Goodwood Art Foundation unveils summer season

The programme, presented in partnership with Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, will bring together more than 50 works, encompassing sculpture, installation, ceramics, textiles, photography, film, prints and drawings, displayed within the Foundation’s two galleries and restaurant, 24, and across its 70-acre landscape.

Spokeswoman Susie Gault said: “The summer season is anchored by the first major UK exhibition dedicated to the celebrated American artist, Nancy Holt (1938–2014), titled MoonSunStarEarthSkyWater. Holt’s practice spanned more than four decades and explored human experience in relation to cosmic and natural systems.

“Inside The Gallery a selection of photographic works, drawings and concrete poetry will be shown alongside installations and films, including Sun Tunnels (1978), illuminating the ideas behind the artist’s renowned contribution to land art. Major new iterations of her influential site-responsive installations will be realised according to the artist’s instructions, in collaboration with Holt/Smithson Foundation, extending beyond the walls of the gallery space into the surrounding landscape.

“The first posthumous installation of Hydra’s Head (1974) – an earthwork formed of six pools of water positioned according to the Hydra constellation – will be presented within the Foundation’s chalk quarry, where the pools will reflect the changing skies above.

“Irish artist Eva Rothschild (b1971) will unveil an important new commission, a large-scale tapestry woven locally at West Dean College’s Tapestry Studio, in the Foundation’s Pigott Gallery. Sculptures by the artist will be featured both within the gallery and across the landscape, demonstrating the breadth of her visual language using a wide range of materials in a series of signature colours. In 2009, Rothschild was awarded the prestigious Duveens Commission at Tate Britain and represented Ireland at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. In 2023 she was commissioned to create two major tapestries for the new theatre at Sadler’s Wells East, also woven at West Dean.

“The New York based artist, Polly Apfelbaum (b 1955), who is celebrated internationally for her multidisciplinary approach exploring colour, pattern and texture, will present a selection of glazed ceramics and works on paper in the atrium and walls of the Foundation’s restaurant, 24. Renowned for her installations of textiles, ceramics and drawings framed by the legacy of both post-war art and popular culture, she blurs the lines between painting, sculpture and installation while challenging the boundaries between art and craft. Among the many awards the artist has received, she is the recipient of a 2026 grant from the Pollock Krasner Foundation.

“A recent outdoor sculpture by one of the world’s most prominent artists, Yayoi Kusama (b1929), whose oeuvre has transcended the twentieth century’s movements of pop art and minimalism, will be shown in the South Downs for the first time. An iconic example of Kusama’s massive sculptural forms will showcase her lifelong exploration of infinity through repetitive forms and polka dots.

“Awarded the UNESCO prize in 2000 and the Praemium Imperiale for painting in 2001, South Korean painter, sculptor, writer and philosopher Lee Ufan (b1936) came to prominence as a major figure in the Tokyo-based Mono-ha movement in the 1960s. Within the Foundation’s landscape, a large-scale sculpture from Ufan’s Relatum series will embody his minimalist philosophy, focussing on material relationships and spatial perceptions. In creating a dialogue between physical materials in space, he challenges Western materialism by shifting art’s status from static object to an experience of encounter.”