09/16/2026
“David Lamelas: The Machine” at Dia Chelsea is a comprehensive survey exhibition of the Argentine artist’s work and his first major solo presentation in New York. A foundational yet overlooked figure of 1960s and ’70s art, Lamelas has produced paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, performances, and films, bridging Conceptual, Minimalist, and Pop approaches to art making. Scroll on for more ways to engage with the artist and exhibition this season.
Photo: “David Lamelas: The Machine,” installation view, Dia Chelsea, New York, 2026–27. © David Lamelas. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio (Bill Jacobson)
On Saturday, September 19, join us at Dia Beacon for a performance of “Time.” In this work, time becomes both spatialized and durational through the performance of “passing” time down a line of participants. The first person states the current time to the next person, who waits one minute before passing it along again. Free with museum admission.
Photo: David Lamelas, “Time,” 1970. Performance view, Les Arcs, Savoie, France, 1970. © David Lamelas. Courtesy the artist; Jan Mot, Brussels; and Sprüth Magers, Berlin, London, and Los Angeles
On Saturday, September 19 at Dia Chelsea, Gabriella Mazza (Gabriella Mazza) performs “Office of Information About the Vietnam War at Three Levels: The Visual Image, Text, and Audio,” Lamelas’s 1968 work originally presented in the Venice Biennale’s Argentine pavilion.
Photo: Don Stahl
From September 30–November 28, experience the final chapter of David Lamelas’s film program in Dia Chelsea’s Program space. Organized in four chapters, this program exhibits different stages of Lamelas’s film- and video-making career as it developed over six decades. The artist’s itinerant life—moving from Buenos Aires to London and then Los Angeles—has resulted in a diverse body of work that closely mirrors the social and aesthetic conditions of each place he lived in and the eras in which he occupied them.
Photo: David Lamelas, “This Is My Place,” 2023. David Lamelas: The Machine, installation view, Dia Chelsea, New York, 2026–27. © David Lamelas. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio (Bill Jacobson
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