Allan Kaprow is known as the inventor of Happenings, a term he coined in New York in 1958. With their lack of dramatic plot, the collage-like, often simultaneous organization of events, the blurring of boundaries between performers and the audience, their appeal…
In his paintings, Michael Raedecker (born Amsterdam, 1963) works with a combination of acrylic paint and yarn. They are elaborate pictures, complete with embroidery, which toy with the classic genres of European art history and, by doing so, raise the question of…
“It is my idea to push painting, not just in size, but to see how far it could be extended or pushed. I don’t feel my work to be a criticism of painting but an optimistic view of what it could be“…
In the early ’90s, Zurich artist Caro Niederer (b. 1963) came to the attention of the public with her colourful paintings created in a flat, unpretentious style. Her small-format paintings were based on postcards which the artist brought back from her travels….
Born 1961, Guillermo Kuitca is a key figure in the history of Latin American art whose work finds inspiration in the realms of architecture, dance, film and cartography. Hauser & Wirth London are delighted to present this prolific Argentine artist – who…
Louise Bourgeois is recognised as one of the most important and influential artists working today. Hauser & Wirth London are delighted to present Sublimation (2002), an extraordinary narrative work in mixed media, incorporating a series of the artist’s drawings and text. The…
The works of West Coast artists John McCracken (b. 1934 in Berkeley) and Paul McCarthy (b. 1945 in Salt Lake City) have never been engaged in direct, exclusive dialogue in any single exhibition. At first sight, then, this juxtaposition of the two…
Hauser & Wirth London are delighted to present Roni Horn’s first major solo exhibition in the UK. Horn’s remarkable body of work continues to communicate how she imaginatively inhabits the world and combines a careful study of the role of language in…
