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September in the Miami Design District offers a dynamic blend of visual art, performance, and immersive experiences. This month’s lineup spans thought-provoking exhibitions, site-specific installations, and intimate musical evenings, drawing both local and international voices into conversation. From the meditative to the playfully subversive, here are the must-see cultural moments shaping the district this September.
In You Are Not an Island, Miami-based artist Melissa Wallen invites viewers into painted worlds where color is not confined but relational—shaping form through interaction. Her layered canvases resist stillness, shifting between gestural abstraction and celestial evocations. This exhibition continues Wallen’s exploration of thresholds between material and immaterial, as seen in her previous solo shows between sleep and sky and worlds behind you. Her practice extends beyond painting to collage, video, and curatorial work, making this latest series a study in connection as much as composition.
For her debut solo in the Miami Design District, Luna Palazzolo-Daboul reinterprets Robert Morris’s iconic Scatter Piece through a lens of structure, intimacy, and personal history. Scattered Pieces gathers fragments from six years of her artistic practice—finished works, remnants, and newly created objects—arranged purposefully across the gallery floor. This act transforms chance into curation, proposing “scattering” as both disruption and belonging, and positioning women’s narratives within an art-historical canon that has often overlooked them.
Internationally celebrated Argentine artist Ad Minoliti brings their first Miami exhibition to Dale Zine, offering both a workshop on zine-making and a limited-edition print release. Known for blending geometric abstraction with theory and play, Minoliti transforms the zine as both medium and message—infusing it with their signature mix of humor, critique, and visual delight.
Minoliti also leaves a permanent mark on the Miami Design District with Pink Spatial Microbiota, a four-story site-specific commission in the Buick Building. The stairwell becomes a surreal “digestive tube,” animated with whimsical, geometric forms. Drawing from microbiota—the microscopic organisms inhabiting every body—the installation fuses Latin American avant-garde traditions with futurism, humor, and architectural play.
Under the soft glow of hundreds of candles, the music of The Beatles takes on new resonance. This intimate concert reimagines the band’s timeless catalog through lush arrangements in a setting that merges nostalgia with sensory immersion—offering an evening where ambiance and artistry intertwine.
The works of Joe Hisaishi—beloved for his sweeping scores in films such as Spirited Away and My Neighbor Totoro—are brought to life in a candlelit performance that marries cinematic emotion with live instrumental warmth. The result is a night of sensory storytelling in one of the Design District’s most atmospheric venues.
The Miami Design District’s September calendar blends the local with the global, the fleeting with the permanent. Visitors can expect encounters that challenge, delight, and reframe how art and culture are experienced—each event adding its own layer to the district’s evolving creative landscape.
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