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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.

Following a successful first year of collaboration in 2022, raising £325,000 with the ‘Like There Is Hope’ exhibition and auction, the gallery has raised over £430,000 in the second year of collaboration with the ‘Holding Space’ exhibition and auction, in partnership with Hospital Rooms and Bonhams, to support three ambitious new projects in NHS mental health hospitals across the UK.

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.

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.

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.’

We are delighted to announce that renowned contemporary American artist Rashid Johnson will open an extensive solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Menorca in summer 2022. The exhibition will be preceded by a public program in the spring.

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Beginning 14 May, the gallery will present ‘We Were Already Gone’, an exhibition at our West 22nd Street location in the Chelsea Arts District, organized in collaboration with Hunter College. Curated by graduate students in Hunter’s Department of Art & Art History, this exhibition will showcase the work of artists currently enrolled in the school’s MFA Program in Studio Art.

We are thrilled to introduce ‘Artists for New York’, a major initiative to raise funds in support of a group of pioneering non-profit visual arts organizations across New York City that have been profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Complementing our current exhibition, ‘The Hikers’, on view in our New York gallery through January 2020, the inaugural Artist Choice Online Viewing Room offers a dynamic new format for the artist to both highlight his ongoing exploration of clay as a medium, and support his beneficiary of choice.

Rashid Johnson made his name as the youngest participant in ‘Freestyle,’ a 2001 show at the Studio Museum in Harlem that put some of today’s best-known African-American artists, like Trenton Doyle Hancock and Julie Mehretu, on the map.

Rashid Johnson and curator Katherine Brinson discuss artworks by Johnson included in 'Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim', an exhibition that presents over 100 works from the Guggenheim’s collection.