We are very pleased to share that Land Art Lives is partner for the 2025 Holt/Smithson Foundation Annual lecture. Speaker is the artist Katie Peterson. The fourth event in the series Annual Lectures will take place at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo in The Netherlands in November 2025.

Katie Paterson (Scotland, 1981) is an artist who considers our place on the surface of our planet in the context of geological time and change. Her artworks make use of sophisticated technologies and specialist expertise to stage intimate, poetic and philosophical engagements between people and their natural environment. She has exhibited internationally, from London to New York, Berlin to Seoul, and her works featured in major exhibitions including Turner Contemporary, Hayward Gallery, Tate Britain, Kunsthalle Wien, MCA Sydney, Guggenheim Museum, and The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art. In 2021 she participated in the Holt/Smithson Foundation curated exhibition Light and Language at Lismore Castle Arts. Katie will discuss her work in reaction to the art and ideas of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson, followed by an in-conversation with Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation.

Holt/Smithson Foundation Annual Lecture

Nancy Holt (1938-2014) and Robert Smithson (1938-1973) transformed the world of art and ideas. Holt/Smithson Foundation develops their distinctive creative legacies. Collaborating with artists, writers, thinkers, and institutions, Holt/Smithson Foundation realizes exhibitions, publishes books, initiates artist commissions, programs educational events, encourages research, and develops collections globally from its headquarters in New Mexico.

The Annual Lecture program of the Holt/Smithson Foundation launched in 2022 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York with art historian Anne M. Wagner as the speaker. The second Annual Lecture took place at New Mexico Museum of Art, with Rebecca Solnit the keynote, a presentation by artists DesertArtLab, and a discussion with Lucy R. Lippard. The third was hosted by the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in Salt Lake City, Utah, with artist Renée Green as speaker.

Partners: Land Art Lives en Kröller-Müller Museum

Land Art Lives is an on-going program, organized by Kunstmuseum M. and Land Art Flevoland, investigating the relevance of land art in our present times. Exploring land art in the context of its history, its new manifestations, questions of impermanence, and the urgent ecological and social issues of today, Land Art Lives is committed to rethinking the idea of land art as large-scale, monumental works of art situated in the vast American desert. The Kröller-Müller Museum, situated within the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo, Netherlands, is renowned for its extensive collection of nineteenth and twentieth-century art, including the second-largest assemblage of Vincent van Gogh’s works and several important drawings by Robert Smithson relating to Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971), his most significant earthwork. Complementing the indoor galleries is the museum’s expansive sculpture garden: established in 1961, it features over 200 sculptures by artists including Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore, Jean Dubuffet, Marta Pan, Pierre Huyghe, and Richard Serra, whose Spin Out, for Robert Smithson was completed just after Smithson’s passing in 1973.

More information about the exact date and tickets will follow soon.