Artists on Artists Lecture Series

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

Daniel Lefcourt on Imi Knoebel
Monday, September 13, 2010, 6:30pm

Peter Halley on Franz Erhard Walther
Monday, October 18, 2010, 6:30pm

Kim Gordon on Dan Graham
Monday, November 8, 2010, 6:30pm

Joachim Koester on Sol LeWitt
Monday, December 13, 2010, 6:30pm

Tickets are available at the lecture only.
Reservations strongly recommended.
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Established in 2001, Dia’s Artists on Artists Lecture Series highlights the work of contemporary artists from the perspective of their colleagues and peers, and focuses on artists in Dia’s collection and exhibition programs. The 2010-2011 season is dedicated to the memory of Bradford J. Race, Dia Trustee from 2002_2010.

RSVP artistsonartists@diaart.org or 212 293 5583

Daniel Lefcourt on Imi Knoebel
Monday, September 13, 2010, 6:30pm
Born in 1975, Daniel Lefcourt lives and works in New York. His recent exhibitions include shows at Taxter & Spengemann, New York (2010); Sutton Lane, London (2009); Gallery Luis Campaña, Berlin (2009); and Galerie Mitterrand + Sanz, Zurich (2007).

Peter Halley on Franz Erhard Walther
Monday, October 18, 2010, 6:30pm
Born in 1953, Peter Halley lives and works in New York. His recent solo exhibitions include shows at Mary Boone Gallery, New York (2010); Baldwin Gallery, Aspen (2009); Waddington Galleries, London (2009); and Galeria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy (2008). In 2001, he received the Frank Jewett Mather Award from the College Art Association in the U.S. for his critical writing.

Kim Gordon on Dan Graham
Monday, November 8, 2010, 6:30pm
Kim Gordon was born in 1953 in Rochester, New York. She is a musician, artist, video director and a member of the bands Sonic Youth and Free Kitten. Her work has been exhibited at such venues as the South London Gallery (2005) and the Gothenburg Biennale (2003). She curated, among others, the Club In The Shadow, a collaboration with artist Jutta Koether.

Joachim Koester on Sol LeWitt
Monday, December 13, 2010, 6:30pm
Born in 1962 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Joachim Koester lives and works in New York. His recent solo exhibitions include shows at Museo Tamayo, Mexico City (2010); Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (2010); The Power Plant, Toronto (2010); Turku Art Museum, Finland (2009); and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2007).

Funding
Funding for this series is made possible by support from the SEA Foundation and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Beverages compliments of Brooklyn Brewery.

Dia Art Foundation
A nonprofit institution founded in 1974, Dia Art Foundation is internationally renowned for enabling artists’ visions by initiating, supporting, and preserving extraordinary art projects. Dia presents public and education programs, exhibitions, and its collection of works from the 1960s through the present at Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries in New York’s Hudson Valley. Dia introduces commissions and projects by contemporary artists and parallel education programs at The Hispanic Society of America in Washington Heights, while Dia develops a new site for these initiatives in New York City. Additionally, Dia maintains long-term, site-specific projects, including: Walter De Maria’s The New York Earth Room (1977) and The Broken Kilometer (1979), Max Neuhaus’s Times Square (1977), Joseph Beuys’s 7000 Eichen (7000 Oaks) (1988), and Dan Flavin’s untitled (1996), in Manhattan; The Dan Flavin Art Institute, in Bridgehampton, New York; De Maria’s Vertical Earth Kilometer (1977), in Kassel, Germany; and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) and De Maria’s The Lightning Field (1977), in the Western United States.

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