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 Paterson. The fourth event in the series Annual Lectures will take place at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo in The Netherlands on Saturday October 11, 2025.

Susan Philipsz

Scottish artist Susan Philipsz calls herself a sound architect. In 2010, she won the Turner Prize, the first time a sound artist had been nominated and won the prize. She creates space, feeling, and memories with sound in public places such as bridges, railway stations, parks, or supermarkets. “My work deals with the spatial properties of sound and with the relationships between sound and architecture. I am particularly interested in the emotive and psychological properties of sound and how it can be used as a device to alter individual consciousness. I have used sound as a medium in public spaces to trigger an awareness in the listener, to temporarily alter their perception of themselves in a particular place and time.”

Philipsz has presented her work worldwide, for example at Documenta 13, and it has been included in important museum collections around the world, such as the MOMA in New York. The LAM museum in Lisse in the Netherlands owns a work by Philipsz that you can hear when you walk around the museum. Her sound installation The Wind Rose from 2019 is part of the Kröller-Müller Museum's collection and is currently on display on the museum grounds.

Susan Philipsz will talk about the resonance of Nancy Holt in her art and ideas, followed by an in-conversation with Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation reflecting on how we think about Land Art today. What histories do particular sites hold? How does an artwork create a dialogue with the landscape that holds it?

Date, location, reservation

Saturday, October 11, at 2:30 p.m. (please allow for travel time).
The lecture and discussion will last approximately 1.5 hours.
The location is the Kröller-Müller Museum, Houtkampweg 6, 6731 AW Otterlo

Attending Susan Philipsz's lecture is free of charge. However, you must reserve a spot. You can do so by ordering a free ticket below. With a ticket, you have access to the museum for the entire day.
Please note: The Kröller-Müller Museum is located in Het Nationale Park Hoge Veluwe, a national park. You will need a separate admission ticket to enter the park. You can purchase this in advance online or at the park entrances.

Reserve a ticket for Susan Philipsz's lecture here

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.

This fourth Annual Lecture will take place outside the United States for the first time, in collaboration with Land Art Lives and the Kröller-Müller Museum.

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.