Alice Diop to Take on Miu Miu’s 2026 Art Basel Paris Commission
Miu Miu has announced that the recipient of its 2026 commission for the Art Basel Paris Public Program will be filmmaker Alice Diop. Diop will stage Geste de Consolation (Gesture of Consolation) at both the Palais d’Iéna headquarters of France’s Economic, Social, and Environmental Council and the Miu Miu runway show. Diop’s takeover will mark the third commission by Miu Miu during Art Basel Paris, with Goshka Macuga’s Tales and Tellers (2024) and Helen Marten’s 30 Blizzards. (2025) preceding it. Related Articles Diop was invited by Miu Miu founder and ARTnews Top 200 Collector Miuccia Prada to make Geste de Consolation as a continuation of the artist’s 2025 short film Fragments for Venus (part of Miu Miu’s “Women’s Tales” series), which looks at the representation of Black women historically and today. Diop is best known for her documentaries looking at French society, including La Permanence (On Call, 2016), which looked at refugees being treated at a hospital in a banlieue northeast of Paris, and Nous (We, 2020), which focused on the mostly Black and …

