A Sweeping Retrospective for Artist Carol Bove Positions Her Among the Sculptural Titans

Grace Edquist | Vogue | 27th February 2026

These days Bove does “big” sculpture but that’s not where she started. First came a decade of drawings, then conceptual assemblages of found objects and small sculptures and then, a decade ago, large looping structures.  Their contradictory qualities – hefty but with an air of delicacy – have made her reputation. Recent works incorporate found materials alongside brightly coloured crumpled steel.  Says a curator “I think Carol is putting a very feminist lens on that tradition [of masculine sculpture].”