Goodwood Art Foundation

Goodwood Art Foundation, the UK’s new not-for-profit destination for contemporary art, is located on the Goodwood Estate in the Sussex countryside, home to the Dukes of Richmond and their magnificent art collection for centuries. Focusing on three pillars of art, landscape and learning, Goodwood Art Foundation launched in 2025 with an exhibition devoted to Rachel Whiteread, one of the most highly regarded sculptors of her generation.

The Foundation’s second summer season, once again presented in partnership with Rolls-Royce Motor Cars, brings together more than 50 artworks, led by the first major UK exhibition devoted to the late American land artist Nancy Holt. Her photographs, drawings, concrete poetry, installations and films are displayed inside The Gallery, while site-responsive works extend into the surrounding landscape, among them “Hydra’s Head” (1974), an earthwork of six water pools installed in the chalk quarry.

The summer season also features artworks by Eva Rothschild, Polly Apfelbaum, Yayoi Kusama, Lee Ufan, Hélio Oiticica, Rachel Whiteread, Susan Philipsz, Rose Wylie and Isamu Noguchi. Rothschild contributes a large-scale tapestry woven locally at West Dean College’s Tapestry Studio. This important new commission for The Foundation’s Pigott Gallery will be shown alongside the Irish artist’s sculptures, which are also on view across the landscape. Kusama’s “Aspiring to Pumpkin’s Love, the Love in My Heart” (2023), one of the Japanese artist’s signature polka-dot pumpkin sculptures, marks her first work shown in the South Downs. Lee’s “Relatum” series is also represented, with a large-scale work staging a characteristic encounter between natural and industrial materials.

^{Nancy Holt’s “Hydra’s Head,” 1974, installed at Goodwood Art Foundation, 2026. © Holt / Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York. Photo by Ciaran McCrickard / PA Media Assignments}