Inside Miami’s Balloon Museum: Pop Air Brings Inflatable Art to Wynwood
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Miami’s Balloon Museum is turning the Mana Wynwood Convention Center into an immersive environment built around inflatable art, light, sound and movement. Pop Air: Art is Inflatable is scheduled to remain in Miami through September 27, giving South Florida residents and visitors several more weeks to experience the exhibition.
Developed by the Balloon Museum, Pop Air brings large-scale inflatable installations into a gallery setting where visitors can move through and interact with the works. The exhibition features artists from different countries and uses air as both a physical material and a central concept.
What to Expect Inside Pop Air
Rather than presenting inflatable works as traditional sculptures viewed from a distance, Pop Air is designed around audience interaction. Visitors encounter installations that incorporate scale, movement, light, sound and physical participation.
The exhibition includes works by artists and collectives including Hyperstudio, Karina Smigla-Bobinski, ENESS, Cyril Lancelin, Quiet Ensemble, Lindsay Glatz with Curious Form, Max Streicher and others.
Among the works listed by the Balloon Museum are Hyperstudio’s 10 Agosto, Karina Smigla-Bobinski’s ADA, ENESS’ Spiritus Sonata, Cyril Lancelin’s Crazy Love For Polygons, and Max Streicher’s Silenus. The exhibition also includes installations such as Cloud Swing, Canopy, Hypercosmo and Into the Rainbow.
Local 10 reported that the Miami presentation includes 18 large-scale rooms and described the experience as encouraging visitors to interact with the artwork through touch, sound and movement.
Pop Air at Mana Wynwood
The exhibition is located at the Mana Wynwood Convention Center at 318 NW 23rd Street in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood. Mana Wynwood lists Balloon Museum: Pop Air among its current events and confirms the exhibition dates as May 16 through September 26 on its events page, while Ticketmaster and the Miami & Miami Beach tourism site list the final date as September 27.
The discrepancy in the venue page appears to be a one-day difference in the displayed end date. Ticketing listings currently show sessions on September 27, so visitors planning a final-weekend visit should verify the specific session when purchasing tickets.
What to Know Before You Go
Exhibition: Pop Air: Art is Inflatable
Miami run: May 16 through September 27, 2026, according to current ticketing and tourism listings.
Tickets: Current listings show adult tickets starting at $39 and child tickets at $29, although prices can vary by session.
Recommended duration: The Balloon Museum estimates a visit to Pop Air at approximately 1.5 hours.
A Limited-Time Wynwood Art Experience
Pop Air is part of the Balloon Museum’s international exhibition series and represents its first exhibition dedicated specifically to inflatable art. The format originated in Rome in 2021 and has since traveled internationally.