Hauser & Wirth represents over 40 established and emerging contemporary artists. Photo: Felix Clay, Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.

LONDON.- Leading international gallery Hauser & Wirth has announced plans to open a new space in autumn 2010 at 23 Savile Row, London. The gallery will occupy the entire ground floor of a newly developed {...}

23 September – 24 October 2009
Inaugurating its first American gallery this month, Hauser & Wirth will present Allan Kaprow YARD, revisiting a seminal 1961 work by the revered New York City-born artist and inventor of Happenings and Environments, whose intellectually rigorous site-specific, impermanent works defied commoditization and ultimately gave birth to performance and installation art. Until his death {...}

Sketches by William Pope.L for ‘Yard Reinvention‘ at Hauser & Wirth New York.
By the late 1950s, American painter Allan Kaprow — formally trained in the era of Abstract Expressionism — began to view the action of Action Painting as far more important than painting itself. With the 1959 work Eighteen Happenings in Six Parts, a series of seemingly random {...}

ALLAN KAPROW’S YARD WILL LAUNCH AMBITIOUS EXHIBITION PROGRAM

Iwan Wirth, President and owner of Hauser & Wirth, the internationally acclaimed gallery of contemporary art and modern masters with exhibition spaces in Zürich and London, announced today the company will expand its global activities by opening a fully dedicated gallery in New York City in September 2009. Widely considered Europe’s {...}