Below, see an international list of sculpture parks and gardens—plus a few less traditional outdoor venues—worth visiting this summer and fall, along with details on current temporary exhibitions.
What’s Missing? Artworks in the Olana Landscape
Olana State Historic Site
Hudson, NY
Through November 2, 2025
On the grounds of Frederic Church’s Olana, artist Ellen Harvey and Gabriela Salazar have each responded to missing or partial structures in the landscape with newly commissioned works.
Harvey’s Winter in the Summer House responds to the “summer house” depicted in Olana’s 1886 landscape plan with a mirrored gazebo containing an icy landscape, in part inspired by Church’s paintings of icebergs, etched into the interior panels.
Gabriela Salazar’s work, A Measure of Comfort (Cake and Cord), is installed on the foundations of the site’s former woodshed and icehouse. The artist’s pair of sculptures reflects on these historic forms of resource extraction in the service of human comfort.
Ground/work 2025
Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
Through October 12, 2026
The second edition of the Clark Art Institute’s outdoor sculpture project features six international artists whose practices bring craft traditions into contemporary contexts. Works by Javier Senosiain, Aboubakar Fofana, Laura Ellen Bacon, Hugh Hayden, Yō Akiyama, and Milena Naef are each given ample space within the Clark’s woods, fields, and ponds, questioning material, form, representation, and a sense of integration with landscape.
How Lies the Land? Folkestone Triennial 2025
Various locations
Folkestone, U.K.
Through October 19, 2025
The Folkestone Triennial’s sixth edition, “How Lies the Land?,” features works by 18 artists—including Dineo Seshee Raisibe Bopape, Jennifer Tee, Katie Paterson, and Monster Chetwynd—sited across the seaside town of Folkestone, approaching the idea of its historical and cultural landscape through sculpture, installation, and digital and community projects.
Thaddeus Mosley: Touching the Earth
City Hall Park
New York
Through November 16, 2025
Photo: Nicholas Knight, Courtesy Public Art Fund, NY
Sculptor Thaddeus Mosley’s first outdoor exhibition features eight bronze sculptures cast from original wood works created between 1996 and 2021. Gate III, the largest work on view, welcomes visitors into City Hall Park via a 15-foot archway.
Helsinki Biennial 2025
Shelter: Below and Beyond, Becoming and Belonging
Various locations
Helsinki, Finland
Through September 21
37 artists have installed their works across Helsinki on Vallisaari Island, in Esplanade Park, and at HAM Helsinki Art Museum for this year’s edition of the Helsinki Biennial. The project’s theme and works were particularly inspired by the protected Vallisaari Island, a former military site off-limits to human habitation, and ideas of shelter and non-human nature.
More parks and gardens to explore:
Amsterdam Sculpture Biennale ARTZUID 2025, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (through September 21) / Boston Public Art Triennial Boston, MA (through October 31) / *Brookgreen Gardens Murrells Inlet, SC / *Carol R. Brown Sculpture Garden at Hartwood Acres Park Pittsburgh, PA / *Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park Grand Rapids, MI / *Glenn Green Galleries + Sculpture Garden Santa Fe, NM / Helsinki Biennial Helsinki, Finland (through September 21) / *Hogpen Hill Farms Woodbury, CT / *Irving Arts Center Irving, TX / *Josephine Sculpture Park Frankfort, KY / Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO (Passage by Renata Cassiano Alvarez, on view August 23–December 15, 2025) / LongWoods Preserve Cumberland, ME / *Lynden Sculpture Garden Milwaukee, WI / *New Hope Arts Public Arts Program New Hope, PA
*Learn more about select parks in Sculpture magazine’s July/August 2025 print section dedicated to Sculpture Parks, Gardens, and Trails.
Visit sculpture.org for the full directory.
