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Art Basel/Side-show navigationBasel · June 16–22, 2026

Side-show navigation infrastructure

Walkable. Queryable. Yours.

Which expanding show. Which dinner. Which Liste discovery. Which Parcours commission. Which artist's reference world to enter. Which collector's recommended café. Made walkable, queryable, yours.

The hand-drawn list a senior curator scribbles for a collector on the train from Zurich to Basel, but always-on. Open entries are open. Gated entries say so. The ones threading what you already saved surface to the top.

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RHINE

Messeplatz

Open
RSVP
Inner circle
Advisor only

Expanding shows · 3

OpenBridget Riley thread

Schaulager · Bridget Riley study room

Münchenstein · Schaulager · 15 min · Tram 11 from Aeschenplatz

Fair-week + summer (June – Sept 2026)

The room Selma's interpretation routes to after a Riley-thread capture. Same study Cosima cites in her own studio references.

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OpenAfter Op group show

Kunsthalle Basel · 'After Op' group show

Innerstadt · Steinenberg 7 · 12 min · Tram 6 or 8

May 30 – Sept 8, 2026

Anchored as the contemporary continuation of the Riley thread. Selma's reading list cites two of the show's catalog essays.

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OpenBeyeler-adjacent

Fondation Beyeler · summer exhibition (2026)

Riehen · Baselstrasse 101 · 22 min · Tram 6 to Riehen Dorf

Daily 10am–6pm during fair week

The Beyeler is the default Basel side-show for any collector. Cosima's carry-home chips include a Beyeler entry for fair week.

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Satellite fairs · 1

OpenListe Statements-curious

Liste Art Fair · Werkraum Warteck

Kleinbasel · Burgweg 15 · 9 min walk

Tuesday – Sunday during Art Basel

Emerging galleries. The neighborhood the Statements-curious wander through. Walk-from-Messeplatz route already routes ~14% of fair attendees through here.

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Alternative venues · 2

RSVPListe Statements-curious

Basel Social Club

Rotating · 2026 venue announced May · TBD · 2026 venue announced May

Tuesday – Sunday during Art Basel · evenings

The youngest alternative venue. 92% crossover with Art Basel attendees. Highest Troviii attribution share (41%) — emerging-collector retention wedge.

Free entry · RSVP via baselsocialclub.com once 2026 venue is announced (typically late May).

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OpenParcours quiet route

Parcours · Clarastrasse public-art route

Kleinbasel · Clarastrasse · 3 min walk

Public · all hours during fair week

The primary capture node. 47% of Parcours visitors save at least one node into their thread. Where the loop typically starts.

Private dinners · 2

Inner circleFelix Salon thread

Felix Salon · Tuesday opening-night dinner

Innerstadt · venue rotates · 10 min · taxi

Tuesday 8pm of fair week

The dinner the institutional curators are at on Tuesday. Where the next year's biennale relationships start.

Felix Salon members + invited curators only. Visible on Troviii to logged-in visitors with ≥3 saved artist worlds in the fair-week thread.

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RSVPTangier / Beirut / Diaspora

Sfeir-Semler dinner · Thursday post-Selma

Innerstadt · Restaurant TBD · Walk from booth

Thursday 9pm

The dinner the artist will actually be at. Open to any visitor who's stopped at the booth and asked one real question.

RSVP via Sfeir-Semler at Booth M08 by Wednesday 6pm. Plus-one on request.

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Private views · 1

Advisor onlyBeyeler-adjacent

Fondation Beyeler · private view (Friday 4pm)

Riehen · Baselstrasse 101 · 22 min · Tram 6

Friday 4–6pm

The slow Friday slot most collectors don't know about. Curators walk through with you. The room the year's two or three institutional acquisitions get talked about in.

Advisor pass + named collector list. Troviii surfaces this entry only to visitors with an advisor pass.

Open studios · 1

OpenParcours quiet route

Rebgasse open studios · Saturday

Kleinbasel · Rebgasse · 6 min walk

Saturday 11am–4pm

Twelve Basel-based artists open their studios on the Saturday of fair week. The quiet alternative to the Saturday post-fair Felix Salon brunch.

Café rituals · 2

OpenParcours quiet route

Cafe Fruehling · morning ritual

Kleinbasel · Pumpkins / Klingental · 7 min walk

Daily 7:30–11am

Where Selma takes her morning espresso during fair week. Where Cosima goes before walking to Parcours. The merchant attribution shows 538 fair-week visits with 36% from Selma's morning-ritual route.

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OpenParcours quiet route

Bäckerei Kult · pre-fair breakfast

Kleinbasel · Riehentorstrasse · 5 min walk

Daily 6:30am–11am

The bakery bz Basel documented flipping to fair-week destination after being named in the Art Basel guide. 312 fair-week visits this year, +218% YoY. Soft-boiled egg, espresso, window seat.

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Walks · 1

OpenParcours quiet route

Rhine ferry · Klingental → St. Alban

Rhine · 15 min crossing · 8 min to Klingental ferry

Daily · take it twice during fair week

The reset walk. Selma takes it twice during fair week. 15 minutes, in silence. The cardinal Troviii civic loop — fair-to-city movement made walkable.

CHF 2 per crossing

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Lectures / panels · 1

OpenAfter Op group show

Art Basel Conversations · Thursday morning panel

Messeplatz · Auditorium · On-site

Thursday 10–11:30am

The institutional conversation. Where the Saturday Felix Salon ideas get rehearsed in public on Thursday.

Free with Art Basel badge.

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