Nancy Holt: Mirrors of Light

Nov 26, 2021 – Jan 27, 2022

Solo Exhibition

A figure standing in a white walled room. A diagonal line of mirrors in a white walled room. Light is reflecting off the mirrors, creating orbs of light on the other two walls

Holt/Smithson Foundation and Sprüth Magers are delighted to announce the first solo exhibition by Nancy Holt at the Berlin gallery, featuring her iconic installation, Mirrors of Light I (1974). Throughout her practice, Holt was interested in the use of light as a medium, while simultaneously examining it as subject matter in its own right. In this installation, light is a conceptual entity and a physical reality, a practical resource and an aesthetic object. As is the case with the majority of Holt's oeuvre, Mirrors of Light I creates an opportunity for self-examination through the perceptions that arise in the face of her work.

Learn more and watch a video walkthrough of the exhibition on the Sprüth Magers website.

More Exhibitions

looking through Nancy Holt's Locator at the Art Institute of Chicago

Nancy Holt: Seeing in the Round

Oct 5, 2024 – Apr 20, 2025

Solo Exhibition

Bluhm Family Terrace

The Art Institute of Chicago

https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/10488/nancy-holt-seeing-in-the-round

From October 5, 2024 until April 20, 2025 a focused presentation of Nancy Holt’s Locators takes place at the Art Institute of Chicago, on the Bluhm Family Terrace.

A black metal pipe with a horizontal top is pointing directly at a black circle painted on the wall

Shifting Landscapes

Nov 1, 2024 – Jan 1, 2026

Group Exhibition

Whitney Museum of American Art

https://whitney.org/exhibitions/shifting-landscapes

Nancy Holt's Locator (Studio Corner) from 1971 is on view in the exhibition Shifting Landscapes at the Whitney Museum of American Art. This marks the first time the work has been installed since the work entered the collection of the Whitney in 2006.

Nancy Holt's pipeline outside of the Wexner Center for the Arts

Nancy Holt: Power Systems

Feb 7 – Jun 29, 2025

Solo Exhibition

Wexner Center for the Arts

https://wexarts.org/exhibitions/nancy-holt-power-systems

Nancy Holt: Power Systems at the Wexner Center for the Arts features the most extensive inquiry to date into Nancy Holt's studies of systems, focusing on her interactive site-responsive sculptural installations that expose the basic technological systems found in the built environment.

Circular white grommets arranged in a circle on white foamcore

Know

Apr 12 – May 17, 2025

Group Exhibition

Bodenrader

https://www.bodenrader.com/know

Nancy Holt's 1969 concrete poem Hammond and her 1973 grommet work Untitled are on view in the exhibition Know at Bodenrader, in Chicago, Illinois. On view alongside with these two works by Holt is a hand-bound artist book by Hanne Darboven from the collection of Holt/Smithson Foundation.