Artist Carol Bove will take over the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s (1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128) iconic rotunda for her first museum survey and largest exhibition to date, bringing together more than 100 works created over a 25-year career.
Filling the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed building from floor to ceiling, the exhibition traces key shifts in Bove’s practice, from early drawings and installations to new, monumental steel works created specifically for the museum. It marks the first comprehensive overview of the artist’s formal and conceptual development.
The presentation spans more than two decades of work and includes early “shelf” sculptures incorporating books and ephemera from the late 1960s and early 1970s, later assemblages made from found natural objects, and her looping white abstract forms known as “glyphs.” A new iteration of the glyphs will be installed outside the museum near the entrance.
At the heart of the exhibition is a debut group of large-scale “collage sculptures,” composed of rusted scrap metal, square steel tubing and glossy steel disks. Created in response to the Guggenheim’s architecture, the works manipulate industrial materials into gestural forms that contrast with the rigidity of their source.
Bove will also introduce subtle architectural interventions that reframe how visitors experience the museum’s spiral ramps. Lounges built into the rotunda bays will offer spaces for rest and contemplation, while artist-made chess sets placed on the rotunda floor will invite interaction.
“While Carol Bove’s career has been marked by restless experimentation, her central focus has remained the creation of vivid perceptual encounters,” said Katherine Brinson, the Guggenheim’s Daskalopoulos senior curator of contemporary art. She described the exhibition as both a dialogue between Bove’s early and recent work and a collaboration with Wright’s sculptural building.
The installation will also feature selected works by artists who have influenced Bove’s thinking, reflecting her long-standing interest in curating and contextualizing the work of others.
To accompany the exhibition, the Guggenheim will publish a two-volume catalog housed in a die-cut slipcase inspired by Bove’s use of geometry and color. The first volume includes scholarly essays and an exhibition history, while the second is an artist’s book featuring immersive, full-scale photographs of her work and paper collages.
Born in Geneva in 1971 and raised in Berkeley, California, Bove lives and works in Brooklyn. Her work has been shown at major institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art and the Nasher Sculpture Center. She has previously participated in Guggenheim exhibitions and has three works in the museum’s collection.
The exhibit is on display from March 5 – August 2, 2026
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