Fine Art Magazine | Art Basel Miami Beach 2013 Review of Possibilities

Fine Art Magazine | Art Basel Miami Beach 2013 Review of Possibilities

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Premier selection of galleries to participate in Art Basel's 12th edition in Miami Beach

Premier selection of galleries to participate in Art Basel's 12th edition in Miami Beach 

In 2013 the Art Basel show in Miami Beach will feature 258 leading international galleries, drawn from 31 countries across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The show presents artwork ranging from Modern masters to the latest contemporary works and includes, for the first time in Miami Beach, a sector dedicated to editioned works. Art Basel in Miami Beach, whose Lead Partner is UBS, will take place at the Miami Beach Convention Center from December 5 to December 8, 2013. 

The 2013 Miami Beach show asserts again its status as the premier destination for galleries from the United States and Latin America, with nearly half of this year’s exhibitors coming from those regions. Galleries with exhibition spaces in 31 countries across North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa, including Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Monaco, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay are participating at this year's show. For the full gallery list, please visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/exhibitors. 

A select group of younger American galleries are taking part in the show for the first time, including Elizabeth Dee and Corbett vs. Dempsey in the show’s Galleries sector, 47 Canal in Nova, and Bureau and Real Fine Arts in Positions. Reflecting the international show’s growing link to Asia, new galleries from the region include Tang Contemporary Art and One and J. Gallery, both in Positions, and Singapore Tyler Print Institute in Edition. 

The focus of the show remains its Galleries sector, which includes 195 of the world’s best established galleries. Long-time exhibitors are joined by first-time participants such as Pace/MacGill Gallery, one of the leading international photography galleries. After a brief hiatus, Art Basel in Miami Beach also welcomes returning galleries Foksal Gallery Foundation, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, P.P.O.W, and Timothy Taylor Gallery. Several galleries who previously exhibited as part of Nova or Positions have progressed to the main sector of the show, including Gavlak Gallery, Ingleby Gallery, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Galerie Mezzanin, Proyectos Monclova, Ratio 3, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Galeria Nara Roesler, and Wentrup. For the full gallery list, please visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/galleries. 

This year’s Nova sector, which offers younger galleries a platform to present work made  in the last three years by one, two or three artists, offers a focused selection of 34 participants. Highlights include works by the artists Aaron Bobrow and David Diao (at Office Baroque Gallery); Deyson Gilbert and Marina Simão (at Mendes Wood); Pamela Rosenkranz and Keiichi Tanaami (at Karma International); Saâdane Afif and Karsten Födinger (at RaebervonStenglin); Oliver Laric and Aleksandra Domanović (at Tanya Leighton Gallery); Charles Atlas (at Vilma Gold); Bharti Kher, Sheela Gowda and Prabhavathi Meppayil (at GallerySKE); Sam Falls, Wyatt Kahn (at T293); Teresa Margolles, Pedro Reyes and Jill Magid (at Labor); Daniela Ortiz, Rita Ponce de León and David Zink Yi (at 80M2 Livia Benavides) and Matthew Chambers and Phil Wagner (at Untitled). For the full list of galleries and artists, please visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/nova. 

Positions focuses on curated booths presenting a single artist. In 2013, this sector comprises 16 artists, including Ulrik Heltoft (at Andersen`s Contemporary), Gabriel Acevedo Velarde (at Arratia Beer), Lourival Cuquinha (at Baró Galeria), Tom Holmes (at Bureau), Jorge Pedro Nuñez (at Galerie Crèvecoeur), Dove Allouche (at Gaudel de Stampa), Vijai Patchineelam (at Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo), Stefanos Tsivopoulos (at Kalfayan Galleries), Nicolás Consuegra (at La Central), Juan López (at Nogueras Blanchard), Seung Yul Oh (at One and J. Gallery), Oriol Vilanova (at Parra & Romero), Nadira Husain (at PSM), Mathieu Malouf (at Real Fine Arts), Laercio Redondo (at Silvia Cintra + Box4), Wang Yuyang (at Tang Contemporary Art). For the full list of galleries and artists, please visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/positions. 

Following the long success of a dedicated sector for prints and limited-editioned works at Art Basel's show in Basel, the Edition sector premiers now in Miami Beach with 13 exhibitors, including first-time Miami Beach participants Alan Cristea Gallery, Crown Point Press, gdm, Pace Prints, Paul Stolper Gallery, and Singapore Tyler Print Institute. For the full list of galleries, please visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/edition. 

The Public sector will for the first time be curated by Nicholas Baume, Director and Chief Curator of New York City's Public Art Fund. Both the Public and Kabinett sectors will feature expanded significant offerings in 2013, with an increased number of participating artists and galleries. Further information on Public, the Kabinett and Film sectors and Art Basel's Conversations and Salon series will be released during the fall. 

For the past 11 years, Miami Beach’s leading museums and private collections have timed their strongest exhibitions of the year to coincide with Art Basel in Miami Beach, and 2013 is no different. Miami’s leading private collections – among them the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), the de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, the Rubell Family Collection and World Class Boxing – will be opening their exhibition spaces to guests of the international art show. The museums of South Florida will be staging important exhibitions to coincide with Art Basel. The Pérez Art Museum Miami will open its new Herzog & de Meuron designed building in December with exhibitions including 'Ai Weiwei: According to What?' and commissioned projects by Yael Bartana, Bouchra Khalili, Hew Locke and Monika Sosnowska. On display at the Bass Museum of Art will be 'Piotr Uklański: esl', while the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami will present 'Tracey Emin: Angel without You'. 'Phyllida Barlow: HOARD' will be on view at the Norton Museum of Art and the Wolfsonian-FIU will show 'The Birth of Rome' and 'Rendering War: The Murals of A. G. Santagata'. 

The premier destination for the world’s most prominent design galleries, DesignMiami/ runs from December 4 to December 8, 2013. For further information, please visit designmiami.com. 

Important Dates:

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

Public Days: 
Thursday, December 5, to Sunday, December 8, 2013

Fine Art Magazine Recaps Art Basel - Miami Beach 2012

Fine Art Magazine Recaps Art Basel - Miami Beach 2012

Art Basel. Opening night was a frenzy of glamor, excitement & ...the rich flavor of Art buyers and sellers coming together to see and be seen at one of the premiere social art events of the year. This years Art Basel started with a strong attendance and sales. 

Miami was turned into a sea of people going to and from the 50 some odd art shows spun out for the the original Art Miami  in 1992. Dealers, buyers, collectors, artists , journalists, and citizenry, taking in the heat generated for the moment.  Jamie Forbes Fine Art Magazine 

Art Basel enters its second decade in Miami Beach with a display of premier quality works and strong programming across the city

Miami Beach, Florida, USA – The 2012 edition of Art Basel in Miami Beach officially closed, Sunday, December 9. Praised by critics, exhibitors and visitors as Art Basel’s most serious presentation in Miami Beach to date, its galleries across the board reported consistent sales throughout the week.

The show, whose main sponsor is UBS, again attracted 50,000 visitors, generating an attendance of 70,000 over the five show days. Art Basel in Miami Beach was visited by over 130 museum and institution groups from across the world. Renowned private collectors from the Americas, Europe and emerging markets returned, and were joined by new collectors from around the globe.

As Art Basel marked its second decade in Miami Beach, more than 250 leading galleries from  31 countries from North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia presented the highest quality of work at the show, underlining its seriousness. Given a particularly strong representation of Modern material at the show, as well as the entry of a dynamic selection of younger galleries – including nine that were newly accepted to the fair from NADA– visitors explored 11 decades and over 110 years of art history within the Miami Beach Convention Center. Additionally, collaborations with local and international partners ensured a diverse and deep program of art events, from Art Basel Conversations and Art Salon to Art Public,  Art Video and Art Film, making this edition a celebration of the artists and their galleries.

The experience of galleries proved highly positive:

Stefania Bortolami, Bortolami Gallery, New York   

'After the destruction that the gallery experienced from Hurricane Sandy it is significant that we 

were able to show at Art Basel Miami Beach. All of our efforts were rewarded by meaningful 

sales at the fair and wonderful exposure for our younger artists.'

Alia Fattouh, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York 

'I would say that the fair comes at a crucial time for many New York galleries that have been hit 

by the hurricane and the flexibility that Art Basel showed in these exceptional circumstances has 

been particularly appreciated and helpful.'

Silke Thomas, Galerie Thomas, Munich 

'Art Basel Miami Beach 2012 has again been a great fair. There were interesting new collectors 

and sales. We really enjoyed being part of the show.'

Sean Kelly, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York  

'The preview of Art Basel Miami Beach was the best first day the gallery has ever had at any art 

fair...ever. We literally had nothing left but to sell off the iPads. We sold an Antony Gormley for 

300,000 GBP, a Los Carpinteros for 110,000 Euros, and every Terence Koh we brought. We 

also met new collectors and viewers genuinely interested in our artists. An astonishing fair!' 

Adam Sheffer, Cheim & Read, New York 

'We were delighted again this year by the results at Art Basel Miami Beach. It remains the gold 

standard of the international art fair circuit.'

Marc Payot, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, London and New York 

'At a moment when art fairs are almost too numerous to count, Art Basel Miami Beach stands out 

in attracting an extraordinary number of museum curators and directors from across the entire 

United States and around the world. With that in mind, we presented an exhibition-like stand that 

brought clarity and very high impact to new works by just two artists - Roni Horn and Guillermo 

Kuitca. We are now engaged in talks about several important institutional projects for both artists. 

So for Hauser & Wirth, this year's fair was a major success not only in commercial terms, but 

also in the opportunity to connect our artists' with museums internationally.'  

Steven P. Henry, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 

'We approached the show in a very serious way this year, with a strong curatorial view. We 

noticed that there was a lot of thought that went into the presentations around us as well. The 

general statue of the Miami Beach edition has really risen to a level comparable to Basel.' 

Hella Pohl, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Paris 

'There was a very strong demand for works by Georg Baselitz and Robert Longo. Our first sale, a 

work by Jason Martin,happened only a few minutes after the fair opened.'  

  

Elyse Goldberg, James Cohan Gallery, New York 

'This year's Art Basel Miami Beach was a truly wonderful fair. We were successful in placing 

many works in collections both public and private, as well as meeting collectors, curators, and 

writers new to our gallery'

Thomas Dane, Thomas Dane Gallery, London

'We have had good fair in Miami. We had success in selling works by Arturo Herrera, Glenn 

Ligon and Alexandre da Cunha. Miami has always been an important fair for us and this year 

was no exception.'

Maho Kubota, SCAI The Bathhouse, Tokyo 

'This is the only American fair where we show. We had a clear strategy to present only Japanese 

artists from multiple generations and through this we were able to share the diversity of 

Japanese art with a large number of viewers and have connected with many new and diverse 

collectors in return. The show's high quality allows exhibitors to showcase works as they deserve 

to be seen.'

Pedro Mendes, Mendes Wood, São Paulo   

'Miami for us is a junction between the North and the South. It's almost a port where everyone 

gathers. At the show in Miami, we've connected with collectors and curators from so many 

different countries and throughout the region that in a sense Art Basel Miami Beach becomes a 

window for Latin American thought, its art dialogue and practice.'

Paul Kasmin, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York  

'This year the fair drew primarily new international clients for us and it was a great success for 

many of our artists. It was a particularly remarkable year for Iván Navarro, with the fair's curated 

programs for Art Kabinett and Art Public.'

Flávio Cohn, DAN galleria, São Paulo  

'We are very pleased with our participation at the show and have had very positive responses to 

our presentations. We achieved good results, even better than we had hoped for. The interest in 

the Latin American and Brazilian artists we represent has definitely grown over the past two 

years.'

Jorge Mara, La Galería Jorge Mara La Ruche, Buenos Aires  

'This is our third time at Art Basel in Miami Beach - and it has been the best fair for us. Over the 

past two years visitors to the fair have come to see and buy, and now they are coming back 

again. We bring artists to the show not many people outside of Argentina or Latin America know 

and we provide the intellectual background to get to know these artists.'

Aurelia Bourquard, Press & Communication, Art: Concept, Paris 

'The fair went well, the sales were good and we met extremely interesting collectors from Europe 

as well as the Americas.'

For the second year running, Art Public, produced in collaboration with the Bass Museum of Art, 

turned Collins Park into an outdoor exhibition space with large-scale sculpture, video, installation 

and live performances. For this year's edition, the sector’s curator Christine Y. Kim, Associate 

Curator of Contemporary Art (LACMA) and Co-founder, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) 

brought even more complex works to Miami Beach and extended the exhibition space into the 

sky, across which Dave McKenzie’s airplane carrying a banner offering different marriage 

proposals every day. A highlight of the week, Art Public Opening Night on December 6 was free 

and open to the public, offering a program of performances by Jason and Alicia Hall Moran with 

Brandon Ross, My Barbarian and Alex Israel. For more information please visit 

artbasel.com/public.

Art Film was again selected by Zurich film connoisseur This Brunner and presented the 

feature-length documentary film 'Painters Painting' (1973) by Emile de Antonio on the New 

York art scene from 1940 to 1970. For more information please visit artbasel.com/film.

Steering debate and discussions not only on the state of the art market but the arts in general, 

Art Basel's daily program of talks offered its patrons and the general public another platform to 

engage with art in a meaningful way. Many leading artworld figures took part in the morning  

Art Basel Conversations. The Premiere Artist Talk featured legendary artist Richard Tuttle in 

conversation with Chris Dercon, Director Tate Modern, London. Further topics included the 

'Public/Private' panel discussing 'The Encyclopedic Museum' on the Friday of the show. 

Saturday’s panel focused on 'Why Japanese Post-War Art Matters Now'. On Sunday the 'Artistic 

Practice' series presented 'The Artist as Musician'. Art Basel Conversations is presented by 

Absolut Art Bureau, responsible for The Absolut Company’s international art initiatives.

Art Salon, which includes shorter presentations each afternoon, featured 20 talks, ranging in 

topics from the Latin American art market to 'New Perspectives from the Edge of Arabia'. 

Taken together, both talks programs represent an essential aspect of Art Basel’s concept, 

reflecting the idea that the show is not only a marketplace for artworks, but also a meeting 

place for all of the artworld’s key players.

Videos of Art Basel Conversations and Art Salon are being made available by Absolut Art 

Bureau and can be viewed on artbasel.com/conversations and absolutartbureau.com. 

Museums and Private Collections 

Once again, Miami’s leading private collections – among them the Rubell Family Collection, Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, the De la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, World Class Boxing, the Margulies Collection, and the Dacra Collection – opened their collections to guests of the international art show, putting on museum-quality exhibitions especially for the duration of the show.  The museums of South Florida organized significant exhibitions. Shows included: 'New Work Miami 2013' at the Miami Art Museum; 'The Endless Renaissance - Six Solo Artist Projects: Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Barry X Ball, Walead Beshty, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Ged Quinn, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook' at the Bass Museum of Art; 'Bill Viola: Liber Insularum' at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami; '2012 Rudin Prize for Emerging Photographers' and 'Sylvia Plimack Mangold: Landscape and Trees' at the Norton Museum and 'Postcards of the Wiener Werkstätte: Selections from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection' and 'Esther ShalevGerz: Describing Labor' at the Wolfsonian-FIU. 

Museum Groups

130 international museum and collectors groups came from all over the world to attend Art 

Basel Miami Beach. The delegations included trustee and patron groups from the Brooklyn 

Museum; Museu de Arte Moderna Sao Paulo; Dallas Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; 

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New Museum, New York; 

Tate, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York; MoMA PS1, New York; Philadelphia 

Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou, Paris and many 

more.

Galerie Rudolphe Janssen

M. Naumann Fine Art

M. Naumann Fine Art

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Art Public: Transforming Collins Park with 22 works of art and live performances

Art Public: Transforming Collins Park with 22 works of art and live performances  

For the second year running, Art Public turns Collins Park into an outdoor exhibition 
space with large-scale sculpture, video, installation and live performance. Produced in 
collaboration with the Bass Museum of Art, the Art Basel Miami Beach sector includes 
works from the show’s galleries, by leading and emerging international artists, installed 
from ground level within the park to flying along the Miami Beach skyline above. Art 
Public Opening Night takes place on Wednesday, December 5 with a program of special 
performances. 

Selected for the second consecutive year by Christine Y. Kim, Associate Curator of
Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and Co-Founder of the
Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), this year’s edition of Art Public features a series of
works grounded in their connection to speech and language. In this context, Art Public
presents a new version of Ry Rocklen's 'A Touch of Grace', a flag that hangs the length of a
pole and comes perilously close to the ground. With 'Black Dada Flags', Adam Pendleton also
turns to flags as a medium for dialog and lines 16 along Collins Park. Placed in separate
locations in the park, two billboards by Gary Simmons spell out the words 'I wish it could be
morning all day long'. Conversation also continues in the air, as Dave McKenzie’s 'Declaration'
features a plane flying a text-based banner above Collins Park, each day at 11.45am, offering
a different marriage proposal to Art Public viewers every time.

Other works surprise in scale and delivery. Presenting a new work for Art Public, Mark Hagen
shows three interconnecting cement screen panels, each made out of 84 individually crafted
cement units stacked together. While Hagen’s work appears weighty, Ruben Ochoa presents
three new sculptures appearing to defy gravity. For 'Love Stream', Randy Polumbo has turned
a vintage Airstream aluminum trailer into an experiential wonderland of illuminated blossoms,
while Pierre Ardouvin's 'Bonhomme de neige' humorously depict a melting snowman.

Works by Latin American artists, including Lourival Cuquinha, Juliana Cerqueira Leite, José
Davila, Teresa Margolles, Raul Mourão, Iván Navarro and Miguel Andrade Valdez address a
variety of concerns such as urban negotiations around freedom, leisure versus labor, materiality,
movement and monumentality. Art Public also feature 'Twin Vortexes' by Alice Aycock, the first of
six large sculptures realized for 'Park Avenue Paper Chase', scheduled to be on view in New
York on Park Avenue in spring 2014. Included in the sector will be 'Riser', a new work by Australian artist David Keating, and 'Poets in Miami' by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa. Finally, 'I
feel, you feel, we feel through each other into our selves' by Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone will be
on display in the park.

Art Public Opening Night, free and open to the public, features a commissioned musical
performance by Jason and Alicia Hall Moran with Brandon Ross, interacting with artist José
Davila's work in Collins Park. On that same night, My Barbarian presents an extract of their
piece 'Broke People’s Baroque Peoples' Theater', a singing performance playfully engaging in
questions of economic inequity, artistic patronage, and cultural excesses through a fake
theatre company obsessed with classical allusion, costume, masquerade and sculpture. The
evening continues with an enigmatic choreography by Alex Israel.

On the Oceanfront (between 20th and 21st Streets) and in close proximity to Art Public, the
Absolut Art Bureau presents 'Güiro', an art bar installation conceived as a Gesamtkunstwerk
by the artist collective known as Los Carpinteros – Cuban-born, Madrid-based, Marco Castillo
and Dagoberto Rodriguez. Open from 5pm to midnight each night, December 5-8, 'Güiro' is
accompanied by a curated program of live music, performances, and events including
contributions by distinguished Mallorcan composer Joan Valent. For more information, please
visit www.absolutartbureau.com.

List of Art Public artworks: 
Pierre Ardouvin | Bonhomme de neige, 2007 Valentin
Alice Aycock | Twin Vortexes, 2012 | Galerie Thomas Schulte and Fredric Snitzer Gallery
Lourival Cuquinha Varal, 2012 | A Gentil Carioca
José Davila | Untitled (The Space Beneath Us), 2012 | Galería OMR and Travesia Cuatro
Mark Hagen | To be Titled (Additive Sculpture, Miami Screen), 2012 | Almine Rech Gallery
David Keating | Riser, 2012 | RaebervonStenglin
Juliana Cerqueira Leite | Climb, 2012 | Casa Triângulo
Teresa Margolles |Untitled, 2010 | LABOR
Dave McKenzie | Declaration, 2012 | Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Raul Mourão | Balanço Maré I (Para Bela e Lia), 2011 | Galeria Nara Roesler
Iván Navarro and Courtney Smith | Street Lamp, 2012 | Paul Kasmin Gallery
Ruben Ochoa | Lock, Stock, Barrel, 2012 | Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
Adam Pendleton | Black Dada Flags, 2012 | Pace
Jaume Plensa | Poets in Miami, 2012 | Galerie Lelong and Richard Gray Gallery
Randy Polumbo | Love Stream #2, 2012 | Paul Kasmin Gallery
Ry Rocklen | A Touch of Grace II, 2012 | UNTITLED and Thomas Solomon Gallery
Ugo Rondinone | I feel, you feel, we feel through each other into our selves, 2012 |
Gladstone Gallery
Gary Simmons | I wish it could be morning all day long, 2012 | Metro Pictures, Simon Lee
Gallery, Regen Projects and Anthony Meier Fine Arts  Miguel Andrade Valdez | Monumento Lima translation – Collins Park, 2012 | REVOLVER Galéria
Performances taking place during Art Public Opening Night on December 5:
8.30pm | Jason and Alicia Hall Moran | AiR, 2012 in collaboration with Brandon Ross
9.00pm | My Barbarian | Broke People's Baroque Theater, 2010-2012
9.30pm | Alex Israel | Miami 2012
Art Public Opening Night: December 5, 2012, 8:30pm – 10pm, Collins Park
Art Public is free and open to the public from Dec 5 – 9, 2012, 24 hours.
More information and a description of each project are available at www.artbasel.com/public.

About Art Basel
Art Basel stages the world's premier art shows for Modern and contemporary works, sited in
Basel, Hong Kong, and Miami Beach. Defined by its host city and region, each show is unique,
which is reflected in its participating galleries, artworks presented, and the content of parallel
programming produced in collaboration with local institutions for each edition. In addition to
ambitious stands featuring leading galleries from around the globe, each show's singular
exhibition sectors spotlight the latest developments in the visual arts, offering visitors new
ideas, new inspiration and new contacts in the art world.

Important Dates for Media 
Media Reception (accredited media only): December 5, 2012, 10am, Art Collectors Lounge
Opening Day (by invitation only): December 5, 2012, 11am – 9pm
Public Show Dates: December 6 – 9, 2012

Media Information on artbasel.com 
Press release, images, and accreditation guidelines can be downloaded directly from the Art Basel
website, www.artbasel.com/press. Journalists can accredit online for a press pass as well as subscribe
to receive press release for the show.

For the latest updates and detailed visitors' information on Art Basel Miami Beach, visit
www.artbasel.com or find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/artbaselmiamibeach.

Press Contacts:
Dorothee Dines, PR Manager, Art Basel
Tel. +41 58 206 27 06, dorothee.dines@artbasel.com

International PR Offices:  

US Representatives:
FITZ & CO, Concetta Duncan
Tel. +1 212 627 1455 ext. 232, concetta@fitzandco.com

Florida Representatives:
Garber & Goodman Inc.
Tel. +1 305 674 1292, abmb@garberandgoodman.com

Europe:
Sutton PR, Catherine McClelland
Tel. +44 20 7183 3577, catherinem@suttonpr.com

Asia:
Sutton PR Asia, Tamsin Selby / Erica Siu
Tel: +852 2528 0792, tamsin@suttonprasia.com / erica@suttonprasia.com

Art Basel Miami Beach - List of Conversations and Art Salon

Art Basel Conversations and Art Salon: Premier panellists This year's Art Basel Conversations and Art Salon series will again feature premier panellists including artists Tracey Emin, Liam Gillick, Emilia and Ilya Kabakov, Gabriel Orozco, and Erwin Wurm, as well as leading collectors, museum directors, curators, academics and many other cultural players. For a decade now, Art Basel Conversations has offered the public a chance to see dynamic dialogues between prominent figures of the international artworld, debating the key issues facing the artworld today and offering first-hand perspectives on producing, collecting and exhibiting art. This year's program will include 'Art Basel Miami Beach and South Florida: A Decade of Transformation'. The highly anticipated panel will see major Florida-based collectors discuss the cultural developments in Miami Beach and South Florida over the past ten years. Furthermore, an all-female museum directors' panel will discuss 'The Evolution of Museum Missions' while the ' The Future of Artistic Practice' panel will focus on 'The Artist as Poet'. Art Salon complements the Art Basel Conversations program and serves as an open space for shorter presentations, including panel discussion, lectures and performances. Presenting a range of speakers, this year's program will include a number of stimulating artist talks with Carlos Cruz-Diez, Theaster Gaters, Haegue Yang, Mark Handforth, Ernesto Neto, Tomás Saraceno and Richard Tuttle amongst many others. The program will also include a discussion about 'Regionalism' in a globalized artworld with the Bruce High Quality Foundation, Jens Hoffmann and Chelsea Haines. Art Basel Conversations THURSDAY | December 1 | Premiere | Artist Talk | Gabriel Orozco Gabriel Orozco, Artist, Mexico City/New York/Paris In conversation with Michelle Kuo, Editor in Chief, Artforum, New York FRIDAY | December 2 | Public/Private | The Evolution of Museum Missions Margarita J. Aguilar, Executive Director, El Museo del Barrio, New York Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Beatrix Ruf, Director, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich Moderator | András Szántó, Author and Consultant to arts and philanthropic organizations, New York SATURDAY | December 3 | Collector Focus | Art Basel Miami Beach and South Florida:  A Decade of Transformation Irma and Norman Braman, Collectors and Patrons, Miami Carlos M. de la Cruz, Collector and Co-Founder with his wife, Rosa, of the de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami Martin Z. Margulies, Collector, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami Dennis Scholl, Collector, Miami Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, Collector, Founder and President of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami Moderator | Bonnie Clearwater, Director and Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami SUNDAY | December 4 | The Future of Artistic Practice | The Artist as Poet Gerry Bibby, Artist, Berlin  Tracey Emin, Artist, London Olivier Garbay, Artist, London Karl Holmqvist, Artist, Poet and Performer, Berlin/Stockholm Jonas Mekas, Writer, Curator and Filmmaker, New York Moderator | Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Gallery, London Art Basel Conversations take place in the auditorium of the Miami Beach Convention Centre, adjacent to Info Zone D, daily from 10 – 11.30am, from Thursday, December 1, to Sunday, December 4, 2011.  Admission is free and seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Videos of Art Basel Conversations are available the next day at artbasel.com/conversations. Art Salon THURSDAY | December 1 1pm | The Global Artworld | 'Regionalism' Bruce High Quality Foundation, Jens Hoffmann, Chelsea Haines  2pm | Artist Talk | Ernesto Neto Ernesto Neto, Adriano Pedrosa 3pm | Art Law | 10 Cases: And Why They Matter To You Josh Baer, Peter R. Stern 4pm | Artist Talk | Inspiration, Cultivation and The Philip Johnson Glass House Collection Todd Eberle, Liam Gillick, Amei Wallach 5pm | Artist Talk | 'Movement Studies' Haegue Yang, Doryun Chong 6pm | Art History | Remembering Louise Bourgeois Tracey Emin, Jerry Gorovoy, Nancy Spector, Ulf Küster FRIDAY | December 2 1pm | Art Public Talk Theaster Gates, Glenn Kaino, Christine Y. Kim 2pm | Art Video Talk | 'Dancer' Dara Friedman, David Gryn 3pm | Art Film Talk | 'Gerhard Richter Painting' Corinna Belz  4pm | Talk | Biennials: Critical and Curatorial Interventions Cuauhtémoc Medina, José Roca 5pm | The Global Artworld | Focus on Argentina Tanya Barson, Marlise Jozami, Guillermo Navone, Abaseh Mirvali 6pm | Art Media | Latin American Art Magazines: Now and Then Sandra Antelo-Suarez, Celia Birbragher, Rodrigo Moura, Adriano Pedrosa SATURDAY | December 3 1pm | Artist Talk | Is Anyone Home? Erwin Wurm, Peter Doroshenko 2pm | Artist Talk | The Idea of Utopia in Art and Life Emilia and Ilya Kabakov, Sir Norman Rosenthal 3pm | Artist Talk | Performa 4pm | Artist Talk | Art Attack Dan Cameron, Raphael Castoriano, Ryan McNamara, Richard Tuttle 5pm | Artist Talk | 'Color on Color' Carlos Cruz-Diez, Aldo Rubino 6pm | Art Law Talk | Art Law in the Digital Age Lawrence M. Kaye, Howard N. Spiegler SUNDAY | December 4 1pm | Artist Talk | 'Rolling Stop' Mark Handforth, Bonnie Clearwater 2pm | Artist Talk | 'Cloud Cities' Tomás Saraceno, Hans Ulrich Obrist 3pm | Talk | Bas Fisher Invitational: artist-run project in Miami Naomi Fisher, Jim Drain, Christy Gast, Richard Haley Art Salon takes place in the auditorium of the Miami Beach Convention Centre, adjacent to Info Zone D, daily from Thursday, December 1, to Sunday, December 4, 2011. Art Basel Miami Beach tickets include admission to Art Salon. Videos of Art Salon are available the next day at artbasel.com/salon.  For the latest updates on Art Basel Miami Beach, visit artbasel.com or find us on Facebook at facebook.com/artbaselmiamibeach.