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 {...}

Hauser & Wirth presents the first UK exhibition of the Berlin-based artist Martin Eder. Populated by naked young women and saccharine fluffy cats, Eder’s semi-surrealistic paintings exude an engaging perversity. His scenarios have a nightmarish feeling and explore the uneasy interdependence of culture, kitsch and commerce in contemporary art. ‘My paintings are actually battle scenes,’ Eder has {...}

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 {...}

3 April – 2 May 2009, Hauser & Wirth London, Old Bond Street
‘We are all Flesh. Berlinde De Bruyckere Luca Giordano’ is a collaboration between Hauser & Wirth and P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd.

Berlinde De Bruyckere has made a major new sculpture inspired by the paintings of Baroque Neapolitan artist Luca Giordano. Her themes are those that {...}

Opening: 31 October 2008, 6 – 8 pm
‘To me, matter must stand on its own, not be an image, not disappear when the lights go out. Lee could and did make pigment matter…. Her paintings were and are right.’
Carl Andre, ‘In the Matter of Lee Lozano’, from ‘Abstract Painting 1960-69′, 1983
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