The Bass Announces 2025-26 Exhibition Season Featuring Immersive Art and Community Projects
- wgclients01
- Aug 3
- 2 min read
The Bass in Miami Beach unveils its full 2025-26 exhibition season, showcasing a vibrant lineup of solo exhibitions, immersive installations, and community-driven projects. This dynamic program highlights the museum’s ongoing transformation into a living, participatory space for contemporary art, emphasizing themes of materiality, identity, and collective experience. Rooted deeply in Miami Beach’s cultural landscape, the season promises boundary-pushing works that engage local audiences while connecting to a global dialogue.
Charles Atlas: Hail The New Puritan (On view until October 19, 2025)
This groundbreaking 1986 film by Charles Atlas presents a stylized portrait of dancer Michael Clark, blending classical ballet with the rebellious energy of 1980s London’s punk, queer, and club scenes. Shown in dialogue with assumed vivid astro focus: XI, the work explores performance as a transformative space of identity, style, and resistance, underscoring Atlas’s lasting impact on how movement and persona are captured across generations.
The Kaleidoscopic: Writing Histories Through The Collection (Opening August 20th, 2025)
The Kaleidoscopic reimagines The Bass’s collection as a dynamic, evolving archive. Embracing the fragmented nature of history, the exhibition challenges the idea of museums as neutral spaces and invites visitors to consider how narratives are shaped, revised, and rewritten over time.
Isaac Julien: Vagabonia (Opening August 20, 2025)
Isaac Julien: Vagabondia transforms the gallery into a theatrical space for the artist’s acclaimed 2000 film, which follows a conservator at London’s Sir John Soane’s Museum. Through ghostly figures and imperial artifacts, the work challenges how museums shape historical narratives—and whose stories are left out.
Faire Foyer: Sarah Crowner in Dialogue with Etel Adnan (Opening August 20th, 2025)
Faire Foyer: Sarah Crowner in Dialogue with Etel Adnan presents a reflective exchange between Crowner’s bronze sculptures and Adnan’s rare U.S. mural. Set within a semicircular carpeted alcove—a faire foyer or transitional space—the installation invites a tactile, spatial experience shaped by abstraction, movement, and place.
Jack Pierson: The Miami Years (Opening September 24th, 2025)
This marks the first exhibition to explore how Miami Beach shaped Pierson’s diaristic practice across photography, sculpture, and installation. Rooted in his 1984 stay, the exhibition reflects on themes of queer intimacy, longing, and impermanence through personal and found materials. A new commission, ARRAY (MIAMI), anchors the show with a collage of posters, poems, photos, and ephemera that channel the city’s lasting impact on Pierson’s life and work.
Lawrence Lek: Nox Pavilion (Opening November 19, 2025)
Lawrence Lek: NOX Pavilion is a speculative film installation set in a driverless smart city, following an AI car’s search for meaning after losing its network. Through immersive digital landscapes, the work reflects on memory, simulation, and the emotional life of machines. Reimagined at The Bass as a futuristic pavilion, the installation includes a new AI guide character to help visitors navigate its virtual world.