ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2010

Exceptionally high quality and very solid sales at
Art Basel Miami Beach 2010
Miami Beach, Florida, USA – The ninth edition of Art Basel Miami Beach closed
on Sunday, December 5, 2010. More than 250 galleries from North America, Europe,
Latin America, Asia and Africa exhibited works by over 2,000 artists. The show
attracted 46,000 visitors, a record number. Art collectors, museum directors,
curators and cultural journalists from all over the world enjoyed a program of
special exhibitions, panel discussions, private collection tours, and events featuring
film, performance, and video. A great number of artists also attended the event,
among them Michelangelo Pistoletto, Ernesto Neto, Vik Muniz, Pedro Reyes,
Jonathan Meese, Martin Creed, Tony Oursler, Teresita Fernandez, Thomas Zipp,
Julie Mehretu, Ugo Rondinone, Mark Handforth, Julian Schnabel and  Isaac Julien.
Over 130 museum and institution groups visited the show, as did private collectors
from the Americas, Europe and many emerging markets of the artworld.
Art Basel Miami Beach proved again that high-quality works remain in strong demand,
as collectors rewarded excellent material and booth presentations with steady sales
throughout the week: Many exhibitors also reported making valuable new contacts,
especially in Latin America. Gallerists offered gleaming reports, including:
Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers, Sprüth Magers Berlin London
'We are very impressed with the quality of international collectors at this year's fair and
have really enjoyed participating.'
Marc Glimcher, Pace Gallery, New York
"This year in Miami was, without a doubt, for the overall quality of the art and the energy,
one of the best art fairs I have been to and it certainly was for Pace: we practically sold out
works in our booth within hours of the opening."
Gordon VeneKlasen, Michael Werner Gallery
'We're really happy with our participation in Miami Basel. Major collectors came this year
with a strong showing of our clients from all over the world. Sales of our established artists
were terrific and the fair also provides a great platform for our younger generation of artists
- Aaron Curry, Enrico David and Thomas Houseago.  With great support from local
collectors such as the De la Cruz's and the Rubells, the fair has matured into the major art
event it intended to be.'Thomas Dane, Thomas Dane Gallery London
'We are very pleased with how the fair has gone. We had a strong opening day and good
consistency throughout the rest of the fair. We have met numerous new clients and are
happy to see older clients returning to Miami.'
Alexandre Gabriel, Galeria Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo
'We did very good business. The Brazilians did a great part of the collecting at the fair.'
Glenn Scott Wright, Director, Victoria Miro, London
'Art Basel Miami Beach has been a great catalyst for sales of works by Yayoi Kusama,
who has impending museum retrospectives in 2011 and 2012.'
Joanna Kamm, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
'This year’s ABMB was very alive in the sense of meeting new people and having talks
more in depth. Also I feel a return of interest to discover young European artists. Both
curators and collectors have shown an amazing interest in the work of Kathrin Sonntag,
one of my very young Berlin-based artist, who I have shown for the first time at Art Basel
Miami Beach.'
This year’s Art Kabinett sector was of high quality and showed an interesting mix of
twenty-one carefully curated exhibitions in the booths of the galleries. The projects in this
sector of the show featured a wide array of artists, ranging from emerging artists such as
Valentin Carron (303 Gallery, New York), Nathan Hylden (Johann König, Berlin) and
Markus Schinwald (Lambert, New York) to historical figures like Otto Muehl (Krinzinger,
Wien), Franz Erhard Walter (Wolff, Paris) and Richard Diebenkorn (Greenberg van Doren,
New York). Group shows include the exhibitions 'Marx & Modernism: The New Europe'
(Adler & Conkright, New York) and 'Zaha Hadid and Suprematism' (Gmurzynska, Zürich).
In this year’s Art Nova sector, 50 emerging and established galleries from 17 countries
presented new works by either two or three artists, including Charles Atlas, Miroslaw
Balka, Thomas Bayrle, Luis Camnitzer, Mircea Cantor, Nathalie Djurberg, Gardar Eide
Einarsson, Valie Export, Scott Lyall, Barry McGee, Marilyn Minter, R.H. Quaytman,
Sudarshan Shetty, Roman Signer and Thomas Zipp. In all, recent pieces by 131 artists
were on display, providing visitors an opportunity to see pieces fresh from studios around
the globe - and making the sector an ideal place to spot the newest artistic tendencies.
The new criteria for Art Positions created a platform for a single major project from one
artist, allowing curators, critics and collectors to discover ambitious new talents. The Art
Positions sector presented 14 young galleries from seven different countries, showcasing
cutting-edge single projects by the artists Hany Armanious (Foxy Production, New York), Jorge Méndez Blake (Meessen De Clercq, Bruxelles), Brian Bress (Cherry and Martin, Los
Angeles), François Bucher (Proyectos Monclova, México), Dario Escobar (Josée Bienvenu
Gallery, New York), Fernanda Fragateiro (Arratia, Beer, Berlin), Nikolas Gambaroff  (Balice
Hertling, Paris), Eddie Martinez (ZieherSmith, New York), Gabriel Sierra (Casas Riegner
Gallery, Bogotá), Kara Tanaka (Simon Preston Gallery, New York), Johanna Unzuetta
(Christinger De Mayo, Zürich), Phil Wagner (UNTITLED, New York), Judi Werthein (Figge
von Rosen Galerie, Köln) and Héctor Zamora (Labor, México).
Art Public, curated for the second time by Patrick Charpenel of Guadalajara, Mexico,
featured projects by international artists Andrea Bowers, François Bucher, John
Chamberlain, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Minerva Cuevas, Runa Islam, Marco Maggi, Jorge
Méndez Blake, and Fyodor Pavlov Andreevich. The projects which attracted many visitors
were installed in the outdoor public spaces of Miami Beach, within close proximity to the
Oceanfront and the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Art Basel Miami Beach's public nightly program at the Oceanfront, organized by Creative
Time, was a highlight of this year's show. Sited in an environment designed by Phu Hoang
Office and Rachely Rotem Studio, the pavilion used two types of rope - reflective and
phosphorescent – to create a diverse and interactive environment of open-air structures
that sway and glow in the night. The Oceanfront Nights program featured four cities at the
forefront of today’s artistic experimentation and cross-disciplinary collaboration: Detroit,
Mexico City, Berlin, and Glasgow. Art Basel Miami Beach and Creative Time invited four
organizations to partner in creating the program - the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Detroit, Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, 032c in Berlin, and Tramway in Glasgow. The
program spotlighting film, music, video, performance and featured performances by artists
such as Sue Tompkins, Biba Bell, Isa Melsheimer, Aids-3d, 80*81 (Gerog Diez /
Christopher Roth), Stephen Sutcliff and live music by Martin Creed and his band, Daniel
Guzman's band Pellejos, Mexico's El Resplandor as well as sets by acclaimed DJs from
the respective cities. Presentations and discussions were held by various artists including
Pedro Reyes, Claudia Fernandez, Raul Cardenas / Torolab, and Jorge Mendez Blake.
This year’s Art Film event offered the award-winning film 'Waste Land,' which follows
renowned artist Vik Muniz as he journeys from his home base in Brooklyn to his native
Brazil and the world's largest garbage dump, Jardim Gramacho, located on the outskirts of
Rio de Janeiro. There he collaborated an eclectic band of 'catadores' - pickers of
recyclable materials, to create a new series of works. The presentation in the Lincoln
Theater, which was followed by a discussion with Vik Muniz, Dan Cameron and David
Koh, was well-attended and received several standing ovations.
Many leading artworld figures appeared in the morning Art Basel Conversations, which
were often standing-room only and attended by the artworld and the broader public. The premiere presented an artist talk featuring legendary artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. Topics
for the following panel discussions included 'Public/Private: Museums in the Digital Age,'
with Maxwell L. Anderson, Lauren Cornell and Peter Reed, 'Latin America: The Collector
as Catalyst' featuring Augustin Coppel, Ella Fontanals-Cisneros and Rodrigo Moura, and
'Artistic Practice: The School Makers' with Eduardo Abaroa, Bruce High Quality
Foundation, Tania Bruguera, Domingo Castillo, Piero Golia and Yoshua Ok n.
Videos of the Art Basel Conversations can be downloaded at
www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/conversations
Participants at this year's Art Salon included artworld figures such as Josh Baer, Ute Meta
Bauer, Andrea Bowers, Dan Cameron, Jose Davila, Tom Eccles, Elena Filipovic, Naomi
Fisher, Francesca von Habsburg, Sofia Hernàndez, Meredith Johnson, Isaac Julien, Scott
King, Sigalit Landau, Los Carpinteros, Mariko Mori, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pascale Marthine
Tayou, Nato Thompson and Marnie Weber.
Videos of the Art Salon can be downloaded at www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/salon
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Museum Groups
A record number of more than 130 international museum and collectors groups came from
all over the world to attend Art Basel Miami Beach. The delegations included boards of
trustees from the Brooklyn Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museu de Arte
Moderna Sao Paulo; Dallas Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington; Art Institute of Chicago; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New Museum, New York, Philadelphia Museum of
Art; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Muac, Mexico City;
Centre Pompidou, Paris, and many more.
Museum exhibitions and collections
Once again, Miami’s leading private collections – among them the Margulies Collection,
the Rubell Family Collection, CIFO, the De La Cruz Collection, the Mora Collection, the
Scholl Collection, and the Dacra Collection – opened their homes and warehouses to
guests of the international art show. The daily visits to artist studios in the Greater Miami
area were also very popular with visitors.
Following a long tradition, the Miami museums organized significant exhibitions. Shows
included 'Susan Rothenberg: Moving in Place' at the Miami Art Museum; 'Isaac Julien' at
the Bass Museum; 'John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist' and 'Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth' at the Norton Museum; 'Seduce Me,' a collaboration by Isabella
Rossellini, Andy Byers, and Rick Gilbert at the Wolfsonian-FIU; 'Bruce Weber: Haiti/Little
Haiti,' 'Jonathan Meese: Sculpture' at MOCA Miami and 'Drawn and Quartered' at World
Class Boxing; Jim Drain at Locust Projects and the Pearl and Stanley Goodman Latin
American Collection at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale.
Partners
Art Basel Miami Beach thanks its main sponsor, UBS, as well as its Associate Sponsors,
Cartier, NetJets and AXA Art for collaborating with us on yet another successful show. We
would also like to acknowledge our partners Bally, Ruinart, Moroso and Gondrand, and our
Official VIP Car BMW, for their valuable support of our show.
Catalog
The premium-quality catalog was virtually sold out during the week. A few hundred copies
are still available from D.A.P. in New York (Toll Free: Tel. +1 800 338 2665, Fax +1 212
627 9484) for the USA, or from Hatje Cantz Publishers in Germany: Fax +49 711 4405
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2011
Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 takes place December 1 through December 4, 2011, with an
exclusive opening on Wednesday, November 30, 2011.
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June 15 through June 19, 2011. It is the world’s most prestigious show of modern and
contemporary art, featuring 300 galleries from all continents showing works by over 2,500
artists.
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