Artist shortlist for the BMW Art Journey announced during Art Basel in Miami Beach. Max Hooper Schneider, Maggie Lee and Beto Shwafaty are nominated.

Miami Beach. Art Basel and BMW continue their joint
initiative to recognize and support emerging artists worldwide with
the announcement of the shortlist for the BMW Art Journey on December
1, 2016, during this year’s Art Basel in Miami Beach. Like a mobile
studio, the BMW Art Journey can take artists almost anywhere in the
world to develop new ideas and envision new creative projects. 

Today, an international expert jury announced the following shortlist
of three artists showing in Positions, the sector for emerging artists
at Art Basel’s Miami Beach show: 

Max Hooper Schneider at High Art, Paris

Max Hooper Schneider (b. 1982) lives and works in Los Angeles. He
studied biology and architectural landscape at Harvard University and
his work is the result of what can be described as ‘recalcitrant
experimentation’. In his practice, he specifically pays attention to
the evolving relationship between philosophy and nature. At this
year’s Art Basel in Miami Beach, Schneider is presenting an
installation consisting of a group of works functioning as a
classification of objects. Schneider´s solo exhibitions include Kayne
Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles and Federico Vavassori, Milan. He has
exhibited in recent group shows at Art Foundation, London and Galeria
Nicodim, Bucharest. 

Maggie Lee at Real Fine Arts, New York

Maggie Lee (b. 1987) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. The
Taiwanese American artist received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in
Printmaking at the Pratt Institute in 2009. At Art Basel in Miami
Beach, the multimedia artist is presenting an immersive installation
of new works in various formats, conceived as a teenage girl’s
bedroom, where each of the objects are individual works including a
television, hanging sculptures and wall works that combine collaged
elements and create a multi-layered experience. Lee’s solo exhibitions
include 356 Mission, Los Angeles, Real Fine Arts, New York and Ladybug
House, San Francisco. Recent group shows include the Whitney Museum,
New York and SCHLOSS in Oslo. 

Beto Shwafaty at Prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan, Lucca

Beto Shwafaty (b. 1977) lives and works in Brazil. In 2015 he
received the FOCO Bradesco/ArtRio Award as well as the ICCo/SP-Arte
Award. He develops a research-based practice on spaces, histories and
visualities. Shwafaty’s exhibition at Art Basel in Miami Beach
contains an installation of video, sculpture, objects and printed
matter to compose a display that evokes aspects linked to the
management of land, population, political imagery and aesthetics. His
solo exhibitions include City Museum of São Paulo, Parc, Lima and
Lampione, Frankfurt am Main. 

The members of the expert jury in Miami Beach are:

Massimiliano Gioni, Artistic Director New Museum, New York

Gabriele Horn, Director Berlin Biennale, Berlin

Victoria Noorthoorn, Director Museo de Arte Moderno,
Buenos Aires

Bisi Silva, Director Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos

Philip Tinari, Director Ullens Center for
Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing

“The jury was very excited about this year’s quality of presentations
in the Positions sector. The diversity – both geographical and
conceptual – of the participating artists and galleries ‎allowed for a
singular and energizing overview of emerging art today. As always when
faced with such great artists, the choice was quite difficult, but the
jury unanimously agreed on these three artists,” states the jury. 

In collaboration with the winning artist, the journey will be
documented and shared with the public through publications, online and
social media. 

During this year’s show in Miami Beach, Abigail
Reynolds
, latest winner of the BMW Art Journey, presents
first works she has created from her travels. On display in the BMW
Lounge are photographs documenting the first leg of her journey
exploring lost libraries along the Silk Road. 

The latest edition in the BMW Art Journey book series, ‘For whom the
Bell Tolls’ is also presented at the fair. The book gives insights
about Samson Young’s BMW Art Journey and contains the
artist’s travel diary with personal reflections and descriptions of
the locations he visited in twelve countries on five continents.
Included in the volume is a suite of sound sketches evoking the
acoustic landscape of the bells, along with a brochure for a
multimedia walk Young staged during Art Basel’s show in Hong Kong in 2016.

Launched in 2015, the BMW Art Journey is a global collaboration
between Art Basel and BMW, which has been created to recognize and
support emerging artists worldwide. The prize is open to artists who
are showing in Discoveries and Positions in the Hong Kong and Miami
Beach show respectively. Two judging expert panels, comprised of
internationally renowned experts, shortlist three artists, who are
then invited to submit proposals for a journey aimed to further
develop their ideas and artistic work. The next judging of the BMW Art
Journey will be held during Art Basel in Hong Kong, where three
artists from the Discoveries sector will be shortlisted next March.
The winner will be announced in spring 2017. For further information
on the BMW Art Journey please visit: bmw-art-journey.com. 

BMW has supported Art Basel’s shows in Basel, Miami Beach and Hong
Kong as a long-term partner for many years. 

 

For further questions please contact:

Dr Thomas Girst

BMW Group Corporate and Intergovernmental Affairs

Head of Cultural Engagement

Telephone: +49-89-382-24753

www.press.bmwgroup.com;
E-mail: presse@bmw.de

 

Dorothee Dines Art Basel

Global Head of Media Relations

Tel. +41 58 206 27 06,
press@artbasel.com

 

About Art Basel

Founded in 1970 by gallerists from Basel, Art Basel today stages the
world’s premier art shows for Modern and contemporary art, sited in
Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong. Defined by its host city and
region, each show is unique, as reflected in its participating
galleries, the artworks presented, and the parallel programming
produced in collaboration with local institutions for each edition.

In recent years, Art Basel’s art-world engagement has expanded beyond
art fairs. In 2014, Art Basel launched its Crowdfunding Initiative, in
collaboration with Kickstarter, which has helped catalyze much-needed
support for outstanding non-commercial art projects, resulting in
pledges over $1 million to creative projects from all over the world.
For Art Basel Cities, launched in 2016, Art Basel will work with
selected partner cities to develop vibrant and content-driven programs
specific to the individual city. Connecting them to the global art
world through Art Basel’s expertise and network, Art Basel Cities
supports its partner cities in developing their unique cultural
landscape. The first city Art Basel is partnering with for Art Basel
Cities is Buenos Aires. For further information please visit artbasel.com. 

 

About BMW Group’s Cultural Commitment

For almost 50 years now, the BMW Group has initiated and engaged in
over 100 cultural cooperations worldwide. The company places the main
focus of its long-term commitment on contemporary and modern art,
classical music and jazz as well as architecture and design. In 1972,
three large-scale paintings were created by the artist Gerhard Richter
specifically for the foyer of the BMW Group’s Munich headquarters.
Since then, artists such as Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons, Daniel Barenboim,
Jonas Kaufmann and architect Zaha Hadid have co-operated with BMW.
Currently, female artist Cao Fei from China and American John
Baldessari are creating the next two vehicles for the BMW Art Car
Collection. Besides co-initiatives, such as BMW Tate Live, the BMW Art
Journey and the “Opera for All” concerts in Berlin, Munich and London,
the company also partners with leading museums and art fairs as well
as orchestras and opera houses around the world. The BMW Group takes
absolute creative freedom in all its cultural activities – as this
initiative is as essential for producing groundbreaking artistic work
as it is for major innovations in a successful business. 

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