Nancy Holt, Electrical System, 1982, installation view (detail), Gropius Bau, 2024 © Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy: Sprüth Magers, photo: Luis Kürschner

Nancy Holt Circles of Light

Press releases

The Gropius Bau is pleased to announce the most comprehensive presentation of Nancy Holt in Germany to date. Nancy Holt (1938–2014) reframed art’s capacity to engage with essential questions surrounding nature, ecology and the perception of our environment.

Press images

A selection of press images is available for media coverage of Nancy Holt: Circles of Light. Please contact presse@gropiusbau.de to request the login data to download high res press images.

The images can be downloaded and used free of charge prior to and during the project period. Please note that images may not be cropped, overprinted or modified.

We look forward to receiving any digital or hardcopy samples of publications. Please forward or send them to the following address:

Gropius Bau
Press Office
Niederkirchnerstraße 7
10963 Berlin
presse@gropiusbau.de

Nancy Holt, Electrical System, 1982, installation view (detail), Gropius Bau, 2024

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy: Sprüth Magers, photo: Luca Girardini

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Nancy Holt, Electrical System, 1982, installation view, Gropius Bau, 2024

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy: Sprüth Magers, photo: Luca Girardini

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Nancy Holt, Electrical System, 1982, installation view, Gropius Bau, 2024

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy: Sprüth Magers, photo: Luca Girardini

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Nancy Holt, Mirrors of Light II, 1974, installation view, Gropius Bau, 2024

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy: Sprüth Magers, photo: Luca Girardini

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Nancy Holt, Light and Shadow, Photo Drawings, 1978, installation view, Gropius Bau, 2024

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy: Sprüth Magers, photo: Luca Girardini

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Nancy Holt, Locators with Loci, 1972, installation view, Gropius Bau, 2024

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy: Sprüth Magers, photo: Luca Girardini

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Nancy Holt, Electrical Lightning for Reading Room, 1985, installation view, Gropius Bau, 2024

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, courtesy: Sprüth Magers, photo: Luca Girardini

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Nancy Holt with Mirrors of Light II at Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, in 1974

© Holt/Smithson Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023; Photo: John R. Bayalis

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Nancy Holt, Electrical System, 1982, installation view: Nancy Holt: Locating Perception, Gropius Bau, 2024

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Luis Kürschner

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Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels, 1973–76

Great Basin Desert, Utah

© Holt/Smithson Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Nancy Holt

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Nancy Holt, Electrical System, 1982

Nancy Holt, Locating Perception, installation view, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, 2022

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, courtesy: Sprüth Magers, photo: Robert Wedemeyer

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Nancy Holt in Utah, 1971

© Holt/Smithson Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Robert Smithson

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Nancy Holt on the steps up to the Clocktower Gallery in New York, 1974

© Holt/Smithson Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, photo: Gwenn Thomas

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Nancy Holt, Concrete Poem, 1968

© Holt/Smithson Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, courtesy: Sprüth Magers

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Nancy Holt, Pine Barrens (still), 1975

© Holt/Smithson Foundation / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023

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Nancy Holt, Locator with Mirror, 1972

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, courtesy: Sprüth Magers, photo: Peter Mallet

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Nancy Holt, Electrical Lightning for Reading Room, 1985

Artist as Social Designer: Aspects of Public Urban Art Today, installation view, Los Angeles County Museum of Art

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, courtesy: Sprüth Magers

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Nancy Holt, Tour of the John Weber Gallery, New York, 1972

Nancy Holt, Locating Perception, installation view Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, 2022

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, courtesy: Sprüth Magers, photo: Robert Wedemeyer

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Nancy Holt, Sunlight in Sun Tunnels, 1976

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023, courtesy: Sprüth Magers

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Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels photo studies (detail), 1975

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023

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