Industry Collaboration

We are committed to facilitating dialogue and sharing information with the global art community to encourage our sector’s collective shift towards environmental sustainability.

Sustainability In Action
Our Sustainability In Action conference in 2022 created a dynamic platform for action-focused industry collaboration, dialogue and knowledge sharing.

It brought together artists, museum professionals, collectors and gallerists with leading voices from the art sustainability sector. It followed four key themes, exploring the artists and commissioners who are working towards environmental best practice; collectors who are actively supporting climate conscious approaches; galleries that are taking immediate action; and organizations that are implementing changes within the supply chain.

Sustainability In Action was developed by our Senior Director, Learning, Debbie Hillyerd, and our Global Head of Environmental Sustainability, Cliodhna Murphy. The conference provided a place for in-person conversation and debate with arts sustainability networks.

Some of the key learnings were:
• Carbon mapping and understanding the metrics are essential, you can’t manage what you can’t measure
• Clients are increasingly open to alternative and slower transportation of artworks in the post-sale process, and this initiative must be led by galleries. To navigate the challenges of sea freight it is incumbent on sellers to offer this choice of shipping to clients, work with insurers and get internal teams’ engagement
Rokbox and Earthcrate are some amazing alternative packaging options for distribution

Learn more about Sustainability in Action.

Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC)
We support the development of a meaningful and industry-specific response to the climate crisis and have been patrons of the GCC since 2020. As active members of the GCC, we align with their targets and reduction strategies. Our sector needs collective, shared standards of sustainable practice and the GCC has been instrumental in evolving the resources, tools and research driven reports that have aided the development of Hauser & Wirth’s approach to environmental sustainability.

Our Global Head of Environmental Sustainability, Cliodhna Murphy, is a member of the London GCC regional group and a volunteer for their activities.

Read more about Carbon Reporting and setting a Science Based Target (SBTi) for your gallery

Watch an In Conversation with Danny Chivers, GCC Environmental Consultant and Cliodhna Murphy on setting Carbon Reduction Targets

Galleries Commit
As participants in the Galleries Commit Climate Action 8×8 Campaign, Hauser & Wirth have committed to acting on 8 key areas of climate impact in 2023. Our Climate Action Plan can be viewed here.

See here for a workshop on setting a climate action plan.

Artists Commit
Artist-led sustainability platform Artists Commit has developed the concept of a Climate Impact Report for specific exhibitions to enable our team to cut emissions and reduce waste from these projects. Our first Climate Impact report was carried out and published via Artists Commit for the Gustav Metzger exhibition we hosted at Hauser & Wirth Somerset in 2021. The gallery team worked to produce an environmentally-responsible exhibition and achieve a low carbon footprint by matching the environmental impact of the exhibition with the sustainability interests at the heart of Metzger’s practice. Read the report here.

Iwan Wirth, President, Hauser & Wirth:
‘We commend initiatives such as the Gallery Climate Coalition and Galleries Commit which are helping to galvanize the art world to take positive action. As we take this journey and learn from it, we will also share knowledge with our wider art community and, in doing so, create opportunities for greater change. Each day we are taking steps to find new, increasingly innovative, and more sustainable ways of conducting our business. The scale of the challenges facing all of us will require both immediate action and long-term commitment. The state of our planet has long been of critical concern to our artists, including Mika Rottenberg, George Condo and Rashid Johnson, who inspired our land conservation partnership with Art to Acres.’

You can listen to Iwan Wirth discuss the gallery’s efforts with Dr. Haley Mellin and CNBC’s Tania Bryer. Learn more →

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