Art Happenings: Miami Exhibitions, Openings, and Artist Talks

Visual poet and conceptual artist Rubem Robierb, whose design was recently selected as Miami’s Official Host City Poster for the FIFA World Cup 2026, is exhibiting at VISU Contemporary with “Roots to Fly.” (Photo courtesy of VISU Contemporary)

Artburst Miami’s editor picks a selection of what’s happening now in Miami’s galleries, exhibitions, and artist-run spaces.

“Roots to Fly,” Rubem Robierb

 On view through Sunday, March 15.

VISU Contemporary, 2160 Park Ave., Miami Beach

From winged installations on Lincoln Road to the city’s Official Host Poster for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Rubem Robierb’s work has become part of Miami’s visual fabric.

Now at VISU Contemporary, Robierb’s “Roots to Fly” brings together nearly 30 works in sculpture, painting, and mixed media. The exhibition traces Robierb’s path from Maranhão, Brazil, to Miami.

The title frames the exhibition’s core tension. Roots speak to origin and inheritance. Wings suggest movement, resilience, and self-definition. Robierb’s practice operates between the two, balancing personal history with an expanding public presence.

“Roots to Fly” also reflects VISU Contemporary’s continued growth as a platform for ambitious contemporary artists, following the gallery’s recent high-profile David LaChapelle exhibition

More information at visugallery.com

Chilean-born artist Constanza Alarcón Tennen presents ?Tu, yo, y todo el viento entremedio,” a solo exhibition at Nina Johnson. (Photography by Cristóbal Cea/courtesy of Nina Johnson and the artist)

 “Tu, yo, y todo el viento entremedio,” Constanza Alarcón Tennen

Opening with reception 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 16. On view through Saturday, April 18.

Nina Johnson, 6315 NW 2nd Ave, Miami

Working across sculpture, sound, performance, and video, Constanza Alarcón Tennen treats sound as material—physical, relational, and activated through the body.

Tennen’s solo exhibition, “Tu, yo, y todo el viento entremedio” at Nina Johnson, centers on a suspended stoneware whistle sculpture designed for collective use, surrounded by ceramic sound works that function as both objects and instruments. Drawing from pre-Columbian sound artifacts, Alarcón Tennen reimagines sculpture as exchange rather than form, collapsing distinctions between viewer and performer, touch and sound.

Installed within the gallery’s bookshelves, drawings, videos, and ancillary objects operate as an open notebook or cabinet of curiosities—satellites to the primary sculptures that reveal the conceptual and material thinking behind the work. Together, these elements underscore the exhibition’s multivalent nature, blurring  distinctions between sculpture and performance, object and instrument, stillness and activation.

Born and raised in Chile, Alarcón Tennen is based between Boston and Santiago.  

More information at  Nina Johnson

“Now, Voyager,” Anastasia Samoylova

Through Friday, Feb.20 

Dot Fiftyone Gallery, 7275 NE 4th Ave., Miami

In “Now, Voyager,” Anastasia Samoylova extends her photographic language into the territory of painting—and of reckoning. These hybrid works, formed by overlaying photographs with poured and dripped paint, inhabit a charged space between document and abstraction, between the seen and the felt. Taking its title from Walt Whitman’s exhortation, “Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find,” the series follows the artist’s ongoing search for meaning within the shifting image of America.

The exhibition opened in November at DotFiftyOne Gallery; it has been extended through Friday, Feb. 20.

More information at DotFiftyOne

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