the artist Susan Philipsz standing in a wooded landscape

Susan Philipsz is the speaker for the 2025 Annual Lecture

Susan Philipsz is our speaker for the 2025 Holt/Smithson Foundation Annual Lecture. The fourth event in the series took place at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo in the Netherlands on Saturday October 11, 2025. In November, a recording will be posted on our website.

The ten-year Annual Lecture Series is an initiative that invites artists, writers, and thinkers to raise questions and present research extending the creative legacies of the artists Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson. Over the course of a decade, the Foundation partners with a different institution each year to host lectures in ten distinct locations, each significant to Holt and Smithson.

2026 was the first Annual Lecture to take place outside of the USA, and it was developed in partnership with Land Art Lives,  the foremost European research program on Land Art in Europe. The Kröller-Müller Museum is the closest national arts institution to Robert Smithson’s 1971 earthwork Broken Circle/Spiral Hill – Smithson’s most significant outdoor sculpture.

In her lecture, Philipsz discussed Nancy Holt's influence on her art and ideas, followed by a conversation with Lisa Le Feuvre, our Executive Director.

Portrait: Susan Philipsz, 2025

Photo: Jonathan James Wilson

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