New Grants for Artist’s Archives from Hauser & Wirth Institute
Founded in 2018, Hauser and Wirth Institute is a nonprofit, private foundation dedicated to transforming the field of artists’ archives by nurturing equity and innovation and increasing access to archives. The recipients of their latest round of funding are organizations that build, activate, and generate public engagement with artists’ archives.
Menorca’s Libraries Hosting Our Books and Learning Events This Winter
A varied program of learning events across Menorca’s nine libraries accompanies a donation of 56 books on sculpture and landscape. The initiative includes workshops, screenings and talks inspired by our artists and outdoor sculpture program.
Celebrating The Big Draw
Throughout October, Hauser & Wirth held events for The Big Draw Festival 2022 across 8 of our locations around the world. Chillida Leku, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Menorca, Monaco, Somerset and Zurich all offered free creative activities for families, schools and communities that engaged with drawing and responded to the collective theme ‘Come Back to Colour’. The theme invited participants to rediscover the vitality and vibrancy in everyone’s lives after what has been a challenging few years.
‘Community Lab: Threads of Connection’ Fosters Social Connections Through Artmaking
Coinciding with the traveling exhibition ‘The New Bend,’ curated by Legacy Russell, the gallery presents ‘Community Lab: Threads of Connection.’
Hauser & Wirth Somerset Proudly Celebrates 1 Million Visitors
This fall, Hauser & Wirth Somerset welcomed its 1 millionth visitor to the gallery since opening in 2014, alongside celebrating a far-reaching engagement program that includes:
‘Art for Better’ Auction in Support of UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
Announcing ‘Art for Better,’ an online auction with important works donated by gallery artists to raise funds for the humanitarian aid programs of UNHCR. Bidding will open 6 December and run through 13 December, with 100 percent of proceeds going to support life-saving assistance to victims of global refugee crises that have displaced millions.
Art at The Audley and Mount St. Restaurant in London
On the corner of Mayfair’s Mount Street and South Audley Street, The Audley Public House and Mount St. Restaurant have opened their doors. This major restoration project by Artfarm has resulted in a new London pub and fine dining restaurant unlike any others, featuring an array of artist interventions and artworks woven throughout their interiors. Formerly operating as pub with rooms for staff, the listed building was first a hotel, built in 1888 and designed by Thomas Verity, the man responsible for the exterior of the pavilion at Lord’s Cricket Ground.
Within.Without: A Presentation by Make Hauser & Wirth in Zurich
We are delighted to announce the first exhibition in Zurich of Make Hauser & Wirth. Originating in Somerset, England, Make launched in 2018 to showcase exceptional contemporary craft by leading artist-makers from around the world.
Hauser & Wirth Publishers to participate in Printed Matter’s NYABF 2022
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13 – 16 Oct 2022
548 W 22nd Street, New York
13 – 16 Oct 2022
548 W 22nd Street, New York
‘Remember Nature’ Residency in Somerset with Dartington Arts School
During a two-week residency in Somerset, four students from the Arts and Place MA course at Dartington Arts School were invited to develop work responding to the theme of ‘Remember Nature,’ a project inspired by artist and activist Gustav Metzger. The students participating in the residency were Raman Feiz, Imogen Mansfield, Emma Yorke and Mary Waltham.
The Performance Project in Los Angeles
Encompassing music, dance, film, readings and public conversations, The Performance Project will showcase performing arts visionaries, both local and global, with a special focus on greater visibility for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ voices.
Extending Our Learning Partnership with South London Gallery
As part of our learning program, Hauser & Wirth has extended its partnership with South London Gallery for another year. This partnership was initiated in 2020 with a schools’ program responding to the difficulties that schools faced during and since the pandemic in accessing art gallery spaces and creative workshops. We will now also support South London Gallery’s youth group Art Assassins and the newly launched Making Sense initiative, a creative partnership between South London Gallery and University of the Arts London, alongside support from A New Direction and the RSA. The program brings together young people, educators and researchers to explore themes of inclusion and anti-racism through youth-led creative collectives, teacher training, conversations and resources. This initiative provides Hauser & Wirth with the opportunity to collaborate, to share and to extend the reach of our own learning program, making art accessible to all young people.
Welcoming Pat Steir to Hauser & Wirth
We are honored to announce worldwide representation of renowned American artist Pat Steir. Among the great innovators of contemporary painting, with a lifelong commitment to drawing and printmaking, Steir first came to prominence in the late 1970s and early 1980s for her iconographic canvases and immersive wall drawings. By the late 1980s, her inventive approach to painting—the rigorous pouring technique seen in her Waterfall works, in which she harnessed the forces of gravity and gesture to achieve works of astonishing lyricism—attracted substantial critical acclaim. Informed by a deep engagement with art history and Eastern philosophy, and a passion for artistic advocacy in the both the visual and literary realms, Steir’s storied five-decade career continues to reach new heights through an intrepid commitment to material exploration and experimentation.
Kick off the Fall with events in New York
To celebrate our new exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth in New York, we will hold two days of public events on 10 & 17 September to connect with the local community, highlight the release of exciting new publications from our artists, expand the discourse around each new body of work and activate the spaces at 542 West 22nd Street through performance and a return to in person programming.
Mika Rottenberg & Mahyad Tousi to premiere feature-length film ‘REMOTE’
This September marks the global release of ‘REMOTE,’ the debut feature-length film from Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi.
The Little Literary Fair, LITLIT, Returned to Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) and Hauser & Wirth Publishers presented the second annual Little Literary Fair, LITLIT, during the weekend of 30 – 31 July 2022 at Hauser & Wirth's Downtown Los Angeles gallery.
Unveiling our Outdoor Sculpture Trail in Menorca
Alongside the gallery buildings and immersed in the natural landscape of Illa del Rei, works by Spanish masters Joan Miró and Eduardo Chillida feature together with landmark sculptures by Louise Bourgeois, Franz West, Camille Henrot and a new sculpture by Martin Creed, presented for the first time by the sea in Mahon’s harbour.
Menorca location receives European Heritage Award 2022
The European Commission and Europa Nostra have announced the 2022 winners of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards, funded by the EU Creative Europe program. Among this year’s winners is Illa del Rei, in the Conservation & Adaptive Reuse category.
Our Somerset Charity Partners
Hauser & Wirth Somerset is firmly embedded in the local community and rural landscape of Somerset. Since its launch in 2014, the arts center has supported and worked in partnership with many institutions, businesses and organizations in the South West, raising over £150,000 for local charities.
Education Lab Returns to Menorca
Following an open call to Spanish universities, this year’s Education Lab at Hauser & Wirth Menorca has been created as part of a post-graduate student residency. The participants have worked with the gallery community and local entities to conceptualize a learning space and program that run alongside Rashid Johnson’s exhibition ‘Sodade.’
Hauser & Wirth Launches Education Project in Los Angeles
As reported in ARTNews, Hauser & Wirth Education Lab LA is a new creative education initiative for students from a local high school based in Downtown Los Angeles. The two-part project features workshops led by a team of arts professionals at the gallery and a visual arts project created by the students in collaboration with Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford, which opened to the public on 16 July and will remain on view through 18 September. The first Education Lab LA initiative recognizes Bradford’s partnership with the Los Angeles-based, international non-profit, PILAglobal, an organization that offers innovative education to children who live in refugee camps, migrant shelters, or in abject poverty through the creation of ‘Nests,’ or early learning spaces.
Allison Katz joins
Hauser & Wirth
We are proud to welcome Allison Katz to the gallery. Over a decade, Katz (born 1980, Montreal, Canada) has investigated the ways in which aesthetic practices link and absorb autobiography, commodity culture, information systems and art history. Her diverse imagery, including cocks, cabbages, mouths, fairies, elevators, noses, waterways, and variations on her own name, appear as recurring symbols and icons which build an unending constellation of ideas and references. Images transmute across the media of painting, posters, ceramics and installations. It is through this act of returning to, copying, transforming and reshaping motifs that the artist creates a lineage and continuity from one work to another, informing and connecting the totality with each new appearance. ‘I paint like I write, that is, I build around quotes, which is a conversation, in effect,’ says Katz. Her subjects are united by a curiosity for how an image passes through embodied experience, while its elasticity of meaning is shaped by impersonal, cultural conditions through time. In this way her work addresses the ambiguity of subjectivity and its presentation.
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Art for Acres: Supporting Rainforest Conservation
We are proud to support Art for Acres, an initiative for artists, gallerists and collectors with a mission to support large-scale land conservation.
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Hauser & Wirth Launches Education Project in Los Angeles
As reported in ARTNews, Hauser & Wirth Education Lab LA is a new creative education initiative for students from a local high school based in Downtown Los Angeles. The two-part project features workshops led by a team of arts professionals at the gallery and a visual arts project created by the students in collaboration with Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford, which opened to the public on 16 July and will remain on view through 18 September. The first Education Lab LA initiative recognizes Bradford’s partnership with the Los Angeles-based, international non-profit, PILAglobal, an organization that offers innovative education to children who live in refugee camps, migrant shelters, or in abject poverty through the creation of ‘Nests,’ or early learning spaces.
Hosting ‘Sustainability In Action’ conference this summer in Somerset
As part of our ongoing commitment to facilitating dialogue and disseminating information with the global art community, ‘Sustainability In Action’ will provide a dynamic platform for action-focused industry collaboration, dialogue and knowledge sharing. The line up of speakers includes artist Pipilotti Rist, Artists Commit; Art/Switch; Art to Acres; Christie’s; ClientEarth; Kate MacGarry; Frances Morris, Tate Modern; Gallery Climate Coalition; Hospital Rooms; KiCulture; Paul Tukey of Glenstone Museum and Superflex. Taking place on Friday 15 July 2022, the day-long conference will be a hybrid, digital and in real life event, uniting international arts sustainability networks, hosted by Hauser & Wirth CEO Ewan Venters and chaired by art writer, broadcaster and The Art Newspaper correspondent, Louisa Buck.
Hauser & Wirth Paris to Open
We are pleased to announce our plans to open a new gallery in Paris, situated on the right bank of the River Seine close to the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement. Occupying an entire hôtel particulier dating from 1877, the gallery at 26 bis rue François 1er will cover 800 square meters over four floors. The neo-classical building formerly housed La Maison Decour, a decorative arts gallery, until the 1940s. The conversion of the space will reinstate the double-height, six-meter-tall ground floor gallery with a further exhibition space on the first floor. As in Hauser & Wirth’s existing locations, we will establish meaningful partnerships to create an inclusive learning program as an integral part of the gallery’s program in Paris.
‘Of Making and Material’ First US Presentation by Make Hauser & Wirth in Southampton
Hauser & Wirth is pleased to announce the first US exhibition of the gallery’s UK-based initiative Make Hauser & Wirth, which was launched in Somerset, England, in 2018 to present exceptional contemporary handcrafted design by leading artist-makers from around the world. On view from 2 July in Southampton on the East End of Long Island, ‘Of Making and Material’ will comprise exceptional works informed by the respective creators’ intimate understanding of their chosen materials—from wood, ceramics, and metal to glass and concrete—and mastery of methods rooted in tradition or pioneering new techniques. Together, the objects on view celebrate dedication to knowledge, process, and experimentation.
Somerset Education Lab with Arts University Bournemouth
This summer at Hauser & Wirth Somerset we are celebrating our inaugural Education Lab in partnership with Arts University Bournemouth (AUB), open to the public from 28 May until 4 September 2022. The Education Lab is part of the gallery’s commitment to inclusive learning programs that instigate a dialogue between art, artists and a diverse audience. Designed to support students by offering a short period of professional experience in our Somerset gallery, the initiative gives visibility to creative approaches to collaborative learning and mentoring.
Royal College of Art Announces New Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship
The Royal College of Art (RCA) in London has announced the launch of its new Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship, supporting 24 UK MA and MRes students and 1 PhD student every year from Black African and Caribbean diaspora heritage, or mixed Black African and Caribbean diaspora heritage, across MA, MRes and PhD study.
New Exhibitions in Southampton this Summer
Beyond Nature: A Presentation by Make at Hauser & Wirth London
In a special presentation by Make Hauser & Wirth, a collective of established artist-makers showcase new and evolving notions of place and material investigation through an expressive response to nature and landscape.
Chillida Leku Presents Joan Miró Exhibition
An exhibition of works by Joan Miró, titled ‘Miró en Zabalaga,’ will open on 21 May 2022, paying tribute to Miró and the friendship that bound him to Eduardo Chillida. Continuing the Basque museum's initiative of inviting the great contemporary peers—who contribute to enrich and contextualize the San Sebastian artist’s legacy—the exhibition will be displayed on the first floor of the Zabalaga farmhouse at Chillida Leku, the building itself is the starting point for the selection of works that cover the 1946-1982 period.
New Partnership with Hospital Rooms
Hauser & Wirth have been a key supporter of Hospital Rooms over the past three years through annual auctions that have collectively raised over £200,000. The gallery is now solidifying its partnership with Hospital Rooms through a new commitment to the organization until 2025 that will raise £1 million for the charity.
Amy Sherald Donation Supports New Scholarship and Fellowship Honoring Breonna Taylor
In 2020, Amy Sherald painted the portrait of Breonna Taylor for the historic cover of Vanity Fair magazine. Renowned for her documentation of the contemporary Black experience, Sherald always intended for the work to live beyond the date of the September 2020 issue, and to contribute to causes of social justice. The acquisition of the painting by the Ford Foundation and the Hearthland Foundation in 2021 enabled her to realize both.
