The Equator Has Moved: Renée Green at Dia Beacon

Dia Curator Jordan Carter states in his essay for the exhibition’s brochure:

“For her first major solo museum presentation in New York, the artist draws on her core strategies and typologies to position a selection of rarely seen paintings and multimedia installations, with an emphasis on the late 1980s and ’90s, in dialogue with newly commissioned Bichos and Space Poems, and other works reconfigured specifically for Dia Beacon. Constellating historical, reimagined, and new work in the two expansive central galleries and adjacent perpendicular corridor, this chronologically defiant exhibition aptly stages the artist’s practice in contact and context with influential figures key to Dia’s history and Green’s formation.”

Carter continues: “With a combinatory distribution of works across media encouraging durational, multidirectional, and cross-disciplinary encounters, visitors walk, sit, listen, look up, and read, engaging with varying levels of attention and modes of perception. Presenting a meandering parcours—both ambulatory and imaginary—through the three galleries that form the circulatory arteries of the building, the exhibition emphasizes nonlinear and accretive experience, mirroring Green’s methodologies of relays and returns as well as the entropic forces of culture and nature. As with each encounter, the equator has moved.”

A milestone presentation of Green’s work in the United States, The Equator Has Moved offers an invaluable opportunity to engage with Green’s complex work in dialogue with preeminent figures of Minimal and Conceptual art such as Gerhard Richter, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner, Robert Smithson, stanley brouwn, On Kawara, Hélio Oiticica, Melvin Edwards, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Steve McQueen, and Cameron Rowland, igniting a series of conceptual and formal echoes and correspondences resonating throughout Dia Beacon’s expansive galleries.

Known for its long-terms presentations, Green’s exhibition at Dia Beacon will remain available to visit until August 31, 2026. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of public events throughout its duration.

A comprehensive monograph providing a foundational introduction to the artist’s practice through several distinct and complementary points of entry is forthcoming, featuring contributions by Alexander Alberro, Erika Balsom, Jordan Carter, Diedrich Diederichsen, Ann Goldstein, James Meyer, and Blake Oetting, with a contribution by the artist.

Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved is curated by Jordan Carter, Dia’s curator and co-department head, and Ella den Elzen, curatorial assistant.

More information:
Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved
Renée Green in Conversation with Jordan Carter, Dia Beacon, 3.8.2025