Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 + SCOPE Miami Beach: Must-See Booths
By Coco Worthe
Art Basel Miami Beach and SCOPE Miami Beach sit at the center of Miami Art Week. Together they draw collectors, curators, and culture lovers from around the world. Art Basel Miami Beach anchors the week at the Miami Beach Convention Center, while SCOPE Miami Beach activates the sands of Ocean Drive with ultra contemporary programming and more than 130 exhibitors.
This guide focuses on booths that combine rigorous concepts with visual impact. Think major historical figures in dialogue with rising voices, powerful narratives around identity and migration, and installations that rethink scale, space, and the art fair booth itself.
ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2025: GALLERIES SECTOR HIGHLIGHTS
NINA JOHNSON DEBUT BOOTH (ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH)
Miami’s own Nina Johnson celebrates its first appearance at Art Basel Miami Beach with a presentation focused on artists that have shaped the gallery’s direction over time. The selection highlights material experimentation and perspectives rooted in history, place, and identity. Featured artist include Anna Betbeze, Rochelle Feinstein, Dara Friedman, Patrick Dean Hubbell, Emmett Moore, George Nelson Preston, Nathlie Provosty, and Katie Stout.
Katie Stout’s sculptural lamps and topiaries greet visitors at the entrance, turning everyday materials into decadent, slightly feral fantasies. In the center, a monumental painting by Nathlie Provosty plays with perception and depth. Patrick Dean Hubbell’s work uses natural pigments, horsehair, buckskin, and beads to connect studio practice with ancestral knowledge.
Rochelle Feinstein’s Static Prismatic pieces pin rainbow color fields in place, while Anna Betbeze’s layered textile totems create a vertical landscape of silk, fur, and wool. Dara Friedman’s reflective Star People works turn the body into a mirror, and Emmett Moore’s furniture-like sculptures blur the line between design and fine art. The booth reads like a compact manifesto about who gets to speak within abstraction and how.