The Facts
On September 10, 2026, Dia Art Foundation announced "Haegue Yang: Through," a major commission at Dia Beacon in Beacon, New York, opening October 10, 2026 and on long-term view through June 12, 2028. The exhibition spans the museum’s two levels, marking the first time an artist has created a new body of work across both stacked architectural volumes. It features four discrete but integrated works—Tidal Field (2026), Fallen Field (2026), Sonic Field (2026), and Axial Flow (2026)—that engage Minimalist and Postminimalist forms while incorporating sound, light, and references to East Asian Five Phases theory and composer Isang Yun.
The Signal
The commission extends Dia’s history of inviting artists to respond to its distinctive spaces, with Yang reframing site as a field of material, cultural, and symbolic relations. Her decade-long posthumous engagement with composer Isang Yun—who serves as a proxy for her diasporic logic—rescores Yun’s quartet Images (1968) across sculpture and installation, complicating the formal languages of Minimalism through myth, musicality, and movement. The presentation signals a deepening institutional commitment to transnational, interdisciplinary practices that bridge abstraction with historical and political narratives.
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- Artists: Haegue Yang, Isang Yun
- People: Jessica Morgan, Jordan Carter, Min Sun Jeon, Mina Lee
- Galleries: kurimanzutto
- Museums: Dia Art Foundation, Dia Beacon, Hayward Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Locations: Beacon, New York
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