Artists’ voices, exceptional art, scholarship, design, and bookmaking are at the heart of Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ program. Books are critical gateways to new ways of thinking and seeing; they provide vital, lasting records of artists’ works and ideas and the discourse they inspire. This is why publishing has been a cornerstone of the gallery’s activity since its founding and why Hauser & Wirth Publishers has grown to become a leading imprint for unique, object-like books that encourage an understanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary art. With the special access granted by artists to their writings and archives, Hauser & Wirth Publishers often brings new and overlooked aspects of an artist’s creative practice into focus. Our backlist offers a robust program that comprises artists’ books, artists’ writings, biographies, monographs, surveys, exhibition catalogs, and collectors’ perspectives.
Hauser & Wirth’s publishing activity extends back to 1992, from where it steadily flourished through partnerships with reputable imprints such as Hatje Cantz, JRP|Ringier, Snoeck, Steidl, Thames & Hudson, and Yale University Press, before publishing independently under its own imprint. Based in Zurich and New York City, Hauser & Wirth Publishers commissions titles that we believe are keystone resources and references related to the artists represented by the gallery. Our titles are distributed worldwide via Distributed Art Publishers and Buchhandlung Walther König
Titles from the Hauser & Wirth Publishers program can be found at each of Hauser & Wirth’s gallery locations. Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ newly opened headquarters in Zurich features a publisher’s bookshop that joins its counterparts in New York and London – shops that also serve as local hubs for communities and artists, where the gallery presents a range of public programming.
Rämistrasse 5
8001 Zurich
23 Savile Row
London W1S 2ET
The Hauser & Wirth Book Lab is an initiative 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.
Book Donation Program
Hauser & Wirth Publishers annually donates a selection of our most recent publications to a select number of major public institutions, universities, and research libraries around the world. We wish to share our artists’ work, and our gallery’s books, to promote scholarship and allow for further academic study.
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Library Starter Kit
Hauser & Wirth Publishers offers research libraries, artists residencies, and academic institutions looking to begin or build up their book holdings or libraries a one-off donation of our core titles.
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Desk & Examination Copies
Examination and desk copies are available by request. Examination copies for instructors seeking to review titles for possible course adoption will be provided as PDFs. Physical desk copies will be provided fee of charge for adopted books.
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Ursula is the art magazine of Hauser & Wirth published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers, featuring essays, profiles, films, interviews, original portfolios, and photography by some of the most thought-provoking writers and artists in the world.