The Estate of Eva Hesse
Born in Hamburg Germany in 1936, Eva Hesse is one of the icons of American art of the 1960s, her work being a major influence on subsequent generations of artists. Comprehensive solo exhibitions in the past 50 years, as well as a retrospective that toured from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to the Museum Wiesbaden in Germany and finally to the Tate Modern in London, have highlighted the lasting interest that her oeuvre has generated. Hesse cultivated mistakes and surprises, precariousness and enigma, to make works that could transcend literal associations. The objects she produced, at times barely present yet powerfully charismatic, came to play a central role in the transformation of contemporary art practice.
In New York in the 1960s, Hesse was one of a group of artists, including Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra and Robert Smithson, who engaged with materials that were flexible, viscous or soft: latex rubber, plastic, lead, polythene, copper, felt, chicken-wire, dirt, sawdust, paper pulp and glue. Often unstable and subject to alteration, these elements yielded works that were vital in their relativity and mutability. Hesse was aware she produced objects that were ephemeral, but this problem was of less concern to her than the desire to exploit materials with a temporal dimension. Much of the life-affirming power of Hesse’s art derives from this confident embrace of moment. As she stated in an interview with Cindy Nemser for Artforum in 1970, 'Life doesn’t last; art doesn’t last.'
Eva Hesse with ‘Expanded Expansion’
Installation view, 'Anti-Illusion: Procedures/Materials', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, 1969
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
Monographs
Publications
Selected Press
13 March – 4 September 2016
Downtown Los Angeles
Transformations — The Sojourn in Germany 1964/65
12 June – 24 July 2004
Zurich, Limmatstrasse
13 March – 4 September 2016
Downtown Los Angeles
Transformations — The Sojourn in Germany 1964/65
12 June – 24 July 2004
Zurich, Limmatstrasse
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16 November 2019 – 16 February 2020
16 November 2019 – 16 February 2020
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Wed 31 July 2019
6.30 pm
Cinéma Rex Pontresina, St. Moritz
To reserve advance tickets by phone, please call
081 842 88 42
Sun 9 June 2024
3 pm
Hauser & Wirth Publishers Headquarters
Tue 1 November 2022
6.30 – 7.30 pm
Hotel Baur au Lac / Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse 1
Thu 5 September 2019
6 pm
New York, 69th Street
Wed 31 July 2019
6.30 pm
Cinéma Rex Pontresina, St. Moritz
To reserve advance tickets by phone, please call
081 842 88 42
Sun 9 June 2024
3 pm
Hauser & Wirth Publishers Headquarters
Tue 1 November 2022
6.30 – 7.30 pm
Hotel Baur au Lac / Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse 1
Thu 5 September 2019
6 pm
New York, 69th Street
Wed 31 July 2019
6.30 pm
Cinéma Rex Pontresina, St. Moritz
To reserve advance tickets by phone, please call
081 842 88 42
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