Art Basel Miami Beach

The Florida fair returns this year with new leadership and an expanded lineup of galleries from five continents

This year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, under the leadership of newly appointed director Bridget Finn, looks set to be a more than usually international showcase of modern and contemporary art. The fair will host galleries from countries, with a total of new exhibitors being welcomed this year. There will be an increased number of Latin American galleries – including new names from Puerto Rico, Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Peru and Uruguay – and, closer to home, stronger participation in comparison with recent years from galleries with South Florida locations. Highlights include a solo booth of works by Surrealist artist Leonor Fini, including theatre set designs and masquerade masks, presented jointly by Galerie Minsky from Paris and Weinstein Gallery from San Francisco.

The fair takes place at the Miami Beach Convention Center from – December (www.artbasel.com/miami-beach).

Positions

With its focus on young galleries, the fair’s Positions section is a chance to discover work by emerging artists from across the globe. Highlights include a sculptural installation by Brazilian artist Mano Penalva that riffs on the beaded car seat cover, presented by Llano gallery from Mexico City, and a project by another Brazilian artist, Allan Weber, (pictured), represented by São Paulo gallery Galatea, a newcomer to the fair.

Survey

The Survey section is designed to highlight artistic practices of historical relevance. This year, it features a tribute to the artist Liliana Maresca – who played an influential role in the art world of 1980s and ’90s Argentina – presented by Buenos Airesbased gallery Rolf Art. Elsewhere, Louis Stern Fine Arts is showing a survey of paintings and sculptures from the 1950s to the 2010s by Ynez Johnston, including Untitled (1975; pictured).

Nova

Among the exhibitors in this year’s Nova section of the fair, which focuses on works created within the last three years, is London gallery Emalin. They are pairing abstract paintings by Kate Spencer Stewart with screen-based works by the digital artist Özgür Kar, whose animated drawings often feature cartoonish macabre imagery – such as a Narcissus-like skeleton in his Nocturne – Death by the Pond (2023; pictured).