Join a community of educators to celebrate the exhibitions ‘Takesada Matsutani. Shifting Boundaries’ and ‘Tetsumi Kudo. Microcosms’ at Hauser & Wirth London.

Our Learning team will hold an evening of exploration and exchange to: 

• Make connections with fellow educators

• Discover how the gallery can offer experiential and discursive opportunities as a catalyst for creativity

• Find out more about our ongoing programs, resources and latest news

Arts educators and teaching artists of all contexts and disciplines are invited to attend. This is a free event but advance booking is required.

Schedule

• 5.30 – 6 pm: Welcome drinks

• 6 – 7 pm: Introduction and tour of the exhibitions

About ‘Takesada Matsutani. Shifting Boundaries’
The Ōsaka-born artist Takesada Matsutani takes over our North Gallery for his first exhibition in London in over a decade, coinciding with his 60th year of living and working in Paris, France. The artist’s diverse practice is concerned with the reshaping of matter, from transforming acrylic, oil paint and graphite to more unconventional materials like vinyl glue and cotton. This exhibition, organized with Olivier Renaud-Clement, ranges from the sensational sculpture ‘The Magic Box’ (1988), to brand-new works that epitomize his experimentation with vinyl glue.

A key member of the Japanese avant-garde collective the Gutai Art Association, Matsutani moved to Paris in 1966 after receiving a grant from the French government as a result of winning first prize in the 1st Mainichi Art Competition. One of the last surviving members of the Gutai group, he turned 89 in January 2026, yet he still maintains a daily studio practice, evident in the relentless energy that continues from his historic works to the new canvases on view.

About ‘Tetsumi Kudo. Microcosms’
In a wide-ranging practice spanning four decades, post-war Japanese artist Tetsumi Kudo (1935 – 1990) explored the implications of what would later be termed the Anthropocene in prescient work that interrogated the proliferation of mass consumption, the rise of technology and environmental degradation.

On view in the South Gallery, this exhibition will be Kudo’s first in London in over a decade, displaying a selection of works that include the artist’s signature cages, cubes and gardens. Using found materials, store-bought items and hand-sculpted body parts, they suggest a world in which nature, technology and humanity influence each other in a mutually reinforcing system he called the New Ecology. The varied environments he created are intended to encourage viewers to understand themselves as part of an integrated and intricate cosmos.

Though the two artists were part of different movements, they are united by their relocation from Japan to Paris, France in the 1960s, where they became acquainted with each other, and by their rejection of established modes of making.

The exhibitions are on view from 5 February through 18 April.

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Please be advised that photographs will be taken at this event for use on the Hauser & Wirth website, social media and in other marketing materials. 

^{Images: Takesada Matsutani, Abstrait 抽象 La Boverie, Liege, Belgique, 2024 © Takesada Matsutani. Photo: Nicolas Brasseur; Tetsumi Kudo, Cultivation of Nature & People Who Are Looking at It, 1970 – 1971 © Hiroko Kudo, the Estate of Tetsumi Kudo / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / ADAGP Paris 2026. Courtesy Hiroko Kudo, the Estate of Tetsumi Kudo and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Thomas Barratt}