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Hauser & Wirth Somerset celebrated the opening of Education Lab, ‘Open Art School,’ a partnership with Bath Spa University from Saturday 25 May 2024 until Sunday 5 January 2025. 

This fall, Hauser & Wirth celebrates The Big Draw Festival 2024 theme ‘Drawing in Motion’ across our global locations. The gallery will welcome diverse audiences of all ages to celebrate the dynamic and ever-changing nature of drawing, by exploring how the act of drawing can capture the essence of movement, energy and life.

‘School Without Walls’ places the arts at the heart of the curriculum, transforming models of learning outside a traditional classroom context. Educators, artists and cultural organizations work together to co-design learning alongside children, with adults observing, listening, documenting and being responsive to children’s ideas. Over the course of one week, young people from St Aldhelm’s Church School transferred their learning from the school classroom to the gallery’s ‘Education Lab: Open Art School.’

On Thursday 19 September 2024, the Learning Exchange traveled to Somerset for a day of conversations highlighting interdisciplinary approaches to learning, led by artists, educators, museum and gallery professionals. The event followed the gallery’s inaugural Learning Exchange in 2023 at Hauser & Wirth New York, 18th Street, with further editions planned in New York and Los Angeles. The forthcoming ‘Learning Exchange: Community Matters’ will take place in our gallery in New York, 18th Street, on Friday 18 October 2024.

As part of ‘Phyllida Barlow. unscripted,’ curated by Frances Morris, a presentation of sculpture is on view across all of the outdoor spaces at our Somerset gallery, including works from the artist’s ‘PRANK’ series and works being shown in open air for the first time. The landmark exhibition brings together a collection of the artist’s signature elements from several major installations, including work made in the last year of Barlow’s life. 

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.

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.

Explore new sculptures and paintings by Gary Simmons and Phyllida Barlow, celebrate in the open-air courtyard with a vinyl set paying to tribute to Lee 'Scratch' Perry, and join us in the garden for public talks with Helen Molesworth, Cauleen Smith, Miranda July, and more.

Focusing on four outstanding artists, our Art Basel OVR:2020 presentation features a total of 24 works, each live to view for 24 hours only. The paintings and drawings by Rita Ackermann, Phyllida Barlow, Jenny Holzer, and Mika Rottenberg give a unique insight into the work that each artist has created over recent months and the themes which emerge from this period of intense creative focus. Contact us for more details about works featured in our OVR:2020 presentation.

Artist’s Choice Summer Film Series is a program of free evening film screenings that will take place on the rooftop of the Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street in June and July.

In 1999, interested in materials and anti-industrial gestures, I visited Richard Salmon Gallery in London to see the exhibition ‘Furniture’: I was convinced that artists invariably tell us more than designers do about the everyday things of the world.

Phyllida Barlow, one of the UK’s most prolific sculptors, creates large-scale installations that involve a process of crushing, wrapping, stretching, stacking, and rolling.