Hauser & Wirth Bookshops
Bookshops
Hauser & Wirth Publishers Book Lab
The Hauser & Wirth Book Lab is a project devoted to exploring the important place that books and prints occupy in the practice of artists. Building upon Hauser & Wirth’s curatorial and publishing activities, the Book Lab presents thematic installations, displays, and programming that invite reflection, creative thinking, and further conversation about the world of printed matter and its connection to artists’ ideas and objectives.
Current & Upcoming Book Labs
26 Jun 2021 – 3 Jan 2022
Eduardo Chillida Book Lab
Somerset
This Book Lab shares the story of Eduardo Chillida’s most important work, ‘Comb of the Wind (Peine del viento)’ sited in his native city of Donostia, San Sebastián, Spain. Eduardo Chillida created ‘Comb of the Wind’ in collaboration with the Basque architect Luis Peña Ganchegui. For both, this...
14 Sep 2021 – 9 Jan 2022
Cal State LA Community Impact Media Documentaries
Los Angeles
Beginning 14 September, Hauser & Wirth will partner with California State University, Los Angeles to present ‘Community Impact Media: Documentaries from the Students of Cal State LA’ – a showcase of 16 original short form student documentaries screened together in the Book and Printed Matter Lab...
Past book labs
20 Mar – 6 Jun 2021
Richard Jackson
Works with BooksLos Angeles
About the Presentation Beginning in the early 1970s, lifelong Californian Richard Jackson’s Wall Paintings, Stacks, and Room-themed installations gave rise to a series of landmark innovations in painting, sculpture, performance, installation, and the relations between them. Jackson’s interest in...
3 Oct 2020 – 10 Jan 2021
Lee Lozano Book Lab
Somerset
Lee Lozano is one of the most innovative artists to have worked in America during the 1960s. Throughout her entire oeuvre, which spans a little more than a decade, she produced ground-breaking work in a progression of styles, from the figurative and cartoonish pop-expressionism of her early...
13 Feb – 12 Apr 2020
August Sander Book Lab
Los Angeles
In partnership with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hauser & Wirth presents ‘August Sander: New Women, New Men, and New Identities,’ marking the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles in over a decade devoted to renowned German photographer August Sander’s pioneering work. Hosted in the gallery’s...
25 Jan – 4 May 2020
Not Vital: SCARCH
Somerset
‘As a kid, growing up in Switzerland, I didn’t like to eat. I wouldn’t eat for days, so my father would carve little houses & towers out of cheese & I would eat the houses & towers without even being aware that it was food. So, I was eating architecture. 1 of my first models for the tower in my...
28 Sep – 22 Dec 2019
David Smith: Field Work – Making a Mark
Somerset
The Book Lab at Hauser & Wirth Somerset is devoted to the American artist David Smith. Titled ‘Making a Mark’ it uses archival material both in printed form and stories told by his children presented in films to bring Smith’s artistic legacy to life. These archival images and stories show Smith...
1 Jun – 8 Sep 2019
Richard Scarry. Making it Fun is the Best Way! Book Lab
The Hauser & Wirth Book Lab is a project devoted to exploring the important place that books and prints occupy in the practice of artists. Hauser & Wirth Somerset is pleased to celebrate the 100th anniversary of revered children’s author Richard Scarry. ‘Making it Fun is the Best Way!’ presents...
7 Feb – 7 Apr 2019
Piero Manzoni Book Lab
Los Angeles
Piero Manzoni: A Biography Through the Guido and Gabriella Pautasso Collection of Documents is curated by Guido Pautasso and Irene Stucchi. This iteration of the Book & Printed Matter Lab is dedicated to the work of seminal artist and progenitor of Conceptualism, Piero Manzoni, and compliments...
19 Jan – 25 May 2019
Matthew Day Jackson Book Lab
Somerset
Matthew Day Jackson took part in the residency programme at Hauser & Wirth Somerset from August 2018 to January 2019. During this time he worked towards his current exhibition, entitled ‘Pathetic Fallacy’, as well as his forthcoming exhibition at Serlachius Museums in Finland, opening in May...
29 Sep 2018 – 1 Jan 2019
Takesada Matsutani. drop in time Book Lab
Programmed alongside the exhibition ‘Takesada Matsutani. drop in time’ at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, this Book Lab is inspired by Matsutani’s interaction with books and takes the ‘artist book’ as its subject. Included in the Book Lab is a selection of the artist’s prints dating...
23 Jun – 23 Jul 2018
Don McCullin Book Lab
Los Angeles
British photographer Don McCullin has witnessed some of the most harrowing humanitarian disastersof the last half-century, having covered every major conflict in his adult lifetime for news sources such as The Observer and Sunday Times Magazine. His assignments included the Vietnam and Biafra...
26 May – 9 Sep 2018
Alexander Calder. From the Stony River to the Sky Book Lab
Somerset
This Book & Printed Matter Lab is devoted to Alexander Calder. The theme of Calder’s Roxbury studio in particular becomes the focus, directing a selected representation of how the artist moved between a variety of media and visual languages. Among the materials on view are the historic film...
1 Mar – 28 Apr 2018
Lorna Simpson Book Lab
London
Artist Lorna Simpson has been using found images since 2010, when she came upon her grandmother’s Ebony and Jet magazines from the 1950s to the 1970s. A selection of magazines from the artist’s collection, a primary source material for her 2018 London exhibition ‘Unanswerable’, is...
17 Feb – 20 May 2018
Hauser & Wirth Publishers: Exploring the Archive Book Lab
Los Angeles
Since its founding in 1992, Hauser & Wirth Publishers has been devoted to the presentation of unique, object-like books and a rich exchange of ideas between artists and scholars. For this Book and Printed Matter Lab at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, we are presenting the entirety of our backlist,...
21 Oct 2017 – 21 Jan 2018
Mike Kelley: Kandors 1999 - 2011 Book Lab
Los Angeles
From the Archives of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts The Hauser & Wirth Book & Printed Matter Lab is a project devoted to exploring the important space that books and prints occupy in the practice of artists. Building upon Hauser & Wirth’s curatorial and publishing activities, the Lab...
30 Sep 2017 – 1 Jan 2018
Josephsohn / Märkli Book Lab
Somerset
The Hauser & Wirth Book & Printed Matter Lab is a project devoted to exploring the important place that books and prints occupy in the practice of artists. Building upon Hauser & Wirth’s curatorial and publishing activities, the Lab presents thematic installations, displays, and...
12 Sep – 28 Oct 2017
Arte Povera. Curated by Ingvild Goetz Book Lab
New York
‘Arte Povera. Curated by Ingvild Goetz‘ is complemented by a Book Lab located on the 3rd floor of Hauser & Wirth’s 22nd Street gallery. A wealth of publications, rare invitation cards and archival materials selected by Ingvild Goetz are on display in bookcases within the...
25 Jul – 17 Sep 2017
Summer Reading Room Book Lab
Los Angeles
We invite you to enjoy and engage with a comprehensive selection of publications on the artists featured in our summer exhibitions – Takesada Matsutani, Paul McCarthy, and Monika Sosnowska. Throughout the summer, the Book & Printed Matter Lab will host a series of programs highlighting these...
27 May – 10 Sep 2017
Rashid Johnson Book Lab
Somerset
This special edition of the Book & Printed Matter Lab is dedicated to the exhibition ‘Rashid Johnson. Stranger’. The Lab presents a display of books from the artist’s collection: ‘The Stranger’ by Albert Camus, ‘Notes on a Native Son’ by James Baldwin, ‘The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual’ by...
19 May – 29 Jul 2017
Lee Lozano and Ida Applebroog Book Lab
London
‘By the late 1970s, it became clear that ultimately there was no criterion for how a work of art had to look – and hence that art could look any way at all. This effectively sundered art from aesthetics, and opened possibilities for art beyond those of simply prompting visual pleasure....
18 Feb – 21 May 2017
Dieter Roth and Björn Roth Book Lab
Los Angeles
Seydisfjördur Slides – Every View of a Town, 1988 – 1995 The Hauser & Wirth Book & Printed Matter Lab is a project devoted to exploring the important place that books and prints occupy in the practice of artists. Building upon Hauser & Wirth’s curatorial and publishing activities, the Lab...
