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On Saturday, 2 May 2026, the Learning Exchange: Artists Matter traveled to Downtown Los Angeles. The gathering focused on the ways artists can contribute to building mentorship pathways, pathways, strengthening community partnerships and expanding access to the arts for young people—an ethos that has long guided the gallery’s Learning initiatives. The event followed the gallery’s inaugural Learning Exchange in New York in 2023, and in Somerset in 2024.

The Learning Exchange is part of the gallery’s active learning programs—creating a dialogue between art, artists and a diverse audience with a focus on first-hand experience. This 2026 iteration marked Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles’ 10th anniversary of learning programs and partnerships, supporting access to contemporary art and artists. This has been achieved via deep-rooted relationships in the Downtown Arts District, growing alongside its neighborhood, welcoming nearly two million visitors and engaging more than 120,000 learners through tours, workshops and partnerships.

This year’s Education Lab, ‘Bitacora,’ at Hauser & Wirth Menorca is developed in collaboration with the University of the Balearic Islands and the University of Barcelona. The student-led program nurtures national connectivity between the universities, exploring what learning looks like beyond an institutional setting and facilitating a launchpad for creating, sharing and collaborative research. Responding to the themes of the group exhibition ‘Directionless,’ the Education Lab echoes the very concept set by Rashid Johnson, to find new creative pathways and orientations through artistic practice.

Hauser & Wirth is proud to be partnering with arts organizations UCL Slade School of Fine Art (London, UK), Drawing Room (London, UK), Gray’s School of Art (Aberdeen, UK), Royal Drawing School (London, UK) and Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK) over the next three years.

On the occasion of ‘Allison Katz. Outta the Bag,’ on view at Hauser & Wirth New York, Wooster Street, and as part of Hauser & Wirth’s ongoing learning initiatives, artist Allison Katz collaborated with 18 sophomore graphic design students from Chelsea Career and Technical Education (CTE) High School, a partner of The Drawing Center. In partnership with Manuela NY and the NYC-based art and urban farming non-profit, Project EATS, students created a community-based poster campaign that will be wheatpasted around the SoHo neighborhood.

The ‘Education Lab: Echoes’ accompanies the forthcoming Angel Otero exhibition, ‘Agua Salada,’ at Hauser & Wirth Somerset and explores how memory shapes who we are.

As spring arrives in Somerset, a new open‑air sculpture presentation unfolds across the site, complementing Angel Otero’s UK debut exhibition ‘Agua Salada.’

This year’s outdoor sculpture trail is selected by artist Cristina Iglesias as part of the summer exhibition ‘Directionless,’ organized by Rashid Johnson. For the occasion, Iglesias has invited Ali Cherri, Mona Hatoum, and Rayyane Tabet to present their work outdoors, as well as Yto Barrada and Sigalit Landau who’s works will be featured in gallery this June.

Marking Earth Day, we reflect on what it means to collaborate across communities, cultures and disciplines in service of the planet. In Guatemala’s Northern Highlands, Indigenous leaders, conservation partners and artists are working together to safeguard one of the last cloud forests in Central America. Since 2020, Hauser & Wirth has partnered with local community leaders and non-profits’ Fundaeco, Re:wild, and Art into Acres to permanently protect approximately 5,000 acres of this threatened ecosystem. The effort weaves together local health, Indigenous stewardship, and community well-being, reflecting the belief that people and nature thrive together.

Hauser & Wirth Publishers is participating in noisé magazine’s first reading room in Shanghai, created as a place where reading can happen again.

Hauser & Wirth and Spike Island are delighted to announce Joe Lyward as the recipient of the second Engagement Fellowship for South West-based Curators 2026 – 2027.

On the occasion of ‘Glenn Ligon. late at night, early in the morning, at noon,’ on view at Hauser & Wirth New York, 18th Street, and as part of the gallery’s ongoing learning initiatives, artist Glenn Ligon collaborated with participants from Artistic Noise, an organization committed to enriching the lives of system-impacted youth through art making.