Art Basel Miami Beach 2007 Events - Update 3
The sixth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach takes place from December 6 to 9 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA. 220 leading galleries from the USA, Canada, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa are participating, among them over 27 newcomers. Chosen by the Selection Committee from a record number of over 850 applicants, they will be presenting works by over 2,000 artists.
(For our full guide, please visit Art Basel Miami Beach 2007)
Art Basel Miami Beach is introducing a new sector this year: «Art Supernova». It features 20 galleries presenting new works by both emerging and renowned artists in an experimental group show. The concept offers an alternative form of gallery presentation in an art fair context. «Art Supernova» takes a collaborative approach that links the participating galleries in a new way. Instead of each gallery having its own separate booth, the exhibitors in «Art Supernova» have interconnected exhibition spaces, a common storage area, and shared presentation facilities. «Art Supernova» is located in a separate space adjacent to the exhibition halls at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
In «Art Kabinett» 22 participating galleries from eight countries will be staging small curated exhibitions. The projects chosen by the Selection Committee will be shown in a separate cubicle of the exhibitor’s booth. The exhibition concepts for «Art Kabinett» are diverse, representing everything from thematic group exhibitions (Organica. The Non-Objective World of Nature in the Russian Avant-Garde of the 20th Century; Artists as architects – architects as artists. Latin America in the 50s and 60s) and one-person shows (Chris Burden, Louis Soutter, Matt Mullican, Robert Indiana, Sean Snyder, Yan Lei) to installations. The spectrum ranges from modern masters to established artists and the youngest generation.
«Art Perform» (curator Jens Hoffmann, Director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco) features daily performances by artists such as Roman Ondak (Slovakia), Marepe (Brazil), Donald Urquhart (UK), Laura Lima (Brazil), Olivia Plender (UK), and Shana Lutker (USA). American curator Michael Darling (Jon and Mary Shirley Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum) has been entrusted with planning this year’s «Art Video Lounge» (Miami Beach Botanical Garden). He has put together a program of video pieces by 20 artists who live, or have spent an extended period, in the Pacific Northwest area, entitling it «Thermostat: Video and the Pacific Northwest». Three special programs will also be shown: «Return of the Wild West», «Miranda July (Portland) Sampler», and «Storytelling» (Miami Beach Botanical Garden).
Art Basel Miami Beach will again be organizing «Art Basel Conversations». Continuing to foster direct encounters with leading personalities from the art world, this forum offers privileged access to first-hand information on all aspects of collecting and exhibiting art. Distinguished art collectors and museum directors, prominent artists and critics will be discussing subjects like «The Museum of the Future in India: Focus on India», «Collectors as Producers», «Women in Art - Revolution or Evolution»? and «Critics’ Circle - Criticizing Art Criticism. Art and Criticism». There will also be leading international art magazines and cultural organizations participating, along with many celebrated artists.
Art Basel Miami Beach incorporates crossover events including film (honoring artist and film director Julian Schnabel and musician Lou Reed with a presentation of their new film «Berlin», moderated by author Bob Colacello), architecture (an evening honoring Herzog & de Meuron Architects, winner of the Pritzker Prize 2001. Talk between architect Jacques Herzog and artist Doug Aitken, moderated by Terry Riley, Director of the Miami Art Museum), and music. Visits to public and private art collections are also on the agenda. The museums of South Florida will be staging important exhibitions (Jorge Pardo, Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, etc.) to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach. Never before has Art Basel Miami Beach featured such a prominent international line-up of important works and exciting art projects. Once again, some 40,000 visitors and over 1,300 representatives of the media are expected.
The exhibition and event venues of Art Basel Miami Beach are located in the Miami Beach Convention Center, the Botanical Garden, and Collins Park at the beach.
Contents
New Galleries
New: «Art Supernova»
«Art Kabinett»
«Art Perform»
«Art Nova»
Partners
General Information about Art Basel Miami Beach
New Galleries
With a record number of over 850 applicants to choose from, including 99% of last year’s participants, the Selection Committee has picked 220 galleries for this year’s show. They will be showcasing all forms of artistic expression (painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, editions, performance, video and electronic art). Prices start at a few hundred dollars for multiples and works by young artists, and soar into the millions for museum-quality masterpieces. Its prominent list of participants makes Art Basel Miami Beach the most prestigious art show in the Americas for 20th-century classics and contemporary art. Newcomers include contemporary galleries such as Esther Schipper Gallery (Berlin), Roberts & Tilton (Los Angeles), and Galleria Christian Stein (Milan), as well as dealers in 20th-century masterworks like Galerie Cazeau - de la Béraudière (Paris), McKee Gallery (New York), Helly Nahmad Gallery (New York), and Michael Rosenfeld Gallery (New York), vintage photography specialist Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco), and Two Palms (New York), a specialist in editions. Over 10% of the galleries are new this year. About half of the exhibitors will be international, with strong participation from Europe and Latin America, a number of galleries from Asia, and one from Africa.
New: «Art Supernova»
Art Basel Miami Beach is introducing a new sector this year: «Art Supernova». It features 20 galleries from Brazil, Canada, Germany, Great Britain, France, Greece, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, and the United States presenting new works by both emerging and renowned artists in an experimental group show. The concept offers an alternative form of gallery presentation in an art fair context. «Art Supernova» takes a collaborative approach that links the participating galleries in a new way. Instead of each gallery having its own separate booth, the exhibitors in «Art Supernova» have interconnected exhibition spaces, a common storage area, and shared facilities for presenting works on paper, videos, performances, artist files, books, and catalogs. They also share a joint office space and a cafeteria. «Art Supernova» gives visitors an opportunity to discover a wide array of new works fresh from the studio. The special section is devised by experienced curator Simon Lamunière (Curator of Art Unlimited at Art Basel since 2000; Curator of Interversion, Geneva). Well-known Austrian media artist Peter Kogler is creating a work specifically for the sector: his digital montage of various motifs and interlinked loops will be printed on special plastic film and laid out in the passage leading to «Art Supernova», which will be located in a separate space adjacent to the exhibition halls at the Miami Beach Convention Center. The painterly and graphic practices Kogler uses in his piece derive their effect from computer-generated variations on emblematic modules energized by changes in sequence, placement, and dimension.
List of participating galleries and artists:
Art: Concept (FR- Paris) Philippe Perrot, Gedi Sibony
Birch Libralato Gallery (CA-Toronto) Euan Macdonald, Charles Goldman, Luis Jacob
Bortolami Gallery (US-New York) Avner Ben-Gal, Hope Atherton, Bozida Brazda
The Breeder Projects (GR-Athens) Mindy Shapero, Jannis Varelas
Spencer Brownstone Gallery (US-New York) Tessa Farmer, Stefan Hirsig, Ariel Orozco
Ellen de Bruijne Projects (NL-Amsterdam) Maria Pask, Keren Cytter, Falke Pisano
D’Amelio Terras (US-New York) Sam Samore, Roland Flexner, Noah Sheldon
Anna Helwing Gallery (US-Los Angeles) Kelly Nipper, Matt Keegan
Herald St (GB-London) Cary Kwok, Donald Urquhart, Djordje Ozbolt
IBID Projects (GB-London) Anders Clausen, Vita Zaman, Mathew Darbyshire
Galerie Michael Janssen (DE-Cologne) Julieta Aranda, Till Gerhard, Thaddeus Strode
Galerie Maisonneuve (FR-Paris) Jan Kopp, Servane Mary, Ralph Samuel Grossmann
Sara Meltzer Gallery (US-New York) Stephen Dean, Felipe Barbosa, Nina Katchadourian
Punto Gris (PR-San Juan) Dzine, Katie Holten, Mamiko Otsubo
Marília Razuk Galería de Arte (BR-São Paulo) Cabelo, Caetano Dias, Rodrigo Andrade
Perry Rubenstein Gallery (US-New York) Robin Rhode, Diana Al-Hadid, Daniel Rich
Jack Shainman Gallery (US-New York) El Anatsui, Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher
Shugoarts (JP-Tokyo) Mitsuhiro Ikeda, Yukio Fujimoto, Masaya Chiba
Sommer Contemporary Art (IL-Tel Aviv) Adi Nes, Rona Yefman, Ofir Dor
Max Wigram / MW Projects (GB-London) Marine Hugonnier, Barnaby Hosking, Richard Wathen
«Art Kabinett»
«Art Kabinett» features 22 galleries from eight countries presenting small curated exhibitions. The projects chosen by the Selection Committee are shown in a separate cubicle of the exhibitor’s booth. The exhibition concepts for «Art Kabinett» are diverse, representing everything from thematic group exhibitions and one-person shows to installations. The spectrum ranges from modern masters to established artists and the youngest generation. A special section of the catalog presents the projects in detail. «Art Kabinett» is an additional attraction for visitors and enables galleries to complement the arrangement of their booths with a curated exhibition. In undertaking this initiative, Art Basel intensifies its efforts to achieve a meaningful combination of commercial and cultural exhibition activity.
Under the title «Photograms and Double Exposures», Kicken Berlin (Berlin) presents an «Art Kabinett» of rare works by photographers of the European avant-garde. As cameraless photography, the photogram is one of the oldest known photographic techniques. In the early 1920s various contemporaneous international photographers rediscovered these photographic roots, recasting them in radically modern, experimental form in their quest for powerful abstract expression in avant-garde photography. The exhibition includes works by Man Ray, Andreas Walser, and László Moholy-Nagy, among others.
Galerie Krinzinger (Vienna) has a one-person show of Chris Burden in store. Born in Boston in 1945, Burden gained a reputation for controversial performances in the early 1970s. In 1976 he turned away from action art in favor of a new artistic concept of monumental sculpture. Through his productions, everyday objects or technical devices like motorcycles, steamrollers, or weapons systems mutate into bizarre, sometimes toy-like, sculptures.
Under the title «Organica. The Non-Objective World of Nature in the Russian Avant-Garde of the 20th Century», Galerie Gmurzynska (Zurich) will be presenting works by Mikhail Matyushin, Elena Guro, Boris Ender, Xenia Ender, Maria Ender, Vera Nikolskaya, Pavel Filonow, Pavel Mansurov, Pavel Kondratev, and Vladimir Sterligov.
Swiss outsider artist Louis Soutter (born in 1871) achieved fame with his crude blackand-white finger paintings and ink drawings. In its Kabinett, Galerie Haas & Fuchs (Berlin) will be showing a selection of 8 of his works from the 1930s and 40s.
Sandra Vásquez de la Horra (Kewenig Galerie, Cologne) was born in Chile in 1967 and lives and works in Düsseldorf. The artist regards the installation of her pencil drawings as a single work of art. Always arranging them in groups or lines, she presents them under a thematic heading. For this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach she has assembled an «Erotic Cabinet».
Galerie Klosterfelde (Berlin) is presenting a wide selection of drawings by Matt Mullican. The works on paper all date from the last 30 years and occupy a central position in the artist’s oeuvre. They extend from early stick-figure drawings to comic and porno collages and on to the complex cosmologies that chart Mullican’s understanding of the hierarchy of the world, from the material to the symbolic.
The thematic and formal spectrum of the black-and-white paintings of Japanese artist Miwa Ogasawara (Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg) displays enormous variety. Apart from images of humanity, it is above all the experience of space that repeatedly preoccupies the artist. Where sharp boundaries are blurred by light and shadow, where space disappears into darkness or is, conversely, decomposed by bright light, human beings pale into wraithlike outlines. Miwa Ogasawara addresses the parallelism of perspectives in her work.
«Nothing is true everything is permitted», a quotation from Beat Generation poet Bryon Gysin, is adopted by French artist Loris Gréaud (b. 1979; Yvon Lambert, Paris) as the title for his project for Art Basel Miami Beach. This new group of works explores a redefinition of the world, a redistribution of the scales and representations of our universe without hierarchy, between the macro and the galactic.
American artist Sean Snyder (Lisson Gallery, London) will be presenting a Kabinett featuring the video installation «Schema (Television) ». In his recent photographic and video work, Snyder has been exploring ideas of accessibility, transparency, and manipulation of information. The artist puts to close analysis the intrinsic codes of technologically produced and processed images, the implications of resolution and compression of visual data, as well as overt montage and propaganda techniques.
Galleria Continua (San Gimignano, Beijing) will be showing some of the latest paintings by Chinese artist Yan Lei. These new works are moving towards an even more hallucinatory reality with respect to the mechanical production of images that form a part of the collective everyday existence experienced by the artist and upon which he draws in a synthetic and broken-down fashion.
«Documentary Nostalgia» is the name of a 70-minute video by Korean artist Yeondoo Jung (Kukje Gallery, Seoul). The piece consists of six main scenes: starting from an inside view of a cozy-looking living room, the screen slowly shifts to various seemingly unrelated scenes, where people are caught in a passing rain in a city street or a farmer is working in his rice field. What is notable about the work is that the video consists of «one long take». The result is that we can see not only its «intended» or «necessary» part, featuring each scene with its related background and actors, but also the «unnecessary» part, where the laborious process of changing from one scene to another is laid bare by the camera lens.
The Kabinett of Paul Kasmin Gallery (New York) features two sculptures by American artist Robert Indiana, «The Electric EAT» and «The American Electric LOVE». The six-foot «Electric EAT», done at the same time as the twenty-foot «EAT» sign commissioned by Philip Johnson for the New York World’s Fair, is a unique piece bearing the word in electric lights that light up sequentially and flicker on and off within a circular frame. «The American Electric LOVE», which takes the form of Indiana’s much-celebrated sculpture, is rendered in white, red, and blue, illuminated by flashing bulbs.
For its Kabinett, the Margo Leavin Gallery (Los Angeles), in association with The Estate of David Smith, is showing works created by the American artist in the 1950s. The exhibition consists of a carefully selected group of closely related works establishing a continuity between Smith’s well-known sculptures and works in other media.
Under the title «Artists as architects – architects as artists. Latin America in the 50s and 60s», two New York galleries, Mary-Anne Martin Fine Art and Adler & Conkright Fine Art, will present architectural sketches, maquettes, and photographs of various projects in Latin America. Works by artists and architects like Paul Lester Wiener, GEGO (Gertrud Goldschmidt), Alejandro Otero, Mathias Goeritz, Carlos-Raul Villanueva, Jesus-Rafael Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Alexander Calder, and Roberto Burle-Marx will be on display.
Star of the Robert Miller Gallery (New York) Kabinett is an early installation by Robert Mapplethorpe, created in 1970. This piece is a bricolage of found objects – fur, lamps, drapery, a wooden crate and table, and votive objects. The installation will include a select group of related work by the artist from this early and relatively unknown period. The world view of native Congolese and their art, cult of saints, and spirituality are subjects Cuban artist Jose Bedia (Fred Snitzer Gallery, Miami) deals with in his installation. The Kabinett features one or two fine examples of Central African sculpture around which Bedia creates a small mixed-media installation. Bedia views this juxtaposition as an «embrace», a form of creative and spiritual exchange about the «essence of shared sensibilities,» reflecting a direct bond with the Central African people he knows.
The Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery (New York) will be presenting drawings, watercolors, and photographs by Puerto Rican artist Enoc Perez in its Kabinett. While Perez is known for his oil paintings, which use layers of paint in different colors to build up an image, his works on paper provide a more intimate and direct experience of his imagery. The installation includes some 25 works hung salon style, forming an index of New York and Latin American modernist architecture.
Francis M. Naumann Fine Art (New York) will be showing works by six women artists under the title «Daughters of New York Dada». Although only some of the pieces by Beatrice Wood, Clara Tice, Florine Stettheimer, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Katherina S. Dreier, and Mina Loy were created between 1915 and 1923, while others are later, they reflect the typical spirit and humor of Dadaism.
Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art (New York) features a new series of finely scaled works by 96-year-old artist Louise Bourgeois entitled «The Fragile». «The Fragile» is the culmination of her «Good Mother Bad Mother» body of work. It consists of 36 small works on fabric, very delicate, quiet, and intimate.
The fearlessness, insecurity, innocence, yet dissatisfaction and desperation of youth are the subject of Californian Ed Templeton (b. 1972; Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles). In 139 photographs in black-and-white and color, he offers portraits of young people from the suburbs of Orange County, where the artist grew up and still lives today.
Sperone Westwater (New York) is mounting a small retrospective of works by American photographic artist Laurie Simmons. Since the mid-70s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, mannequins, and occasionally people, to create images with intensely psychological subtext. By the early 1980s, Simmons was at the forefront of a new generation of artists, predominantly women, whose use of the media as subject began a new dialogue in contemporary art.
Zwirner & Wirth Gallery (New York) is also presenting a retrospective, in this case of works by American artist Al Taylor. The show includes wall and floor pieces made of painted and unpainted wood and occasionally metal, which will be shown together with drawings. Taylor’s pieces walk a tightrope between painting and sculpture, between drawing and object. His conventional drawings further underline his stretching of disciplines and categories, while also revealing his dry humor.
«Art Perform»
«Art Perform» (curator Jens Hoffmann, Director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco) features daily performances by artists such as Roman Ondak (Slovakia), Marepe (Brazil), Donald Urquhart (UK), Laura Lima (Brazil), Olivia Plender (UK), and Shana Lutker (USA).
«Art Nova»
Of the record number of over 248 applications submitted, the Selection Committee has chosen 58 of the most interesting galleries from 22 countries. «Art Nova» offers galleries a platform on which to present new works by a maximum of three artists. Works by around 200 of the most in-demand artists are on display and available for purchase, providing visitors with a focused platform for fascinating encounters with pieces fresh from studios round the globe. The special sector is an ideal place to sound out artistic trends. The list of participants includes both emerging and established galleries with a cutting-edge program.
Participating galleries and artists:
1301PE, Los Angeles: Ann Veronica Janssens (Belgium), Kerry Tribe (USA), Paul Winstanley (United Kingdom)
Alcuadrado, Bogotá: Miguel Ángel Rojas (Colombia)
Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm: Katrine Helmersson (Sweden), Annika von Hausswolff (Sweden)
The Approach, London: Cris Brodahl (Belgium), Edward Lipski (United Kingdom), John Stezaker (United Kingdom)
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels: Geert Goiris (Belgium), T. Kelly Mason (USA), Catherine Sullivan (USA)
Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin: Thomas Helbig (Germany), Andreas Hofer (Germany), Thomas Zipp (Germany)
BQ, Cologne: Friedrich Kunath (Germany)
Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami: Richard Butler (United Kingdom), Jason Middlebrook (USA)
Casa Triângulo, São Paulo: Sandra Cinto (Brazil), Stephen Dean (France), Juan Tessi (Argentina)
Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid: Federico Guzmán (Spain)
Galería Comercial, San Juan: Adriana Lara (Mexico), Michael D. Linares (Puerto Rico), Eddie Martínez (USA)
Corvi-Mora, London: Anne Collier (USA), Roger Hiorns (United Kingdom), Colter Jacobsen (USA)
Thomas Dane Gallery, London: Michael Landy (United Kingdom)
Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid: Rui Toscano (Portugal)
Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna: Drago Persic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Misha Stroj (Austria)
Zach Feuer Gallery, New York: Edgar Bryan (USA), Nathalie Djurberg (Sweden), Johannes VanDerBeek (USA)
Galerist, Istanbul: Haluk Akakçe (Turkey), Taner Ceylan (Turkey), Jorgen Evil Ekvoll/Can Sayinli (Norway)
Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York: Ann Craven (USA), Bart Domburg (Netherlands), Valie Export (Austria)
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam: Carla Klein (Netherlands), David Maljkovic (Croatia), Muzi Quawson (United Kingdom)
Greene Naftali, New York: Jim Drain (USA), Bjarne Melgaard (Norway), Gedi Sibony (USA)
Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg: Markus Amm (Germany), Henning Bohl (Germany), Michael Hakimi (Germany)
Galería Enrique Guerrero, Polanco: Quirarte + Ornelas (Mexico), Ricardo Rendón (Mexico), Richard Stipl (Czech Republic)
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco: Tauba Auerbach (USA), Simon Evans (United Kingdom), Keegan McHargue (USA)
Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna: Robert Adrian X (Austria), Art & Language (United Kingdom), Midori Mitamura (Japan)
Alison Jacques Gallery, London: Liz Craft (USA), Tom Ormond (United Kingdom), Jon Pylypchuk (Canada)
Catriona Jeffries, Vancouver: Arabella Campbell (Canada), Brian Jungen (Canada), Ian Wallace (Canada)
KBK, Mexico: Dario Escobar (Guatemala), Patrick Hamilton (Chile), Moris Moris (Mexico)
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin: Phillip Allen (United Kingdom), Isabel Nolan (Ireland), Kathy Prendergast (Ireland)
Johann König, Berlin: Tue Greenfort (Denmark), Annette Kelm (Germany), Jordan Wolfson (USA)
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles: Matthew Brannon (USA), Anthony Pearson (USA)
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York: Ricci Albenda (USA), Peter Coffin (USA), Ruth Root (USA)
Galeria Leme, São Paulo: Fernanda Chieco (Brazil), Sandra Gamarra (Peru), Neil Hamon (United Kingdom)
Lombard-Freid Projects, New York: Mounir Fatmi (Morocco), Tala Madani (Iran), Dan Perjovschi (Romania)
Giò Marconi Gallery, Milan: Nathalie Djurberg (Sweden), Catherine Sullivan (USA), Grazia Toderi (Italy)
kamel mennour, Paris: Adel Abdessemed (France), Camille Henrot (France), Christine Rebet (France)
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London: Katy Moran (United Kingdom)
Nature Morte/Bose Pacia, New Delhi: Bharti Kher (India), Bari Kumar (India), Seher Shah (Pakistan)
Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin: Berta Fischer (Germany), Corinne Wasmuht (Germany)
Peres Projects, Los Angeles/Berlin, Los Angeles: Terence Koh (China), Kirstine Roepstorff (Denmark)
Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana: Alexander Gutke (Sweden), Magnus Larsson (Sweden), Tobias Putrih (Slovenia)
Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York: Merlin Carpenter (United Kingdom), Stephan Dillemuth (Germany), Matias Faldbakken (Norway)
Salon 94, New York: Huma Bhabha (Pakistan), Francesca DiMattio (USA), Shirana Shahbazi (Switzerland)
Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna: Kitty Kraus (Germany), Michael S. Riedel (Germany), Hans Weigand (Austria)
ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai: Li Shan (China), Pu Jie (China), Xu Zhen (China)
Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf: Damien Roach (United Kingdom)
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo: Yuki Kimura (Japan)
Talwar Gallery, New York: A. Balasubramaniam (India), Ranjani Shettar (India)
Team Gallery, New York: Cory Arcangel (USA), Jakob Kolding (Denmark), Ryan McGinley (USA)
Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin: Valérie Favre (France), Elke Krystufek (Austria), Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven (Belgium)
Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo: Angela Detanico/Rafael Lain (Brazil), Maurício Dias/Walter Riedweg (Brazil), Ana Maria Tavares (Brazil)
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City: Nicole Eisenman (USA), Wynne Greenwood (USA)
Vilma Gold, London: Nicholas Byrne (United Kingdom), Brian Griffiths (United Kingdom), Josef Strau (Germany)
Galerie Nicola von Senger, Zürich: Olaf Breuning (Switzerland), Arcangelo Sassolino (Italy)
Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen: Peter Land (Denmark), Jonathan Monk (United Kingdom), Christoph Ruckhäberle (Germany)
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam: Job Koelewijn (Netherlands), Sven Kroner (Germany), Matthew Monahan (USA)
Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris: Gregory Forstner (France), Isa Melsheimer (Germany)
XL Gallery, Moscow: Bluesoup Group (Russian Federation), Mikhail Kosolapov (Russian Federation), Valery Ulymov (Russian Federation)
Michael Zink Gallery, Munich: John Pilson (USA), Thomas Steffl (Germany), Marcel van Eeden (Netherlands)
Art Basel Miami Beach incorporates crossover events including film (honoring artist and film director Julian Schnabel and musician Lou Reed with a presentation of their new film «Berlin», moderated by author Bob Colacello), architecture (an evening honoring Herzog & de Meuron Architects, winner of the Pritzker Prize 2001. Talk between architect Jacques Herzog and artist Doug Aitken, moderated by Terry Riley, Director of the Miami Art Museum), and music. As a central element of the program, there will be visits to Miami’s private collections, which will be presenting new exhibitions and acquisitions. The museums of South Florida will also be staging important exhibitions to coincide with Art Basel Miami Beach, among them: «Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: The Killing Machine and Other Stories presented by MAC @ MAM», «Enrique Martinez Celaya», «Herzog & de Meuron» (the architects of the new MAM) at the Miami Art Museum (MAM); the first major US museum show for Jorge Pardo and the first solo US museum show for Enoc Perez at the Museum of Contemporary Art, N. Miami (MOCA); «French Kissin’ in the U.S.A., a group show of emerging artists from France», «Faces, a site-specific project by Carlos Amorales» at The Moore Space; «Lichtenstein Sculptures at Fairchild» at Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables; «Fortunate Objects: Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection» at the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO); «Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of Martin Z. Margulies», including Caro, de Kooning, Heizer, Judd, Flavin, LeWitt, Lichtenstein, Miro, Noguchi, Oldenburg, Perlman, Segal, Serra, Smith, Snelson, Tucker, and Warhol, at The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse; «Pip Brant: The Flying Carpet and other Re-useables» at The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami; solo exhibitions by Hernan Bas and John Stezaker, and «Euro-Centric, Part 1: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection» at the Rubell Family Collection; and «Agitated Images: John Heartfield and German Photomontage, 1920-1938» and «Fashioning the French Interior: Pochoir Portfolios in the 1920s» at the Wolfsonian-FIU.
Once again, the Art Basel Miami Beach Host Committee (listed at www.ArtBasel.com), comprising over two hundred prominent representatives of the local cultural, political, and business communities, is demonstrating its ongoing commitment to this international art event and helping to ensure that exhibitors and guests receive a particularly friendly welcome to the city. Many major US museums are organizing trips to Florida, and numerous groups of art collectors from Latin America and Europe have already announced their visits. Over 40,000 visitors and 1,300 media representatives from all over the world are expected.
Art Kids is a day care center for children with parents visiting Art Basel Miami Beach on public show days (December 6 - 8, 2007, noon to 8 p.m.; December 9, noon to 6 p.m.). Children enrolled in the program will participate in arts and crafts, art history activities, and storytelling under the supervision of the well-trained staff of The Miami Children’s Museum.
Art Basel Miami Beach is accompanied by an attractive catalog. The publication offers a comprehensive overview of what the international art market has to offer and provides extensive information on the art event itself. The catalog, which appears in early November, can be ordered in advance from Hatje Cantz Verlag, Zeppelinstr. 32, D-73760 Ostfildern, Germany, Tel. +49/711-44 05204, Fax +49/711-44 05220, sales@hatjecantz.de.
Opening Hours
Thursday, December 6 – Sunday, December 9, 2007
Daily from 12 noon to 8 p.m. Closing day from 12 noon to 6 p.m.
Vernissage for invited guests: Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Art Positions
Wednesday, December 6 – Sunday, December 9, 2007
Daily from 2 to 10 p.m. Closing day from 2 to 6 p.m.
Admission
One-Day Ticket $ 30
Two-Day Ticket $ 45
Reduced One-Day Ticket
(children, students, seniors, groups of 10 or more) $ 15
One-Day Ticket for School Classes $ 6 per student/accompanying adult
Evening Ticket (after 5 p.m.) $ 15
Permanent Pass $ 65
Admission is free for children under 16 when accompanied by an adult.
Art Basel Conversations
Art Guest Lounge, Miami Beach Convention Center, Entrance D
Wednesday, December 5 – Sunday, December 9
Daily from 10 a.m. to 12 noon
Open to the public, free admission
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