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February 20 to March 22, 2022

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A Conversation on Carla Lonzi’s Self-portrait


Dia Online

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23/02/2022 12:00 23/02/2022 13:00 America/New_York A Conversation on Carla Lonzi’s Self-portrait Event DetailsWednesday, February 23, 12–1 pmLive on Zoom Free. Register for the event here.Artist Claire Fontaine will join art historians Jaleh Mansoor and Giovanna Zapperi in a conversation moderated by Dia associate curator Matilde Guidelli-Guidi on the work of Italian art critic and feminist theorist Carla Lonzi (1931–1982). The event is organized in conjunction with the first English-language edition of Lonzi’s 1969 experimental book of art criticism, Self-portrait (Autoritratto), translated by Allison Grimaldi Donahue and published by Divided in collaboration with Dia Art Foundation. Claire Fontaine is a “readymade artist” founded in Paris in 2004. Her work has been widely shown internationally, including at the Jewish Museum, New York; C.C.A Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Her numerous publications on art and politics include the recent collection, Human Strike and the Art of Creating Freedom (2020), “We Are All Clitoridian Women: Notes on Carla Lonzi’s legacy” (2013), and the afterword to the English edition of Lonzi’s Self-portrait (2022).  Jaleh Mansoor is an associate professor in the department of art history, visual art, and theory at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Her work focuses on twentieth century European Art, Marxism, and Marxist feminism. Author of Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia (2016), Mansoor is currently working on a book titled Universal Prostitution: A Counter History of Abstraction Crossing Modernism, 1888–2008 (in contract). Giovanna Zapperi is a professor of contemporary art history at the University of Geneva. Her research centers on gender, visual culture, and art criticism in the twentieth century, with a focus on Italian art and writing by women. She has published extensively on Carla Lonzi in Italian, French, and English, including prefacing and editing the French edition of Self-portrait (2012) and co-editing, with Francesco Ventrella, the anthology Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy: The Legacy of Carla Lonzi (2022). Dia Online FALSE DD/MM/YYYY A Conversation on Carla Lonzi’s Self-portrait

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Hudson Valley Free Day


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27/02/2022 00:00 27/02/2022 23:45 America/New_York Hudson Valley Free Day Hudson Valley residents receive free admission to Dia Beacon on the last Sunday of each month. The Hudson Valley encompasses the following counties: Albany, Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Orange, Putnam, Rensselaer, Rockland, Saratoga, Schenectady, Sullivan, Ulster, Washington, and Westchester. Please contact 845 231 0811 or tickets@diaart.org to reserve tickets. Hudson Valley Free Days at Dia Beacon are made possible by Charlie Pohlad.     Dia Beacon TURE DD/MM/YYYY Hudson Valley Free Day

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05/03/2022 15:00 05/03/2022 18:00 America/New_York May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth (Part II) Launch: Conversation and Performance Event DetailsSaturday, March 5, 3 pm Dia Chelsea 537 West 22nd Street New York, New York Free. Register for the in-person event here. This event will be livestreamed on Zoom. Register here and receive a link.  Dia Art Foundation and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, are pleased to present a multipart work by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth (2020– ). This evolving project, co-commissioned by Dia and MoMA, is presented online as an Artist Web Project hosted by Dia and as an exhibition at MoMA opening April 23, 2022. The online project launched on December 10, 2020, with Postscript: after everything is extracted, a reflection on the act of mourning. Part II of the project, launching on March 5, 2022, is an expansion of the digital platform that features the artists’ extensive collection of online recordings of people singing and dancing in communal spaces in Iraq, Palestine, and Syria. These are layered with new performances created with dancer Rima Baransi and electronic musicians Haykal, Julmud, and Makimakkuk, from Palestine. To celebrate the launch of Part II, Dia will host a conversation about the project with writer and curator Omar Berrada; theorist, historian, and artist Jill H. Casid; and Abbas and Abou-Rahme. The discussion will be followed by a DJ set and performance by Julmud, transmitted from Ramallah, Palestine. Omar Berrada writer and curator whose work focuses on the politics of translation and intergenerational transmission. Recently he published the poetry collection Clonal Hum (2020) and co-edited La Septième Porte (2021), Ahmed Bouanani’s posthumous history of Moroccan cinema. Berrada lives in New York and teaches at Cooper Union, where he co-organizes the Intra-Disciplinary Seminar public lecture series. Jill H. Casid is a theorist, historian, and artist. They are professor of visual studies in the departments of art history and gender and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Casid is currently completing Necrolandscaping, the first part of a two-book project titled . They are the author of Sowing Empire: Landscape and Colonization (2005) and Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject (2015) and co-editor of the collection Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn (2014). Their work has been displayed nationally and internationally, including in recent exhibitions at the Wriston Art Center, Appleton, Wisconsin; Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin; and signs and symbols, New York. Julmud is a producer, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and music researcher based in Ramallah, Palestine, who creates, composes, samples, and combines sounds from across the globe to create his own form of music. He has produced work for various artists such as Haykal, Al Nather, Muqata'a, Makimakkuk, and Walaa Sbait, as well as members of the collective Saleb Wahad, to which he also belongs. He is currently producing a variety of solo and collaborative works. His debut album, Tuqoos, is forthcoming from Bilna'es in March 2022. Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-RahmeBasel Abbas was born in Nicosia, Cyprus, in 1983. Ruanne Abou-Rahme was born in Boston in 1983. They have exhibited internationally, most recently at the Art Institute of Chicago (2021); the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands (2020); Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala City (2019); and Disjecta, Portland, Oregon (2019). Their work has additionally been featured in solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Hamburg (2018); Alt Bomontiada, Istanbul (2017); the Office for Contemporary Art, Oslo (2015); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2014); Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne (2014); and the Delfina Foundation, London (2009). In 2015 their work was included in the Sharjah Biennial, where they were awarded the Sharjah Biennial Prize. Abbas and Abou-Rahme live in both New York City and Ramallah.  About Artist Web ProjectsThe Artist Web Projects series was inaugurated in 1995 and remains the longest-running program of its kind in the United States. Dia commissions artists to create original projects for the internet that explore the aesthetic and conceptual potential of the medium. Dia’s archive of Artist Web Projects are accessible online here. May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth is co-commissioned by Dia Art Foundation, New York, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth is made possible by support from the Khalid Shoman Foundation-Darat al Funun and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY May amnesia never kiss us on the mouth (Part II) Launch: Conversation and Performance

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Bettina Pousttchi on On Kawara


Dia Chelsea

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

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09/03/2022 18:00 09/03/2022 00:00 America/New_York Bettina Pousttchi on On Kawara Event DetailsWednesday, March 9, 2022, 6 pm  Dia Chelsea537 West 22nd StreetNew York, New York Free. Register for the event here. Established in 2001, the Artists on Artists Lecture Series invites contemporary artists to engage with the work of artists in Dia’s collection and past programs. For her lecture on the work of On Kawara, Bettina Pousttchi will foreground the ability to travel freely across borders and time zones as a precondition to Kawara’s oeuvre. The lecture is presented in conjunction with the launch of Dia’s publication Artists on On Kawara (2021), with contributions by artists Alejandro Cesarco, Nancy Davenport, Renée Green, Annette Lawrence, Scott Lyall, Dave McKenzie, Haim Steinbach, and Pousttchi.  Bettina Pousttchi was born in Main, Germany, in 1971. She is a graduate of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany, and the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York; she has additionally studied art history, film theory, and philosophy in Paris and Cologne. Pousttchi’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; and the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas. The numerous monographs on her work include Bettina Pousttchi: In Recent Years (2020). Pousttchi lives in Berlin. The Artists on Artists Lecture Series is organized by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, associate curator at Dia, with Theodora Bocanegra Lang, curatorial assistant. Dia Chelsea FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Bettina Pousttchi on On Kawara

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A Conversation with Larry Bell and Alexis Lowry


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12/03/2022 11:30 12/03/2022 12:00 America/New_York A Conversation with Larry Bell and Alexis Lowry Event DetailsRescheduled, Date and time to be announced soon          Dia Beacon 3 Beekman Street Beacon, New York  Free with museum admission. Space is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis.  A conversation between artist Larry Bell and Dia curator Alexis Lowry on the occasion of Bell’s exhibition at Dia Beacon. Larry Bell was born in 1939 in Chicago. He attended the Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts) from 1957 to 1959. A leading figure of southern California’s Light and Space movement, Bell turned to glass as a sculptural medium in the early 1960s. His earliest sculptures were simple glass cubes placed flush to the edge of pedestals. Out of these objects, the artist’s work expanded into increasingly large and perceptually complex arrangements of freestanding panels. Bell’s work has been featured in numerous solo presentations including at the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon, France; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. His notable recognitions include a Guggenheim Fellowship (1975), a National Endowment for the Arts grant (1975), and the Governor’s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts from the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs (1990). Bell lives between Venice Beach, California, and Taos, New Mexico.     Alexis Lowry is curator at Dia Art Foundation, New York, where she is responsible for exhibitions, commissions, and public programs across Dia’s sites and locations. At Dia Chelsea, she has overseen new projects by Lucy Raven, Rita McBride, and Kishio Suga. At Dia Beacon, she organized the first North American retrospective of Charlotte Posenenske’s work, as well as installations by Mel Bochner, Mary Corse, Charles Gaines, Barry Le Va, Lee Ufan, Robert Morris, Michelle Stuart, and Anne Truitt. Prior to joining Dia, Lowry was curator of the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, and a freelance project manager for Creative Time, New York. In addition to books produced by Dia, she has recently contributed to publications for the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Orlando; the Drawing Center, New York; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. She obtained her PhD from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in 2019. Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY A Conversation with Larry Bell and Alexis Lowry

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Viewing Imi Knoebel’s 250.000 Zeichnungen (250,000 Drawings)


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12/03/2022 14:00 12/03/2022 15:30 America/New_York Viewing Imi Knoebel’s 250.000 Zeichnungen (250,000 Drawings) Event DetailsSaturday, March 12, 2–3:30 pm           Dia Beacon 3 Beekman Street Beacon, New York  Free with museum admission. Space is limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis.  Imi Knoebel's 250.000 Zeichnungen (250,000 Drawings, 1968–75) consists of 6 custom-built, double-doored cabinets containing 912 boxes. These hold 250,000 graphite drawings executed between 1968 and 1975, each consisting of juxtapositions of 2 straight lines on letter-sized paper. Like his Raum 19 (Room 19, 1968), also on view at Dia Beacon, which can be shown in innumerable ways, 250,000 Drawings explores notions of presentation and installation.  When exhibited, the cabinets are displayed closed, as if in storage, adding a sense of mystery to the work; however, the artist has allowed that anyone who wishes to see the drawings need only ask. This was the case when they were first shown at Dia in 1987, though it has been reported that no one ever made such a request. For this event, a selection of drawings from the 912 boxes will be made available for visitors to view following a brief introduction by Donna De Salvo, Dia’s senior adjunct curator, special projects. Imi Knoebel was born in Dessau, Germany, in 1940. He was a Meisterschüler (master student) of Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf from 1964 to 1971. His first exhibition, IMI + IMI, with fellow student Imi Giese, was held in Copenhagen in 1968. His work has since been included in such seminal exhibitions as Public Eye: Kinetik, Konstruktivismus, Environments, Kunsthaus Hamburg (1968); Prospect 71, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (1971); and Documenta (1972, 1977, 1982, and 1987). In 1987 Knoebel oversaw an installation of his work, as well as that of Beuys and Blinky Palermo, for Dia’s inaugural exhibitions on West 22nd Street in New York. A 1996–97 retrospective of Knoebel’s work traveled throughout Europe, including to such venues as the Haus der Kunst, Munich; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and the Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Spain. Two related exhibitions of Knoebel’s work were held in Berlin in 2009, at the Neue Nationalgalerie and the Deutsche Guggenheim. In 2011 he was commissioned to create six monumental stained-glass windows for the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Reims, France, and in 2016 he received the Ordre des arts et des Lettres from the French Minister of Culture. Knoebel’s environmental installation Raum 19 (Room 19, 1968) is on long-term view at Dia Beacon. He lives in Düsseldorf.     Donna De Salvo joined Dia Art Foundation in 2019 as senior adjunct curator, special projects, providing specialized input on Dia’s collection, exhibitions, long-term installations, and archive. Her appointment at Dia follows a fifteen-year tenure at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, where, in 2006, she was appointed the museum’s first chief curator; in 2015, she assumed the role of deputy director for international initiatives and senior curator. Recent exhibitions that she co-organized at the Whitney include Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again (2018–19), Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium (2017), Open Plan: Michael Heizer (2016), Open Plan: Steve McQueen (2016), and America Is Hard to See (2015). De Salvo previously held curatorial positions at Dia; Tate Modern, London; the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. In 2005 De Salvo co-organized Course of Empire: Paintings by Ed Ruscha with Linda Norden for the United States pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Dia Beacon FALSE DD/MM/YYYY Viewing Imi Knoebel’s 250.000 Zeichnungen (250,000 Drawings)

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