New York’s Guggenheim Museum has revealed the 39 works that it acquired final yr, amongst them work by a few of in the present day’s most celebrated artists.
There have been some historic works added to the gathering final yr, together with items by Freddy Rodríguez and Fanny Sanín, who have been born within the Dominican Republic and Colombia, respectively. Each have been included within the 2024 Venice Biennale, and each relocated to the US.
However lots of the works acquired are by rising and mid-career artists whose worldwide prominence continues to be rising. These artists embody figures starting from Rachel Rossin to Elle Pérez, from Claudia Alarcón to Yu Nishimura.
In a press release, Guggenheim senior curator Naomi Beckwith stated, “The Guggenheim’s slate of artworks acquired in 2025 is a testomony to the methods through which the establishment thoughtfully seems again at its roots and its dedication to experimental kinds and transnational approaches, whereas remaining forward-thinking about broadening the narrative potentialities of our artwork holdings.”
Under, a have a look at 5 of the works acquired by the Guggenheim final yr.
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Fanny Sanín, Acrylic No. 2, 1974
Picture Credit score: ©Fanny Sanín/Guggenheim Museum In the course of the Sixties and ’70s, Sanín specialised in hard-edged abstractions similar to this one, through which a row of rectangularly formed kinds are piled collectively, creating the allusion that this composition extends again in area by way of the utilization of colour and line. Now in her late 80s, she stays under-recognized within the US, although there are indicators that that is altering, because of a retrospective held on the Americas Society in New York final yr.
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Salman Toor, The Joke, 2024
Picture Credit score: Farzad Owrang/©Salman Toor/Courtesy the artist; Luhring Augustine, New York; and Thomas Dane Gallery/Guggenheim Museum Toor’s work generally reference historic works; this one nods to items by Impressionists like Pierre-Auguste Renoir, who represented Parisian nightlife with expressivity. The haziness of its background appears to imitate the drunken stupor of a few of this eatery’s patrons.
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Ambera Wellmann, Sacrum, 2025
Picture Credit score: Sebastian Bach/Courtesy the artist and Firm Gallery, New York/Guggenheim Museum Ambera Wellmann drew acclaim in New York final yr for a present unfold throughout Hauser & Wirth and Firm Gallery that featured work of individuals in ecstasy. This one, which was on view within the latter half of that exhibition, could allude to Henri Matisse’s Girl earlier than an Aquarium (1921–23), one other canvas that includes a feminine determine gazing at fish.
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Nancy Holt, Path Markers, 1969
Picture Credit score: ©Holt/Smithson Basis/Guggenheim Museum In 1969, Nancy Holt and her husband, the artist Robert Smithson, traversed a path in southwestern England; Holt discovered herself fascinated by orange markers set as much as mark out the route. She photographed these markers for this work, which, like many different basic items related to the Land artwork motion, applies Conceptual artwork methods to the pure world.
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Ruby Sky Stiler, Three Blue Girls, 2025
Picture Credit score: ©2025 Ruby Sky Stiler/Courtesy the artist and Alexander Grey Associates, New York/Guggenheim Museum This portray is definitely composed of many miniature drawings, all assembled Tetris-style to type a picture of three nude girls seated collectively. “They’re virtually falling aside into geometry—you’re taking one factor away and they might be simply shapes,” the artist has stated of her works. This one was memorably included in an Alexander Grey Associates present in New York that closed solely a month in the past.
