2025—Katie Paterson at the The Kröller-Müller Museum

We are very pleased to share that the speaker for our 2025 Holt/Smithson Foundation Annual Lecture will be the artist Katie Paterson. Presented in partnership with Land Art Lives, the fourth event in the series will take place at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo in The Netherlands on October 11, 2025. Details on how to book will be published in September.

Katie Paterson (Scotland, 1981) is an artist who considers our place on the surface of our planet in the context of geological time and change. Her artworks make use of sophisticated technologies and specialist expertise to stage intimate, poetic and philosophical engagements between people and their natural environment. She has exhibited internationally, from London to New York, Berlin to Seoul, and her works featured in major exhibitions including Turner Contemporary, Hayward Gallery, Tate Britain, Kunsthalle Wien, MCA Sydney, Guggenheim Museum, and The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. In 2021 she participated in the Foundation curated exhibition Light and Language at Lismore Castle Arts. Katie will discuss her work in reaction to the art and ideas of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, followed by an in-conversation with Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation.

Land Art Lives is an on-going program, organized by Kunstmuseum M. and Land Art Flevoland, investigating the relevance of land art in our present times.  Exploring land art in the context of its history, its new manifestations, questions of impermanence, and the urgent ecological and social issues of today, Land Art Lives is committed to rethinking the idea of land art as large-scale, monumental works of art situated in the vast American desert and the Dutch Flevopolders.

The Kröller-Müller Museum, situated within the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo, Netherlands, is renowned for its extensive collection of nineteenth and twentieth-century art, including the second-largest assemblage of Vincent van Gogh’s works and several important drawings by Robert Smithson relating to Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971) in Emmen (NL), his most significant earthwork. Complementing the indoor galleries is the museum’s expansive sculpture garden: established in 1961, it features over 200 sculptures by artists including Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, Jean Dubuffet, Marta Pan, Pierre Huyghe, and Richard Serra, whose Spin Out, for Robert Smithson was completed just after Smithson’s passing in 1973.