11.14.13 | Miami, FL | Art Miami is the original and longest-running contemporary art fair in Miami and maintains a preeminent position in America’s art fair market. World-renowned for its outstanding quality, extraordinary variety and refined ambience, Art Miami showcases the finest artworks of the 20th and 21st centuries in collaboration with 125 of the world's most respected international galleries.

CONTEXT – located next-door to Art Miami and entering its second year – provides a unique and alternative platform for leading primary dealers from around the globe to present emerging and mid-career cutting-edge work of the highest caliber. A selection committee has vetted the 70 galleries.

Together, Art Miami and CONTEXT encompass all facets of the international art market: from the modern masterpieces and blue-chip works of its flagship fair to the exceptional emerging and mid-career cutting-edge pieces at CONTEXT. In 2012, this winning combination broke attendance records with more than 60,000 visitors and generated sales over $50 million prior to the weekend.

The neighboring fairs form a comprehensive art community spanning 250,000 square feet in the Wynwood Arts District with elegant indoor exhibition spaces in state-of-the-art pavilions connected by a courtyard with a café, lounge and curated artist projects. The nearly 200 distinguished galleries at Art Miami and CONTEXT represent more than 50 cities in 22 countries: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, the United States, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan.

The Opening Night of Art Miami and CONTEXT kicks off Art Week on Tuesday, Dec. 3 with their highly anticipated VIP Preview, which attracted over 11,000 art connoisseurs last year. The VIP Preview will benefit the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), opening concurrently in a Herzog & de Meuron-designed building on the downtown waterfront. This exclusive affair is the first opportunity for discerning collectors to acquire some of the most important work at the forefront of the international contemporary art movement before the fairs open to the public.

Among the highlights of Art Miami and CONTEXT are a series of special exhibitions curated by Julia Draganovi, Elena Forin and Claudia Löffelholz of LaRete Art Projects. CHECK OUT installs captivating sculptures in prime locations, such as the transcendent constructions of Venezuelan Milton Becerra and marble monuments by Uruguayan Pablo Atchugarry. THINK BIG links Art Miami’s three main pavilions with large-scale, visionary solo statements – including a tribute to the late Argentinian master León Ferrari.

ZOOM IN, a new video platform, screens the moving images of selected artists in viewing booths set in the courtyard. An independent panel of video art experts will choose one artist to honor with the inaugural ZOOM IN Award on Saturday, Dec. 7. The Art Video Lounge at CONTEXT will spotlight Berlin’s Video-Forum of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (NBK) – Germany’s oldest collection of video art with more than 1,300 works.

ART FROM BERLIN returns to CONTEXT with six established and emerging galleries juried by German art experts and organized by the Galleries Association of Berlin (lvbg). One of the city’s first contemporary art nonprofits, Haus am Lützowplatz (HaL), presents a painting installation at the Berlin Lounge.

These and other featured exhibitions, events and symposia at both fairs will surely make the 24th year of Art Miami its best yet.

The 125 international exhibitors at Art Miami include:

Aldo de Sousa Gallery | Buenos Aires Alfredo Ginocchio Gallery | Mexico City Arcature Fine Art | Palm Beach Archeus/Post-Modern | London Art Nouveau | Miami Ascaso Gallery | Miami Bolsa de Arte | Rio de Janeiro BlueLeaf Gallery | Dublin Cernuda Arte | Coral Gables Christopher Cutts Gallery | Toronto CONNERSMITH. | Washington DC David Castillo Gallery | Miami DIE Galerie | Frankfurt Durban Segnini Gallery | Miami Espace Meyer Zafra | Paris FaMa Gallery | Verona Galerie Anita Beckers | Frankfurt Galerie Ernst Hilger | Vienna Galerie Forsblom | Helsinki Galerie Kleindienst | Leipzig Galerie Ludorff | Düsseldorf Galerie Terminus | Munich Galerie Olivier Waltman | Paris Galerie Pascal Lansberg | Paris Galerie von Braunbehrens | Munich Galerie von Vertes | Zürich Galleri Andersson/Sandström | Stockholm GALLERIA FUMAGALLI | Milan Gallery Delaive | Amsterdam Guijarro de Pablo | Mexico City Hackelbury Fine Art | London Hollis Taggart Galleries | New York James Goodman Gallery | New York Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art | Los Angeles Juan Ruiz Gallery | Miami Keszler Gallery | Southampton KM Fine Arts | Chicago Lausberg Contemporary | Düsseldorf Leslie Smith Gallery | Amsterdam Lyons Wier Gallery | New York Magnan Metz Gallery | New York Mayoral | Barcelona Michael Goedhuis | London Michael Schultz Gallery | Berlin Mindy Solomon Gallery | Miami Mixografia | Los Angeles Modernism Inc. | San Francisco Nicholas Metivier Gallery | Toronto N.O.M.A.D. Gallery | Brussels now contemporary art | Miami Osborne Samuel | London Pan American Art Projects | Miami Paul Thiebaud Gallery | San Francisco Piece Unique | Paris Praxis International Art | New York Rosenbaum Contemporary | Boca Raton Rudolf Budja Gallery LLC | Miami Sims Reed Gallery | London Todd Merrill 20th Century + Studio Contemporary | New York TORBANDENA | Trieste  TORCH | Amsterdam Tresart | Coral Gables Unix Gallery | Miami Waterhouse & Dodd | London Wetterling Gallery | Stockholm Woolff Gallery | London Zadok Gallery | Miami

Full list of exhibitors at Art Miami 2013: www.art-miami.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=17

The 70 international exhibitors at CONTEXT include:

Alicia David Contemporary Art | London Amstel Gallery | Amsterdam Anna Kustera Gallery | New York Arch Gallery | Miami Art Lexing | Miami Athena Contemporânea | Rio de Janeiro blunt | Toronto camara oscura galeria de arte | Madrid Casa de Costa | New York Cube Gallery | London Da Xiang Art Space | Taichung Eduardo Secci Contemporary | Florence Eli Klein Gallery | New York Galleria Ca' D'Oro | Coral Gables Galeria Enrique Guerrero | Mexico City Galeria Sicart | Barcelona Galerie Berlin | Berlin GALERIE KORNFELD | Berlin Galerie Obrist | Essen Galleri Urbane Marfa + Dallas | Dallas Heitsch Gallery | Munich JanKossen Contemporary | Basel JJ Joong Jung Gallery | Seoul Julian Navarro Projects | Long Island City Kavachnina Contemporary | Miami Kuhn & Partner | Berlin LICHT FELD | Basel Lyle O. Reitzel Arte Contemporaneo | Santo Domingo metroquadro | Rivoli N2 Galería | Barcelona Officine dell'Immagine | Milan P.S.H. project | Miami Patricia Conde Galería | Mexico City Shulamit Gallery | Venice Stephan Stoyanov Gallery | New York Swedish Photography | Berlin VIMM GALLERY | Prague White Room Art System | Naples Whitestone Gallery | Tokyo

Full list of exhibitors at CONTEXT 2013: www.contextartmiami.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=17

Dates:
December 3 – 8, 2013

VIP Preview: 
Tuesday, December 3 | 5:30 pm – 10 pm
Access for Art Miami | CONTEXT VIP Cardholders or Press
Benefiting Pérez Art Museum Miami

General Admission:
 Wednesday, December 4,   11 am – 7 pm
 Thursday, December 5,   11 am – 7 pm
 Friday, December 6,   11 am – 8 pm
 Saturday, December 7,   11 am – 7 pm
 Sunday, December 8  , 11 am – 6 pm

Location:
The Art Miami | CONTEXT Pavilion
Midtown Miami | Wynwood Arts District
3101 – 3201 NE 1st Avenue | Miami, FL 33137

Shuttle:
Art Miami + CONTEXT | Aqua Art Miami | Art Basel Miami Beach | JW Marriott Marquis Miami
Fairgoers will have unlimited access to daily shuttle buses connecting Art Miami and CONTEXT with Aqua Art Miami, the Miami Beach Convention Center and the fairs’ hospitality partner downtown

For more information, visit art-miami.com and contextartmiami.com or email [email protected]