Art Basel Miami Beach 2 Dec 8-10,2023

Art Basel in Miami Beach Conversations, curated by Emily Butler, will focus on Miami as the meeting point of the Americas. It celebrates Latin American, Afro-Latino, Latino and feminist histories, the artistic ecologies of Florida and other topical issues in 2023. Conversations will take place between December 7 and 9, 2023 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Browse program In Dialogue with Chance the Rapper Globally renowned singer-songwriter and philanthropist Chance the Rapper exchanges with Lauren Haynes, Director, Curatorial Affairs and Programs, Queens Museum. They will discuss the mutual influence of hip-hop and other cultural fields including the visual arts, what inspiration and mentorship have meant to them, and how to champion and empower the next generation of creatives. Book free ticket

Premiere Artist Talk: María Magdalena Campos-Pons María Magdalena Campos-Pons discusses her influential career as an artist and teacher with Franklin Sirmans, Director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, and Crystal Williams, President of the Rhode Island School of Design. Exploring her multimedia practice, which considers how history, memory, gender, and religion inform personal identity, they chart Campos-Pons’s trajectory over the last 4 decades, from her youth in Cuba to her acclaimed retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum and US tour 2023- 2025. Book free ticket The Artist and the Collector The relationship that develops between an artist and a collector is at the heart of the art world. Artist Guadalupe Maravilla and the collector, curator and philanthropist Estrellita B. Brodsky discuss their respective commitment to championing diverse perspectives from Latin America and the challenges they have had to overcome. This discussion offers insights into how connections between individuals are shaped by their shared vision of art. Book free ticket The Art Market in 2023: Collecting in Brazil The Brazilian art market is the largest by size in Latin America. With president Lula’s government reinstating the ministry of culture and increasing funding to the arts, how is the market developing? This panel examines shifts in the Brazilian art scene since the beginning of 2023 through the voices of gallerists, collectors, and experts. Has a renewed prioritization of the arts already had a measurable impact? Book free ticket Renewing the Institution: How Do Museums Remain Relevant? Many significant US art museums have just completed or are completing redesigns and extensions. These institutions are not only adding more welcoming facilities, they are also adapting to new times. From integrating new technologies to finding new ways of working and engaging audiences, museums are seeking to reassert their relevance today. Here, three leaders reveal how they are resetting their institutions. Book free ticket Discover highlights from the 2023 Art Basel Miami Beach Conversations program Read now How to get there: Location: Auditorium, Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, FL 33139 The Auditorium (Grand Ballroom) can be found on the 2nd floor of the MBCC and the nearest entrance is the North Entrance. Map to access the Miami Beach Convention Center: here  The MBCC is an ADA compliant facility. For more information or assistance regarding accessibility, please contact Art Basel. If you are not able to attend in person, our panels will be streamed live on our Facebook page or watch the recordings on our website and YouTube channelafter the event.  Unlock the ultimate Art Basel VIP experience – limited spots available! The Premium+ Discovery ticket not only grants privileged access to the show but also immerses you in the heart of South Florida's art world, offering an exclusive look behind the scenes. Personal encounter with famed Cuban artist at the studio Visit to a prominent private collection in the city Curated exploration of Art Basel in Miami Beach Invitation to special events …and more Secure your ticket now before the show opens next week! We have limited spots to ensure a personalized and intimate experience. Discover the full program

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Catch the The Conversations program at Art Basel Miami Beach 2022

The Conversations program at Art Basel Miami Beach 2022 will embrace the concepts of hybridity, cross-pollination and community with nine panels gathering leading voices from Latin America, the US, Canada, and Europe. Curated by Emily Butler and taking place in the Auditorium (Grand Ballroom) at Art Basel Miami Beach, the program will feature 35 speakers from across the art world and beyond.

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Highlights include: Artist Carrie Mae Weems and vocalist, composer, and technologist Nona Hendryx in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine. ‘The Miami Effect: the Craig Robins, de la Cruz, and Margulies Collections’, featuring leading Florida-based collectors in conversation with Jane Wooldridge, Senior Director, Miami Herald.  A sonic lecture by artist Chino Amobi and crypto-entrepreneur Moon Jérin. The Conversations program will run from Wednesday, November 30 to Friday, December 2. See full program. Free to the public, all nine panels will be livestreamed on Art Basel’s Facebook channel and made available after the fair on the Art Basel website.

Highlights from the Art Basel Miami Beach 2022 Conversations Program Premiere: Carrie Mae Weems, Nona Hendryx, and Hans Ulrich Obrist Curated in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Serpentine.

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The Fondation Beyeler presents Maze of Quotes by Toilet Paper at Art Basel in Miami Beach from December 1–4, 2016.

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Maze of Quotes: A Project by Toilet Paper for the Fondation Beyeler at
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 Maze of Quotes by Toilet Paper
Maze of Quotes by Toilet Paper

The Fondation Beyeler presents Maze of Quotes by Toilet Paper at Art Basel in Miami Beach from December 1–4, 2016. Toilet Paper, the collaborative magazine project by artists Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, transforms Fondation Beyeler’s entire exhibition space into three distinct settings. Elaborately wallpapered and fully furnished, Maze of Quotes presents a lavish, fantastical environment of consumerism and sexuality, from chandeliers and toilets to gold drapes and tin pots.


Maze of Quotes

You think it’s easy being the boss?
Tony Soprano

After the successful 'Super Ball' Gala in Basel, Switzerland, this summer, directed and staged by Toilet Paper aka Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari the Guerrilla Boys of the art world, the Fondation Beyeler was so happy to be abused by this undercover organization that it commissioned a new project by them for Art Basel in Miami Beach. Like with stroboscopic lights, a warning sign should be placed in front of it. In fact Cattelan and Ferrari have created a beautiful hallucination that will defeat any electoral hangover or post-presidential gloom. Reversing the menacing sentence affixed on top of the door in Dante’s Inferno “Abandon all hope – You Who Enter Here,” on top of the door of the Beyeler’s space we could imagine to read “Any lost hope you will find it here.”

The installation is the lost-and-found counter of imagination where black and white and minimalism have been banned for good. Consumerism, seduction, sexuality are having a ball and you will have it too, as long as you will let loose all of your formal infrastructures and repressed desires. Since their unlikely collaboration Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari have been two more or less normal people. One as an artist locked on the success track, the other as an experienced fashion photographer in great demand. Under the hat of Toilet Paper they both forgo the stability of their roles to embark in the creation of an utterly new grammar thinner than Warhol’s already thin surface. All of their production is a spin-off of Toilet Paper, which has been transformed into a kite pulled by the most strong wind of coolness. Even the much-talked about gold toilet  “America,” Cattelan’s scary anticipation of Trump’s advent installed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, is the result of Toilet Paper’s relentless thinking tank that these two artists have put in motion and that now seem incapable of stopping. Unconsciously quoting feminist artists from the 70’s such Martha Rosler or Sandy Skoglund, Cattelan and Ferrari succeed in exposing the vaporized political and social zeitgeist of today, grounding the project and transforming it in a subtle commentary of the condition of our present. With their pseudo-surreal attitude they bring to mind one of many of John Cage’s aphorisms: “Going to the North Pole? Then take Miró with you. ‘It seems to me I‘ve known you all my life.’ The war. Unknown painting. A night spent in laughter: omelet that fell on the floor.” Meaning? Ask Toilet Paper. That’s how they go about life.

–Francesco Bonami


Toilet Paper partnered with Italian design brands Gufram and Seletti for the installation.


Caption: Installation view of Maze of Quotes: A Project by Toilet Paper for the Fondation Beyeler at Art Basel in Miami Beach. Photo: Adam Reich
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Fine Art Magazine | Art Basel Miami Beach 2013 Review of Possibilities

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Public: An expanded sector brings the work of 24 artists to Collins Park

Public: An expanded sector brings the work of 24 artists to Collins Park 

Curated under the theme 'Social Animals' by Nicholas Baume, Director and Chief Curator of Public Art Fund, the artworks selected for this year’s Public sector will transform Collins Park into an outdoor exhibition space. Public, a sector of Art Basel's Miami Beach show, features over 30 large-scale sculptures and installations by leading and emerging international artists, including Olaf Breuning, Sam Falls, Jeppe Hein, Thomas Houseago, Alicja Kwade, Richard Long, Santiago Roose, Oscar Tuazon, and Ursula von Rydingsvard. For the third straight year the sector is produced in partnership with the Bass Museum of Art. A selection of artworks will continue to be installed in Collins Park through March 2014. The Public sector’s opening night on Wednesday, December 4 will include a special program of performances, free of charge and open to the public. 

The theme 'Social Animals' has its origins in Aristotle's observations about the nature of human beings. Set within the cityscape of Miami Beach, this year’s edition of Public seeks to turn a grouping of separate works by multiple artists into a temporary community of its own, with works in conversation and in dialog with each other – such as Sam Falls’ powder-coated aluminum installation with a master work by Charlotte Posenenske – as well as with the location – evident in Michelle Lopez’s towering site-specific structure. 

Drawing on his experience of injecting public art within the urban landscape, Nicholas Baume’s selection works to activate the public park as a place for social interactions and as an extension of the diverse exchanges that take place in the environment of the art fair. In this context, Public presents Phil Wagner’s diptych of opposing chairs, large-scale sculptures by Mark di Suvero and Oscar Tuazon, and two urban structures built from concrete, wood, and metal mesh by Santiago Roose. Alicja Kwade’s large-scale steel sculpture reimagines the border lines between time zones as a global electrocardiograph. 

The sector’s title likewise links to the hand-worked surfaces and textures of many of the work’s figurative and organic forms. The varied works of Huma Bhabha, Olaf Breuning, Aaron Curry, Tom Friedman, Thomas Houseago, Matthew Monahan, Tony Tasset and Pascale Marthine Tayou incorporate figurative elements, at times alluding to Modernist and ancient totems. The use of natural materials is seen in Carol Bove’s open-form sculpture in petrified wood and steel, Jeppe Hein’s series of 'rooms' shaped by water, and Richard Long’s 12-foot-diameter installation in Dartmoor Granite, while Ursula von Rydingsvard’s composition of cut, stacked and sculptured cedar beams transforms solid material into gestural form. Mungo Thomson’s audio recording of professional musicians imitating the sound of crickets is played on outdoor speakers. 

Symbols of popular culture are reused and repositioned to engage with the audience, as in Scott Reeder’s three-dimensional installation of the words 'Real Fake' and Matias Faldbakken’s adaptation of the original Peterbilt 281 big rig truck which appeared in Steven Spielberg’s first feature film 'Duel' (1971). Maarten Vanden Eynde’s composition of oil peak sculptures in bronze is based on the production rates of individual oil wells and the combined production rate of a field of related oil wells. 

A selection of works from Public will remain installed in Collins Park for an extended run through March 2014 via tc: temporary contemporary. The city-wide temporary, public art program was initiated by the Bass Museum of Art in partnership with the City of Miami Beach in 2012. It seeks to activate the urban landscape with art and engage with residents, visitors and passers-by to encourage interactions with the city and its communities. tc: temporary contemporary is made possible through the support of The City of Miami Beach, ArtPlace, National Endowment for the Arts, Knight Foundation and Funding Arts Network, Inc. 

For Public Opening Night on Wednesday, Kate Gilmore has created 'Only One Like You', a new performance that builds on themes introduced in her 2011 Public Art Fund project. In this large-scale performance, lining both sides of the central axis through the park, performers, who will share a number of physical characteristics, will stand on individual pedestals, wielding sledgehammers, and pounding metal cubes, creating in the process a series of destroyed sculptures. Taking the basic elements of human presence and bodily movement as his raw materials, Ryan McNamara’s new performance 'Uncanny Liquidity' intends to tweak perceptions and provoke curiosity. Two performers are placed in Collins Park, dressed to blend into the crowd. Their subtle movements betray the fact that something is not quite right, prompting visitors to observe them more closely. As the night goes on, their difference from the rest of the crowd grows more acute. For 'Smoke Grid' Olaf Breuning will simultaneously set off smoke canisters to create a sea of colored smoke. The installation transforms its environment into a swirling painterly mass of color and movement, generating unique visual effects as the smoke and pigment erupt and disperse. A new sound installation by Mungo Thomson will be created that evening. Four musicians playing different instruments – clarinet, flute, violin and percussion – will imitate the song of crickets. Recordings of the performance will be played in Collins Park throughout the rest of the week. For the fourth performance of the evening, entitled 'Santa Confessional', David Colman installs a classic Catholic confessional within Collins Park for people to confess their sins and ask for absolution. Instead of the booth being fully enclosed like a classic confessional, open-air windows cut into the design, creating a tension between yesterday’s private practice of confessing in secret and today’s more performative and secular version of confession. 

Public Opening Night, which is free and open to the public, takes place in Collins Park on Wednesday, December 4, from 8.30pm to 10pm. The Public sector is also free of charge and open to the public from December 4 to December 8. 

Collins Park is located between 21st & 22nd Street, in close proximity of the exhibition halls within the Miami Beach Convention Center and adjacent to The Bass Museum of Art. 

On Thursday, December 5, from 2pm to 3pm, Art Basel's Salon program will see Nicholas Baume in conversation with Kate Gilmore, Alicja Kwade and Mungo Thomson. The talk takes place in the Hall C auditorium of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Art Basel entry tickets include admission to Salon. 

List of 2013 Public artworks: 

Huma Bhabha | 'God of Some Things', 2011 | Salon 94 

Carole Bove | 'Flora’s Garden I', 2012 | David Zwirner 

Olaf Breuning | 'Dreams/Dirt'; 'There is Absolutely Nothing to Find Up There'; 'I Don't Want to Go This Way', 2013 | Metro Pictures 

Aaron Curry | 'Untitled', 2013 | David Kordansky Gallery 

Mark di Suvero | 'Exemplar', 1979 | Paula Cooper Gallery 

Matias Faldbakken | 'Untitled (Duel Truck)', 2013 | Simon Lee Gallery | Paula Cooper Gallery 

Sam Falls | 'Untitled', 2013 | Galerie Eva Presenhuber 

Tom Friedman | 'Untitled (peeing figure)', 2012; 'Huddle', 2013 | Luhring Augustine | Stephen Friedman Gallery 

Jeppe Hein | 'Appearing Rooms', 2004 | 303 Gallery | Johann König | Galleri Nicolai Wallner 

Thomas Houseago | 'Striding Figure (Rome I)', 2013; 'Studio Seat I', 2011; 'Studio Seat II', 2012; 'Yet to be Titled (Chaise)', 2012 | Gagosian Gallery 

Alicja Kwade | 'Pulse of Time', 2013 | Johann König | kamel mennour 

Richard Long | 'Higher White Tor Circle', 1996 | Sperone Westwater 

Michelle Lopez | 'Blue Angel II', 2013 | Simon Preston Gallery 

Matthew Monahan | 'A Lifer', 2013 | Anton Kern Gallery 

Charlotte Posenenske | 'Vierkantrohre Serie D', 1967 – 2013 | Mehdi Chouakri | Peter Freeman 

Scott Reeder | 'Real Fake', 2013 | Kavi Gupta Chicago/Berlin 

Santiago Roose | 'Theoretically Stable System', 2013 | 80M2 Livia Benavides 

Tony Tasset | 'Bear', 2013 | Kavi Gupta Chicago/Berlin 

Pascale Marthine Tayou | 'Tug of War', 2007 – 2010 | Galleria Continua 

Mungo Thomson | 'Cricket Solo for Clarinet', 'Cricket Solo for Violin', 'Cricket Solo for Flute', 'Cricket Solo for Percussion', 2013 | galerie frank elbaz 

Oscar Tuazon | 'Untitled', 2013 | Galerie Eva Presenhuber 

Maarten Vanden Eynde | 'Oil Peaks', 2010 – 2013 | Meessen De Clercq 

Ursula von Rydingsvard | 'Lub Też', 2013 | Galerie Lelong 

Phil Wagner | 'Let Us Rejoice', 2013 | Untitled 

List of performances taking place during Public Opening Night: 

Olaf Breuning l 'Smoke Grid', 2013 

David Colman l 'Santa Confessional', 2013 

Kate Gilmore l 'Only One Like You', 2013 

Ryan McNamara | 'Uncanny Liquidity', 2013 

Mungo Thomson l 'Crickets Solo for Clarinet'; 'Violin'; 'Flute'; 'Percussion', 2013 

More information on the sector is available at artbasel.com/miamibeach/public.

Important Dates

Opening Day of Art Basel in Miami Beach (by invitation only): 

Wednesday, December 4, 2013 

Public Show Dates: Thursday, December 5 to Sunday, December 8, 2013 

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Conversations and Salon: Art Basel announces talks program for 2013 edition in Miami Beach

Conversations and Salon: Art Basel announces talks program for 2013 edition in Miami Beach 

Bringing together the world's leading artists, museum directors, collectors, and curators, Art Basel in Miami Beach’s daily line up of events offers dynamic dialogs between prominent members of the international art world. Featured artists include Doug Aitken, Cory Arcangel, Dara Birnbaum, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Jim Drain, Olafur Eliasson, Tracey Emin, Cécile B. Evans, Naomi Fisher, Mario Garcia Torres, Kate Gilmore, Ellen Harvey, Camille Henrot, Brian Khek, Joseph Kosuth, Alicja Kwade, Sharon Louden, Rashaad Newsome, Mungo Thomson, Ry Rocklen, Gabriel Sierra, Frances Stark, Brian Tolle, Erika Verzutti, Allyson Vieira and Robert Whitman. 

This year's Conversations program in Miami Beach launches on Thursday, December 5 with the Premiere Artist Talk by the American multimedia artist Doug Aitken, discussing his recent nomadic project ‘Station to Station' in conversation with Artforum Editor Michelle Kuo. 

The 2013 Conversations program features a particularly strong line-up of leading international museum directors and curators. Drawing on recent experiences with transnational initiatives and collaborations, a panel of leading curators and museum directors, including Patrick Charpenel, Chris Dercon, Chus Martinez and Alexandra Munroe, explores the benefits and pitfalls of museums going global. The program includes the continuation of a series launched at Art Basel in Hong Kong earlier this year 'The Artist and the Gallerist' with a conversation between the artist Abraham Cruzvillegas and Monica Manzutto and Jose Kuri, the founders of kurimanzutto, Mexico City. The series concludes with a panel discussion among artists including Cory Arcangel, Cécile B. Evans, Camille Henrot, and Robert Whitman, whose work relates to technological developments and digital realm moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery, London. The Conversations series is presented by Absolut. 

An open platform for shorter, often informal presentations, the afternoon Salon program features artist talks, panel discussions, lectures and book launches with curators, museum directors, lawyers, and artists, including from the show’s Public and Film sectors. Topics are as varied as the participants, ranging from artist talks, a presentation on Constructive Art Criticism in Latin America, to a roundtable conversation on the role of small-scale arts institutions and a discussion entitled ‘Bankrupt Cities. Endangered Museums: Learning From the Case of the Detroit Institute of Arts’. A series of engaging pairings – the artist Tracey Emin with Sir Norman Rosenthal; Olafur Eliasson with Klaus Biesenbach; and Josh Baer of the Baer Faxt with the artist Joseph Kosuth – promise to provide unique insight into the artists practice, the balance between the art market and art history. 

Conversations takes place daily from Thursday, December 5 to Sunday, December 8, 10am to 11:30am – and Salon daily Thursday, December 5 to Sunday, December 8, from 1pm to 7pm (Sunday to 4pm). Both programs take place in the Hall C auditorium of the Miami Beach Convention Center. Talks from the Conversations program are free to the public. Art Basel entry tickets include admission to Salon talks. 

The full talks program is available at artbasel.com/miamibeach/talks. 

High-quality videos of all Conversations and Salon talks will be available at artbasel.com/miamibeach/talks. 

Important Dates

Opening Day (by invitation only): Wednesday, December 4, 2013 

Public Show Dates: Thursday, December 5 to Sunday, December 8, 2013

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