Art Basel is right around the corner, from December 3rd to December 6th, leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa will show significant work from the masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well the new generation of emerging stars. Most of the happenings take place at the Miami Beach Convention Center and its surroundings.    

Today it was announced that 26 international artists will transform Collins Park with site-specific installations and performances. 

For the 2015 edition of Art Basel’s show in Miami Beach, Nicholas Baume, Director and Chief Curator of Public Art Fund, returns for his third year curating the show’s Public sector. Under the theme ‘Metaforms’, 27 large-scale and site-specific installations and performances by leading and emerging artists from over 11 countries will turn Miami Beach’s Collins Park into an outdoor exhibition space. Produced in collaboration with the Bass Museum of Art for the fifth consecutive year, the sector will include significant works by Olaf Breuning, James Capper, Tony Cragg, Melvin Edwards, Sam Falls, Sylvie Fleury, Katharina Grosse, Matt Johnson, Timm Ulrichs, among others.

The Public sector of Art Basel will open on Wednesday, December 2, with a special evening performance program featuring Xavier Cha, Ryan Gander, Pope.L and Yan Xing.

Nicholas Baume’s curatorial premise, ‘Metaforms’, will consider how art making is, at its core, a process of transformation. The manners in which artists conceptually and physically reimagine objects or symbols will be explored, and in doing so add new layers of significance to what was once familiar in order to reveal unexpected truths.

For more information please visit www.artbasel.com/miami-beach