The citizens of Miami Beach have spoken, and the annual municipal Legacy Purchase Program selection from this year’s Art Basel in Miami Beach fair is Anneke Eussen’s It’s Alright (2023), a wall-mounted sculpture that will join previously acquired works on permanent display at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Eussen, who lives and works in the Netherlands and grew up in a region that closely borders both Germany and Belgium, uses glass in her work to create map-like shapes that overlap, questioning the very concept of borders. She is represented by Chicago’s Document gallery.
“We are delighted to acquire Anneke Eussen’s work as this year’s Legacy Purchase,” Steven Meiner, Miami Beach’s new mayor, said in a statement. “As we grow the collection, the convention centre now not only serves as a place to welcome our guests from throughout the world, but also as a place to enrich the lives of our citizens.”
Each year since 2019 during Art Basel in Miami Beach (which is hosted at the convention centre), the city has encouraged the public to vote for one of three finalists previously chosen by the Art in Public Places Committee to include in Miami Beach’s growing art collection. The two other finalists this year were works by Noémie Goudal and Shannon Bool. Previous Legacy Purchases have included works by Juana Valdés, Sanford Biggers, Amoako Boafo, Ebony G. Patterson and Farah Al Qasimi.