Dia Art Foundation
The Dia Art Foundation is an art foundation in New York City that initiates and supports art projects of all kinds and maintains its own art museum ( Dia: Beacon ). It was founded in 1974 by Philippa de Menil, a daughter of the art collector Dominique de Ménil from Houston, and her husband, the art dealer Heiner Friedrich . The name Dia was taken from the Greek and means "through". The founding couple chose the name to indicate that the foundation supports artistic projects that would otherwise not be realized because of their character or their size.
Funded projects included the Chinati Foundation museum complex in Marfa , Texas, and the 7000 oak project by Joseph Beuys .
In the first ten years, the donors collected works by Joseph Beuys , John Chamberlain , Walter De Maria , Dan Flavin , Donald Judd , Imi Knoebel , Blinky Palermo , Fred Sandback , Cy Twombly , Andy Warhol , Robert Whitman and La Monte Young .
Since 1997 the foundation has put on its own collection for a planned art museum. The first art objects donated for this purpose were three sculptures from Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses series (1996–97), which Serra had created for an exhibition in the warehouse of the Dia Foundation in Chelsea (Manhattan) .
The permanent collection was expanded to include works by the artists Bernd and Hilla Becher , Louise Bourgeois , Michael Heizer , Robert Irwin , Hanne Darboven , Katharina Fritsch , Ann Hamilton , Jenny Holzer , On Kawara , Sol LeWitt , Agnes Martin , through purchases, gifts and permanent loans . Bruce Nauman , Gerhard Richter , Robert Ryman , Robert Smithson , Diana Thater , Rosemarie Trockel and Lawrence Weiner .
With Dia: Beacon , the foundation created its own museum, which opened in 2003 on the banks of the Hudson in Beacon in the US state of New York.
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Coordinates: 40 ° 44'52.1 " N , 74 ° 0'24.6" W.