Art & Exhibitions
11 Must-See Museum Shows During Art Basel Miami Beach, From a Didier William Retrospective to the First U.S. Exhibition of Michel Majerus
There's even more art to see beyond the fairs.
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There's even more art to see beyond the fairs.
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Art week in Miami is always a scene, with collectors, artists, and gallerists descending on the city for a few days. But, there is a wealth of art to see beyond the tents. Here are 11 institutional shows you don’t want to miss.
Leandro Erlich, Swimming Pool (1999). Installation view: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan, 2004. Photo: © Noriko Inomoto.
PAMM is located at 1103 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami.
Alexandre Diop, Honi soit qui mal y pense (Shame be (tohim) who thinks evil of it) (2022). Courtesy of the Rubell Museum.
It’s no secret that Don and Mera Rubell have the Midas touch. The residency program at the couple’s Miami-based museum is a serious coup for any young artist, and it’s no exception for Alexandre Diop. The Senegalese-Franco artist uses everyday found materials in the spirit of Arte Povera to lend his portraits a textural complexity.
The Rubell Museum is located at 1100 NW 23 Street, Miami.
This wide-ranging exhibition examines how both U.S. and Cuban artists engaged with the landscape of Cuba, and reflected its social, economic, political, and ideological shifts in their artwork. Works by contemporary artists such as María Magdalena Campos Pons and Juana Valdés are shown alongside those by American artists including Winslow Homer and William Glackens.
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum at Florida International University is located at 10975 SW 17th Street, Miami.
Didier William, Mosaic Pool, Miami (2021). Courtesy of the artist and MOCA North Miami.
MOCA North Miami is located at 770 NE 125th Street, North Miami.
A work by Markenzy Julius Cesar in “Flesh & Water.” Courtesy of the Haitian Heritage Museum.
Climate change and disappearing beaches will be on the mind of many at Art Basel Miami Beach. At the Haitian Heritage Museum in Little Haiti, “Flesh and Water” will present paintings by Markenzy Julius Cesar specifically explore the beaches in Black countries, and their rapid disappearance.
The Haitian Heritage Museum is located at 4141 NE 2 Avenue, #105C, Miami.
Installation view, “Together, at the Same Time” at the De la Cruz Collection.
As the to-the-point title suggests, the show brings together paintings, sculpture, and site-specific works from Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz’s private collection. More than four dozen artists are represented ranging from Salvador Dalí to Isa Genzken.
The De la Cruz Collection is located at 23 NE 41 Street, Miami.
Raúl Cordero, You Know Who You Are And You Know What You Want. Courtesy of the artist and El Espacio 23.
This show presents recently acquired Cuban art from the collection of PAMM founder Jorge M. Pérez. El Espacio 23 is Perez’s contemporary art space, located within a repurposed 28,000-square-foot warehouse in Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood.
El Espacio 23–Jorge M. Pérez Collection is located at 2270 Northwest 23rd Street, Allapattah, Miami.
Walker Evans, Detail of Roadside Advertisement for The Back Porch Restaurant, Destin, Florida. August 6, 1974 (1974). Courtesy of the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse.
This exhibition features nearly 100 photographs from the New Deal government-sponsored Farm Security Administration, which resulted in thousands of images documenting life during the Great Depression. Look for works by Lange and Evans as well as Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, and Ben Shahn.
The Margulies Warehouse is located at 591 NW 27th Street, Miami.
Kathia St. Hilaire, Eclaircisant Lait (2020).Courtesy of Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami. © Kathia St. Hilaire.
In South Florida native Kathia St. Hilaire’s first solo museum exhibition, intricately woven pieces of linoleum panels provide the physical canvas for detailed images of daily family and spiritual life, created using the colors and textures of Haitian iconography.
NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale is located at 1 East Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale.
A work included in “Lady Liberty.” Courtesy of Bonnie Lautenberg.
This career retrospective features more than 20 conceptual and politically charged artworks created by Lautenberg, including photographs the artist shot in Antarctica, Cuba, and New York. Earlier this year, she was appointed to the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts by the White House.
Jewish Museum of Florida is located at 301 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach.
Michel Majerus, yet sometimes what is read successfully, stops us with its meaning no. I (1998). © Michel Majerus Estate, 2022. Private Collection. Courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin. Photo: Jens Ziehe, Berlin.
ICA Miami’s debut presentation of Michel Majerus’s oeuvre brings together works that defined the late abstract expressionist painter’s explorations into the pop and power dynamics of modernism. Central to the show is a series of six screenprints that brought him to fame, in which the artist appropriates the 1980s collaboration between Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, inserting himself into their creative dialogue.
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami is located at 61 NE 41st Street, Miami Design District.