Ballroom Marfa - Marfa, Texas

DRIVE-IN

Designed by acclaimed architects MOS, the Ballroom Marfa Drive-In will be a sculptural reconfiguration of classic outdoor drive-in theater architecture. The Drive-In will not only be the first art-house drive-in in America, but also the first created by a non-profit organization.

Vidas Perfectas: A new version of Robert Ashley’s opera Perfect Lives

Presented in Spanish for stage and television • Directed by Alex Waterman

With ISSUE Project Room and Irondale Brooklyn, Ballroom Marfa is proud to present Vidas Perfectas, an all-new, Spanish language version of the classic avant-garde television opera from the 1980s: Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives.

Ballroom Marfa 2012 Benefit Weekend

Jens Hoffmann

25-28 May 2012

We are ecstatic to announce our 2012 Benefit Dinner & Concert taking place 25-28 May 2012 in Marfa, Texas — A Trip to the Moon: A Weekend with Aliens and Astronauts. Join us for this interstellar adventure in support of Ballroom Marfa’s future.

Lecture Series: “Remembering Istanbul” by Jens Hoffmann

24 March 2012

Ballroom Marfa and Marfa Book Company are proud is present a lecture by Jens Hoffmann, Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, on 24 March 2012 at Marfa Book Company.

Texas Contemporary Art Fair

20-23 October 2011

Ballroom Marfa is proud to participate in the inaugural Texas Contemporary art fair, a showcase for innovative and progressive visual art from around the world, at Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center 20-23 October 2011.

Chalk the Block

Teresa Margolles

14-16 October 2011

Ballroom Marfa collaborated with Chalk the Block –- a downtown El Paso public arts initiative -– to install our recently commissioned video work by Teresa Margolles, Irrigación.

Ballroom at the High Line: Atom Fables

Laleh Khorramian, Shahzad Ismaily

10 and 11 October 2011

Join the High Line and Ballroom Marfa for Atom Fables, a new collaborative work by artist Laleh Khorramian and musician Shahzad Ismaily. Atom Fables features Khorramian’s one-minute films of transformations, which will be rearranged in real-time to a musical composition performed live by Ismaily and an accompanying ensemble.

Lecture Series: Art, Airfields & Airspace by Kathleen Shafer

Kathleen Shafer

12 July 2011

The first in our lecture series features artist Kathleen Shafer, who will speak about her current work, which concerns airfields, airspace, Marfa’s military history, the repurposing of spaces, and an examination of what constitutes the concepts of place and space within the fields of geography and art.

Ballroom Marfa Benefit Auction & Dinner 2011

Maria Jose Arjona, Larry Bamburg, Huma Bhabha, Erika Blumenfeld, Mel Chin, Livia Corona, Minerva Cuevas, Aaron Curry, Meredith Danluck, Bruce Davenport, Jr., Peter Doig, Boyd Elder, Skylar Fein, Jason Fox, Jonah Freeman, Meghan Gerety, Wayne Gonzales, Hilary Harnischfeger, Tina Hejtmanek, Adam Helms, Matthew Day Jackson, Rainer Judd, Patrick Keesey, Rosy Keyser, Laleh Khorramian, Esther Kläs, Charles Mary Kubricht, Louise Lawler, Justin Lowe, Linda Matalon, Jonathan Meese, Wangechi Mutu, Heather Rowe, Erin Shirreff, Mika Tajima, Leo Villareal, John Waters, Roger White, Robert Wilson

12 April 2011

Please join us for Ballroom Marfa’s first Benefit Auction and Dinner on Tuesday, 12 April 2011, at Center 548 in New York City.

The Reading 2011

26 March 2011

On March 26, 2011, please join us for performances of The Reading, a professionally staged screenplay presentation that spotlights a winning script from the prestigious 2010 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting.

Marfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Cecilia Ballí, Charles Bowden, Hamilton Fish, Kathy Staudt, Laura Flanders, Mark Danner, Robert Halpern

17-19 September 2010

Join us September 17-19, 2010 for our first conference about the border, Marfa Dialogues/Diálogos en Marfa.

No Soul for Sale at the Tate Modern

Erika Blumenfeld

14-16 May 2010

Ballroom Marfa is excited to announce our participation in the second iteration of No Soul for Sale, A Festival of Independents, which will be hosted by the Tate Modern, London as part of its 10th anniversary celebrations.

HAITI RELIEF BENEFIT RAFFLE

29 JANUARY - 27 FEBRUARY 2010

Congratulations to Sophie Crichton Stuart, the winner of our raffle to benefit the Haiti relief effort! We sold 102 tickets, raising $2040 for Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organization.

The Marfa Sessions Catalogue Launch

Rebecca Gates

8 October 2009

Please join us at Ballroom Marfa from 5-7 pm to celebrate the release of the The Marfa Sessions exhibition catalogue. Opening during the fall of 2008, The Marfa Sessions was Ballroom Marfa’s first exhibition devoted to artists working with sound.

Hello Meth Lab in the Sun Catalogue Launch

Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe and Alexandre Singh

13 August 2009

Ballroom Marfa invites you to join us for the official catalogue launch of Hello Meth Lab in the Sun, our Spring 2008 exhibition that comprised diorama-like depictions of a hippie commune, a clandestine meth lab, and other sites of modern industrial production

No Soul for Sale at X-Iniative

Kaffe Matthews

24-28 June 2009

From 24 June through 28 June 2009, Ballroom Marfa will be participating in No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents at X-Initiative, New York, where we will showcase Kaffe Matthews’ Sonic Bed_Marfa, which was originally included in The Marfa Sessions.

NADA ART FAIR

Matthew Day Jackson

5-8 December - 9-11 December 2007

Ballroom Marfa collaborates with artist Matthew Day Jackson to create a site-specific project in booth G2 at the NADA Art Fair for Miami Basel.

MEDICINE SHOW: The Poster Art of Ballroom Marfa

Jaime Cervantes, The Decoder Ring, Fairfax Dorn, Essen, Film School's, Dirk Fowler, Hatch Show Print, Kathleen Judge, Dan McAdam, Erick Montes, Jason Munn, Kelly O'Connor, Obsolete Industries, Todd Slater, Studio Zeds Design,Noel Waggener

5 October - 7 October 2007

Poster-making demonstration at Ballroom Marfa’s Liberty Hall.

Gloria

Maria Hassabi

11 May 2007

GLORIA is a new work by choreographer Maria Hassabi, created in collaboration with performers Hristoula Harakas and David Adamo, visual artist Scott Lyall, sound designer Jody Elff, and lighting designer Joe Levasseur.