Art Basel/Miami Beach 2015 Expands into Multi-Venue Arts Festival with Major Exhibitions and Installations
From December 3 to December 6, 2015, the Miami Beach Convention Center hosted Art Basel/Miami Beach, which included 267 galleries from 32 nations, transforming into a larger arts festival. A standout exhibition was Anselm Kiefer's significant display at The Margulies Collection, featuring the 50,000-pound installation Geheimnis der Farne. At Pérez Art Museum Miami, Ryan McNamara presented a multimedia performance across eight stages, alongside works from nine Aboriginal artists from West Australia. Key exhibitions included LAX – MIA: Light + Space at The Surf Club and Made in California at MANA. Cuban art was prominently featured with Gustavo Pérez Monzón's inaugural U.S. exhibition at CIFO. Design Miami showcased a dining pavilion designed by Zaha Hadid and Patrick Schumacher, while a stabbing was mistakenly perceived as performance art.
Key facts
- Art Basel/Miami Beach ran from December 3 to December 6, 2015 at the Miami Beach Convention Center
- 267 galleries from 32 countries participated in the main fair
- Anselm Kiefer's exhibition at The Margulies Collection was the largest of his work in the United States
- A multimedia performance at PAMM involved choreography by Ryan McNamara and music by Devonté Hynes
- Two major surveys of Los Angeles Light and Space art were presented at different venues
- Larry Bell's glass installation at White Cube was originally exhibited at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas
- Gustavo Pérez Monzón's first U.S. exhibition featured 70 works from the late 1970s to 1980s
- The Design Miami fair included a prefabricated dining pavilion designed by Zaha Hadid and Patrick Schumacher
Entities
Artists
- Anselm Kiefer
- Susan Phillipsz
- Ryan McNamara
- Devonté Hynes
- Warlimpirringa Tjapaljarri
- Peter Alexander
- Larry Bell
- Mary Corse
- John McCracken
- Laddie John Dill
- Helen Pashgian
- DeWain Valentine
- Robert Irwin
- Gustavo Pérez Monzón
- Silas Riener
- Martha Friedman
- Paola PIVI
- John Preus
- Frank Stella
- Hanns Eisler
- Marcel Wanders
- Zaha Hadid
- Patrick Schumacher
- Joachim Pissarro
- Terence Riley
- John Keenan
- Paul Celan
Institutions
- Art Basel/Miami Beach
- Miami Beach Convention Center
- The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse
- Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)
- Salon 94
- The Surf Club
- Parallel LLC
- Design Miami
- Revolution
- MANA
- Frederick R. Weisman Collection
- White Cube
- Chinati Foundation
- CIFO
- Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection
- Locust Projects
- Rhona Hoffman Gallery
- Galerie Perrotin
- Whitney Museum
- Black Mountain College
- House UnAmerican Activities Committee
- FBI
- Chicago Public Schools
Locations
- Miami Beach
- Miami
- United States
- Switzerland
- New York City
- Los Angeles
- California
- Brooklyn
- Austria
- Marfa
- Texas
- Cuba
- West Australia
- Wynwood
- Design District
- Melin Building
- Ocean