Coinciding with Zurich Art Weekend, join us for a guided tour of the exhibition ‘Ed Clark. Paint is the Subject’ at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse, with Melanca Clark, daughter of the artist, and Hendrik Folkerts, Curator of International Contemporary Art and Head of Exhibitions at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

This event has limited capacity, so please RSVP to paulavanderlinden@hauserwirth.com.
The tour will be held in English.

Following the tour, you are welcome to attend a walkthrough of ‘Pat Steir. Song’ in our second floor gallery space, from 4.30 pm.

About Melanca Clark
Melanca Clark is a non-profit leader and served as President and CEO of the Hudson-Webber Foundation from 2016 to 2023. Under Clark’s leadership, the Foundation contributed more than $40 million to nonprofit organizations moving the city of Detroit forward. She previously served in several senior positions in the Obama Administration, including Chief of Staff of the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services at the U.S. Department of Justice and Senior Policy Advisor with the White House Domestic Policy Council. Prior to her government service, Clark held several positions as an advocate, including at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and as a Gibbons Fellow in Public Interest and Constitutional Law at the Gibbons law firm. Today, she is dedicating significant time to honoring her father’s legacy, the abstract painter Ed Clark.

About Hendrik Folkerts
Hendrik Folkerts is the Curator of International Contemporary Art and Head of Exhibitions at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Prior to this, he held the position of the Dittmer Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago from 2017 to 2022, was curator at documenta 14, Kassel/Athens from 2014 to 2017 and served as curator of Performance, Film, and Discursive Programs at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam from 2010 to 2015. Folkerts specializes in commissioning and process-based exhibition-making. He has curated numerous solo and international group exhibitions as well as collection presentations, new commissions and program series, anchored in the expanded field of performance and building on feminist, queer and anti-colonial histories of art.

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