Spring 2025 Press Round-Up

Curator's Prize: Exhibitions of the Year 2024
[Kuratoren Preis: Die Ausstellung des Jahres 2024]

Original German translated to English via Google Translate - please forgive any errors or omissions.
Art: Das Kunstmagazin / April 2025
Nancy Holt: Circles of Light at Gropius Bau has been nominated as the best exhibition of the year for 2024. Winner to be announced April 10.
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“Nancy Holt: Power Systems” at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Mousse Magazine / March 26, 2025
[The Wexner Center for the Arts] has partnered with Holt/Smithson Foundation for the most extensive inquiry to date into the artist’s focus on the systems that connect and power societies.

Do You See Light?
Stir World / March 20, 2025
by Samta Nadeem
Presented by the Dia Art Foundation, 'Light into Space' at NMACC in Mumbai challenges rigid perceptions of reality and art, offering an unconventional spatial experience.

Archived News

Soft Network Benefit Auction

We are pleased to participate in the Soft Network Benefit Auction, open on Artsy from September 23 until October 7, 2026. The auction brings together works in support of Soft Network and the Artist Foundations and Estate Leaders List (AFELL), an international network for artists and stewards of artists’ estates and legacies. Holt/Smithson Foundation has donated two rare works of art by Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson to the auction to help further this goal. 

“Starfire” at Powder Art Foundation Fall Open Day and Utah Museum of Fine Arts Land Art Week

On October 2, from 11 am to 3 pm, Powder Art Foundation will host a Fall Open House at Powder Mountain in Eden, Utah where Nancy Holt’s Starfire (1986) can be experienced. Starfire joined the collection of Powder Art Foundation last year. The sculpture comprises eight fire pits arranged in the configuration of the Big Dipper and the North Star, bringing the sky down to earth.

Portuguese translation of Smithson's "Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction"

We are pleased to share our collaboration with the São Paulo–based Robert Smithson scholar and professor Antônio Ewbank and publisher Editora Ébria, presenting the first Portuguese translation of the text of Robert Smithson's Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction (1970). Strata: A Geophotographic Fiction is a four-part fold-out work created by Smithson for Aspen Magazine No. 8: The Fluxus Issue, guest edited by Dan Graham and designed by George Maciunas.

Nancy Holt in "10 Years LA!"

From May to August 2026, Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers presented 1 0 Years LA!,at their Los Angeles gallery, an exhibition celebrating the gallery's decade-long presence in the city.