The Bass is Back! Reopens October 29th

Sunday, October 29th from 10am-5pm The Bass is due to reopen to the public after a $12m restructuring. Guests will enjoy a nearly 50 percent increase in programmable space, consisting of four new galleries, a museum store, a café catered by Thierry Isambert, and the Creativity Center, a newly formed education facility to better serve expanded programs and increased attendance. As a special thank you and to commemorate this momentous occasion, admission will be FREE at the museum throughout opening day.

The inaugural show Beautiful is on view until April 2nd, 2018 by the Ghent-based Cameroonian artist Pascale Mathine Tayou, who works in multiple media and addresses themes such as colonialism. Extant works back to 2006 will join the new Bass commission Welcome Wall (2017), a site-specific LED work that shows the word “welcome” in 70 languages. Tayou has selected works from the museum’s collection to dialogue with his pieces. Two other solo exhibitions will also kick off the reopened museum’s program. The Argentina-born, New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg will show video works that incorporate mixed-media installations, such as the humorous NoNoseKnows (2015), which made a splash at the 2015 Venice Biennale, and the multi-media work Ponytails (2014), mechanized, synthetic versions of the perky hairstyle wiggling on a wall. Exhibition is on view until April 30th, 2018. The entire second floor will be taken over by the main re-opening exhibition, the Switzerland-born, New York-based artist Ugo Rondinone’s good evening beautiful blue, on view until February 19th, 2018. This exhibition will include works like his foam and resin clowns, vocabulary of solitude (2014) and the colorful mirror work clockwork for oracles II (2008). Rondinone’s Miami Mountain (2016) was acquired by the Bass in 2016 as part of the museum’s ten-year acquisition initiative, launched in September 2016.

Image: Ugo Rondinone, Vocabulary of Solitude, 2016. Installation view. Photo: Stefan Altenburger, 2016. Courtesy of Ugo Rondinone and The Bass, Miami Beach.