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The Bass announces the 2023–24 exhibition season coinciding with the celebration of its 60th anniversary year and continued commitment to present compelling international contemporary art that excites, challenges and educates audiences, bringing new perspectives to Miami Beach’s diverse cultural context.
Anne Duk Hee Jordan: I will always weather with you
December 4, 2023–June 23, 2024
I will always weather with you, the first US solo exhibition by Anne Duk Hee Jordan (b. 1978, Republic of Korea; based in Berlin), is a multisensory installation of moving images, beach chairs and other objects and kinetic robotics, combining the whimsical with the ominous in correspondence with the dynamics of weather. Mirrored walls create a visually unstable mise en abyme, with dramatic film footage of storm clouds and cyclones. Exhibition visitors are invited to “step into” weather—a phenomenon never far from the thoughts of Miami Beach residents and humans worldwide for whom life-threatening storms occur with increasing frequency.
Hernan Bas: The Conceptualists
December 4, 2023–May 5, 2024
In earlier works, Hernan Bas (b. 1978, Miami, FL) incorporated visual cues to a multitude of sources, from poetry and literature to the history of gay struggle, youth culture, news media and television. In The Conceptualists, the artist now addresses the complex relationship between conceptual art and painting. Across thirty-five works, male figures are depicted as acting freely in the permissive space of conceptual art. Anchoring the exhibition, the largest painting—a 9 × 21 ft. commission—depicts an artist who paints conceptual artists, a group portrait recalling allegorical paintings by Gustave Courbet and David Hockney, whose works have served as gathering sites for questioning the illusionism of representation in art.
Etel Adnan: Painting into Space
December 4, 2023–March 17, 2024
Etel Adnan (b. 1925, Beirut, Lebanon; d. 2021, Paris, France), a leading figure in contemporary Arab American literature and art, created rich, geometric fields of color in paintings and drawings, some translated into large-scale murals and tapestries. Painting into Space presents works by Adnan centered around The Bass’ recent acquisition of a monumental ceramic mural based on a 2020 sketch by the artist. The exhibition focuses on the interplay of geometric abstraction—circles, squares and triangles—informed by Adnan’s enduring interests in landscape and the spatial.
Social Assembly: Welcome to the Museum
December 3, 2023–October 26, 2024
Social Assembly: Welcome to the Museum is a multipronged exhibition and program for visitors to gather informally with art. Selections from the permanent collection and a commissioned installation by Miami-based artist Emmett Moore straddle the characteristics of art object and functional domestic design. Whether meeting friends, drinking coffee or listening to music, Social Assembly unites the functions and aesthetics of a lounge, domestic interior and art gallery, allowing visitors to come together around contemporary art and the ideas it inspires.
Nam June Paik: The Miami Years
October 4, 2023–August 16, 2024
Nam June Paik (b. 1932, Seoul, Korea; d. 2006, Miami Beach), a pioneer in electronic imagery and digitized compositions, is often referred to as the “father of video art.” Celebrating The Bass’ acquisition of Paik’s TV Cello (2003), Nam June Paik: The Miami Years recounts the artist’s connection to Miami and optimistic aim to humanize technology. Living in Miami Beach for nearly two decades, Paik created site-specific projects for Miami International Airport, unveiled in 1990. The exhibition examines the history of these public artworks, with a deeper look at the artist’s philosophy towards technology and its relationship to the body.
We Are in This Together: Selections from the Permanent Collection
October 4, 2023–October 26, 2024
In our age of interdependence, what constitutes the individual, and what does it mean to be together in a networked society? From social media to climate conditions, we are reminded that we are all connected. We Are in This Together takes its title from a 2019 neon sculpture by Tavares Strachan, presented alongside other works from The Bass collection. The exhibition offers local and international artistic perspectives to consider our social, economic and technological interdependencies.
The exhibitions are curated by James Voorhies, Curator of The Bass.
