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2023 PRESS
MIAMI ART WEEK: Some 80,000 were in attendance to take in such highlights as Art Basel, Design Miami and Satellite Art Show
What an incredible turnout for the multi-media art week — to take in such highlights as Art Basel, the Untitled Art Fair, Design Miami and the Satellite Art Show, which was founded in 2015 by artist Brian Andrew Whiteley and presents interactive projects by galleries, artist-run spaces and non-profits. - LA MAG
Your Go-To Guide to All the Fairs You Can’t Miss During Miami Art Week 2023
Satellite will return to Miami’s shores for its ninth edition this week in a new venue, a Halloween store on Lincoln Road, which continues Satellite’s tradition of making use of non-traditional spaces - ARTNET
The best Art Basel Miami satellite art fairs to check out in 2023: Satellite Art Show
The artist-run fair, back for its ninth edition, and this time it's taking over the Halloween Megastore on Lincoln Road, just a few blocks away from the Miami Beach Convention Center. Expect over 30 installations and performances like, for instance, a meat installation, live music stages, performance art, multiple VR projects and, wait for it, vagina plates. And if all the art observing leaves you inspired, they'll also be hosting drawing and painting workshops daily. - TIMEOUT
The 2023 Complete Guide To The Art, Parties, And Events At Art Basel Miami Beach And Art Week Miami
SATELLITE ART SHOW, Miami's only Artist-Run fair, will feature immersive installations, performances and exhibitions inside the Halloween Megastore on Lincoln Road. SATELLITE is more "artist studio" than "trade show" and is guaranteed to be a fun time. Fun fact: December 5th is Satellite Art Show Day, by Mayoral Proclamation. - FORBES
A Guide to Miami Art Week Satellite Fairs and Shows
The Must See’s
Miami’s Satellite Art Show, with its search-optimized name and history of causing controversy, is in its ninth edition, aiming once again to offer “an honest and authentic art experience.” This year, it transformed 6,000 square feet of retail space into a labyrinth of more than 30 immersive installations. These include: “a meat sweats meat installation, a romanesque fiber colosseum, multiple immersive virtual reality projects, a spanking installation, live music stages, a disaster chapel, vagina plates, Shibari rope art” with a Halloween theme, in keeping with the venue. - OBSERVER
2022 PRESS
An RV on the sand and giant cabbage patch doll: Satellite fair is weird and wonderful.
Get your portrait scribbled as you sip on mineral water. Chug from a keg. Hang out in an RV. Lie down on a brightly colored twin bed and stay a while. These are all experiences that make up the Satellite art fair in Indian Beach Park in Miami Beach, and you will thoroughly be amused by most if not all of them. Roughly 200 artists from all over the place — from New York to Texas to Oklahoma — have come together to show off their cheeky, eclectic works in giant shipping containers on the sand through Dec. 4. The artist-run and independently owned fair features a bunch of immersive installations, including the aforementioned RV. Called “Indiana Beach,” the funky home on wheels is chockful of surprise pieces scattered about: Be sure to open the microwave, look in the sink, and even peek in the bathroom. For the ultimate throwback Thursday selfie, you’ll need to beeline it over to “Cabbage Life,” a massive face in the hole Cabbage Patch Doll that (spoiler alert) squirts liquid from her chest. Many influencers at Art Basel pose inside their chartered private jets. Here, you can step and repeat in front of The Vessel, a 22 foot long sailboat whose exterior transforms daily thanks to the visions of various artists. The best plan for Satellite is not to have one, because this show is more amusement park than fancy exhibit. Organizers readily acknowledge this; in one post teasing what is to come, they add the hashtag, #notbasel.
A bit of advice for the ladies: You may want to ditch the high heels and lean in to the fun meets rustic experience with a pair of solid sneakers, just sayin’. If you tire easily, there’s the twin bed we spoke about. We actually haven’t figured out its purpose, yet, though. As you wend your way through the myriad containers, be sure to stop by Brooklyn street artist Ohio Mike by the mineral water booth: He’ll paint your portrait in under a New York minute, and this personalized quickie souvenir is (yes) free.
If Satellite sounds a little weird, that’s because it is. “We’ve been hustling on no sleep to get this together,” said the show’s co-founder Brian Whitely, dressed in just swim trunks and chugging from a keg (it’s art). “We want to make sure this is something people remember.” - MIAMI HERALD
SATELLITE ART SHOW is on artforum’s “Must-See Shows” list, our editors' selection of essential exhibitions worldwide.
- ART FORUM
ABMB Just Started the Countdown to its 21st Birthday, but the Champagne Has Long Been (Over)flowing
the scrappy Satellite Art Show, long my favorite fair. I think Satellite and its DIY spirit offer something unique. The fair is pretty nimble and distinct in each iteration. There were some truly great exhibitions, such as Rebekah Campbell McIlwain’s installation exploring midwestern identity and politics through objects such as custom cowboy boots and tense paintings featuring details like screen captures of Slack meetings about community development, policing, and racial justice. - BMORE ART
The best Art Basel Miami satellite art fairs to check out in 2022.
SATELLITE ART SHOW: The artist-run fair, back for its seventh edition, brings art to life—literally. Satellite focuses on performance, time-based media and installations, but brings exhibitors and VR/AR activations back into the mix this year as well. It's also relocating to Indian Beach Park, the former location of Pulse Art Fair adjacent to the Fontainebleau Hotel. Projects, performances and videos will be presented from inside shipping containers amidst outdoor installations. - TIMEOUT
Breast Milking Performance Gets Artists Kicked Out of Art Basel
“Your Ultimate Guide to Art Basel Miami 2022 Satellite Fairs”
“Satellite Art Show is celebrated for presenting interactive projects by young dealers, artist-run spaces, and non-profits. This art fair tends to expand perceptions on art and community by offering an ultimately inclusive environment for both exhibitors and visitors. This year's edition will bring immersive installations, mixed-media, AR/VR activations, and live performances from over 30 exhibitors and nearly 200 artists. On occasion, the art fair will launch a new partnership with the online marketplace Artfare.” - WIDEWALLS
2021 PRESS
“Why Was An Artist “Swarmed” By Police During a Miami Art Fair Performance?
While performing a piece for Satellite Art Show, Xxavier Edward Carter was approached by a group of officers who threatened him with ten years in prison.” - HYPERALLERGIC
The best Art Basel Miami satellite art fair to check out.
SATELLITE, back for its seventh edition, brings art to life—literally. Satellite focuses on performance, time-based media and installations that provide mind-expanding experiences. Visitors can expect more than 30 live engagements, including an interactive "Official Billy Joel Piano Man Karaoke bar," which we can bet will be as fun as it sounds. - TIMEOUT
Your Go-To Guide to All the Art Fairs Taking Place in Miami During Art Basel Miami Beach 2021.
Satellite has carved out a niche with its affordable exhibitor fees and late-night performance lounge. This year, it’s leaning into its strengths by focusing almost exclusively performance, time-based media, and art installations. - ARTNET
2020 PRESS
David Hasselhoff and Cheetos: Pandemic Art Goes ’80s:
The coronavirus has been hard on New York City’s art scene, and for those of us who thrive in it. But recently, I got to take a peek inside the Satellite Art Club, a funky new gallery space and lounge. The founders of the tiny space, a former tax office, want to support artists during this difficult financial time. It costs just $25 to be a member. The first exhibit, “Wet Dreams,” is inspired by South Florida: “a little sexual, a little swampy, a little dirty, a little weird.” Even the bathroom, with its flamingo wallpaper and David Hasselhoff poster, is an art installation. A clown face sometimes appears in an otherwise unassuming mirror. The club’s ’80s vibe resonates. During the ’70s economic crisis, artists started to move into cheap spaces in SoHo and the East Village, paving the way for a new era that would include Jean-Michel Basquiat, shown here with Andy Warhol, in 1985. - NY TIMES
A Group of Brooklyn Artists Is Opening a Neighborhood Dive Bar and Art Gallery to Revive Community in the Isolation Era:
In February, artist Brian Whiteley signed a lease on a former tax office in Brooklyn with the plan to realize a long-held dream of opening a permanent art space that would be part bar, part gallery, part performance venue. The community would be centered around the artists he’d met at the Satellite Art Show, the scrappy art fair he founded in 2015 and brought to Miami, Austin, and New York. “It’s a bad time, but also I think it’s a much-needed project,” Whiteley told Artnet News of the space, which opened in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn in mid-October. Together with cofounders and artists Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw, as well as Joseph Latimore—the former manager of Passerby, the popular New York art bar run by Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in the early 2000s—Whiteley hopes the space, titled Satellite Art Bar, will become a haven for artists and other creative types who have been hard-hit this year. - ARTNET NEWS
The Satellite Art Club Brings Cool Back To A Ravaged New York:
After sustaining serious income loss due to the pandemic, my family of four had to leave our apartment in Brooklyn in May. We moved to Savannah, Georgia. As much as I would like to think that my husband and I would have hung out at the Satellite Art Club, a private club and exhibition space that opened in early October in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, the truth is that my days of being that cool are far behind me. You should check it out, however. Built in a former tax office, the space was founded by four New York-based artists — Brian Andrew Whiteley, who founded the Satellite Art Show, and is arguably best known for placing a tombstone for Donald Trump in Central Park after the 2016 election; collaborative duo Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw, who are known for their participatory (and hilarious) sculptures, including one that re-imagines Alex Jones’s bathroom; and Joe Latimore, who has run many a bar that I’m too lame to be aware of, including Gavin Brown Enterprise’s Passerby, which closed in 2008. - FORBES MAGAZINE
2019 PRESS
Best Art Fair: Satellite Art Show.
As Art Basel has evolved into a gazillion-dollar money-making affair, much of Miami Art Week has become traditional, less risky, and, well, predictable. But Satellite Art Show consistently brings the weird and the whimsy. Case in point: At last year’s edition, the first thing to catch your eye as you entered might have been Snoop Dogg Hot Dogs, a collection of giant inflatable hot dogs in buns with the rapper’s face at one end. And there’s more to this fair than mere spectacle. Local artists such as Milagros Collective and Sleeper also contributed creative cred to the show, along with 38 exhibitors from across the nation. It’s a throwback to the days when doing Basel meant witnessing striking pop-up performance art and an exhibit staged in an abandoned storefront that was probably illegal. As Hyperallergic put it: “Miami Beach’s Satellite art fair is not a release from an inundation of art, but perhaps it’s a reminder of why you like art in the first place.”” - MIAMI NEW TIMES
SATELLITE: THE BEST ART FAIR YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED.
The curatorial mandate to do something transformative with the space makes every presentation feel like an immersive experience. It’s probably one of the few venues in Miami this year where the majority of the work on view was either immediately lovable or, better yet, interesting. - BMORE ART
“If all the fairs during this past Miami Art Week | Art Basel Miami Beach were up for an Oscar(R), the Satellite Art Fair would at least be a Best Picture nominee.
Once you enter the fair, attendees were mesmerized by the colorful assortment of immersive exhibition choices.” - NY STYLE GUIDE
“Satellite feels like an artists’ playground, evoking an Alice in Wonderland-esque sense of discovery.
There’s something to explore around every corner, as you'll find yourself wandering into strange rooms, peering behind curtains, and climbing spiral staircases. Much of the work is interactive, or at the very least invites you to get up close in a way that’s not usually possible in typical museums and galleries”- MIAMI NEW TIMES
“Satellite Art Show has been able to create a truly immersive space that challenges the observer to be an engaged participant in the work.”
“An Anti-Mainstream Art Fair Feels More Like an Immersive Bazaar
From the outset Satellite establishes a vibe that’s more experiential, with late-night hours, after parties, and the kind of creative energy we don’t often associate with art fairs.” - HYPERALLERGIC
New Times named it Best Art Fair in this year's "Best of Miami" issue, and it's not hard to see why.
The fair demolishes the art-fair model and humanizes it into something more thought-provoking and approachable. - Miami New Times
“an experience that’s less about the money and more about the artists, with a focus on the independent and experimental.”
“In an increasingly market-driven art world, one art fair is still all about the artists: The SATELLITE ART SHOW
founded in Miami in 2015 by artist Brian Whiteley. The scrappy fair, which has hosted editions in an abandoned hotel and a parking lot full of shipping containers, has announced its first full-fledged New York edition.” - ARTNET
“the top 5 things to do in Austin”
“Events You Should Definitely RSVP To”
“SXSW’s draw makes it an optimal occasion to stage other, like-minded and art-centric events like SATELLITE ART SHOW.
This year is the inaugural edition of Satellite Art Fair Austin, March 13 through 17, expanding the artist-run organization’s reach and collaborative practices.” - SVA
Just in time to coincide with Austin's big ol' media hullaballoo – you know the one
here's SATELLITE ART SHOW energizing the already vibrant MOHA with 30 interactive and immersive exhibitionspresented by galleries, curators, artist-run spaces, and nonprofits from across the United States. - AUSTIN CHRONICLE
2018 PRESS
“Sometimes you come to Miami for art fairs and you end up fatigued and a little depressed about the rampant commercialism of the art market; Satellite is a respite from all of that and reminds you why artists make art in the first place.”
“Satellite Art Fair, conceived and directed by Brian Andrew Whitely. The show had an authentic DIY quality with magical, inspiring work. The participants were engaging and welcoming.”
“Satellite Art Show moved from a hotel to a parking lot this year at Art Basel Miami Beach and the result was nothing short of astonishing. Every curator and artist was given a shipping container of their own to fully showcase their vision. Needless to say, things got pretty interesting.”
“Every year, Satellite Art Show manages to cut through the noise of Miami Art Week by taking the art fair model and completely dismantling it.
This year, Satellite returned to its North Beach digs with a unique serving of visual and performance art.“ - miami new times
“Power, like beauty, can lie in the eye of the beholder, so be prepared: SOFT POWER at Satellite Art Show is overwhelming to behold.”
- ANTEMAG
“5 Outstanding Discoveries at Miami Art Week’s Satellite Fair”
- ARTNET
”The Satellite Art Show, an art fair aimed at fostering the careers of young dealers, artists, non-profits and artist-run spaces, has told Glasstire that it will make its Texas debut in Austin during 2019’s South by Southwest (SXSW) week.
Although Austin’s art scene is strong, SXSW events have typically focused more on music, film, and technology, with the exception of Flatstock, an annual exhibition of gig posters and other printed materials. In light of this, Satellite has pointedly chosen SXSW weekend for a reason: the fair wants to find specific cultural moments to which it can add its own footprint, and SXSW is a prime opportunity. To some, the annual festival that takes over Austin once a year has a reputation of exclusivity and pretension — inaccessible panels and musical performances that feel as if they’re blocked off by a velvet rope. Satellite bucks these ideas, opting for a model of inclusivity. Satellite feels that it is important to show viewers the real culture of a community and place — culture that sometimes isn’t a part of the mainstream. It’s important to note that Satellite isn’t anti-SXSW. Instead, the fair is rounding out the week of events in Austin, showing perspectives that are alternative to those who already have the podium.” – GLASSTIRE
2017 PRESS
Satellite Is the Only Fair in Miami Giving Out Free Haircuts in an Abandoned Hotel.
The fair is a heart-based gift to the emerging art community. The epitome of the establishment, Art Basel Miami Beach takes over the massive Miami Beach Convention Center, while Art Miami erects a sturdy white tent overlooking the water. The three-year-old Satellite Art Show, on the other hand, does things a little bit differently up at the old Ocean Terrace Hotel in North Beach. Unlike elegant hotel fairs further south, Satellite’s venue is bare bones. The property, slated for demolition, has no plumbing. The facade is crumbling, and the exhibiting artists have no qualms with altering their environs. One art collective cut a hole in the wall separating their two rooms. Another artist carted in 2,000 pounds of sand. They have, as the promotional materials proudly proclaim, complete creative control. – ARTNET
The loose, DIY nature of the fair forces communication between artist and spectator.
In other words, you feel encouraged to talk to the people in the booths, the artists, the gallerists, the other creative types who are attracted to this strange festival. Most people who come to Miami during Art Week use it as their playground, but the folks at Satellite use it as a canvas. Only one is doing Basel right. – MIAMI NEW TIMES
“Satellite Art Show, which opened its third edition this week in the North Beach neighborhood of Miami, promises something different from the usual corporate fair experience.
Satellite . . . fills the void left by Miami Art Week’s soullessness through collaboration, direct engagement and fun. Seeing the ramshackle fair venue — an abandoned hotel on Ocean Terrace ablaze with flickering, faulty neons — is refreshing after a week of glitzy art events and beachside parties.” – FINANCIAL TIMES
“SATELLITE Art Show on unstopable trajectory…
SATELLITE proudly occupies the liminal boundary between contemporary art and cultural trendsetter, serving as a glimpse through the looking glass into the future of groundbreaking art.”- ARTEFUSE
“Satellite is a great chance to take a break from the exclusive, hands-off art fairs dotting the Miami Art Week landscape and engage with some unique and accessible work.”
One feels at ease at Satellite because of the friendliness and unpretentiousness of its exhibitors. Everyone is welcoming and enthusiastic to help the viewer engage with the work, and it’s easy to get caught in interesting conversations with the artists milling about.
This friendly atmosphere also makes interactive work particularly successful at Satellite. Both the viewer and the exhibitor have to be engaged in order for certain interactions to work, like say, a hair stylist offering her services to visitors, or an installation mimicking the setting of an exclusive beachy nightclub, which only three people may enter at a time. Satellite is a great chance to take a break from the exclusive, hands-off art fairs dotting the Miami Art Week landscape and engage with some unique and accessible work.” – BMORE ART
One fair in particular broke the conventional mold. At Satellite Art Show at the abandoned Ocean Terrace Hotel, performance and virtual reality were in.
Commercial concerns were entirely beside the point as guests wandered into dilapidated bathrooms and old guest rooms, finding each one exuberantly decorated (pink balloons in a bathtub, filled with black lights, centered by a stripper pole, etc.). –OBSERVER
This raw, edgy alternative art fair is in a new home for year three, taking over the abandoned Ocean Terrace Hotel in North Beach.
The artist-run collective is presenting a cross section of progressive programs driven by activism, curiosity and creative expression. Expect fresh and quirky.” – WALL STREET JOURNAL
This three-year-old fair is the most delightfully weird and artist-driven one to hit the beach (or anywhere else in Miami).
Now, Satellite returns to its first location, the old Ocean Terrace Hotel in North Beach, and features an exciting schedule of exhibitors. Best of all, there’s Performance Is Alive, a four-day performance art program that includes performances by the sea, a pajama party, film screening, impromptu interventions, and lectures. Most of these works address human rights, cultural and sexual identity, and mental health; others provide whimsical reprieve from the state of things.” – HYPERALLERGIC
“Miami Art Week 2017:
Women Artists Adress The Female Body. Eight Statement-making works about empowerment and reclamation” –COOL HUNTING
“The Art Fair That’s #NOTBASEL”
“There’s room for every kind of woman in Miami Beach, but only one bad bad woman.”
“Art Basel Miami Beach 2017: This Year’s Best Parties”
2016 PRESS
“Miami Beach’s Satellite art fair is not a release from an inundation of art — but perhaps it’s a reminder of why you like it in the first place.”
Satellite is keeping it weird and wonderful.
It’s the only art fair I can think of that offers tattoos and lap dances alongside virtual reality cinema. Returning galleries (and quite a few new ones) have continued the tradition of impressive booth makeovers.” – ART F CITY
Revolutionary!
Satellite Art Show 2016’s Stellar Second Act. The second launch of The Satellite Art Show blazes a path forward for experimental art during Miami Art Week 2016’s commercial-driven endeavors.” – ARTEFUSE
“The quirky art fair stood out among Miami Art Week offerings. Where else are you going to have this much fun?”
– ARTNET
SATELLITE remains a bright star in gloomy art week.
At Satellite, there was a wide range of work on display, but what was most refreshing about the experience was that after the first hour, I forgot I was in Miami or at an “art fair” at all. Everyone was warm and welcoming–artists were simply sharing their work.
I liked this fair better than I thought I might. Having so many people talk to me was heartening, seeing so many people working hard is encouraging, and these people are the future of the art world
The Most Uncanny Installations of Miami Art Week” (SATELLITE featured three times)
“The Satellite Art Show was an explosion of youthful energy and creativity.
Suddenly I was in an artists’ playground where each room had another experience waiting in store thanks to a constant rotation of performances. It was like running through a funhouse of exciting young art.” – ARTSPACE
Satellite was a hub for the anti-machine artists, not only were there many Artists from Brooklyn — read Bushwick — there were artists from around the world who were all pushing back against the white monied corporate art scene, proving that art is for the masses by the masses and beautiful and gritty and driven.
– GALORE
SATELLITE, a fair that champions uncensored creativity and a multi-disciplinary mix of high and lowbrow contributor serves as the antidote to Basel’s more white-walled fare.
The week brought many once-in-a-lifetime, sometimes-quirky experiences, like at Satellite in the Parisian Hotel on Miami Beach. Performance artists Jen Catron & Paul Outlaw alternated floating in a “cereal bowl” in the hotel lobby, while upstairs a group of printmakers showed patrons how to create works, New Hampshire’s Rick Skogsberg offered hand-painted shoes and a consortium offered pole-dancing lessons.
Satellite offers a down-to-earth ethos, heavy on the DIY, with none of the Art Basel glitz.
Scruffy and, we thought, admirably anti-professional, there was real warmth and charm at play here. Every room had been prepared for Art Week, with clever and intentional choices of lighting, wall and ceiling treatments, furnishings, and in some rooms, temporary flooring.– BITTER SOUTHERNER
Now in its second year, SATELLITE is a rough and ready newcomer, to Miami Art Week.
It is the antithesis of the main Basel fair, exhibiting emerging art in its basic form, i.e. no frames or much wall art.” – ARTLYST
Artist duo Jen Catron and Paul Outlaw intend to critique the profusion of satellite displays by swimming around in a makeshift bowl of cereal located outside the Satellite Art Show.
Nestled on the second of three floors of this most wacky and artist-powered of the Miami art fairs, artists addressed the interconnected subjects of landscape and environmental destruction, race, gender, consumer capitalism, labor, violence and eroticism. In short, the range of issues that arise when the medium is the ever-political, ever-present body.
At Satellite Art Show, we morph from casual observer to essential participant, slightly distanced to majorly engaged, idealistically dressed-up to practically naked, iPhone gazing wallflowers to students of exotic dancers.
While Basel’s volume stays a soft warm buzz, and its motion like a winter stream melt, Satellite’s sound was amplified through-the-roof and its movement a party-style throb. The warping carpets and ocean themed wallpapers were as integral as the art itself. Not only gallerists, but the artists were personally there to explain, discuss, and include attendees in their projects. The work was social, political, spiritual, comedic. It was intimate and interactive. It sought not to sell but to give. It desired not to hang on an indoor wall but to actively transform the outside world which birthed it.” –CARTWHEELART
An artist-run, experiential affair, Satellite debuted last year as a free-roaming fair with a young crowd. This year it has settled on a centralized home and has a lively programme of events that takes in a post-feminist tattoo parlour and a queer strip club.
Each space at this fair offers an opportunity for visitors to collect new works of art along with experiencing art in new and unique ways …
SATELLITE 2016 will feature more than 50 international exhibitions by the most progressive organizations of current time. – BLOUIN ARTINFO
Satellite Art Show provided a raw ground for artists collectives and curators to experiment in building a multi-sensory experience for fair goers.
Once a cozy Art Deco inn, each room of the luminous South Beach-centered Parisian Hotel was transformed from ceilings to bathrooms, inundated with a creative force on reimagining the ordinary in extraordinary ways.” – DIRT
In many ways, Miami Art Week is about spectacle and making a splash, and the second edition of the SATELLITE Art Show is set to do just that
– ARTNET
This is an artist-run and concept-driven alternative fair that includes music, performance, new media and technology.
For example: They’re planning a a queer strip club, a virtual reality lounge, a post-feminist tattoo parlor and after-hours entertainment in the hotel’s penthouse curated by NYC alt venue Trans-Pecos.” – PAPER
Only in its second year, SATELLITE is the scrappy, crazy newcomer, and bills itself as the anti-Basel.
The show features 45 spaces, emphasizing concept-driven rooms rather than the salon style of the typical art show. It’s also planning a rogues’ gallery of wild happenings, such as a gigantic installation at the entrance with people dressed as steampunk Greek statues playing Ping-Pong, a house party in the Pérez Art Museum Miami penthouse, a gay DIY strip club and tattoo parlor.” – MIAMI NEW TIMES
SATELLITE is now located next door to Aqua Art Miami, and right in between Art Basel and UNTITLED
– ARTNET
2015 PRESS
The Best 25 Shows of 2015” (featured twice)
SATELLITE was sizzling with a creative energy that couldn’t be found anywhere else.
For the first time, the pretension of the art scene was brought down to its most deserving, creative, and uninhibited level in the confines of a structured art fair that was interested in showcasing the more pioneering, original faces, works, and sounds of art.
Putting Artists First at SATELLITE. Projects like this are an essential to understanding art, and until this year, they were all but absent during the Miami fairs.
An exhibition that consciously engaged the body of the viewer. Likewise, explicitly performative events that took place in the hotel were intimately intertwined with the space itself.
What we took away from The Satellite Show Miami Beach was that we are on the wave of something that is growing. There was an atmosphere of pure creativity within a community of like-minded artists who were more interested in sharing ideas and insights than competing on sales: this was “art for art’s sake
SATELLITE just closed, but things stayed interesting here up until the end. While Art Basel had a stabbing, we had a wedding.
Inside a vacant beachfront hotel—destined to be torn down—different artist collectives and galleries from all over the country (plus Vienna) were each allotted a room to take over during Miami Art Week.
SATELLITE offers a refreshing setting to view art that won’t make you feel like a lab mouse scurrying around a white-walled maze.
SATELLITE was a cool kids party. Each night last week, Satellite turned the attention of fair-goers from the art on the walls to performance art, interactive installations, and musical shows
SATELLITE hosted a pop-up bar at the pharmacy counter selling affordable “remedy”drinks with ingredients such as B12 or cough syrup alongside vodka. It was a far more accessible commodification of “wellness” culture and booze than Basel’s bar—and that was reflected in the diversity of those who attended SATELLITE’s event last night.
We are doing something that is legit musically, real on the underground level, something that is gritty, raw, and rife with gravitas! We are trying to avoid sensation and spectacle, we are aiming at heads who care about music and aesthetics and who also like to have fun in a low key, dialed in way. I think all of that basically is nothing like Basel.
SATELLITE art fair will transform five Miami Beach properties into art installations.
In various states of repair, rebuild or abandon, the alternative venues are not your typical white nylon tents. Dotted throughout the blocks spanning 67th street to 75th street, a hotel, a pharmacy, a parking garage and the North Beach bandshell will serve as the foundations for the fair, their raw features contributing to the overall curatorial vision.
“The Anti-Fair”
– BMORE
Outside of Art Basel: Decaying Miami Beach Hotel Turns Into Eclectic Art Gallery for One Last Hurrah
This is going to be great.
SATELLITE show blew me away, largely because it was housed in an abandoned motel.
Each artist/curator/collective selected to participate was given one of the motel rooms to do with as they pleased. The effect was inspired, unusual, and completely interactive. It also pushed viewers boundaries of comfort as they entered what felt like people’s private rooms. The decaying structure of the motel only added to the show’s intrigue. – MIAMICITO
Many renowned art curators and organizations are taking part in this endeavor, having gotten involved in a number of projects in music, performance, installation, new media and technology activities.
“an innovative new fair, cheekily titled Satellite”
– ART NET
“a series of installations and performances at vacant waterfront properties along Collins Avenue in North Beach, including an abandoned steakhouse, pharmacy and an outdoor art deco amphitheatre (Satellite, 1-6 December)”
experimental projects in unoccupied properties
Satellite will present works of art, music, new media, and “technology activations” by progressive orgs such as White Box and artists like Pussy Riot.
“Top 5 places to check out. Satellite understands Miami like no one else.”
– CRAVE
Arbiters of sonic taste
Along with hip gallerists, will fill oddball spaces like SurfMed Pharmacy on Collins Avenue, a parking garage and the North Beach Bandshell with incredibly significant musician-artists. The long list of acts includes Ghostface Killah, L.A. DJ Total Freedom, his label mate Kingdom, and Miho Hatori from Cibo Matto. Pussy Riot will be showing art in a group show called Recycling Religion, so you never know who might hit the stage.” – TIME OUT MIAMI
infamous PRESS
Art Basel and Art Miami Go After Satellite Art Show
Since 2015, artist Brian Andrew Whiteley has run Miami’s Satellite Art Show, a low-cost, artist-friendly fair coinciding with Art Basel Miami Beach in December. Amid the increasingly celebrity-driven, price-obsessed circus that surrounds Art Basel Miami Beach, Satellite, which has taken place in abandoned hotels, vacant parking lots, and shipping containers, can seem like a breathe of fresh air. But the city’s two biggest fairs, Art Basel and Art Miami, aren’t happy with Satellite—and both have sent Whiteley cease-and-desist-letters. Whiteley first attracted Art Miami’s ire when he sent an email to some exhibitors at the fair and its sister event, Aqua Art Miami, bluntly arguing for why they should consider exhibiting with Satellite in 2023. “Here is the truth about Art Miami/Aqua,” Whiteley wrote. “The artwork has become formulaic, expected, and redundant. In some cases it has become simply unbearable (Crystal covered skulls, Warhol portraits, Cartoon/Anime Art, etc.) There is no conceptual framework to the experience, except for those looking for champagne.… it is essentially a trade show.” - ARTNET NEWS
Fair Wars Rage with Art Basel & Art Miami attack SATELLITE Art Show
Miami's Satellite Art Show is facing a lawsuit, and it's not its first time. - WIDE WALLS
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