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= Ballroom Marfa = Ballroom Marfa is a 501(c)-3 non-profit, non-collecting contemporary arts space located in Marfa, Texas. Founded in 2003 by Fairfax Dorn and Virginia Lebermann, Ballroom Marfa commissions new site-specific works from contemporary artists, including Haroon Mirza’s stone circle (2018) and Elmgreen & Dragset’s Prada Marfa (2005).

History
Ballroom Marfa is housed in a restored 1927 dance hall located on E. San Antonio Street. The building is comprised of 6,000-square-feet open courtyard and two interior galleries totaling 4,500-square-feet. It was used as a silent film house before Marfa’s mid-century boom.

Notable commissions by Ballroom Marfa include:


 * bust: indestructible columns (2019), Rafa Esparza
 * stone circle (2018), Haroon Mirza
 * The Marfa Triptych (2012 – 2016), Graham Reynolds
 * Giant (2014), Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler
 * The Shea Butter Irrigation System (2013), Rashid Johnson
 * Hello Meth Lab in the Sun (2008), Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe, and Alexander Singh
 * Prada Marfa (2005), Elmgreen & Dragset
 * Pyramids of Conscience (2005), Agnes Denes
 * Kite Symphony (forthcoming), Roberto Lange (Helado Negro) and Kristi Sword