite fairs are the order of the day this month, and we\u2019re not complaining. It\u2019s a real treat for those looking for a break from the city and<\/i> a city\u2019s worth of art. Along with the art fairs<\/a> below, don\u2019t miss this year\u2019s Zurich Art Weekend<\/a> (a curated program of more than seventy-five exhibitions and 130 special events) on June 13-15 and Basel Art Summer Camp<\/a>, a pop-up of works by emerging artists at HYVE Hostel on June 18-22.<\/p>\n

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Our June 2025 Art Fair Guide<\/b><\/h2>\n

ARCOlisboa 2025<\/b><\/h3>\n

May 29 to June 1<\/b><\/p>\n

The eighth edition of ARCOlisboa<\/a> returns to the Cordoaria Nacional in 2025, bringing together around seventy galleries selected by the fair\u2019s Organizing Committee for a program that remains rooted in Portuguese artistic discourse while expanding outward through international connections. While much of the work on view is either by Portuguese artists or those tied to Lusophone contexts, the fair\u2019s two curated sections push the scope further: As formas do Oceano<\/i> (\u201cThe Shapes of the Ocean\u201d), curated by Paula Nascimento<\/a> and Igor Sim\u00f5es, explores relationships between Africa and its diaspora, while Opening<\/i>, curated by Sof\u00eda Lanusse and Diogo Pinto<\/a>, focuses on emerging galleries and experimental voices. Alongside its General Programme, ARCOlisboa also offers a robust slate of talks through the Millennium Art Talks series, organized by EGEAC and curated by Filipa Oliveira<\/a>, which touches on everything from collecting and architecture to curatorial content from within the fair. The Foro auditorium in the Torre\u00e3o Nascente will house ArtsLibris Speakers\u2019 Corner, a platform for conversations on artist books, photobooks, self-publishing and digital formats.<\/p>\n

The Artists\u2019 Fair 2025<\/h3>\n

June 7-8<\/b><\/p>\n

This artist-led fair calls itself a market, but aren\u2019t all art fairs markets? What sets The Artists\u2019 Fair<\/a> in London apart is, firstly, that there are no dealers manning the booths. The artists themselves promote and sell their work to an audience invited to pay what they can for entry. There is also a full program of artists\u2019 talks, by which we mean talks geared toward an audience of artists. This is very much a fair promoting communication and collaboration among artists versus an event designed specifically to appeal to collectors, which isn\u2019t to say serious art collectors won\u2019t enjoy themselves here, because they most certainly will. Note: The on-premises bar is open all day.<\/p>\n

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The biannual Arrival art fair will be staged at TOURISTS hotel in North Adams, Massachusetts. Courtesy Arrival<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arrival 2025<\/h3>\n

June 12-15<\/p>\n

Set against the backdrop of the Berkshires\u2014and equidistant between New York and Boston\u2014Arrival<\/a> is staking its claim as a slower, smarter kind of art fair. Launching at the TOURISTS hotel in North Adams, this biannual invitational brings together more than thirty galleries and non-profit art spaces from across the U.S., all selected by a network of curatorial ambassadors with deep ties to the region. The result is a tightly edited cross-section of serious programming, from national names like Jessica Silverman<\/a>, Jane Lombard<\/a> and Library Street Collective to regional stalwarts such as Praise Shadows and Martha\u2019s Contemporary, plus not-for-profit outfits like Gateway Arts and the Wassaic Project. With off-site programming mounted by institutions like Fall River MoCA and Powerhouse Arts and cultural partnerships with MASS MoCA, The Clark and the Williams College Museum of Art, Arrival (which is free to attend) is sure to make a splash.<\/p>\n

Basel Social Club 2025<\/h3>\n

June 15-21<\/b><\/p>\n

Basel Social Club<\/a> was founded in the spring of 2022 by a collective of artists, gallerists and curators who wanted to create social spaces for art. What they built was more festival than art fair: an event that\u2019s free and open to all, accessible by public transportation, full of affordable artworks and enhanced by live music, performances and food. The third edition took place outdoors\u2014specifically, on 72 hectares of open farmland ten kilometers south of Art Basel. In 2024, Robbie Fitzpatrick<\/a>, co-founder of the fair and owner of Fitzpatrick Gallery, told the Financial Times<\/a> that Basel Social Club would happen rain or shine. Details about the fourth edition of Basel Social Club are scant, but there\u2019s an A.I.-generated teaser on Insta that cryptically reads \u201cGENTLEMEN PREFER BONDS.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Zustand Hand<\/em> (2024) by Swiss artist Reto Pulfer in the \u201cUnlimited\u201d sector at last year\u2019s Art Basel. Photo by VALENTIN FLAURAUD\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

June Art Fair 2025<\/h3>\n

June 16-22<\/strong><\/p>\n

June Art Fair<\/a>, with its evocative but somewhat hard-to-search name, has carved out a niche of its own since 2019 as the gallery-led satellite fair that remembers art should still be fun. Founded by Christian Andersen<\/a> and Esperanza Rosales<\/a>, it opens just before the main Basel frenzy begins, offering collectors and curious wanderers alike a moment to breathe and actually look at the art. No VIP stampedes. No champagne bottlenecks. To wit: the very first edition of June Art Fair had no booths\u2014the founders called it an \u2018exhibition platform\u2019 rather than a fair. The setting is a conversation starter in and of itself: a repurposed bunker designed by the Pritzker Prize-winning architecture firm Herzog & de Meuron that\u2019s just 200 meters away from Art Basel.<\/p>\n

Liste Art Fair Basel 2025<\/h3>\n

June 16-22<\/b><\/p>\n

One of the cornerstone satellite fairs orbiting Art Basel, Liste has been a launchpad for the new and the next since 1996, building a well-earned reputation for sharp, boundary-pushing presentations. Often organized as focused solo shows, Liste is where rising artists debut ideas that set art world trends, so it\u2019s no surprise that this fair often spotlights socially and politically engaged work that goes on to resonate well beyond Basel. Since 2021, Liste has expanded into a three-part platform: Liste Art Fair Basel<\/a>, Liste Showtime Online<\/a> and Liste Expedition Online. Liste Showtime Online and Liste Expedition Online. Liste Showtime, live from June 16 through June 29, is the fair\u2019s digital counterpart\u2014an online space for artists and galleries unable to make the trip to Switzerland to connect with collectors, curators and enthusiasts. Liste Expedition Online, meanwhile, is a \u201cnon-commercial, digital research forum presenting the world\u2019s newest and most important positions in contemporary art,\u201d according to the fair. Still, nothing beats the real thing, and neither is a substitute for spending a day wandering Hall 1.1 to check out the year\u2019s displays.<\/p>\n

Photo Basel 2025<\/h3>\n

June 17-22<\/b><\/p>\n

Switzerland\u2019s only art fair devoted exclusively to photography, Photo Basel<\/a> has been making the most of Basel\u2019s June crowds since its founding in 2015\u2014reminding collectors, curators and critics alike that photography is very much a fine art. Held at the stylishly understated Volkshaus Basel, this fair that knows its niche and thrives in it, delivers tightly curated exhibitions that span vintage gems and contemporary breakthroughs. Among this year\u2019s highlights: Basel-based artist Martin Zeller<\/a> is collaborating with writer and artist Sou Vai Keng<\/a> on a project that reflects on urban transformation through photography and poetic text, Carlos Leal<\/a> and Michael Schnabel<\/a> will meet in conversation on the fair\u2019s opening day and Beyond Photography, a section that debuted in 2023, is coming back with another curated selection of photographic works that transcend the medium\u2019s limitations through special printing techniques, unique presentation and other innovations.<\/p>\n

VOLTA Basel 2025<\/h3>\n

June 19-22<\/b><\/p>\n

Volta<\/i> is the Italian word for \u201cturn,\u201d and in literary terms, a volta marks a shift in tone or perspective\u2014a fitting name for an art fair that\u2019s been quietly evolving since its founding in 2005. What began as a casual gathering among friends and dealers has grown into a curated showcase with an emphasis on discovery, innovation and curatorial clarity. VOLTA Basel<\/a> now functions as something of a crucible: rigorous but open, serious but not stiff. This milestone edition brings together seventy galleries (with an especially strong showing from Swiss galleries) from twenty-eight countries, offering art collectors a lively mix of voices, ideas and points of view. New this year is a dedicated Middle East North African Pavilion designed to spark cross-cultural dialogue.<\/p>\n

Art Basel 2025<\/h3>\n

June 19-22<\/b><\/p>\n

This international mega-fair\u2014known for drawing international mega-crowds\u2014hardly needs an introduction, but here it is anyway. To paraphrase Observer\u2019s take back in 2018: Art Basel is a pan-continental, seemingly never-ending art juggernaut<\/a>, with marquee fairs landing every few months in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong Kong, plus a scatterplot of satellite exhibitions in between, but the original June edition in the Swiss city that gave the fair its name remains the gold standard of blue-chip legitimacy. It\u2019s where the so-called \u201cserious\u201d collectors descend en masse to comb through presentations from hundreds of the world\u2019s most prestigious galleries, all of them bringing out their best and boldest to hustle in the Messeplatz. That\u2019s all still true, and it\u2019s worth noting that Art Basel remains a major force in the global art market, setting both the pace and the tone for contemporary art sales and institutional taste. If you\u2019re just arriving in the art world and looking to jump into the deep end, this is as deep as it gets.<\/p>\n

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Gagosian is bringing Katharina Grosse\u2019s Untitled<\/em> (2017) to Art Basel in 2025. \u00a9 VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2025 Photo: Jens Ziehe Courtesy the artist and Gagosian<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Women in Art Fair 2025<\/h3>\n

June 19-21<\/b><\/p>\n

Now in its third edition, London\u2019s Women in Art Fair continues to make a thoughtful case for its place in the wider art fair landscape as it seeks to \u201credress the gender imbalance in the art industry.\u201d Founder and director Jacqueline Harvey<\/a> describes the fair\u2019s aim as breaking down barriers that still stand in the way of gender and racial equity in the arts, and the focus here is squarely on the work of women artists, curators and gallerists. This year, from more than 600 open call submissions, 100 artworks were selected that reflect a broad and timely cross-section of contemporary practice, with a noticeable emphasis on figuration and recurring themes around the female form, motherhood and identity. The roster of participating artists is mostly U.K.-based but comfortably international, representing a range of nationalities and ages, from early-career artists in their 20s to those in their 70s. New this year is the Women in Art Fair Prize, juried by Alison Mosshart<\/a>, Vanessa Raw<\/a> and Virginia Damtsa<\/a>, who bring a mix of artistic, curatorial and cultural experience. A discussion program adds further depth, with conversations featuring SEEN founder Carrie Scott<\/a>, Femmes Artistes du Mus\u00e9e de Mougins founder Christian Levett<\/a>, MyArtBroker and collectors Hall Rockefeller<\/a> and Rachel Verghis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Treasure House Fair 2025<\/h3>\n

June 26 \u2013 July 1<\/b><\/p>\n

London\u2019s highly anticipated summer art fair returns this year with seventy internationally recognized exhibitors spanning fine art, furniture, antiquities, jewellery, watches and even classic cars\u2014a sprawling showcase where connoisseurship meets spectacle. Styled as a \u201ctreasure house\u201d of the rare and refined, the fair fuses British heritage with a global perspective, presenting everything from ancient artifacts to avant-garde design. Visitors can expect a curated mix of the timeworn and the cutting-edge at Treasure House Fair<\/a>: the jeweller behind the royal wedding rings will share space with up-and-coming art dealers charting new territory in the global market. Every object on view is vetted by independent experts, ensuring a certain rigor behind the glitz, and inviting visitors to trace a millennia-spanning arc of craftsmanship, ingenuity and cultural ambition. Speaking of classic cars, a special non-selling exhibition, \u201cThe Brilliant Bugattis,\u201d will present a trove of thirty artworks and\u2014yes\u2014cars designed by the family patriarch, Carlo.<\/p>\n

Even more June art fairs in 2025<\/b><\/h3>\n

As always, what\u2019s above doesn\u2019t represent the totality of the June art fair calendar in 2025\u2014there are always plenty of smaller, lesser-known and niche art fairs happening around the world. Here\u2019s a quick roundup of several more art events you might want to check out this month.<\/p>\n

MoBU<\/a> 2025 (Bucharest)<\/h4>\n

May 28 \u2013 June 1<\/p>\n

ReA! Art Fair<\/a> 2025 (Lugano)<\/h4>\n

June 12-15<\/p>\n

Juxtapose<\/a> 2025 (Aarhus, Denmark)<\/h4>\n

June 13-15<\/p>\n

The Digital Art Mile<\/a> 2025 (Basel)<\/h4>\n

June 16-22<\/p>\n

CAN Ibiza Art Fair<\/a> 2025<\/h4>\n

June 25-29<\/p>\n

ArtBeat Art Fair<\/a> 2025 (Lisbon)<\/h4>\n

June 27-29<\/p>\n

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