We are pleased to share our fourth Climate Action Report (CIR) with artist-led sustainability platform, Artists Commit, for the exhibition ‘GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNG.’ Inspired by the notion of a traditional Kunsthalle, ‘GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNG’ was a celebration of Hauser & Wirth’s Swiss heritage through a playful presentation of over 20 artists, conceived as a place to showcase groundbreaking art and explore contemporary issues with a broad audience.

On the occasion of his first exhibition ‘That First Rain in May’ at our West Hollywood gallery, artist Angel Otero met with students from Inner-City Arts to discuss his newest composition of work. Through a labor-intensive process of oil painting on plexiglass, then scraping the applied medium into ‘skins’ which he subsequently collages with wet paint onto canvas, Otero has developed a signature mode of expressive storytelling. The artist’s unique approach allows for an active exchange with the medium, inviting chance and unpredictability into his practice.

This resource has been produced to accompany the exhibition ‘Phyllida Barlow. unscripted,’ curated by Frances Morris, at Hauser & Wirth Somerset from Saturday 25 May 2024 – Sunday 5 January 2025.

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This printmaking glossary has been produced to accompany the exhibition ‘Rita Ackermann. Splits: Printing | Painting’, on view at Hauser & Wirth, 18th Street through 26 July 2024.  

Heralding a significant leap in Ackermann's artistic practice, the seven large-scale silkscreens on view represent a dramatic convergence of the technical processes of printmaking with the artist's sustained exploration of form, movement and erasure. Produced in collaboration with master printer Keigo Takahashi, Ackermann sought to transform paintings into prints, without recourse to the reproduction of a model. 

Learn more about the works on view by exploring the printmaking terms and techniques defined below. 

This resource has been produced to accompany the exhibition ‘AGGRESSIVE DR1FTER PART II’ at Hauser & Wirth London from 9 May – 27 July 2024.

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This resource has been produced to accompany the presentation ‘FRANK AT 90’ at Hauser & Wirth London from 22 February – 16 March 2024

This resource has been produced to accompany the exhibition ‘Uman. Darling sweetie, sweetie darling’ at Hauser & Wirth London from 30 January – 30 March 2024.

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This resource has been produced to accompany the exhibition ‘Present Tense’ at Hauser & Wirth Somerset from 27 January – 28 April 2024.

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‘There was a discipline in the thinking and the execution of things at the atelier . . . With printmaking, if you have a copper plate or a zinc plate and you’re working with the acid or burin, whatever your tool, it’s permanent. That’s it. You can’t go back.’—Kate Van Houten in ‘Life to Matter’

This printmaking glossary has been produced to accompany the exhibition ‘Takesada Matsutani / Kate Van Houten. Paris Prints 1967-1978’ at Hauser & Wirth, 18th Street from 25 January through 9 March 2024. A second iteration of the exhibition will be on view from 12 March through 20 April 2024. Learn more about the works on view by exploring the printmaking terms and techniques defined below.

On the occasion of ‘Avery Singer. Free Fall’ Hauser & Wirth London hosted a conversation between contemporary painters, art lecturers and their students.

On the occasion of ‘Allison Katz. Westward Ho!,’ Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood hosted ‘Painters on Painting’—an exploratory learning event where artists and students engage in a conversation around painting exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth galleries. The events aim to bring young voices into the conversation on contemporary painting and artistic processes.

Inside her exhibition at our New York gallery, Anj Smith met with a group of young people from Culture for One, to talk about her new body of work. Set within ecologically devastated landscapes, the gorgeous but unsettling canvases in ‘Drifting Habitations’ challenge the notion of fixed locations and invite us to consider the fluidity of our experiences and perceptions of the world. Delving into the complex relationship between self and space, Smith’s luminous works question the very nature of our connections to the environments we inhabit.