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Kishio Suga DIA Beacon From 19 July 2025 New York
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__Kishio Suga brings together a representative group of the artist’s sculptures, dating from the 1960s to the ’90s, that probe the slippages between seeing and knowing. Works culled from Dia’s holdings are complemented by key loans, together unsettling habitual expectations of materials’ behaviors, including concrete, machine oil, paraffin wax, metal, and stone that are set in serial, mutually upholding, and at times precarious arrangements. Inflected anew by the conditions of the site in which they are displayed, each of Suga’s sculptures stages a carefully framed incoherence.

In conjunction with the exhibition’s opening, Suga’s murder-mystery film,Being and Murder (1999), and video documentation of his performative “activations” will screen for the first time outside of Japan at Dia Chelsea, from July 9 to August 9.

Kishio Suga is curated by Matilde Guidelli-Guidi, curator and co–department head, with Min Sun Jeon, assistant curator.

All exhibitions at Dia are made possible by the Economou Exhibition Fund.

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About the Artist

Kishio Suga is a leading figure of site-specific sculpture in Japan. A member of the Mono-ha movement, Suga interrogates the encounter between natural and industrial materials, and between these materials and their site.

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About the Gallery

DIA Beacon is a renowned contemporary art museum situated in Beacon, New York, on the banks of the Hudson River. Housed in a repurposed 1929 Nabisco box printing factory, its expansive galleries and minimalist architecture make it a destination for lovers of postwar art and industrial design.

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3 Beekman Street
Beacon
New York
United States
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January–March
Friday–Monday 11 am–4 pm

April–October
Thursday–Monday 11 am–6 pm

November–December
Thursday–Monday 11 am–4 pm
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New York 3 Beekman Street, Beacon
DIA Beacon contemporary art institution in New York United States
DIA Beacon
3 Beekman Street, Beacon, New York, United States
+1 845 440 0100
http://www.diaart.org

Opening hours
January–March
Friday–Monday 11 am–4 pm

April–October
Thursday–Monday 11 am–6 pm

November–December
Thursday–Monday 11 am–4 pm
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