Hauser & Wirth
Gallery Exhibitions

Gallery Exhibitions

Jack Whitten

The Numinous

30 September 2026 – 10 January 2027

Downtown Los Angeles

After a 1980 house fire forced an extended pause in his practice, Whitten returned with renewed urgency. Testing and pushing acrylic paint to new effects, he began to treat the medium as a dense, malleable...
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Glenn Ligon

Sit So Your Back Isn’t Against The Door

30 September 2026 – 17 January 2027

Downtown Los Angeles

On view together for the first time in over 25 years this fall at our Downtown Los Angeles gallery, Glenn Ligon’s Coloring Book paintings reveal a rarely seen facet of the artist’s practice. Conceived...
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Catherine Goodman

The Colour of a Quiet Mind…

24 September – 19 December

Zurich, Limmatstrasse

Long associated with figurative painting, Goodman has in recent years embraced abstraction as a way of exploring memory, perception and experience. Her paintings emerge from a wellspring of resources:...
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David Smith

Night Window
David Smith Spray Paintings, 1958 – 1964

17 September 2026 – 16 January 2027

West Hollywood

Though he initially trained as a painter at the Art Students League in New York, much of Smith’s education took place on the factory floors of automobile and locomotive plants, where he acquired a hands-on...
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Lucio Fontana. Spatialism. Pioneering the Contemporary

17 September – 19 December 2026

Hong Kong

Beginning 17 September 2026, Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong presents a major exhibition by Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana (1899 – 1968). Titled ‘Lucio Fontana: Spatialism. Pioneering the Contemporary’...
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George Rouy

REPRISE

10 September – 17 October 2026

New York, 22nd Street

For Rouy, reprise—the return of an image, gesture or theme through variations—is a vehicle for understanding how meaning is produced and renewed. In contemporary life at large, images circulate, are sampled,...
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Lee Bul

The Anatomy of Every Setting Sun

10 September – 24 October 2026

New York, 22nd Street

This presentation comes at a pivotal moment for the artist, ahead of the opening of ‘Lee Bul: From 1998 to Now,’ her major traveling survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, on 13 November....
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Anna Maria Maiolino

ANNA—And the infinite line

10 September – 31 October 2026

New York, 18th Street

Spanning sixty years, the exhibition unfolds in three chapters and includes early prints and works on paper from the 1960s and 1970s, photography from the late 1970s through the 1980s, and sculpture from...
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Hans Arp

Heads or Tails

10 September – 17 October 2026

New York, 22nd Street

The exhibition’s design takes inspiration from Arp’s studio in Locarno, Switzerland, and traces a line from his early cut-outs and reliefs to his mastery of form as a tool for reconfiguring and transforming...
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Rita Ackermann

The Chemical Alphabet

9 September – 17 October 2026

New York, Wooster Street

The configuration of the letter, painted in acrylic green chalkboard paint on a canvas primed by multiple silkscreen prints, allows the surface to be built through Ackermann’s chalkboard method: layers...
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Irène Zurkinden

27 August – 28 November 2026

Basel

Born in Basel in 1909, Zurkinden initially trained to become a fashion illustrator, before moving to Paris in 1929 to study at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. There, she embraced the city’s liberated...
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DIRECTIONLESS

21 June – 25 October 2026

Menorca

Rather than seeking resolution, Directionless considers how artists inhabit states of suspension, ambiguity, opacity, and fragmentation. The works gathered here do not offer maps out of uncertainty. Instead,...
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