Join us for a conversation with Briony Fer and Cécile Bargues on the occasion of Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s current exhibition in Paris ‘La règle des courbes / The Rule of Curves.’

The talk will take place on Thursday 26 February at 6.30 pm at our Paris gallery and it will be in French. While the event is free to attend, places are limited, so we kindly ask you to RSVP at rsvpparis@hauserwirth.com.

‘La règle des courbes / The Rule of Curves’ is on view at Hauser & Wirth Paris through Saturday 7 March.

About Briony Fer
Briony Fer is an art historian who has written extensively on modern and contemporary art. Her research interests have consistently moved between the early 20th century avant-gardes and the work of contemporary artists. Starting with her doctoral research on constructivism, she has had a life-long preoccupation with the history of abstraction, leading to the publication of several influential books including ‘On Abstract Art’ (1997), ‘The Infinite Line’ (2004) and Eva Hesse: ‘Studiowork’ (2009). She has also curated major retrospectives including ‘Anni Albers’ (co-curated with Ann Coxon and Maria Müller-Schareck aat Tate Modern and K20 Dusseldorf, 2018) and ‘Louise Bourgeois: Imaginary Conversations’ (with Andrea Kroksnes, at the Nationalmuseum in Oslo, 2023). Sophie Taeuber-Arp has been an important point of reference in her thinking and teaching over many years and she contributed an essay to the catalogue of the major retrospective ‘Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction’ (curated by Anne Umland and Walburga Krupp, 2021-2). She is Professor of History of Art at University College London and a Fellow of the British Academy.

About Cécile Bargues
Cécile Bargues is a historian of twentieth-century art whose work centres on the relationship between art and politics, including the evolution and legacy of Dadaism from the 1920s to the present day. She is the author of several books, notably a monograph devoted to Sophie Taeuber-Arp (‘Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Les dernières années’, Fage/Fondation Giacometti, 2022, reprinted in 2026) and has contributed essays to exhibition catalogues published by the Centre Pompidou, the Musée Picasso-Paris, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Tate Modern, London, and MoMA, New York, among others. As a curator, she has organised or co-organised exhibitions at Le Point du Jour, Cherbourg; Le Jeu de Paume, Paris; Centre Pompidou-Metz; Musée d’Arts de Nantes; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole; and Centre Pompidou, editing or co-editing the accompanying catalogues. Cécile Bargues is a lecturer in contemporary art history at the Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier.