Editorial
Hans Ulrich Obrist and Kimberly Drew in conversation
Since their first meeting in 1985, Maria Lassnig and Hans Ulrich Obrist went on to develop a unique relationship over the course of three decades,...
From Zurich: Pipilotti Rist’s Playlist
Slow showers of vivid color tones permeate the moving, sonic and spatial video works of Pipilotti Rist. Audio is an integral component in her...
Announcing Our Collaboration with June Art Fair
The fair's second edition will be hosted in collaboration with ArtReview on our website this August with a special, dedicated microsite featuring...
Announcing Global Reopenings and Our Summer 2020 Exhibition Program
Following the reopening of our Zurich and Hong Kong locations in May, we are pleased to announce that we will welcome visitors back to see work by...
Stories and Pictures: Charlotte Burns in Conversation with Naomi Beckwith
In a new recurring feature for Ursula magazine, Charlotte Burns talks with curators about how they are adapting to the current climate.
Now Open: Updates to our Global Locations
As a global community, we are now at a promising turning point as some of us emerge from lockdown. We are thrilled to share the news that our...
Reading Maria Lassnig’s Letters
‘Living with art stops one wilting!’ Maria Lassnig wrote in her letter to Hans Ulrich Obrist in 2014. Austrian artist Maria Lassnig is celebrated...
Symbolic Soldiers: Through images, a feminist artist addresses her male offspring
I am often asked, as an artist and as a feminist who has contended with motherhood in my work, to hold forth on what it is like to have two sons....
Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Announcing Representation of the Estate
Our first exhibition devoted to Taeuber-Arp launches online on 11 June. This concise survey exhibition presents 30 works dating from 1916 to 1942,...
From Berlin: David Zink Yi’s Lockdown Playlist
Projected onto the floor of Hauser & Wirth Zürich in 2013 was an 11-part video installation of Cuban musicians, alive with the energy of piano...
I Am Spirit: Reading Jack Whitten
Widely celebrated for his experimental approach to painting, Jack Whitten often turned to writing as a way to investigate, understand, and grapple...
An Interview with Eva Hesse
First published in ARTFORUM in 1970, this rare interview with Cindy Nemser gives insight into Eva Hesse’s practice, totality in her commitment to...
Essays, Ursula, Essay, Features
This is not a photograph
Between December 1929 and February 1930, the Belgian poet and artist Paul Nougé, using an ordinary cheap camera, took a set of 19 photographs...
Inside Zeng Fanzhi’s Beijing Studio
Chinese artist Zeng Fanzhi investigates the possibilities of painting in the contemporary era. Working across diverse modes of representation and...
Kept under the eyelids: A portfolio of drawings by Erna Rosenstein (1913 – 2004)
Erna Rosenstein was an artist, writer and poet born in Lviv, a city that was located in Poland during her youth and is now in Ukraine. She was...
Roni Horn and Matthew Barney in conversation
Matthew Barney talks with Roni Horn in upstate New York from the Sawtooth Valley in Idaho, where the surrounding nature seeps to the surface of...
'Monsters Exist Because We Create Them': Turning to Leon Golub in a Time of Crisis
There is no way to write without writing about the pandemic. Everything is colored by malaise. An online article tells me that my untranslatable...
From Vancouver: Rodney Graham’s Lockdown Playlist
Including tracks ‘I Wish I Never Saw The Sunshine’ and ‘I’m the Loneliest Fool’, Rodney Graham’s honesty and much-needed droll runs through his...
The Making of Simone Leigh’s Brick House
Simone Leigh’s sculpture, the inaugural High Line Plinth Commission, was first unveiled in June 2019 on New York City’s celebrated greenway....
Anna Maria Maiolino’s Spaghetti alla Puttanesca
Italian-born artist Anna Maria Maiolino’s shares a recipe for a personal twist on spaghetti alla puttanesca, a deeply flavorful dish made with...
The Possibilities of Sculpture: Sabine Breitwieser on Isa Genzken
For our 2020 Isa Genzken exhibition ‘Window’ at Hauser & Wirth London, Sabine Breitwieser sheds light on the German sculptor’s ever-evolving...
Interviews
Lorna Simpson in conversation with Thelma Golden
On the occasion of the artist’s first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in New York, Simpson was joined by Thelma Golden, Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, for a conversation about her work at this significant moment in her career.
Jack Whitten on Arshile Gorky
The final work created by Jack Whitten before his passing in January 2018 is a memorial to Arshile Gorky. Shimmering with brilliantly colored...
‘Into the Rearview Mirror’ a film series selection organized by Annie Leibovitz
While most of the world sits sequestered at home during these uncertain times, it's more compelling than ever to daydream of jumping into a car...
From Ghent: Berlinde De Bruyckere
Read and listen to Belgian artist Berlinde De Bruyckere’s moving and meditative thoughts on a painting for consolation and the Maria Vespers...
Five Best Books by Artists
From her office in the Zurich headquarters of Hauser & Wirth Publishers, the imprint’s director Michaela Unterdörfer speaks to Romas Viesulas...
From a Distance: smiles are the medicine
From an anonymous contributor, a visual diary of some things that have caught the eye and provided a diversion during days in isolation. The page...
Introducing ‘Homegrown’: Artwork from the Hauser & Wirth Community
On 9 May, Hauser & Wirth will launch a new platform dedicated to the sale of artworks by the gallery’s staff, immediate family members and...
Stream: The Possibilities of Black and White
A stone sits on a long roll of white paper unfurled on the ground. Hanging above it is a canvas sack full of water. Matsutani enters with slow,...
Digital Premiere: ‘Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf’
We are thrilled to present the first-ever digital screening of ‘Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf’ directed by Thomas Piper, exclusively...
Tetsumi Kudo’s New Ecology
‘No matter how, it is important to think about the relationship of polluted nature to the proliferation of electronics’, Kudo states, ‘the...
ALL THINGS ARE DELICATELY INTERCONNECTED
A Limited-Edition Benefit Print features one of the artist's iconic ‘Truisms’, relaying a timely message that speaks to the global health and...
Enchanted Wanderer: A writer returns to a lost afternoon with Joseph Cornell
On a Sunday afternoon in August of 1971, towards the end of a heat wave in New York, I went to Queens to see Joseph Cornell.