Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 takes place from December 6-8, 2024, at the Miami Beach Convention Center, with VIP Preview Days on December 4 & 5.
Directed for the first time by Bridget Finn, Art Basel’s fair in the Americas hosts 286 premier galleries from 38 countries and territories, set to present the best of their distinguished programs.
With its Global Lead Partner is UBS, the show welcomes its largest cohort of new exhibitors in over a decade, thoroughly re-invigorated with an exceptional 34 new galleries joining the fair across all sectors and 31 exhibitors set to present in the main sector for the first time.
Reflecting the show’s home at the continental crossroads of Miami Beach, as well as its enduring commitment to platforming artistic excellence from the region, over two-thirds of exhibitors at this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach operate spaces in the Americas. They hail from the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Colombia, and Uruguay, joining exhibitors from Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to present an unparalleled overview of artistic production in the region.
Newcomers entering the main sector directly include: Gallery Baton (Seoul), Jan Kaps (Köln), Pearl Lam Galleries (Hong Kong, Shanghai), Leeahn Gallery (Daegu, Seoul), Martos Gallery (New York), Gallery Wendi Norris (San Francisco), and Tim Van Laere Gallery (Antwerp, Rome). The sector will feature thirteen ‘graduating’ galleries who exhibited in Nova, Positions, or Survey in 2023, with standouts including Isla Flotante (Buenos Aires), Central Fine (Miami Beach), Meredith Rosen Gallery (New York), Afriart Gallery (Kampala), Rele Gallery (Lagos, London, Los Angeles), Instituto de visión (Bogota), Edel Assanti (London), and Daniel Faria Gallery (Toronto).
Once again, exhibitors present the highest-quality paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, films, new media, and editioned works by rising talents and Modern and contemporary masters across Art Basel Miami Beach’s six sectors: Galleries, Kabinett, Nova, Positions, Survey, and Meridians.
- Galleries, the main sector, where over 200 Modern, postwar, and contemporary art dealers from the Americas and beyond will present the full breadth of their program.
- Kabinett, where select galleries in the main sector exhibit thematic presentations in a distinct section of their booth
- Nova, where younger galleries showcase work by up to three artists, created within the last three years
- Positions, dedicated to showcases of emerging galleries and artists.
- Survey, where galleries present historically relevant works created before the year 2000, with the aim of broadening our understanding of the conventional art historical canon
- Meridians, the show’s curated sector for large-scale projects that transcend the traditional art fair booth, introduced in 2019.
Meridians
On the occasion of its fifth anniversary, Meridians is curated for the first time this year by Yasmil Raymond, former director of Portikus and rector of the Hochschule für Bildende Künste-Städelschule, Frankfurt and previous curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Dia Art Foundation, New York; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
With a renewed focus on institutionally minded monumental sculpture, painting, and installation, Meridians features 17 projects – the majority created this year, alongside key historical pieces – by renowned American and international artists, including Alice Aycock, Rachel Feinstein, Roberto Huarcaya, Zhu Jinshi, Portia Munson, José Parlá, Lee ShinJa, and Franz West.
Titled’State of Becoming’, this iteration explores themes ranging from the unexpected contingencies of democracy to the heightened anxiety of global climate change.
Highlights from Meridians include:
- Metal Storm (2024), a new bronze sculpture by American artist Rachel Feinstein (b. 1971), presented by Gagosian (New York, Basel, London, Geneva, Hong Kong, Paris, Rome). Feinstein, who was raised in Miami, will also be the subject of a major mid-career survey at The Bass Museum, on view during Art Basel Miami Beach.
- Bound Angel (2021), an enigmatic installation by American artist Portia Munson (b. 1961), featuring an immense oval dining table dressed in a tablecloth composed of used wedding dresses and a mannequin torso evoking a bound and faceless bride, enveloped in discarded objects in the shape of female angels, presented by P.P.O.W (New York).
- La Famille dans la Joyeuse Verdure (The Family in the Joyful Green) (2015-2019), a large-scale embroidery hand-stitched over a four-year period, by the Argentine artist collective Chiachio & Giannone (Leo Chiachio, b. 1969, and Daniel Giannone, b. 1964). Presented by Ruth Benzacar Galeria de Arte (Buenos Aires), the work pays tribute to the LGBTQ community and Indigenous Guarani culture.
- Inspired by urban spaces and city walls, Untitled (2024), a mural-sized diptych of cursives and calligraphic strokes by Miami-born, New York-based artist José Parlá (b. 1973), presented by Ben Brown Fine Arts (London, Hong Kong, Palm Beach). The coincides with an exhibition of new works by Parla at Pérez Art Museum Miami, also on view during the show week.
Kabinett
Conceived as a succession of jewel boxes dotted across the show floor, Kabinett will feature over 24 meticulously curated showcases within galleries’ main booths, with standout proposals including:
- A singular presentation of wood paintings by Miriam Inez da Silva (1937-1996) that seeks to reconfigure her legacy as a narrator of Brazilian modernization processes from the 1950s to the 1990s, presented by Gomide&Co. (São Paulo).
- The market debut of nearly a dozen paintings and works on paper from the 1940s by the master American Abstract-Expressionist painter Franz Kline (1910-1962) created prior to his affiliation with the New York School artists, presented by Hirschl & Adler Modern (New York).
- A selection of lesser-known marble and bronze sculptures by Cuban-born, Puerto Rico-based artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926), a singular figure of Latin American Modernism and geometric abstraction, presented by Galerie Lelong & Co. (New York, Paris). The 98-year-old artist is the subject of a major career survey currently on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami and traveling to the Museum of Puerto Rico in 2025.
Conversations & Cultural Programming during the show
A compelling series of live debates with art’s most exciting thought leaders, Conversations is curated for the first time in Miami Beach by American writer, editor, and educator Kimberly Bradley. This edition of Conversations kicks off with an in-depth conversation featuring Premiere Artist Shirin Nashat (b. 1957).
Conversations will take place in the Miami Convention Center on 5-7 Dec., freely accessible to the public.
Miami vibes
Beyond the fair halls, Art Basel Miami Beach once again powers an exciting, region-wide art week of world-class exhibitions and events taking place across Greater Miami and the surrounding areas. For the first time, Times Square Arts will bring their Midnight Moment program to Miami Beach during the show week, free to the public. The world’s largest and longest-running digital public art program showcasing work by leading contemporary artists on the electronic billboards of Times Square in New York City, Midnight Moment will present video works by 30 artists, projected nightly on the facade of Miami Beach’s SoundScape Park.
Further cultural programming includes:
The Bass Museum
‘Rachel Feinstein: The Miami Years’
‘Ulla von Brandenburg: In Dialogue’
‘(LA) HORDE: Heureux sous son ombre’
‘Performing Perspectives: A Collection in Dialogue’
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
‘Lucy Bull: The Garden of Forking Paths’
‘Ding Shilun: Janus’
‘Keiichi Tanaami: Dream Collage’
‘Crossroads: Rubem Valentim’s 1960s’
Locust Projects
‘Alexander Arrechea: Herramienta Desnuda (Bare Tool)’
‘Alba Triana: Dialogue with the Primordial Sea’
Margulies Collection at the Warehouse
‘Historic Works from the Margulies Collection 1930s-1970s’
‘Conceptual Works 1980s-2010s’
‘Beyond the Single Image. Spanish Photography from the Foto Colectania Collection, Barcelona’
‘Portraits from Here to There: Alec Soth and Jason Schmidt’
‘Featured Installation: Do Ho Suh’
MOCA, North Miami
‘Andrea Chung: Between Too Late and Too Early’
‘Smita Sen: Embodied’
Norton Art Museum
‘Dragons: Commanders of Rain’
‘Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing’
‘Sorolla and the Sea’
NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale
‘Jacqueline de Jong: Vicious Circles’
‘Joel Meyerowitz: Temporal Aspects’
‘Rose B. Simpson and vanessa german: IT INCLUDES EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, ALWAYS’
‘Cici McMonigle: Creatures for the Divine
‘Peter Halley: The Mirror Stage’
‘Louis M. Glackens: Pure Imagination’
‘House of Glackens’
Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum
‘Fighters for Freedom: William H. Johnson Picturing Justice’
‘Of what surrounds me: Amanda Bradley, Cristina Lei Rodriguez, and Mette Tommerup’
Pérez Art Museum Miami
‘José Parlá: Homecoming’
‘Jason Seife: Coming to Fruition’
‘Calida Rawles: Away with the Tides’
‘Every Sound Is a Shape of Time: Selections from PAMM’s Collection’
‘Xican-a.o.x. Bodv’
‘Antonia Wright: State of Labor’
‘Cecilia Vicuña: Quipu Gut’
‘Beyond Representation: Performance Art Practices from the Caribbean and its Diasporas’
Rubell Museum
‘Vanessa Raw: This is How the Light Gets In, 2024 Artist-in-Residence’
2024 Miami Art Week Event Schedule
The Official Miami Art Week Kickoff Party™
Coral Gables Museum
Monday Dec 2, 2024, 7-9 PM
Event Location: 285 Aragon Ave, Coral Gables, FL 33134
Art Basel Miami Beach
Dec 6-8, 2024
Miami Beach Convention Center
Art Miami
Dec 3 – 8, 2024
The Art Miami Pavilion
One Herald Plaza
SATELLITE FAIRS
The Official Miami Art Week™ Pop-Up Show
Saturday Dec 7, 2024: 10 AM to 6 PM
Sunday Dec 7, 2024: 10 AM to 6 PM
photoMIAMI™
Miami Art Week’s only photo-centric photography show
Saturday Dec 7 & Sunday Dec 8, 2024: 10 AM to 6 PM
AfriKin Art Fair
Dec 1 – 8, 2024
Aqua Art Miami
Dec 4 – 8, 2024
CONTEXT Art Miami .
Dec 3 – 8, 2024
The CONTEXT Art Miami Pavilion
Design Miami
Dec 3 – 8, 2024
Convention Center Drive & 19th Street, Miami Beach
INK MIAMI Art Fair
Dec 4 – 8, 2024
Suites of Dorchester
NADA Miami Art Fair
Dec 3 – 7, 2024
Ice Palace Studios
Red Dot Miami
Dec 4 – 8, 2024
Mana Wynwood
Scope Miami Beach
Dec 3 – 8, 2024
801 Ocean Drive
UNTITLED Art, Miami Beach
Dec 4 – 8, 2024
Ocean Drive & 12th Street, Miami Beach