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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.