We are very happy to share the launch of the Holt/Smithson Foundation Friends Program, a close community of supporters committed to advancing the creative legacies of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson and ensuring their ideas remain active in the world.
Works from Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson will soon be on view in Soleil Noir: Petrole et art contemporain / Black Sun: Petroleum and Contemporary Art at the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici. Curated by Morad Montazami, Madeleine de Colnet, and Caroline Courrioux, this exhibition uses the theme of oil to address the question of artworks in the era of global warming.
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.
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.
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.
We are pleased to share that bookings for the 2026 Open Days at Robert Smithson’s Broken Circle/Spiral Hill are now open.
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.
On the occasion of the exhibition Nancy Holt: Light and Shadow Poetics at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, we presented a special screening event on April 9, 2026 at Sprüth Magers.
In summer 2026, Museum Ostwall at the Dortmunder U presented the exhibition Waste. An exhibition about the global routes of rubbish, which featured works by Nancy Holt relating to her unfinished project Sky Mound (1984-).