Following the August 2024 announcement of Powder Mountain ski resort's plans to become home to a skiable outdoor art museum, the newly formed Powder Art Foundation at Powder Mountain (Eden, Utah) is pleased to announce the completion of its inaugural suite of permanent artworks for year-round visitation, as well as a major partnership with Dia Art Foundation.
NEW ARTWORKS
A 1986 fire-based work by land art legend Nancy Holt; the permanent fabrication of a 1970 stacked-stone artwork by the late Japanese sculptor Nobuo Sekine (who exhibited a work of the same series at the 1970 Venice Biennale); a set of site-specific ski lift installations by EJ Hill; and an among-the-trees chandelier installation by Kayode Ojo have been installed ahead of Winter 2025-2026, preceding the 2026 groundbreaking of a new pavilion to house works by James Turrell, Bruce Nauman, and more.
DIA PARTNERSHIP
Said Jessica Morgan, Dia Art Foundation’s Nathalie de Gunzburg Director: “We are pleased to work with the Powder Art Foundation as they expand the exciting cultural offerings in Utah—deepening access to the region’s extraordinary Land art legacy while nurturing a bold new generation of outdoor projects.”
The partnership comprises a broad set of collaborative initiatives that includes collection sharing (the loan of works from Dia’s permanent collection for exhibition with Powder Art Foundation); Dia advising Powder Art Foundation on curatorial and institutional development; and Powder Art Foundation evolving a coordinated visitation program for Dia’s iconic remote land art sites in Utah: Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) and Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels (1973-76).
Learn more in the above-linked press release.
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