Cross-Institutional Partnership
Launching Fall 2022—Ongoing
Various Sites
Program details forthcoming

Dia Art Foundation and The Kitchen are thrilled to announce a new, cross-institutional partnership to further the path-breaking energy that has defined both institutions over the past 50 years.

As responsive, artist-centered organizations, Dia and The Kitchen will collaborate across media and genres to blur boundaries, propose collective exhibition and performance models, and cultivate experiences that unfold through multiple temporalities and platforms, both embodied and virtual. Artists will have the opportunity to draw upon both institutions’ deep histories of experimentation, engaging with the ephemeral practices cultivated and indexed by The Kitchen and its archive, while being in dialogue with questions of duration and permanence posed by Dia’s sites, collection, and program.

With Dia’s recent revitalization of its West 22nd Street location – Dia Chelsea – and The Kitchen about to embark on its own renovation, this partnership invites these two risk-taking organizations to build upon decades of dialogue, reinvest in their relationship to the Chelsea neighborhood, and propose collaborative, daring work that will expand engagement with artists, publics, and each other.

The Kitchen x Dia Beacon Foundation is organized by Lumi Tan, Senior Curator, with Matthew Lyons, Curator.