Today Dia announced its exhibition program for 2023 across its three primary exhibition spaces: Dia Beacon, Dia Bridgehampton, and Dia Chelsea. The program includes two exhibitions at Dia Chelsea opening over the course of the year: a comprehensive survey of work by Chryssa and a new commission by Delcy Morelos. Dia Beacon will showcase three exhibitions of recent acquisitions from Senga Nengudi, stanley brouwn, and Rita McBride, respectively; presentations of work by Mary Heilmann and Maren Hassinger; and the reinstallation of Andy Warhol’s iconic multipart Shadows (1978–79). Meanwhile, a new commission by Tony Cokes will go on display at Dia Bridgehampton.
2023 exhibition schedule at Dia Beacon, Dia Bridgehampton, and Dia Chelsea
Senga Nengudi
Opening February 17, long-term view
Dia Beacon
Over her five-decade-long career, Senga Nengudi has realized a remarkable body of work that blurs the boundaries between sculpture and performance, fine art and ritual, individual authorship and collective energy. Dia’s long-term exhibition of Nengudi’s work will be accompanied by a performance program and publication, revealing the multiplicity of her practice. Sculptures and room-sized installations from the years 1969 to 2020 will be on display at Dia Beacon, including recent acquisitions in Dia’s permanent collection.
Chryssa & New York
March 2–July 23
Dia Chelsea
Co-organized by Dia Art Foundation and the Menil Collection, Chryssa & New York is the first comprehensive survey of works by Greek-born artist Chryssa (1933–2013) to take place in North America since 1982. The exhibition will premiere at Dia Chelsea, New York, in March 2023 and will travel to the Menil Collection, Houston, in September 2023 and Wrightwood 659, Chicago, in May 2024. This exhibition focuses on works from the mid 1950s through to the early 1970s, bringing together Chryssa’s deeply formal concerns and critical interest in exploring the United States following World War II.
stanley brouwn
Opening April 15, long-term view
Dia Beacon
Tony Cokes
June 23, 2023–May 2024
Dia Bridgehampton
Since the late 1980s, Tony Cokes has appropriated and remixed text, music, and documentary images into videos and installations that investigate the interrelations of politics, popular culture, race, and identity. At Dia Bridgehampton, Cokes presents a new work in dialogue with the material histories of the site, a former firehouse–turned–First Baptist Church.
Rita McBride
Opening July, long-term view
Dia Beacon
On view in the central corridors of Dia Beacon and centered around the recent acquisition of Rita McBride’s Arena (1997)—a modular sculpture that is activated by the presence of audiences and performers alike—this exhibition explores the artist’s longstanding interest in architecture, design, and sculpture as they relate to the public sphere in forms such as seating structures, guidance systems, and commercial awnings. Arena is meant to be looked at, sat on, and engaged by visitors in an open, ongoing process that is punctuated by choreographed performances.
Maren Hassinger
Opening fall, long-term view
Dia Beacon
Spanning over five decades, Maren Hassinger’s practice bridges fiber arts, installation, performance, and sculpture. Since the 1970s, after first encountering wire rope in a junkyard, Hassinger has sourced and manipulated the material to both physically and conceptually tease out its organic attributes. Exemplary of this approach, Field (1983) is an expansive grid of individual bundles of industrial steel cable each held together by a cement base. Installed in close collaboration with the artist, this context-specific presentation at Dia Beacon marks the first time Field has been exhibited in over thirty years.
Mary Heilmann
Opening fall, long-term view
Dia Beacon
Mary Heilmann’s exhibition at Dia Beacon will mark the first dedicated presentation of the Starry Night series (1967–71) since its 1971 debut at Paley and Lowe Gallery in New York. For this series, Heilmann produced a group of unstretched canvases stained black and named after astronomical constellations, even binding a collection of them into a large, children’s book–like work known as The Book of Night (1970). Complementing these canvases are celestial clay or bamboo objects coated in flock, a type of textured fiber, that lean, protrude, or hang high from the wall, bringing the artist’s constructed galaxy into the space of the viewer.
Delcy Morelos
October 6, 2023–July 2024
Dia Chelsea
Artist Delcy Morelos is developing a new commission for Dia Chelsea that takes soil, territory, and topography as its points of departure. For her installations, the artist will coat the surfaces of one gallery with dirt and stacked soil-encrusted objects; in the other, she will build a mountainous earthen form. Morelos’s practice considers the interdependencies between natural and built environments through the framework of Indigenous relations to land. In these works, material accumulation and monochromatic expanse collapse distinctions between volume and surface, interiority and exteriority.
Andy Warhol
Opening October, long-term view
Dia Beacon
Andy Warhol’s Shadows (1978–79) returns to Dia Beacon for long-term view in September 2023. A single painting in multiple parts, Shadows is one of Warhol’s most abstract works, yet one that cohesively synthesizes key elements of his practice, including film, painting, photography, and screenprinting. Originally commissioned by Dia and acquired in 1979 for a solo exhibition at 393 West Broadway in New York, Shadows includes a total of 102 canvases; the final number of canvases on view in each installation is determined by the dimensions of an existing exhibition space.
Dia Art Foundation
Taking its name from the Greek word meaning “through,” Dia was established in 1974 with the mission to serve as a conduit for artists to realize ambitious new projects unmediated by overt interpretation and uncurbed by the limitations of more traditional museums and galleries. In addition to Dia Beacon, Dia Bridgehampton, and Dia Chelsea, Dia maintains and operates a constellation of commissions, long-term installations, site-specific projects, and Land art, nationally and internationally.
Video or audio files of past public programs are available on Dia’s website in the Watch & Listen.
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