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Carol Bove Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 5 March–2 August 2026 New York
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Carol Bove will be the first museum survey and largest presentation to date of the work of American artist Carol Bove. The exhibition will trace pivotal shifts across Bove’s 25-year career, ranging from her early drawings to a new, monumental series of her scrap metal and steel tubing compositions known as “collage sculptures.” The artist will also orchestrate a series of design interventions that subtly inflect the experience of navigating Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic rotunda, reflecting her longstanding interest in the way objects and images are transformed by their surroundings.

Bove’s inventive practice spans many mediums and formal approaches but is unified by an exacting play of material, scale, color, and space. She places these elements in dialogue with cultural histories and the viewer’s imagination to create the conditions for a resonant perceptual encounter—one that will function, in the words of the artist, as “a way of opening the world.”

This exhibition is organized by Katherine Brinson, Daskalopoulos Curator, Contemporary Art, with support from Charlotte Youkilis, Curatorial Assistant, Exhibitions, and Bellara Huang, former Curatorial Assistant, Exhibitions.

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About the Artist

Carol Bove (b. 1971, Geneva) is an American artist known for sculptures that transform heavy industrial materials into forms of surprising lightness and poise. Working primarily with twisted and crushed steel tubing combined with materials such as concrete, wood, and scrap metal—often finished in vivid automotive paints—she creates works that oscillate between formal abstraction and an improvisational, gestural language.

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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a landmark institution on New York’s Upper East Side, world-renowned for its iconic spiral building by Frank Lloyd Wright and celebrated collection of modern and contemporary art.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum contemporary art institution in New York United States
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue , New York City, New York, United States
212 423 3500
http://www.guggenheim.org

Opening hours
Sunday - Friday: 10am-5:45pm

Thursday: Closed

Saturday: 10am-7:45pm
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