News

Nov 3, 2023

Our New Street-Level Gallery in Hong Kong

We are pleased to announce our a new street-level gallery in Hong Kong will open on 24 January 2024 with an inaugural exhibition on Chinese artist Zhang Enli. The relocation sees the gallery move to a space created by Selldorf Architects on 8 Queen’s Road Central in Hong Kong’s Central district, at the junction of historic Ice House Street, Duddell Street and Queen’s Road.

Nov 29, 2023

Mark Bradford wins the 2024 Getty Prize

The J. Paul Getty Trust announced today it has named Los Angeles based artist Mark Bradford as the recipient of its annual Getty Prize, the institution’s highest honor.

Nov 28, 2023

Welcoming Uman to Hauser & Wirth in Partnership with Nicola Vassell Gallery

We are proud to announce representation of the artist Uman, in an equal partnership with Nicola Vassell Gallery. In undertaking this collaboration on behalf of the critically admired Somalia-born, New York-based painter and sculptor, Hauser & Wirth and Nicola Vassell hope to model a new kind of alliance between galleries operating at different scales—an approach wherein full transparency and intensive resource sharing can contribute to the further development of artists’ careers and the future health of the wider gallery ecosystem.

Nov 17, 2023

Mika Rottenberg’s Rottenbar

We are pleased to unveil the Rottenbar, a permanent installation created by Argentina-born, New York-based artist Mika Rottenberg on the second floor of Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street. Made from carved bittersweet vines and reclaimed plastic that Rottenberg molds, extrudes and presses into sculptural forms, the Rottenbar—from conception to production—suggests the artist’s studio can be an incubator for a regenerative circle of creation and consumption.

Nov 17, 2023

Learning Exchange:
Art Education Matters

A selected series of conversations led by artists, educators, scholars and emerging voices, ‘Learning Exchange: Art Education Matters’ highlights collaborative, interdisciplinary approaches to learning in New York.

Nov 9, 2023

Sustainability in Action 2023

As part of our ongoing commitment to facilitating dialogue and disseminating information with the global art community, ‘Sustainability in Action’ provided a dynamic platform for action-focused industry collaboration, dialogue and knowledge sharing. The lineup of speakers and participants included Art + Climate Action; Art Switch; Art into Acres; Andrea Bowers; Danny Chivers; Commonwealth & Council; Dietl; Charles Gaines; Galleries Commit/Artists Commit; Gallery Climate Coalition; Getty Conservation Institute; Kathy Halbreich; Helen Frankenthaler Foundation; Camille Henrot; LACMA; MOCA LA; OneUpAction; People Not Pozos (Wells); South Los Angeles Youth Leadership Coalition; Diana Thater and environmental psychologist Paco Underhill.

Nov 6, 2023

The Imaginative World of Poncili Creación Connected Our Community with Creativity

From 28 – 29 October 2023 in Downtown Los Angeles, Poncili Creación, the mystifying Puerto Rican puppet collective comprised of identical twin brothers Pablo and Efrain Del Hierro, hosted creative workshops on the occasion of ‘Nonmemory’ – an exhibition curated by Jay Ezra Nayssan and organized in collaboration with the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts.

Nov 3, 2023

Anna Maria Maiolino to Receive the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award of the Biennale Arte 2024

We are proud to share that Anna Maria Maiolino, has been honored with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Biennale Arte 2024. This honor is a testament to her extraordinary contribution to the art world.

Nov 2, 2023

Sea Freight: Unlocking the Potential for International Art Transportation

We set out to discover whether a broader use of sea freight can be adopted to reduce Hauser & Wirth’s overall carbon footprint. Colleagues across the gallery, including our Registrars, artist teams, insurance brokers, conservators and shipping agents, put together a white paper on our sea freight experience to date. The goal with this white paper is to share information that will help other galleries and institutions to learn about our sea freight experiences. Only by sharing what we are discovering can we help the shift to new and more sustainable practices in our industry.

Nov 1, 2023

Hauser & Wirth Celebrates The Big Draw 2023 ‘Drawing with Senses’

Throughout the month of October, Hauser & Wirth celebrated The Big Draw Festival 2023 theme ‘Drawing with Senses’ across our global locations. The gallery welcomed its audiences to foster meaningful connections with art and artists, encouraging deep listening and creative expression.

Participants were invited to bring attention to their thoughts, feelings and sensations in each gallery location as they intimately contemplated the artworks on display and record their personal responses through sound and voice. By audio recording their responses to this sensory experience, participants were able to experiment with translating sound into forms of drawing. An archived selection of these responses are available to explore here.

Oct 23, 2023

New Books on Women Artists in Menorca’s Libraries

Following last year’s book donation and learning initiative, we have continued to work with Menorca’s local libraries to expand their art book collection. In 2023, the selection of titles consists of titles on women artists as well as other art books authored by women, chiming with Christina Quarles’ exhibition ‘Come In From An Endless Place,’ which is on view in Menorca until 29 October.

Explore Paris

Ahead of the opening of our new gallery at 26 bis rue François 1er, we invite you inside the ateliers, homes and offices of some of our artists, friends, colleagues and collaborators in Paris.

Sep 18, 2023

Welcoming Firelei Báez to Hauser & Wirth

We are pleased to announce global representation of New York–based artist Firelei Báez (b. 1981, Dominican Republic). Báez has achieved wide acclaim over the past decade for her immersive paintings, installations and sculptures that explore diasporic histories against the backdrop of colonial narratives and conventional ways of seeing.

Oct 20, 2023

Pierre Huyghe at Punta della Dogana in Venice

Next year in Venice, Pierre Huyghe will unveil a major new exhibition featuring a large group of works, including a selection from the Pinault Collection, conceived with curator Anne Stenne. 

Oct 11, 2023

Art in the Street

Art in the Street is a new program of temporary commissions that takes art to unexpected locations through takeovers of building hoardings and advertising billboards. Devised by our Global Creative Director, Neil Wenman, the project sees works placed in sites outside of gallery spaces and museums, allowing international audiences to encounter the works at new scales and within the urban fabric of the city.

Sep 30, 2023

Welcoming Hélène Delprat to Hauser & Wirth

We are proud to announce representation of French artist Hélène Delprat, in collaboration with Galerie Christophe Gaillard. Over the past four decades, Delprat’s multifaceted practice has engaged the human condition as its focus, exploring life and death in an oeuvre that includes painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, video, theater, interview projects and installations. Oscillating between fiction and documentary, humor and melancholy, Delprat’s works together comprise a sprawling constellation of references to literature, film, radio, philosophy, internet databases, recorded national histories and canonical art history.

Sep 29, 2023

Fall Exhibitions in Europe

This fall, visit major exhibitions by globally acclaimed artists, from immersive exhibitions by Mark Bradford in Monaco and Avery Singer in London to our inaugural exhibition in Paris by Henry Taylor, our Zurich shows by Lorna Simpson and Fabio Mauri and a last chance to see ‘Gruppenausstellung’ in Somerset.

Sep 27, 2023

Alexander Calder’s ‘Slender Legs’ in Monaco

Calder’s grand-scale piece ‘Slender Legs’ (1959) is now on view in the historic heart of Monaco through 30 November. The standing mobile—a marriage of the artist's two signature sculptural innovations—is composed of lithe, free-moving ‘arms’ counterbalanced by an immobile triangular base, or the work's titular ‘legs.’ Five sharply angular elements coming off the sculpture’s arms are unfixed, poised to shift and slip in a breeze.

Sep 22, 2023

Education Lab Comes to London: ‘Memory Cabinet – Making Our Memories Physical’ 

Avery Singer’s exhibition ‘Free Fall’ offers an exciting opportunity for Hauser & Wirth London to host its first pop-up Education Lab instigating a dialogue between the contents and themes of Singer’s exhibition and a diverse visiting audience.

Sep 19, 2023

‘Remember Nature’ Residency with Dartington Arts School Returns to Somerset

From Monday 25 September – Friday 6 October, Hauser & Wirth Somerset will host a two-week residency for a second year with students from the Arts and Place MA course at Dartington Arts School. This year’s residents artists, Rosie May Jones and Liz Horn, will develop work responding to the theme of ‘Remember Nature,’ a project by artist and activist Gustav Metzger.  

Sep 6, 2023

‘Now or Never’ Education Lab in Los Angeles

In celebration of Stefan Brüggemann’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles this fall, the Education Lab ‘Now or Never’ will host a series of creative workshops throughout the duration of the exhibition in which to explore the themes of Brüggemann’s work. Visitors to the Education Lab will have access to films and a reading area with books about Brüggemann’s approach to artmaking that reflects on the paradoxes of contemporary society using language, cultural identity, and carefully chosen materials. Participants are encouraged to engage with his themes of text and language, while collaborating with other local arts educators, artists, writers and poets.  

Sep 6, 2023

Growing Our Partnership With PILAglobal

Hauser & Wirth has been a key supporter of Los Angeles-based, international non-profit, PILAglobal, over the past two years since the organization was chosen as the charitable partner for two of the gallery’s global Learning initiatives: Education Lab Menorca 2021 and Education Lab Los Angeles 2022. Hauser & Wirth has now pledged to grow its partnership with PILAglobal through a new commitment that will raise $150,000 for the organization through 2025.  

Sep 1, 2023

Jenny Holzer Collaborates With Young Creatives From Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles

On the occasion of renowned American artist Jenny Holzer’s exhibition ‘READY FOR YOU WHEN YOU ARE’ on view in West Hollywood and part of Hauser & Wirth’s ongoing learning initiatives, the artist collaborated with Inner-City Arts, an organization investing in the youth of Los Angeles by providing them access to the arts.

The Performance Project

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.

May 2, 2023

Education Lab Returns to Somerset ‘Turning the Inside Outside: Sustainable Actions in the Art World’

This summer, Hauser & Wirth Somerset celebrates the opening of our Education Lab, a global partnership between our learning and green teams, open from Saturday 3 June 2023 until Monday 1 January 2024.

Jul 20, 2023

The International Curatorial Residency Returns to Somerset

Following a series of three successful International Curatorial Residencies from 2017 – 2019, we are delighted to welcome a new group of global participants to the UK for the 2023 program from 10 – 15 September 2023. The week-long residency unites influential leaders in the field of artist residencies, drawing from private, public and artist-founded models. The residency program concludes with a public symposium on Friday 15 September, hosted at Hauser & Wirth Somerset and moderated by Hauser & Wirth Senior Curatorial Director Kate Fowle. The symposium will act as a forum for reflection and further dialogue on a broader scale. This event is open to all and donations will support our local charitable partner for 2023 – 2024.

Jul 20, 2023

Our New Space Dedicated to Editions, Learning and Publishers on 18th Street in New York

We are pleased to announce our new space located at 443 West 18th Street, a historic two-story former industrial building that has been transformed to complete the gallery’s West Chelsea expansion and complement its building at 542 West 22nd Street, which opened in 2020. In its new space, Hauser & Wirth Editions will explore the universe of contemporary and historical prints through curated exhibitions and public programs that showcase the multifaceted practices of the gallery’s international family of artists. The 18th Street location will be home to Hauser & Wirth Editions, and also new iterations of the popular Hauser & Wirth Publishers Bookstore and Roth New York Bar, both previously found in the gallery’s temporary location in the former historic Dia Center for the Arts building at 548 West 22nd Street. In addition to the Hauser & Wirth Editions space, the 18th Street location will house the Hauser & Wirth Learning hub for educational and community programs and projects; a small amphitheater for lectures, panels, performances and other special events; and extensive office and co-working spaces for the gallery’s New York team.

Jul 13, 2023

Eva Hesse’s Complete Body of Works on Paper Published in New Digital Catalogue Raisonné

Founded in 2018, Hauser and Wirth Institute (HWI) is a nonprofit, private foundation dedicated to transforming the field of artists’ archives by nurturing equity and innovation and increasing access to archives. The Institute is pleased to announce a new digital catalogue raisonné, Eva Hesse Drawings, developed under the direction of scholar Dr. Renate Petzinger and Barry Rosen of the Eva Hesse Estate, who previously collaborated on the two-volume catalogue raisonné of Eva Hesse’s paintings and sculpture. Originally planned as a print publication, Hauser & Wirth Institute provided the support to produce this first-ever compilation of Hesse’s entire body of works on paper as a free, online resource.

Jul 10, 2023

The Journey to Reduction

Concurrent with publishing Hauser & Wirth’s 2022 climate report with Gallery Climate Collation (GCC), hear from our Global Head of Environmental Sustainability, Cliodhna Murphy, who caught up with Dr. Haley Mellin, an artist and a leading voice for a shift to a more sustainable art world. Cliodhna oversees the gallery’s measures to achieve our carbon emissions reduction target of 50% by 2023 in line with the Paris Climate Agreement of the United Nations. Hauser & Wirth is committed to supporting meaningful and industry-specific response to the climate crisis including initiatives like the Gallery Climate Coalition's carbon calculator and Galleries Commit 8 x 8 Action Plan.

Jun 29, 2023

The Mother & The Weaver: Art from the Ursula Hauser Collection

This fall, the Foundling Museum will present the exhibition ‘The Mother & The Weaver: Art from the Ursula Hauser Collection,’ from 22 September 2023 through 18 February 2024. The London museum houses the collections of the Foundling Hospital, established in 1739 as a home for children at risk of abandonment. ‘The Mother & The Weaver’ takes the unseen mother, a central part of the Foundling Museum’s story, as a point of departure to explore complex ideas around motherhood, childhood, love, loss, sexuality and identity. Occupying the whole museum, this landmark exhibition will bring together over 40 works of art by 17 artists, all women, that are largely selected from the Ursula Hauser Collection, and places them in dialogue with historical objects from the Foundling Museum.

Jun 28, 2023

Daniel Turner joins Hauser & Wirth

We are pleased to announce representation of Daniel Turner in collaboration with Galerie Allen in Paris. Based in New York, Turner works with sculpture, painting and installation to transfigure everyday materials, objects and environments into provocative new manifestations. On the surface, the artist’s work suggests the stark lines, industrial fabrication and simple geometric forms associated with minimalism. However, Turner merely employs this aesthetic to challenge the notion that raw materials are fundamentally meaningless, conditional, and interchangeable. His practice is driven by the conviction that physical matter inherently carries meaning—that objects are imbued with the emotional, psychological and historical context for which they were made and in which they were used.

Jun 22, 2023

Welcoming Flora Yukhnovich to Hauser & Wirth

We are proud to announce representation of artist Flora Yukhnovich, in collaboration with Victoria Miro.

Jun 17, 2023

New Works in Menorca’s Outdoor Sculpture Trail

The outdoor sculpture trail at Hauser & Wirth Menorca features works situated alongside the gallery buildings and across the northern part of the island, embedded in the natural landscape of Illa del Rei.

Jun 9, 2023

Inaugurating our new Paris Gallery with a Solo Exhibition by Henry Taylor

We are pleased to announce that the gallery’s new Paris location will open on 14 October 2023 during the lead-in to Paris+ par Art Basel. Hauser & Wirth’s inaugural exhibition in Paris will debut new works by critically acclaimed Los Angeles artist Henry Taylor, whose major career survey arrives at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York on 4 October 2023 and will remain on view through January 2024.