MIAMI BEACH, FL (June 3, 2024) – The Bass announces its exhibition schedule for the 2024 – 2025 season, spanning September 2024 through August 2025, featuring a new solo exhibition by Rachel Feinstein and the first public museum installation of assume vivid astro focus: XI. Also announced is a new exhibition by Ulla von Brandenburg in dialogue with a signature work by the late Etel Adnan in the museum’s permanent collection. Museum visitors can also expect inspiring and exciting experiences at The Bass, exploring the performative and theatrical aspects of social networks in contemporary art with exhibitions highlighting movement, immersion, scenography and technology.

ULLA VON BRANDENBURG: IN DIALOGUE
SEP 4, 2024–AUG 24, 2025
Ulla von Brandenburg: In Dialogue is an exhibition of film, watercolor and sculpture, including a newly commissioned site-specific installation by the Paris-based German artist. This presentation of von Brandenburg’s work is paired with the museum’s recently acquired; abstract, ceramic wall mural Untitled (2023) by Etel Adnan. A leading figure in contemporary literature and visual art, Adnan created rich, geometric fields of color in her paintings and drawings, some translated into large-scale murals and tapestries that reflect the artist’s enduring interest in architecture and the built environment. Comparatively, von Brandenburg’s practice combines film, textiles, drawings, watercolors and sound into enveloping exhibition scenarios where the aesthetic correspondences among different art forms coalesce into a cohesive whole.

RACHEL FEINSTEIN: THE MIAMI YEARS
SEP 25, 2024–AUG 17, 2025
Rachel Feinstein: The Miami Years spans almost three decades of work by the New York–based artist, and her first major exhibition in her hometown. Displaying Feinstein’s multidisciplinary approaches to sculpture—which have encompassed painting, video, performance and installation over the course of her career—The Miami Years reflects on themes of intimacy, vulnerability and abjection, exploring Feinstein’s examination of societal factors that shape human behavior and female identity. Feinstein’s exhibition includes The Bass’ site-specific commission of massive painted mirrored wall panels spanning thirty feet, where the artist prods the contradictory nature of Miami’s decadence and sophistication.  The works showcase the artist’s recurring use of scenography, specifically the theatrical flat, as a form that both exposes and reinforces the notion and structures of artifice.

(LA)HORDE
OCT 16, 2024–APR 27, 2025
(LA)HORDE is a multidisciplinary collective founded in 2013 by the artists Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, and Arthur Harel who push the boundaries of classical dance to explore how bodies are represented in public space, social networks and on the stage. The exhibition features the film Bondy. Shot in and around the Parisian suburb of the same name, the video offers a choreographic portrait of the city, placing the constant movement of its socially and culturally diverse residents in synchronicity with one another as they course through public and private spaces. 

ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS: XI
ON VIEW NOV 13, 2024
assume vivid astro focus: XI is a large-scale installation of artworks, videos and sound by the São Paulo–based visual and performance art collective. The exhibition is reimagined at The Bass as part of a major gift by Miami-based collectors Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz.

XI is an enveloping installation of patterned wallpaper and decal graphics spanning floor to ceiling. The colorful mélange explores the many facets of queerness while drawing together sculptural theater and modular stages to be later activated at The Bass with screenings, performances and more. Fusing drawing, sculpture, video and performance into large-scale installations and happenings where gender, politics and cultural codes freely interact, avaf inhabits the social forms of discos and dance parties, inviting museum visitors to engage with the exhibition environment by creating lived experiences of their own to contribute to the continually evolving social dynamics inherent in their work.

Originally installed at the home of Miami-based collectors Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz and premiering during the 2004 edition of Art Basel Miami Beach, XI embodied a communal sense of excitement in Miami’s local arts scene as a new global contemporary art destination.

PERFORMING PERSPECTIVES: A COLLECTION IN DIALOGUE
ON VIEW SEP 4, 2024
Performing Perspectives: A Collection in Dialogue is a new presentation of The Bass’ permanent collection, featuring works of art from the early Renaissance to the present-day. The exhibition aligns with the museum’s commitment to think with and alongside its audiences, offering the spatial and conceptual conditions to meaningfully engage with art and ideas. With this selection of collection works, we offer three themes, or anchors, to undergird the installation: “Performance of Self,” “Backdrop for Performance: Artificiality and Stagecraft” and the “The Indexicality of Performance.” Each theme initiates a dialogue among the images, scenes, materials, spaces and ideas on view. In this way, the works of art are called upon to “perform” a range of contemporary perspectives—including yours.

SOCIAL ASSEMBLY: WELCOME TO THE MUSEUM
ONGOING
The Bass invites you to rethink how we interact with and learn from art—and each other—in a museum setting with Social Assembly: Welcome to the Museum. The museum continues to think through ways to bring its audiences together in this multipronged exhibition and flexible program space that offers visitors opportunities to gather informally and more frequently with art. Whether meeting friends, reading books, watching videos, drinking coffee or listening to music—all ways for visitors to relax, refresh and regroup—these re-envisioned museum activities are now underway as part of one exhibition experience. Social Assembly serves as a framework for robust public programs.

Look for special events and more throughout the season as The Bass commemorates its 60th anniversary concluding in December 2024. The Bass is proud to continue its 60-year tradition of sharing powerful international contemporary art that excites, challenges, and educates audiences, bringing new perspectives to Miami Beach’s diverse cultural context.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The exhibitions are curated by Chief Curator James Voorhies. Bass is generously funded by the City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council; the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Arts and Culture, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, and The Bass membership.