Dia - Tehching Hsieh
Fri, Oct 03
|Dia Beacon
Time as material. Discipline as art. Tehching Hsieh’s uncompromising performances—some spanning a year, others over a decade—arrive in full at Dia Beacon this fall.
Time & Location
Oct 03, 2025, 7:00 PM – Mar 31, 2026, 11:00 PM
Dia Beacon, 3 Beekman St, Beacon, NY 12508, USA
About the event
Opening October 3, 2025, Tehching Hsieh at Dia Beacon marks the first comprehensive retrospective of a singular figure in performance art. Known for his radical endurance-based works—living locked in a cage for a year, clocking in every hour around the clock, abstaining from art entirely, and more—Hsieh transformed time into his medium, testing human will, routine, and meaning in ways no artist ever had.
This exhibition presents all five One Year Performances and the nearly mythical Thirteen Year Plan (1986–1999), unified through an immersive architectural model that visualizes time as lived experience.
Whether tethered to another human being or vanishing from the art world altogether, Hsieh’s work is both an act of rebellion and reflection, one that demands presence and offers no shortcuts.
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