Guggenheim Museum Presents 5-Night Exterior Light Projection by Jenny Holzer

What: To celebrate the opening of the major exhibition Jenny Holzer: Light Line (on view May 17–September 29, 2024), the artist’s projection, For the Guggenheim —a light projection commissioned by the museum in 2008—will illuminate Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic curving architecture with a selection of poems and eyewitness accounts that speak to the necessity of peace.

Featuring voices from around the world, Holzer’s projection will transform the building and its surroundings into an environment for gathering, contemplation, and discussion. The projections will be free and open to the public.

Ticket purchase required to see the full exhibition. Special events will be timed with the external projections, including extended museum hours May 17–19 until 8pm.

When: May 16–20, 2024, beginning at sundown.

Where: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10128

For more than forty years, Jenny Holzer has presented her astringent ideas, arguments, joys, and sorrows in public places and international exhibitions, including Times Square, the Venice Biennale, the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao, and the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Her medium—whether a T-shirt, plaque, electronic sign, or stone bench—is writing, and the public dimension is integral to her work. Starting in the 1970s with her New York City street posters and continuing through her recent light projections on landscapes and architecture, her practice has rivaled ignorance and violence with humor, kindness, and courage. Holzer received the Leone d’Oro at the Venice Biennale in 1990, the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award in 1996, and the US State Department’s International Medal of Arts in 2017. She lives and works in New York.

The Leadership Committee for Jenny Holzer: Light Line is gratefully acknowledged for its generosity, with special thanks to Edlis-Neeson Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Barbara and Andrew Gundlach, Hauser & Wirth, Sprüth Magers, Kukje Art & Culture Foundation, Dakis Joannou, Andy and Christine Hall, The Peter Norton Family Foundation, and those who wish to remain anonymous. Additional funding is provided by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum’s Collections Council and the International Director’s Council. Conservation funding was provided by Suzanne Deal Booth.

Support is also generously provided by The National Endowment for the Arts.

Funding for the conservation of Jenny Holzer: Light Line was generously provided through a grant from the Bank of America Art Conservation Project.

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 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; and the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. An architectural icon and “temple of spirit” where radical art and architecture meet, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is now among a group of eight Frank Lloyd Wright structures in the United States recently designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. To learn more about the museum and the Guggenheim’s activities around the world, visit guggenheim.org