Editions
Reflecting our enduring support for artists collaborating with master printers, Hauser & Wirth Editions explores the universe of contemporary and historical prints through curated exhibitions and fairs, online presentations and public programs.
In 2023, we opened our first dedicated Editions space, located at 443 West 18th Street in New York, showcasing the multifaceted practices of the gallery’s artists. We inaugurated the space with ‘Once there was a mother,’ a solo presentation of important and little-seen works by Louise Bourgeois (1911 – 2010).
Featured Editions
‘There could be tenderness in her work, but I think printmaking and you know gouging into a piece of copper was a kind of release.’
—Felix Harlan, Louise Bourgeois’ longtime printer in The Printmaking of Louise Bourgeois
‘You can either do a self portrait in terms of doing a drawing that looks like a face, the proportion of the eyes, the mouth, the nose, or you can say cumulatively, the works you draw over a lifetime become another way of describing yourself.’
—William Kentridge on ‘I Look In The Mirror, I Know What I Need’
Our West Chelsea location is the gallery’s first dedicated space for Editions. Anchored by the Hauser & Wirth Publishers flagship bookstore, the historic building is also a hub for Learning initiatives, Public Programs and more.
On View at New York, 18th Street
‘A Natural History of the Studio’ extends to Hauser & Wirth’s nearby 18th Street location with a selection of nearly thirty prints made by Kentridge over the last two decades. The artist first began printmaking while a student at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and the medium has been integral to his practice ever since. Kentridge has experimented with a broad range of techniques in this realm, from etching to lithography, aquatint, drypoint, photogravure and woodcut, observing that, ‘Printmaking…became a medium in which I could think, not merely a medium to make a picture... it has not been an adjunct to my other activities, but in many ways, it has been a central thread that has gone through the work I have done in the studio over the last 40 years.’
Past exhibitions
Dieter Roth
New York, 18th Street
Renowned for his adventurous experimentation with both materials and subject matter, Dieter Roth (b. 1930 Hanover, Germany – d. 1998 Basel, Switzerland) generated a multifaceted oeuvre that transcends...
Henry Taylor
New York, 18th Street
Over the past four decades, critically acclaimed, Los Angeles-based artist Henry Taylor has created a vast body of highly personal work that combines figurative, landscape and history painting, alongside...
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