ICA Miami to open new home ahead of Art Basel 2017
A week ahead of the opening of Art Basel in Miami, the city's Institute of Contemporary Art has announced that it will be opening a new building on December 1, 2017, in time for the art fair's next edition.
ICA Miami's new building is designed by the Spanish firm Aranguren + Gallegos Arquitectos and will be located in Miami's Design District. At 37,500 square feet, it more than doubles the museum's current exhibition space and features a new sculpture garden.
Visitors will approach a southern façade of interlocking triangles and lighted panels; on the north side, a wall of windows will bring light into the galleries and offer views of the sculpture garden and cityscape.
On the ground floor, six galleries will be used for long-term and rotating exhibitions as well as the museum's permanent collection and a space providing exposure for emerging and under-recognized artists. The second- and third-floor galleries will house special exhibitions and will offer views onto the sculpture garden, which will feature site-specific commissions and major sculptural works by post-war and contemporary artists.
The new museum will open with an exhibition entitled "The Everywhere Studio," exploring the significance of the artist's studio through 100 works of painting, sculpture, video and installation.
More than 50 artists from the past five decades, including Bruce Nauman, Carolee Schneemann, Dieter Roth, Andy Warhol and Martin Kippenberger, will be represented in what ICA Miami is calling its most ambitious and broad-ranging survey to date.
"The Everywhere Studio" will occupy the building's second-and third-floor galleries; on the ground floor and in the sculpture garden, installations of contemporary and post-war work will include art from the museum's collection as well as newly commissioned sculptures by international artists.
The exhibition will remain on view through February 2018.
With its opening on December 1, 2017, ICA Miami will welcome the public just ahead of the start of Art Basel Miami Beach, which takes place in early December.
