Art Basel Announces 277 Galleries for Miami Beach 2023
The number of exhibitors at the fair is down slightly from 289 in 2022, but organisers promise an enhanced layout.
Art Basel in Miami Beach, 2022. Courtesy Art Basel.
Art Basel in Miami Beach will feature 277 galleries—nearly two-thirds of them from the Americas—when it takes place at the Miami Beach Convention Center from 6 to 10 December.
'With new participants from Mexico to Poland and Egypt, and a programme both within and beyond the fair like we have never done before, there is an injection of freshness to the fair, and a vigour of experience which we look forward to playing out in full in December,' said Vincenzo de Bellis, Director, Fairs and Exhibition Platforms, who is leading the Miami fair this year.
Bridget Finn will take over as Art Basel's Director, Miami Beach for the 2024 fair.
Twenty-four galleries will exhibit at the fair for the first time, including three that will join the main sector directly: Galerie Minsky (Paris), Ortuzar Projects (New York), and Weinstein Gallery (San Francisco).
Other first timers include Château Shatto (Los Angeles) and Silverlens (Manila, New York), both of which will join the Nova sector for galleries showing new works by up to three artists.
'Visitors to our Miami Beach show this year will be met with surprises, and an expanded platform for discovering a diversity of artistic voices and perspectives, which echo and reverberate across Miami Beach's ever-growing cultural offer,' de Bellis added.
Art Basel in Miami Beach's special sectors will include 19 large-scale projects curated by Mexico City-based curator Magalí Arriola, group exhibitions in the Kabinett section, and a Conversations programme curated by Emily Butler.
Rival art fair Untitled Art, which takes place in Miami from 5–10 December, has also announced its 163 exhibitors for this year's show.
'I see our fair as complementing Art Basel, offering a more accessible platform for discovering work by different artists and galleries,' said Untitled Art's founder Jeff Lawson.
Following Frieze's acquisition of EXPO Chicago and The Armory Show, and the continued dominance of Basel's four fairs, Lawson emphasised the value of Untitled's independence.
'We can lean into the advantages of not having to answer to conglomerates and shareholders,' he said. 'It allows us to be more independent, take more risks with our programming and be more experimental.' —[O]
