The third year of Edition, Art Basel’s sector dedicated to works in multiple or prints, featured 12 galleries: Alan Cristea Gallery (London), Carolina Nitsch (New York), Crown Point Press (San Francisco), Gemini G.E.L. LLC (Los Angeles), Pace Prints (New York), Paragon (London), Paul Stolper Gallery (London), Polígrafa Obra Gràfica (Barcelona), Sabine Knust (Munich), STPI (Singapore), Two Palms (New York) and ULAE (Bay Shore). Featuring work made in the last three years, Nova presented 34 galleries, from Tobias Madison and Matthew Lutz-Kinoy at Freedman Fitzpatrick (Los Angeles) to Elias Hansen, Shinro Ohtake and Aki Sasamoto at Take Ninagawa (Tokyo). Featured artists included Keren Cytter at Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art (Tel-Aviv); Ciprian Mureşan and Navid Nuur at Galeria Plan B (Cluj, Berlin); Luciano Figueiredo, Sandra Gamarra and Mauro Piva at Galeria Leme (São Paulo); Antoine Catala and Gregory Edwards at 47 Canal (New York); Nicholas Mangan, Labor (Mexico City); Sam Anderson, and Phoebe Collings-James and Noel McKenna at mother’s tankstation (Dublin). Among the 16 exhibitors in Positions, 12 were first-time participants in the sector. Artists included Dan Bayles at François Ghebaly Gallery (Los Angeles), Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz at Marcelle Alix (Paris), Vittorio Brodmann at Galerie Gregor Staiger (Zurich), Henning Fehr and Philipp Rühr at Galerie Max Mayer (Dusseldorf), GCC at Project Native Informant (London), Jiieh G Hur at One and J. Gallery (Seoul), Fritzia Irizar at Arredondo \ Arozarena (Mexico City), Daniel Keller at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler (Berlin), Andrei Koschmieder at Real Fine Art (New York), Jaromír Novotný at hunt kastner (Prague), Sean Paul at Thomas Duncan Gallery (Los Angeles), Romy Pocztaruk at SIM Galeria (Curitiba), B. Ingrid Olson at Simone Subal Gallery (New York), Villa Design Group at Mathew Gallery (Berlin, New York), Thomas Wachholz at RaebervonStenglin (Zurich) and He Xiangyu at White Space Beijing (Beijing). Returning for its second year, Survey presented 14 projects of works made before 2000. A platform highlighting works rarely seen in an art-fair context, the sector included a single-artist display of nine videos by Peter Campus at Cristin Tierney Gallery (New York) presented together for the first time in over 30 years; one of the largest selections of photographs by Roy DeCarava at Jenkins Johnson Gallery (San Francisco, New York); and an overview of work by Dorothy Iannone at Peres Projects (Berlin). The sector also featured work by Charles Burchfield at DC Moore Gallery (New York), Gianni Colombo at Robilant +Voena (London, Milan, St. Moritz), Rosalyn Drexler at Garth Greenan Gallery (New York), Heinz Mack at Beck & Eggeling (Dusseldorf), Roberto Burle Marx at Bergamin & Gomide (São Paulo), Shinjiro Okamoto at Tokyo Gallery + BTAP (Tokyo), Miguel Ángel Rojas at espaivisor (Valencia), Peter Saul at George Adams Gallery (New York), Keith Sonnier at Castelli Gallery (New York), Ettore Spalletti at Vistamare (Pescara) and Wang Jinsong at Beijing Art Now Gallery (Beijing).

A decade after its inauguration in 2005, Kabinett presented 27 curated exhibitions installed within booths across the show. Highlights included an installation by Isa Melsheimer at Galerie Jocelyn Wolff (Paris), early paintings by Richard Pettibone at Galerie 1900-2000 (Paris), paintings by Ana Sacerdote at Jorge Mara - La Ruche (Buenos Aires), vintage photographs by Agnès Varda at Galerie Nathalie Obadia (Paris, Brussels) and Chris Burden at Galerie Krinzinger (Vienna). Two exhibitors from Edition participated in Kabinett: Alan Cristea Gallery (London) with two works by Michael Craig- Martin and Two Palms (New York) with a suite of 11 line etchings by Chris Ofili, whose entwined figures are only revealed upon close inspection of the fine lines.

Public, always a highlight of the Miami Beach show, was curated for the third consecutive year by Nicholas Baume, Director and Chief Curator of New York's Public Art Fund, and featured 27 large-scale and site-specific installations and performances by 26 leading and emerging artists from over 11 countries set within Collins Park. Presented under the theme ‘Metaforms’, the sector featured Olaf Breuning, James Capper, Tony Cragg, Melvin Edwards, Sam Falls, Sylvie Fleury, Katharina Grosse, Matt Johnson, Jacob Kassay, Kris Martin, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Athena Papadopoulos, Ishmael Randall-Weeks, Sterling Ruby, Michael Sailstorfer, Tomás Saraceno, Tony Tasset, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Francisco Ugarte, Timm Ulrichs, Marianne Vitale, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Hank Willis Thomas, Robert Wilson, Yan Xing and Yu Xiao. Through 'tc: temporary contemporary', over a dozen works will remain on view through February 2016. Produced for the fifth year running in partnership with the Bass Museum of Art, Public officially opened on Wednesday, December 2, with performances by Xavier Cha, Ryan Gander, Pope.L and Yan Xing.