As PULSE Miami Beach gears up for its 10th year, a change of venue is in the cards. Rather than continuing to make its home at the off-the-beaten-path Ice House, PULSE will take a page out of UNTITLED.’s playbook, setting up shop in a beach-side tent. As reported by the New York Observer, new director Helen Toomer will continue the less-is-more trend she set at the fair’s scaled-back springtime New York edition this year (see “Andy Warhol Homages Aside, PULSE Art Fair Doesn’t Disappoint“), with a carefully curated selection of only 60 galleries.
All of the fair programming, including IMPULSE, the emerging gallery section, and POINTS, which highlights non-profit and alternative spaces, will be shown together. “Around a third of the exhibitors are new, a quarter are from this past PULSE New York edition, and the rest are returning, whether from last year or years past,” Toomer told the Observer.
Thanks to both the seaside locale and the manageable number of exhibitors compared to other fairs (see “NADA Miami Beach 2014 Will Be the Anti-Art Basel,” “UNTITLED. Lines Up 96 Galleries for Third Edition,” and “Art Basel in Miami Beach 2014 Boasts an Intimidating 267 Galleries“), Toomer feels confident that PULSE will offer “an oasis of calm in the middle of Miami madness.”
“I think we are getting back to our roots—the art and the artists. And although the tent and the food and the parties are all important—they are not the main focus for me…I want PULSE to be a place where they can stop, look, listen, and develop relationships with our galleries and artists,” said Toomer of the visitor experience she wants to create. “Although we are a commercial entity, we don’t want to focus solely on that, when so many opportunities arise from the fairs in the form of future collaborations and curation.”
Over a decade of PULSE’s existence, the Miami art scene has certainly evolved, and the fair is hoping these changes can help it adapt. “There is more competition now and I think people are being more selective, which requires us to be more selective,” Toomer admitted. “We are definitely continuing that same curated approach and over half the fair will contain focused booths of three artists or less,” with only 150 represented at the event in total.
Here is the full list of PULSE Miami Beach 2014′s participating galleries and their artists:
Art Mûr, Montreal, Canada: Jinny Yu
Ballast Projects, New York, NY: Russell Tyler (POINTS)
Beers Contemporary, London, UK: Faig Ahmed, Janneke Von Leeuwen, Tony Romano, Pawel Sliwinski
Black & White Gallery/Project Space, Brooklyn, NY: Michael Van den Besselaar
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York, NY: Yorgo Alexopoulos, Edward Burtynsky, Jim Campbell, Robert Currie, Airan Kang, Jimmy Nelson, Jose Parla
Catinca Tabacaru Gallery, New York, NY: Yapci Ramos
CC Gallery, Berlin, Germany: Maya Hayuk
Danziger Gallery, New York, NY: Christopher Bucklow, Susan Derges, Hendrik Kerstens, Karen Knorr Jim Krantz, Corinne Vionner
Davidson Contemporary, New York, NY: Kiel Johnson, Darren Lago, Sam Messenger, Thomas Witte, Ghost Of A Dream
De Buck Gallery, New York, NY: Simon Vega, XOOOOX
De Soto Gallery, Venice, CA: Amelia Bauer, Brian Paumier, Ramona Rosales (IMPULSE)
DIA Galería, Mexico City, Mexico: César López-Negrete, Ricardo Paniagua
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR: Ann Hamilton, Sean Healy, Isaac Layman, Julia Mangold, Anna Von Mertens
Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY: Mark Masyga, Sasha Bezzubov
galerieKleindienst, Leipzig, Germany: Corinne von Lebusa, Christoph Ruckhäberle
Galerie Simon Blais, Montreal, Canada: Jean-Sébastien Denis, Alexis Lavoie, Yann Pocreau
Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA: Mia Rosenthal
gallery nine5, New York, NY: Soojin Cha, Jessica Lichtenstein, Ignacio Muñoz Vicuña
Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark: Barnaby Whitfield, Aaron Johnson, Jean-Pierre Roy, Eric White
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA: SuttonBeresCuller, Chris Engman, Margie Livingston, Whiting Tennis
GUSFORD | los angeles, Los Angeles, CA: Genevieve Chua (IMPULSE)
Heskin Contemporary, New York, NY: Doreen McCarthy, Jennifer Riley
Horrach Moya, Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Aníbal López, Jorge Mayet, Joana Vasconcelos
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA: Jim Campbell, Jay DeFeo, Jutta Haeckel, Emil Lukas, Marco Maggi, Andrew Schoultz
James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA: Karin Davie, Gary Hill, Alexander Kroll, Cameron Martin, Alwyn O’Brien, Akio Takamori
junior projects, New York, NY: Guy C. Correiro, Stuart Elster (IMPULSE)
LAMONTAGNE GALLERY, Boston, MA: Gil Blank, Jeff Perrott, Joe Warwell
LA NEW GALLERY, Madrid, Spain: Cristina de Middel, Santiago Talavera, Jorge Fuembuena
LMAKprojects, New York, NY: Jonathan Calm, Popel Coumou, Claudia Joskowicz, Erika Ranee
LYNCH THAM, New York, NY: Carlo Ferraris, Walter Robinson (IMPULSE)
MA2Gallery, Tokyo, Japan: Ken Matsubara
Miller Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA: Evelyn Rydz, Nathalie Miebach, Deb Todd Wheeler
New Image Art, West Hollywood, CA: Cleon Peterson, Retna, Maya Hayuk
Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY: Natalia Arias
Nuova Galleria Morone, Milan, Italy: Felix Curto, Mariella Bettineschi, Domenico Grenci, Sadegh Tirafkan
Paci contemporary, Brescia, Italy: Michal Macku, Teun Hocks
Patrick Heide Contemporary, London, UK: Pius Fox, Hans Kotter, Reinoud Oudshoorn, Dillwyn Smith
Paul Loya Gallery, Los Angeles, CA: Tom Fruin
Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO: Andrew Masullo, Gary Stephan, Chuck Webster, John Zinsser
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK: Sue Arrowsmith, Jonathan Delafield Cook, Claire Kerr, Susan Derges, Sandra Kantanen, Jorma Puranen
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA: Dawoud Bey, Joe Cunningham, Bovey Lee, Nathan Lynch, Vik Muniz
Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY: Alyse Rosner, Laurie Lambrecht, Lilly McElroy
ROCKELMANN&, Berlin, Germany: Florian Japp, Jeffrey Teuton (IMPULSE)
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA: John Mills
Rosa Santos, Valencia, Spain: Andrea Canepa
SENDA, Barcelona, Spain: Oleg Dou, Anthony Goicolea, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, James Clar
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA: Phil Argent, Kathy Butterly, Rachel Lachowicz, Izhar Patkin, Berverly Semmes, Michal Rovner, Kiki Smith
Schroeder Romero, New York, NY: Lisa Levy
Shulamit Gallery, Venice, CA: Kamran Sharif, Shahab Fatouhi, Tal Shochat
Sienna Patti Contemporary, Lenox, MA: Lauren Fensterstock, Susie Ganch
taubert contemporary, Berlin, Germany: Adrian Esparza, Markus Linnenbrink, Markus Weggenmann, Beat Zoderer, Jan von der Ploeg, Dionisio González, Sylvan Lionni
Tyler Rollins Fine Art, New York, NY: Arahmaiani, Heri Dono, FX Harsono, Agus Suwage
Uprise Art, New York, NY: Eric LoPresti, Erin O’Keefe
Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA: Tm Gratkowski
WAGNER + PARTNER, Berlin, Germany: Erwin Olaf, Mona Ardeleanu, Peter Dreher, Ruud van Empel
WATERHOUSE & DODD, New York, NY: Kim Keever, Jean-François Rauzier, Xavier Guardans
X-Change Art Project, Lima, Peru: Alessadra Rebagliati, Ana Cecilia Farah, Marian Riveros, MOHO Collective (POINTS)
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY: Marco Breuer, Lorenzo Vitturi, Alison Rossiter, Matthew Brandt, Assaf Shaham
YUKI-SIS, Tokyo, Japan: Katsutoshi Yuasa, Kohei Kawasaki (IMPULSE)
Zhulong Gallery, Dallas, TX: Alexander Gorczynski, James Geurts (IMPULSE)