Today Dia announced the 2024 exhibition program across Dia Beacon, Dia Bridgehampton, and Dia Chelsea. In a year which marks Dia's 50th anniversary, the program includes a major, two-part presentation of work by Steve McQueen at both Dia Beacon and Dia Chelsea; three single-artist exhibitions that highlight acquisitions of work by Lucas Samaras, Keith Sonnier, and Meg Webster, at Dia Beacon; and a new commission by Liliana Porter that opens in the summer at Dia Bridgehampton.
2024 exhibition schedule at Dia Beacon, Dia Bridgehampton, and Dia Chelsea
Meg Webster
Opening February 16, 2024 (long-term view)
Dia Beacon
Drawing on Minimalist and Land art of the 1960s and ’70s, Meg Webster has brought loose natural materials—such as soil, sand, and salt—indoors since the mid-1980s, shaping them into elementary sculptures of amplified concentration. Her body of work spans simple geometric volumes, gardens, and hydraulic and grow-light installations that may be sited within or outside the gallery. This long-term presentation of Webster’s work features her signature concave and convex earthworks, which recently entered Dia’s collection, complemented by sculptures constructed in beeswax, moss, salt, and sticks.
Steve McQueen
May 12, 2024–April 2025
Dia Beacon
In a career spanning over 30 years, Steve McQueen has critically engaged with themes such as history, class, and race, through film, photography, and installation. At Dia Beacon, the artist presents a new work, co-commissioned by Dia and Schaulager, Laurenz Foundation, Münchenstein, Switzerland, which transforms the 30,000-square-foot lower-level gallery into an immersive installation, journeying through the complete spectrum of visible light in concert with a sonic component that responds to the space.
Following Dia Beacon, the commission will travel to Schaulager where it will be adapted to the institution’s unique exhibition spaces.
The exhibition at Dia Beacon is complemented by a concurrent presentation at Dia Chelsea, opening September 2024.
Liliana Porter
June 21, 2024—Spring 2025
Dia Bridgehampton
Dia presents a new commission by Liliana Porter in dialogue with the permanent Dan Flavin installation on the second floor of the Bridgehampton location. A central figure in the early Conceptual and feminist art movements, Porter has dedicated her practice to contesting the spaces between reality and fiction across a variety of mediums including prints, etchings, drawings, collages, photographs, works on canvas, installations, public art, and theater. Within her long-standing research, the subject of time—perceived as continuous although nonlinear and dislocated—has manifested itself in numerous forms and is used to reflect on complex notions of reality, temporality, representation, and space.
Steve McQueen
September 2024–January 2025
Dia Chelsea
Following the presentation of a new work, co-commissioned by Dia and Schaulager, at Dia Beacon in spring 2024, this concurrent presentation at Dia Chelsea features a new monitor-based work by Steve McQueen, alongside a recent two-channel video, Sunshine State (2022), in the adjacent gallery. Originally commissioned by the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the latter, through it's Dia presentation, debuts on the East Coast of the United States.
Lucas Samaras
Opening September 21, 2024 (long-term view)
Dia Beacon
For over 60 years, Lucas Samaras has worked fluidly between mediums in a manner that eludes categorization. The artist’s eccentric and uncanny objects often combine formal strategies of Minimalism with the haptic materiality of everyday objects. Such is the case with Cubes and Trapezoids (1993–94), which joined the collection in 2003 and will be presented at Dia Beacon for the first time since its 1994 debut at Pace Gallery in New York, together with a significant loan of one of the artist’s immersive mirrored rooms, Doorway (1966–2007).
Keith Sonnier
Opening November 9, 2024 (long-term view)
Dia Beacon
This long-term presentation brings together a selection of recently acquired works from the late 1960s and early ’70s by Keith Sonnier, highlighting the artist’s experiments across media. The exhibition features elements emblematic of Sonnier’s practice, like cloth, flocking, latex, neon, and satin, which he combines into dynamic objects and installations. Additionally, the presentation at Dia includes the room-size installation Dis-Play II (1970), which was previously on view at Dia Bridgehampton from 2018 to 2019.
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 section.
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