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This summer, Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles celebrates the opening of our Education Lab, a global partnership between our learning team and middle schools: Brete Harte Preparatory and Luther Burbank. Open to the public from Wednesday 25 May 2023 – Sunday 20 August 2023.

Looking ahead to fall 2023, we will open a new exhibition space at 134 Wooster Street just north of Prince Street, in the heart of the Soho-Historic Cast Iron District. Occupying one of the last remaining single-story, early 20th-century industrial buildings in a neighborhood famous worldwide for its concentration of magnificent 19th-century cast iron façade architecture and distinctive bluestone cobbled streets, our new Soho location will be a site for important exhibitions, artists’ projects and public programs.

The European Museum Forum has awarded Chillida Leku  with the Portimão Museum Prize for Welcoming, Inclusion and Belonging at the European Museum of the Year Awards (EMYA) 2023. Organized by the European Museum Forum and hosted by the Barcelona History Museum (MUHBA), this year the main theme of the conference was ‘Democracy and Democratisation: Urgent Challenges Today.’

Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) has announced Hauser & Wirth amongst the first wave of its members who have achieved ‘Active’ status. GCC launched plans for the Active Member designation in October 2022, to coincide with its two-year anniversary. The initiative is intended to celebrate the organizations and individuals who have taken effective steps towards environmental responsibility as well as incentivising those who are yet to honor the coalition commitments. The launch of this initiative marks an evolution in GCC’s strategy from awareness raising and community building to one focusing on near-term tangible progress, starting with three key actions:

Since opening its doors in 2016, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles has become both a destination and active partner in the life of Downtown LA. The gallery has supported and collaborated with numerous local cultural, educational and non-profit organizations to make lasting contributions to the city it calls home. This past year, Hauser & Wirth partnered with seven local nonprofits, including PILAglobal, Las Fotos Project, and The Garden School Foundation, in addition to its longtime partnership with Cal State LA through the Community Impact Media program that has supported diversity in filmmaking and resulted in the creation of over 20 documentaries on local nonprofits.

The Cultural Institute of Radical Contemporary Arts (CIRCA) is presenting ‘Arrival’—the first digital artwork by modern master Sir Frank Bowling. Celebrating the 70-year anniversary of his arrival in London from British Guiana (now Guyana) in May 1953, the exhibition runs from 4 May until 30 June and coincides with The Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III and the 75th anniversary of Windrush.

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.

‘Mika Rottenberg’ at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, is the first major presentation of Rottenberg’s work on the West Coast and the most comprehensive carbon footprint calculation of the artist's work to date. This research helps to form the basis of carbon and waste reduction activities in our Downtown Los Angeles gallery and in future projects with the artist.

Following a successful first year of collaboration in 2022, raising £325,000 with the ‘Like There Is Hope’ partnership, this year Hospital Rooms will be raising funds to support three ambitious new projects that will transform NHS mental health settings across the UK.

We are honored to announce worldwide representation of the Estate of Cathy Josefowitz.

Curated by Oriol Fontdevila, the group exhibition ‘After the Mediterranean’ mobilizes collective narratives around the human and ecological crises that impact the region. Through their works, the artists introduce alternative accounts to those narratives—including a clock for the island in 12 pieces incorporating sand and a future landscape in which the effects of climate change give rise to an underground world.  

The Community Impact Media Spring 2023 semester will foreground women-led nonprofits in Los Angeles, including Greetings from South Central, Nancy Evans Dance Theatre and The Collective Identity Mentoring. These nonprofits are dedicated to addressing causes like arts education, enhancing diversity within dance and fostering youth mentorship programs. Continuing the work of past semesters, students met with LA-based nonprofits to learn more about how they are serving their local community, while also learning the fundamentals of creating a documentary to ultimately premiere it to the public at the gallery.

‘Eduardo Chillida’ at our Somerset gallery in 2022, was the second in a series of Hauser & Wirth exhibitions to receive a carbon emissions calculation. The gallery team worked to produce an environmentally-conscious exhibition, developing an understanding of decision making involved in planning a show that took into account carbon emissions and waste.

We are proud to join the IME and Museu de Menorca in launching a new grant scheme to support art research and production. Following the theme of the IME’s annual conference, the emphasis this year is on sustainability and the relationship between art and nature in Menorca.

We are pleased to announce representation of American artist and filmmaker Harmony Korine.

In November of 2022, The Box initiated an Institutional tour of WS White Snow, with curators and leadership from the Getty, MOCA, the Hammer, the Broad, the ICALA, LAND, LAXART, LACMA, and the Lucas Museum. This think tank has resulted in the rapid action of this joint presentation of Paul McCarthy’s WS White Snow, to coincide with Frieze Los Angeles, as a means to garner support for permanent preservation of the work. In Downtown Los Angeles from 16 – 19 February 2023, the location of the presentation is available upon RSVP.

We are honored to announce co-representation of the Winfred Rembert Estate with Fort Gansevoort.

We are pleased to announce the launch of our fourth decade with a constellation of events in Los Angeles—a world city that is both a major American cultural capital and a prime source of inspiration and energy for the gallery since its founding in 1992. To mark the moment, the gallery will debut exhibitions and public programs spanning LA from its Downtown Arts District location in the converted historic Globe Mills complex, to its new space in the heart of West Hollywood.

This winter, we celebrate major presentations by globally acclaimed artists in our native Switzerland. Against the unique backdrop of the snowy Swiss Alps, experience works by William Kentridge in Gstaad, a presentation of Isa Genzken and the Roth Bar in St. Moritz and David Smith in Zurich.  

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced a transformative promised gift of 220 works by Philip Guston (1913 – 1980) from the personal collection of Musa Mayer, the artist’s daughter and a close collaborator of Hauser & Wirth in shaping and preserving this incredible artist’s legacy. Consisting of 96 paintings and 124 drawings—the earliest created in 1930 and the latest in 1980—this collection represents the full arc of Guston’s career. This gift will position The Met as the largest repository of works by the iconic American painter and reaffirm Guston’s undisputed place in art history.

The gallery’s first philanthropic online auction of works donated by the gallery’s artists has raised $4,585,000, with all proceeds going to support UNHCR’s work in providing life-saving assistance to the 103 million people who have been forced to flee their homes by conflict, war and persecution. The auction is Hauser & Wirth’s latest initiative under the gallery’s ‘Art for Better’ banner, created to platform an ongoing series of philanthropic projects with local, regional and international impact.

Celebrating ‘Cindy Sherman. 1977 – 1982,’ and as part of the gallery’s global learning initiatives, Hauser & Wirth Downtown Los Angeles hosted an exciting workshop on 19 November 2022, in collaboration with Las Fotos Project, an organization dedicated to elevating the voices of teenage girls and gender-expressive youth from communities of color through photography and mentorship.

Celebrating ‘Christina Quarles. In 24 Days tha Sun’ll set at 7pm,’ led to the first Learning activity held at our Chelsea location in partnership with the organization, Wide Rainbow, a NYC based organization that works to expand access to art education by connecting children from under-resourced neighborhoods with contemporary artists. Lower East Side children from The Sixth Street Community Center attended a walkthrough of, ‘Christina Quarles. In 24 Days tha Sun’ll set at 7pm,’ where they had the opportunity to engage with and learn about the exhibition.

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.

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.

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.

Coinciding with ‘The New Bend,’ curated by Legacy Russell, Executive Director & Chief Curator of The Kitchen, Hauser & Wirth presents ‘Community Lab: Threads of Connection.’

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: 

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.

Coinciding with our 30th anniversary in 2022, we are proud to re-affirm its longstanding commitment to live performance by inaugurating The Performance Project, an ambitious initiative conceived to further foreground the performing arts and explore relationships between the myriad forms of path-breaking creative expression that engage the artists of our time.