Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbishat Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U (March 28 - July 26, 2026), showing a selection of works relating to Nancy Holt’s Sky Mound(1984-)

Photograph Sarah Ruholl

installation images of an exhibition showing Nancy Holt's Sky Mound project

Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbishat Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U (March 28 - July 26, 2026), showing a selection of works relating to Nancy Holt’s Sky Mound(1984-)

Photograph Sarah Ruholl

Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbishat Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U (March 28 - July 26, 2026), showing a selection of works relating to Nancy Holt’s Sky Mound(1984-)

Photograph Sarah Ruholl

Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbishat Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U (March 28 - July 26, 2026), showing a selection of works relating to Nancy Holt’s Sky Mound(1984-)

Photograph Sarah Ruholl

Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbishat Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U (March 28 - July 26, 2026), showing a selection of works relating to Nancy Holt’s Sky Mound(1984-)

Photograph Sarah Ruholl

Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbishat Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U (March 28 - July 26, 2026), showing a selection of works relating to Nancy Holt’s Sky Mound(1984-)

Photograph Sarah Ruholl

Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbishat Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U (March 28 - July 26, 2026), showing a selection of works relating to Nancy Holt’s Sky Mound(1984-)

Photograph Sarah Ruholl

Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbishat Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U (March 28 - July 26, 2026), showing a selection of works relating to Nancy Holt’s Sky Mound(1984-)

Photograph Sarah Ruholl

Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbishat Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U (March 28 - July 26, 2026), showing a selection of works relating to Nancy Holt’s Sky Mound(1984-)

Photograph Sarah Ruholl

Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbishat Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U (March 28 - July 26, 2026), showing a selection of works relating to Nancy Holt’s Sky Mound(1984-)

Photograph Sarah Ruholl

Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbishat Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U (March 28 - July 26, 2026), showing a selection of works relating to Nancy Holt’s Sky Mound(1984-)

Photograph Sarah Ruholl

Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbishat Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U (March 28 - July 26, 2026), showing a selection of works relating to Nancy Holt’s Sky Mound(1984-)

Photograph Sarah Ruholl

Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbishat Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U (March 28 - July 26, 2026), showing a selection of works relating to Nancy Holt’s Sky Mound(1984-).

Photograph Sarah Ruholl

installation image of an exhibition showing Nancy Holt's Sky Mound project

Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbishat Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U (March 28 - July 26, 2026), showing a selection of works relating to Nancy Holt’s Sky Mound(1984-).

Photograph Sarah Ruholl

Exhibitions

Waste

Mar 28 – Jul 26, 2026

Group Exhibition

Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U presents the exhibition Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbish, featuring works by Nancy Holt relating to her unfinished project Sky Mound (1984-). Focusing on the worldwide circulation of waste and its consequences for people and the environment, Waste explores how artists have engaged in a critical exploration of what society considers to be waste.

Sky Mound was developed for a landfill in New Jersey. In 1993, Holt described landfills as “shunned earthen forms – forgotten trash heaps relegated to the realms of the unconscious. By the end of the century, with more reliance on improved methods of recycling and incinerating our refuse, laws will go into effect which will prohibit the use of landfills for garbage disposal. These heaps of garbage will be seen as the artifacts of our generation, our legacy to the future.”

Waste presents five of Holt’s drawings for this ambitious project, alongside documentation of the early stages of its construction.

More Exhibitions

A sign in a sunny clearing that says "Sun Gold Date Shop"

Nancy Holt: Light and Shadow Poetics

Feb 25 – May 24, 2026

Solo Exhibition

MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles

https://www.makcenter.org/exhibitions/nancy-holt-light-and-shadow-poetics

What does it mean to notice how we see? Nancy Holt: Light and Shadow Poetics at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House in Los Angeles brings Nancy Holt’s study of perception into a close conversation with the site. Here, light, sound, language, and movement meet as parallel systems for organizing perception.

Chaotic image of many criss-crossing reeds with a dark background

Films by Holt and Smithson on view at The Museum of Modern Art

Feb 18, 2026 – Feb 20, 2027

Two-person Exhibition

Gallery 411, David Geffen Wing

https://www.moma.org/calendar/galleries/5889

Currently on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, are three films by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty (1970), Swamp (1971), and Sun Tunnels (1978). The presentation is located on Floor 4, in collection gallery 411 of the David Geffen Wing.