{"id":349350,"date":"2024-12-03T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.miamibeachfl.gov\/?p=349350"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:34:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:34:48","slug":"sanford-biggers-somethin-close-to-nothin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.miamibeachfl.gov\/de\/sanford-biggers-somethin-close-to-nothin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanford Biggers Etwas in der N\u00e4he von Nichts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fl-builder-content fl-builder-content-348382 fl-builder-template fl-builder-row-template fl-builder-global-templates-locked\" data-post-id=\"348382\"><div class=\"fl-row fl-row-full-width fl-row-bg-color fl-node-t2ymo65x81ls fl-row-default-height fl-row-align-center\" data-node=\"t2ymo65x81ls\">\n\t<div class=\"fl-row-content-wrap\">\n\t\t<div class=\"uabb-row-separator uabb-top-row-separator\" >\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"fl-row-content fl-row-fixed-width fl-node-content\">\n\t\t\n<div 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href=\"https:\/\/www.miamibeachfl.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Sanford_Biggers_Quilt_Art_Basel_2019-748x1024-1.jpg\"  target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.miamibeachfl.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Sanford_Biggers_Quilt_Art_Basel_2019-748x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sanford Biggers Somethin' Close to Nothin'\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1024\" width=\"748\" title=\"Sanford_Biggers_Quilt_Art_Basel_2019-748x1024\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t<h3>K\u00fcnstler: Sanford Biggers<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t<h3>Title:  Somethin&#8217; Close to Nothin&#8217;, 2020<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t<h3>Medium: Farbe auf antikem Quilt<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/WHjawT36Xhy8tbsm7\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t<h3>Ort: Miami Beach Convention Center, East Lobby<\/h3>\n\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<h3>\n\t\t\tMiami Beach Legacy Art Purchase (2020)\t<\/h3>\n\t<p>As announced on November 4, 2020, the City of Miami Beach launched the Legacy Purchase Program, a collaboration with Art Basel Miami Beach, and under the direction of the City&#8217;s Art in Public Places (&#8220;AiPP&#8221;) committee whereby the City would set out to purchase a work of art from contingency funds from the AiPP collection within the Miami Beach Convention Center campus. The goal of the program is to strengthen the connection between the City of Miami Beach, the residents and Art Basel Miami Beach by allowing the residents to be a part of the curatorial process of our public art collection, while broadening our dedication to acquiring meaningful public art and expanding our relationship with Art Basel by enhancing our community engagement in the annual event.<\/p>\n<p>Sanford Biggers&#039; Werke integrieren Film\/Video, Installation, Skulptur, Zeichnung, Originalmusik und Performance. Er verkompliziert bewusst Themen wie Hip-Hop, Buddhismus, Politik, Identit\u00e4t und Kunstgeschichte, um neue Perspektiven und Assoziationen f\u00fcr etablierte Symbole zu er\u00f6ffnen. Durch einen multidisziplin\u00e4ren formalen Prozess und einen ebenso synkretistischen kreativen Ansatz schafft er Werke oder \u201eVignetten\u201c, die \u00e4sthetisch ebenso ansprechend wie konzeptionell sind.<\/p>\n<p>Sanford Biggers wurde in Los Angeles, Kalifornien, geboren und lebt und arbeitet in New York, NY. Zu seinen j\u00fcngsten Einzelausstellungen z\u00e4hlen unter anderem das Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; das Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA; das Brooklyn Museum; das Sculpture Center, NY; und das Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL. Seine Arbeiten wurden in Institutionen wie der Tate Britain und der Tate Modern in London; dem Whitney Museum of American Art, dem Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; und dem Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco sowie in Institutionen in China, Deutschland, Ungarn, Japan, Polen und Russland ausgestellt. Die Werke des K\u00fcnstlers wurden in mehreren namhaften Ausstellungen gezeigt, darunter: Prospect 1\/ New Orleans Biennial; Illuminations in der Tate Modern; Performa 07 in NY; die Whitney Biennial; und Freestyle im Studio Museum in Harlem. Zu Biggers\u2019 Auszeichnungen geh\u00f6ren der Rome Prize, der Creative Time Travel Grant, der Creative Capital Project Grant, der New York Percent for the Arts Commission und der Art Matters Grant. Preis der New York Foundation for the Arts; Lambent Fellowship in the Arts; Pennies From Heaven\/New York Community Trust Award; Tanne Foundation Award; Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award Grant; James Nelson Raymond Fellowship der School of the Art Institute of Chicago; und Camille Hanks-Cosby Fellowship. Er hat an renommierten Residenzen und Stipendien teilgenommen, darunter: Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Deutschland; Schloss Ujazdowski, Warschau, Polen; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, Kalifornien; ARCUS Project Foundation, Ibaraki, Japan; und Art in General\/Trafo Gallery Eastern European Exchange in Budapest, Ungarn. Er war Stipendiat der Socrates Sculpture Park Residency; des Lower Manhattan Cultural Council World Views AIR Program; der Eyebeam Atelier Teaching Residency; des Studio Museum AIR Program; des PS 1 International Studio Program; und der Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Residency.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<hr style=\"border: none; border-top: 2px solid #24abe2; height: 0;\">\nK\u00fcnstler: Sanford Biggers<br \/>\nTitel: Somethin&#039; Close to Nothin&#039;, 2020<br \/>\nMedium: Farbe auf antikem Quilt<br \/>\nOrt: Miami Beach Convention Center, East Lobby<\/p>","protected":false},"author":222,"featured_media":349355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_searchwp_excluded":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1560,1845,1559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aipp-perm-art","category-legacy-program-winner","category-tandc-web-section"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sanford Biggers Somethin\u2019 Close to Nothin\u2019 - City of Miami Beach<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Art in Public Places is a City of Miami Beach program for curating and commissioning public art. 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