Art Basel has revealed the participating exhibitors and first details of its 2024 edition in Miami Beach, taking place from December 6th-8th, 2024 at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Led for the first time by Bridget Finn, Art Basel’s stalwart fair in the Americas will host 283 galleries from 34 countries and territories presenting the best of their world-class programs, including 32 first-time
participants, marking the fair’s biggest cohort of newcomers since 2008.
Reflecting the fair’s singular position at the geographic and creative nexus of North and South America, Art Basel Miami Beach will showcase historical rediscoveries and bold, contemporary proposals from leading galleries in the Americas as well as premier international exhibitors whose programs attend to artistic production in the region. Nearly two-thirds of exhibitors at this year’s show hail from the Americas, representing the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru, and Uruguay – a testament to Art Basel’s mission to platform artistic excellence in the region and to support discovery and generative collaboration between regional and international art scenes and markets.
Exhibitors from Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina will join the Miami Beach fair for the first time. Newcomers from the United States come from Florida, New York, California, Illinois, Texas, and Oregon, alongside several galleries from Canada. From Europe, the fair will see an expanded presence of newcomers from Spain, Portugal, France, and Poland, with Romania being represented at the show for the first time. There will also be a significant showing of new joiners from Asia, hailing from China, Singapore, and South Korea, with a first-time presence of Indonesia at the Miami Beach show.
A significant increase compared to recent years, 25 galleries will enter the show’s main sector, Galleries, for the first time this edition. This comes after the introduction of a new minimum-size booth option aimed at creating a more accessible and equitable starting point for small and mid-size exhibitors entering the main sector of the show. Galleries furthermore benefit from the fair’s sliding scale pricing system, whereby galleries with a larger booth pay more per square meter than galleries with a smaller booth. Adopted in 2019 and implemented across Art Basel’s four fairs globally, the linear sliding scale system was created to ensure a more level playing field for galleries across all segments of the market. Five galleries have also opted to share a booth at this year’s show, a model introduced by Art Basel in 2019.
We have an exceptional roster of galleries participating in our Miami Beach show this year, coming from all corners of the Americas, Europe, and Asia. The proposals in Nova, Positions, and Survey are of exceptional quality and ambition, and it’s clear that galleries in the main sector will not be holding back come December, bringing their best of the best to this all-important fair in the world’s leading art market. It was incredibly important that we carve out a more equitable path to participation for small and mid-sized galleries entering the main sector of this show, and the proof is in the extraordinary number of newcomers joining this edition. We remain super agile and attuned to the changing and individual needs of our galleries and their artists, and committed to creating an absolutely cannot-miss experience for them and for collectors, museums and foundations, major cultural partners, and visitors from Miami
Bridget Finn, Director of Art Basel Miami Beach,
Beach and around the world.
Art Basel Miami Beach will be structured across several exhibition sectors: Galleries, in which exhibitors present the full breadth of their program; Nova, platforming younger galleries presenting work created within the last three years by up to three artists; Positions, dedicated to solo showcases of emerging galleries and artists; and Survey, featuring highly singular curatorial proposals of historically relevant works created before the year 2000. Meridians, the show’s sector dedicated to projects that transcend the traditional art fair booth, will be curated for the first time this year by Yasmil Raymond, independent curator and outgoing Director of Portikus and Rector of the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule. Raymond succeeds Magalí Arriola, who successfully oversaw the sector and its maturation since its introduction in 2019. Further details on Meridians and Kabinett, the sector for tightly curated presentations displayed by galleries in a separate section of their main booth, will be announced in the fall.
Art Basel Miami Beach’s renowned Conversations program will also return, curated for the first time
this year by American writer, editor, and educator Kimberly Bradley. Details on dates, tickets, and
the programming line-up for Conversations will be revealed in the next few months.
Furthermore, Art Basel Miami Beach will usher in a week of world-class exhibitions and activations
throughout Greater Miami, including a 30-year survey of Rachel Feinstein at The Bass Museum, the
first major exhibition in the artist’s hometown; also at The Bass, the first public museum installation
of assume vivid astro focus: XI by the São Paulo-based artist collective, gifted by the late arts patron
and collector Rosa de la Cruz and her husband, Carlos de la Cruz; and a major group exhibition on
experimental artistic practices dating back to the key years of the Chicano Movement in the 1960s
and 1970s at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).
Galleries
Galleries brings together 227 world-renowned Modern, postwar, and contemporary art dealers
from the Americas and beyond. Exhibitors in this sector present the full breadth of their distinguished program, ranging from works by 20th-century masters to contemporary blue-chip artists, mid-career practitioners, and emerging talents.
4 of them are first-time participants in Art Basel’s Miami Beach fair. They are:
Gallery Baton (Seoul), with a selection of works by Claire Fontaine, Suzanne Song, Rinus Van de Velde, Yuichi Hirako, Doki Kim, Liam Gillick, and Jimok Choi that contemplate the role of art in urgent and evolving reflection of the global environmental crisis. Pearl Lam Galleries (Hong Kong, Shanghai), with a presentation tracing the evolution of abstract painting in contemporary China, juxtaposing the works of seven multigenerational artists: Pang Tao, Qiu Deshu, Qian Jiahua, Su Xiaobai, Yan Lei, Zhu Jinshi, and Zhu Peihong Leeahn Gallery (Daegu, Seoul), with a selection of works by Korean contemporary artists whose practices critically engage the legacy of Dansaekhwa, or Korean monochrome painting: post-war artists Lee Kun-Yong, Lee Kang-So, and Yoon-Hee, alongside younger voices Nam Tchun-Mo, Lee Jin-Woo, Kim Taek-Sang, and Kim Keun-Tai Gallery Wendi Norris (San Francisco), with a presentation of works by Cuban-born contemporary artist María Magdalena Campos-Pons in dialogue with rare paintings of Spanish Surrealist Remedios Varo, exploring the artists’ shared interest in the power of transformation through science and spirituality.
For the full list of galleries in the main sector visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/galleries.
New exhibitors are marked with an asterisk on the list.
Nova
Singular to Art Basel’s Miami Beach show, Nova provides a platform for younger galleries presenting
works created within the last three years, by up to three artists. Since its inception in 2003, the
sector has become known as a space for the discovery of prescient works fresh from the artist
studio.
Featuring 21 presentations of 40 artists from around the world, the sector welcomes 9
newcomers to the show this year, including:
Charles Moffett (New York), with the first collaborative presentation by New York-based artists Kim Dacres and Melissa Joseph, known for their respective work in recycled tire rubber and felt Galerie Allen (Paris), with a presentation on the theme of ‘sanctuary amongst the grotesque,’ featuring paintings by Ex-Situationist Jacqueline de Jong, aquarium works by Trevor Yeung, and hand-blown glass sculptures of tongues by Tarek Lakhrissi that evoke queer gateways into safe-space backroom culture Gallery Nosco (Brussels), whose program centers artists and artistic practices from Latin America, with a presentation by Peruvian Alberto Casari, Venezuelan Magdalena Fernández, and Portuguese Marcelo Moscheta, tracing the artists’ distinct approaches and contributions to geometric abstraction Gallery Vacancy (Shanghai), presenting paintings and a sculptural installation by Henry Curchod, Michael Ho, and Chen Ting-Jung on the ethereal quality of materials as it relates to the diasporic experience in their respective practices Fabian Lang (Zürich) and Espacio Valverde (Madrid), with a joint presentation of Spanish artist Elena Alonso’s large-scale wall panels, sculptures, and paintings, on the construction and integrity of the body and its philosophical and gestural correspondences in the history of architecture and design.
For the full list of galleries in Nova visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/nova.
Positions
Providing collectors, museum professionals, curators, critics, and art enthusiasts the opportunity to
dive deeper into the practice of individual emerging artists, Positions this year hosts 15 solo
showcases of vanguard works by rising international talents.
9 exhibitors in Positions are participating in Art Basel’s Miami Beach show for the first time. They include:
Gordon Robichaux (New York), presenting a series of shrine works derived from the personal archives of Chinese-Spanish-Filipino-American performance artist and activist Agosto Machado, marking an important introduction to broader commercial audiences of this crucial figure in the cultural underground scene of 1960s Downtown New York Carmo Johnson Projects (São Paulo), bringing a series of paintings by MAHKU, an artist collective formed by the Huni Kuin Indigenous People of the western region of the Brazilian Amazon, that transpose the experiences of sacred ayahuasca chants and myths Catinca Tabacuru (Bucharest), with a suite of new sculptures by Zimbabwean artist Terrence Musekiwa that render carved stone heads atop bodies of kaleidoscopic found materials, drawing on a rich tapestry of African maximalism Piedras (Buenos Aires), with a selection of Argentine artist Jimena Croceri’s ergonomic sculptures which, used or activated performatively, take their shape from the observation
of cavities of within and between human bodies, with historical reference to Amerindian Muisca metalwork.
For the full list of galleries in Positions visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/positions
Survey
Survey provides a platform for highly singular projects created before the year 2000. The sector is
dedicated to presentations that challenge the conventional art historical canon, with a focus on
elevating significant yet little-known artistic practices. 17 galleries will participate in the sector this
year, including
10 newcomers to the fair, many with presentations that shed light on overlooked women artists in the 20th century. These include:
ILY2 (Portland), with a booth dedicated to American artist Bonnie Lucas, including meticulously hand-sewn, abstract low-relief assemblages of sewing notions and dollar store goods on fabric, from the artist’s series from the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s SAPAR Contemporary (New York), with a suite of monofilament fiber hanging sculptures by American artist Yvonne Pacanovsky Bobrowicz, from the artist’s iconic 1989 Cosmic Series Gajah Gallery (Singapore), bringing previously unseen paintings and wood and cotton sculptures by Indonesian artist I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih, on feminine pleasure, autonomy, and body horror Gunia Nowik Gallery (Warsaw), with a presentation, curated with Teresa Gierzy?ska, of the artist’s photographic works from the 1970s to the 1990s exploring feminine states of being, the banality of female desire, and pleasure Casemore Gallery (San Francisco), bringing the seminal 1976 Yarn Drawings by American artist Sonya Rapoport, constructed of expanses of continuous-feed, dot-matrix computer paper that the artist collected from the math department at UC Berkeley
For the full list of galleries in Survey visit artbasel.com/miami-beach/survey.
Art Basel Miami Beach, December 6th–8th, 2024 the Miami Beach Convention Center @artbasel
