iWhere to see Nick Cave now
Nick Cave is an American sculptor, painter, dancer, performance artist, and professor. He is best known for wearable assemblage fabric sculptures called Soundsuits, often made with found objects.
Washington, DC
iSmithsonian American Art Museum
Nick Cave: Mammoth
13 February 2026 – 3 January 2027
Nick Cave remakes the galleries as a dig site: crafted mammoth hides and bones, a video of the beasts come alive, and hundreds of found objects laid out like specimens.
iGlenstone Museum
Nick Cave: Louder Still
From 19 September 2026
Louder Still (2025), commissioned by Glenstone, is Nick Cave's largest multi-figure Soundsuit to date: eleven forms joined by a textile of hand-sewn mother-of-pearl buttons, headpieces shaped like gramophone horns.
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- Nick CaveBowmanga1278, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Nick Cave: Mammoth© Nick Cave; photo by Ron Blunt Studio, courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Nick Cave: Louder StillGlenstone Museum