Carol Bove at the Guggenheim

To support Carol Bove’s first museum survey at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, we have supplied more than 600 yards of upholstery textiles for a series of custom-designed panels and seating developed specifically for the building’s iconic rotunda by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Spanning more than 25 years of the artist’s practice, the exhibition unfolds as a dialogue between sculpture, architecture, and movement. Works are integrated into the spiralling geometry of the rotunda, foregrounding the spatial logic of Wright’s design while tracing key shifts in Bove’s approach to material, scale, and perception. New bodies of work are presented, including a monumental group of steel “collage sculptures” conceived for the space, alongside a series of wall-mounted aluminium panels.

Selected by the artists, our upholstery textiles form a nuanced chromatic progression that unfolds gradually as visitors ascend the building. The palette spans Hallingdal, Remix 3 and Sabi textile, alongside Sahco textiles including Ecriture and Balboa. Applied across seating and panels, the materials introduce tactile depth and a softened visual rhythm within the rotunda’s continuous form.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York,
NY 10128

March 5 — August 2, 2026 
Monday — Sunday, 10.30 am – 5.30 pm

About Carol Bove

Carol Bove was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1971 and raised in Berkeley, California. She relocated to New York in 1992 and earned a BS from New York University in 2000. Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2021–22); the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2021); The High Line, New York (2013–14); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013–14); the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin (2006); the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2004); and Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany (2003), among other institutions. Group exhibitions include those held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2019–20); Museo Jumex, Mexico City (2013–14); Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2013–14); Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut (2012–13); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (2012–13); Documenta, Kassel, Germany (2012); The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (2011); Tate St Ives, England (2009); Tate Britain, London (2008); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2008); The Kitchen, New York (2007); New Museum, New York (2007–08); P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center (now MoMA PS1), Long Island City, New York (2004 and 2005); and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2004). The artist participated in the exhibitions Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim (2015) and Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum (2010) and has three artworks in the Guggenheim’s collection. Bove lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

About the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was established in 1937 and is dedicated to promoting the understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary art through exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications. The international constellation of museums includes the Guggenheim New York; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; the Guggenheim Bilbao; and the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. A “temple of spirit” where radical art and architecture meet, the Guggenheim New York is among a group of eight Frank Lloyd Wright structures in the United States designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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