Miami Beach is about to trade in its sunscreen for art, ambition, and audacity, as Art Basel 2025 takes over the city in a whirlwind of color, ideas, and unapologetic creativity. From Havana to São Paulo, New York to Kyiv, 283 galleries are landing in the Sunshine State, bringing a global parade of Modern masters, postwar icons, and daring emerging voices. This year, the fair is shining a spotlight on Latinx, Indigenous, and diasporic artists—because if Miami is the crossroads of the Americas, Art Basel is the crossroads of ideas. Get ready for a week where the beach vibes meet bold statements, and the cocktail of culture is curated with intellectual rigor.
Art Basel Miami Beach returns this December for its most ambitious edition yet, welcoming 283 premier galleries from 43 countries and territories to the Miami Beach Convention Center from December 5–7, 2025. VIP Preview Days on December 3 and 4 reaffirm the fair’s status as the Americas’ leading international art showcase, bringing together artists, galleries, collectors, and cultural institutions in a city where North and South American creativity collide in vibrant fashion.
This year, more than two-thirds of participating galleries have spaces across the Americas, highlighting the fair’s deep engagement with the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean. From New York and Los Angeles to São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Havana, the roster balances blue-chip stalwarts like Gagosian, David Zwirner, and Hauser & Wirth with bold newcomers. Notably, El Apartamento makes history as the first homegrown Cuban gallery at the fair, joined by rising voices such as Crisis (Lima), Lodos (Mexico City), Galeria Mapa (São Paulo), and Pasto Galería (Buenos Aires).
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The U.S. presence is particularly rich this year. New York’s downtown scene converges with established Chelsea powerhouses, welcoming first-time participants David Peter Francis, Candice Madey, and Kate Werble Gallery, while Alexander Gray Associates returns after a hiatus since 2016. The West Coast is equally strong, with nearly 50 California galleries spanning San Francisco, Los Angeles, and beyond. Elsewhere, the fair stretches its reach: Dallas’ Erin Cluley Gallery debuts, Philadelphia’s Locks Gallery returns after almost two decades, and Chicago maintains a solid presence with Document, GRAY, moniquemeloche, and Patron. South Florida’s vibrant scene also shines, anchored by Central Fine, David Castillo, Gavlak, and Fredric Snitzer, alongside newcomers Nina Johnson (Miami) and Voloshyn Gallery (Kyiv, Miami Beach), marking the first Ukrainian gallery presence at the fair.
For the first time in the fair’s history, Ukraine is officially on the map at Art Basel Miami Beach, with Voloshyn Gallery presenting a carefully curated selection in the Survey sector.
International participation remains robust, with nearly 100 galleries from Europe, Asia, and Africa. The lineup features both blue-chip and secondary market leaders—Cardi Gallery (Milan, London), Galerie Karsten Greve (Paris, St. Moritz, Cologne), Vedovi Gallery (Brussels)—alongside forward-thinking contemporary programs like Edel Assanti (London), Nanzuka (Tokyo, Shanghai), and Galerie Thomas Schulte (Berlin). Cross-continental initiatives such as Galleria Continua and mor charpentier underscore Art Basel Miami Beach’s role as a global platform for dialogue and discovery.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2024· Meridians | Portia Munson | PPOW Gallery | Booth M4 | courtesy of PPOW
The fair unfolds across four dynamic sectors, each offering a distinct lens on contemporary art. Galleries, the main sector, presents the full spectrum of Modern, postwar, and contemporary masters—from iconic heavyweights to audacious new voices—proving that even the classics can surprise. Nova spotlights works produced within the last three years, offering a crystal ball into what’s next in art, from experimental mediums to conceptual leaps rivaling any Wynwood mural in ambition. Positions highlights emerging solo artists with presentations that channel Miami’s energy and inventiveness. Survey revisits historically significant practices, bringing fresh curatorial insight to 20th-century icons and overlooked movements. Together, these pillars create a lively, thoughtful ecosystem balancing past, present, and future while leaving every visitor with a sense of discovery.
2025 also sees the debut of the Art Basel Awards, celebrating global excellence in contemporary art, with Gold Medalists revealed during the Official Night on December 4, in partnership with BOSS. Beyond the convention center, Miami transforms into a citywide art stage, with museum-quality exhibitions at The Bass, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), ICA Miami, and more, alongside curator-led talks and the return of Art Basel’s celebrated Conversations series.
Planning Your Visit
When: December 5–7, 2025 (Public days: 11am–6pm daily)
Where: Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive
From Latinx, Indigenous, and diasporic voices to global contemporary powerhouses, Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 promises an immersive experience that blends cultural depth, cutting-edge creativity, and just enough Miami flair to make every gallery stroll feel like a mini adventure.
New Zealand–born, UK-based artist Cas Campbell works across ceramics, handmade paper, sculpture, and installation to explore humanity’s deep connection to nature. Drawing on evolutionary history, queer identity, motherhood, neurodivergence, and overlooked lives, Campbell’s practice weaves the personal with the historical. Their recent ceramic works construct alternative icons inspired by boundary-breaking female and queer figures, reframing ideas of gender, care, and permanence. In this in-depth interview, Campbell reflects on their journey from painting and installation to clay, the impact of becoming a young parent, and the slow development of a research-driven studio practice. The conversation offers an intimate insight into an emerging artist reshaping contemporary ceramics through tenderness, and resilience.
At Carl Freedman Gallery, Crossing Into Darkness sees Dame Tracey Emin step into the role of curator with striking emotional authority, assembling a multigenerational constellation of artists — from Goya, Munch, Bourgeois and Kiefer to Danielle McKinney, Lindsey Mendick and Celia Hempton — to explore vulnerability, mortality and psychological depth. Through restrained lighting, careful spatial choreography and an instinctive pairing of historic and contemporary voices, Emin transforms darkness into a space of reflection rather than despair.
Tate Modern’s Frida: The Making of an Icon (25 June 2026 – 3 January 2027) explores how Frida Kahlo evolved from painter to global cultural icon. Developed with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the exhibition traces her lasting influence across art, feminism and popular culture, positioning Kahlo as a figure continually reinterpreted by new generations.
