Guggenheim Museum Hosts 2025 YCC Party Presented by LG Display

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This one-night-only dance party will transform the Rotunda with immersive designs by artist LaJuné McMillian and a DJ set by Kito.

An evening where digital and physical realms will converge at the Guggenheim New York. For the 2025 Young Collectors Council Party (YCC Party), artist LaJuné McMillian will transform the museum’s iconic rotunda into a hybrid virtual environment. Known for pushing boundaries with motion capture and gaming engines, LaJuné redefines performance and extended reality, boldly challenging the ways we connect with one another.

This one-night-only dance party will feature a DJ set by producer and DJ Kito, an open bar, and a celebration of the 2025 LG Guggenheim Award recipient, Ayoung Kim. Attendees are encouraged to dress in cosmic-core attire—ethereal aesthetics and iridescent hues.

Funds raised from the evening will benefit the Guggenheim New York and the Young Collectors Council Art Fund, which supports emerging and established contemporary artists. Contributions directly impact the museum’s permanent collection, groundbreaking exhibitions, and education initiatives. The YCC Party is presented by LG Display. The YCC 2025 Artist Collaboration with LaJuné McMillian is supported by LG OLED.

YCC Cochairs Hannah Gottlieb-Graham, Alyssa Yoon, and Tiffany Zabludowicz; Honorary Cochairs Sophia Cohen, and Alexandra Economou; 2025 YCC Party Cochairs Jes Fan, Olivia Fialkow Phillips, Alexander Hankin, Natalie Jackson, Chloe and Dillon Lawson-Johnston, Quinn Martinelli, Tschabalala Self, and Moses Sumney; 2025 YCC Party Host Committee Seun Aboderin, Ella Emhoff, Justine Fisher and Theo Osborne, Mason Gooding, Jon Gray, Casey Kohlberg, Melissa Mathias, Deidrea A. Miller, Polly-Anna Monckton and Casey Bergen, Moneifa Cherice Nance, Kevin Rezvani, Gabrielle Richardson, Paula Sanders, Dakota Sica, Anastasiya Siro, Kali Steinman, Cecily Waud, and Eden Xu-Martinez; and YCC 2025 Artist Collaborator LaJuné McMillian.

Thursday, May 8, 2025

General admission, 9 pm–midnight

Guggenheim New York

1071 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10128

Tickets: $250 YCC members; $300 general admission. For more information, visit the YCC event page.

Sponsors

The 2025 YCC Party is presented by LG Display.

The YCC 2025 Artist Collaboration is supported by LG OLED.

About the YCC

The Young Collectors Council (YCC) is a dynamic group of young professionals ages 21–40 who seek to further their understanding of contemporary art through a dedicated calendar of curator-led programs and special events such as curator-led tours, artist interactions, private collection visits, and more. Members convene for the unique opportunity to participate in a biannual meeting to further the YCC’s mission of acquiring emerging, contemporary art for the museum’s permanent collection and supporting our groundbreaking exhibitions and education initiatives.

About the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative
The LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative is a five-year, multifaceted collaboration between the Guggenheim and LG designed to research, honor, and promote artists working at the intersection of art and technology. Unique in its areas of concentration and approach, the initiative is an unprecedented investment in technology as an artistic medium. It enables the Guggenheim to broaden its investigations into this innovative field, providing essential support to the visionary artists who inspire new understandings of how technology shapes, and is shaped by, society.

As part of the initiative, Noam Segal joined the Guggenheim New York in 2023 as LG Electronics Associate Curator. Focusing on research, Segal holds an active role in developing the museum’s engagement with technology-based art, producing scholarship and public-facing content that will strengthen the goals of the multifaceted initiative across the museum’s departments.

Building on this collaboration, LG will sponsor the Guggenheim’s YCC Party through 2027. Through its sponsorship of the party, the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative sustains the museum’s mission to collect, preserve, and interpret the art of our time and expands the YCC’s long-standing history of supporting pioneering artists. Each year the YCC Party features activations and performances devised by rising stars of the art world; these artists will incorporate LG’s groundbreaking OLED technology into their engagements with the Guggenheim’s landmark building.

In February 2025, Guggenheim New York and LG proudly announced Ayoung Kim as the 2025 LG Guggenheim Award recipient. Kim will be celebrated at the YCC Party and recognized for her innovative practice that employs both emerging technologies and traditional mediums to investigate contemporary issues.  For more information, visit guggenheim.org/initiatives/lg-guggenheim-art-and-technology-initiative/lg-and-the-ycc-party.

Two additional artists will be recognized with the LG Guggenheim Award through 2027.

About LG
Founded in 1947, LG is a technology innovator and global leader in consumer electronics, automotive components, ESS, and organic light-emitting displays (OLEDs). LG Corporation (LG Corp.) is the holding company for industry-leading LG subsidiaries, such as LG Electronics, LG Display, LG Energy Solution, and LG Chem, among others. The LG group of companies employs over 270,000 people across more than 60 countries, generating USD 140 billion in annual revenue. For more information about the LG group of companies, please visit lgcorp.com.

About the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was established in 1937 and is dedicated to promoting the understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary art through exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications. The international constellation of museums includes the Guggenheim New York, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Guggenheim Bilbao, and the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. A “temple of spirit” where radical art and architecture meet, the Guggenheim New York is among a group of eight Frank Lloyd Wright structures in the United States designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. To learn more about the Guggenheim New York and the Guggenheim’s activities around the world, visit guggenheim.org.

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