Hauser & Wirth Zurich

Jenny Holzer

Hauser & Wirth Zürich is delighted to stage a major presentation of new and unseen work by Jenny Holzer, the New York artist celebrated for her evocative use of language and interventions in the public sphere. Since the 1980s, Holzer has developed electronic sculpture as a means to articulate her bold statements, sobering poetry and political word-play.

Jenny Holzer

Saturday 10 June 2017 to Sunday 17 September 2017
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Fausto Melotti

Often linked with titans of the postwar era, such as Alexander Calder, Lucio Fontana and Alberto Giacometti, Fausto Melotti moved freely among mediums, incorporating plaster, ceramics, metal and fabric into his work.

Fausto Melotti

Saturday 01 April 2017 to Saturday 20 May 2017
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Henry Moore Family Collection Myths & Poetry

An exhibition focused on Henry Moore’s early drawings and etchings inspired by, or relating to, poetry and myth. Including poetry magazine covers, illustrations for poems by Herbert Read and sketches of the Prometheus myth, the presentation explores the graphic side of Moore’s practice and illuminates his interest in sculptural mythology. It is curated by the artist’s daughter, Mary Moore.

Henry Moore

Friday 20 January 2017 to Saturday 11 March 2017
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

4 collections

Rodney Graham Media Studies

Since the 1980s, Vancouver-based artist Rodney Graham has grown his diverse practice to encompass photography, painting, sculpture, film, video and music. As actor, performer, producer, historian, writer, poet, sound engineer and musician, Graham shifts seamlessly into different roles and personas.

Rodney Graham

Friday 20 January 2017 to Saturday 11 March 2017
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Anna Maria Maiolino

Hauser & Wirth presents an exhibition of new and recent work by one of Brazil’s most significant contemporary artists, Anna Maria Maiolino.

Anna Maria Maiolino

Wednesday 12 October 2016 to Friday 23 December 2016
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

6 collections

Anna Maria Maiolino TUDO ISSO (ALL THAT)

Hauser & Wirth presents an exhibition of new and recent work by one of Brazil’s most significant contemporary artists, Anna Maria Maiolino. With a practice spanning drawing, printmaking, poetry, film, performance, installation and sculpture, Maiolino relentlessly explores notions of subjectivity and the self.

Anna Maria Maiolino

Wednesday 12 October 2016 to Friday 23 December 2016
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

6 collections

Zhang Enli Intangible 无形

Hauser & Wirth Zürich is delighted to showcase a new series of paintings by Zhang Enli. The oil on canvas works take inspiration from the artist’s abstract Space Paintings, marking a significant departure from the figurative renderings of utilitarian objects and nature, for which he is best known.

Zhang Enli

Wednesday 12 October 2016 to Friday 23 December 2016
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

4 collections

David Smith Form in Colour

Hauser & Wirth Zürich is delighted to present a solo exhibition of works by the late American sculptor, painter and draughtsman, David Smith (1906 – 1965). A titan of 20th-century art, Smith transformed the innovations of European modernism into a richly diverse new artistic language.

David Smith

Sunday 12 June 2016 to Sunday 18 September 2016
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

3 collections

Schwitters Miró Arp

From the turn of the century, these three artists were united by the impulse to renew and transform art. Building on the achievements of Cubism, they pursued this goal through experimentation with collage and assemblage, generating radical new ideas to confront a Europe characterised by the catastrophe of war.

Schwitters Miró Arp

Sunday 12 June 2016 to Sunday 18 September 2016
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

5 collections

Takesada Matsutani

Over a five-decade career that began with his participation in the Gutai Art Association and evolved to express the tangled complexities of a life lived between France and Japan, Matsutani has developed a unique visual language of form and materials.

Takesada Matsutani

Saturday 19 March 2016 to Saturday 21 May 2016
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Wilhelm Sasnal

Drawing on found images from newspapers and magazines, the Internet, billboards or his personal surroundings, Wilhelm Sasnal’s paintings act as an archive to the mass of sprawling images that flood contemporary society.

Wilhelm Sasnal

Saturday 19 March 2016 to Saturday 21 May 2016
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

3 collections

Tetsumi Kudo

‘In Kudo’s sculptures and assemblages [...] there was a prevailing obsession with the theme of impotence linked to nuclear attack, a penchant for grotesque renderings of the body, cut into pieces or dissolving into puddles of goo, and a science-fictional dystopian picturing of the body as part machine…

Tetsumi Kudo

Friday 04 December 2015 to Friday 26 February 2016
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

4 collections

Salon d'Hiver

For its winter exhibition, Hauser & Wirth Zürich has transformed its second floor gallery into an immersive domestic environment, with unique artworks, editions, music and books by Hauser & Wirth artists displayed amongst the furniture, fabrics and tchotchkes that make up a personal habitat.

Allan Kaprow Dieter Roth

Saturday 21 November 2015 to Friday 26 February 2016
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

4 collections

Josephsohn

Hauser & Wirth is proud to unveil a focused presentation of the large, abstract half-figure sculptures from the late career of Swiss artist, Josephsohn (1920 – 2012).

Josephsohn

Saturday 29 August 2015 to Saturday 31 October 2015
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

3 collections

Martin Creed

Hauser & Wirth Zürich is pleased to present an exhibition of new work from Martin Creed, which opens on 29 August 2015. Featuring works made in wood, plastic, neon, wool, canvas and carpet tiles, the exhibition highlights Creed’s innovative approach to a broad range of materials and his ongoing fascination with the commonplace.

Martin Creed

Saturday 29 August 2015 to Saturday 31 October 2015
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

2 collections

Paul McCarthySpin Offs: White Snow WS, Caribbean Pirates CP

Starting 14 June 2015, Hauser & Wirth Zürich will unveil new work by Paul McCarthy as part of the exhibition ‘Spin Offs: White Snow WS. Caribbean Pirates CP’. A series of vivid red bronzes mark the latest iteration of the White Snow series, while the Caribbean Pirates series features a monumental assemblage installation and new resin block sculptures.

Paul Mc Carthy

Sunday 14 June 2015 to Saturday 25 July 2015
Art benefit in Switzerland.

Transparence: Calder / Picabia

Hauser & Wirth Zürich is pleased to present ‘Transparence: Calder / Picabia’, a historic exhibition that reveals, for the first time, the remarkable dialogue between Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976) and Francis Picabia (1879 – 1953), two great innovators of twentieth-century modernism.

Francis Picabia Alexander Calder

Sunday 14 June 2015 to Saturday 25 July 2015
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

2 collections

André Thomkins Works 1946 – 1985

Hauser & Wirth presents an exhibition of works by Swiss artist André Thomkins (1930 – 1985), whose capacious and supple imagination produced a standalone and category-defying oeuvre, encompassing uncanny drawings, music, sculptures, paintings and wordplay.

Andre Thomkins

Saturday 28 March 2015 to Saturday 30 May 2015
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

4 collections

Dieter Roth, Björn Roth, Oddur Roth ROTH BAR & STUDIO

As a central part of the exhibition ‘Roth Bar & Studio. Dieter Roth, Björn Roth and Oddur Roth’, Hauser & Wirth Zürich will launch a fully-functional, specially-crafted bar designed by Björn and Oddur Roth, son and grandson of German-born Swiss artist Dieter Roth (1930 – 1998).

Saturday 28 March 2015 to Friday 29 May 2015
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Andy Hope 1930: UNappropriated Activities

For Andy Hope 1930’s exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Zürich, ‘UNappropriated Activities’, Hope will present new series of paintings, works on paper and sculpture. ‘UNappropriated Activities’ draws together motifs from cosmic phenomena, self-portraiture, and superhero fiction to explore existentialism and contemporary society.

Andy Hope

Saturday 24 January 2015 to Saturday 14 March 2015
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Rita Ackermann

Hauser & Wirth Zürich is pleased to announce an exhibition of new chalkboard paintings by Rita Ackermann. This body of work was presented for the first time at Sammlung Friedrichshof, Austria in 2014, and a second series was shown later the same year at Art Unlimited, Art Basel.

Rita Ackermann

Saturday 24 January 2015 to Wednesday 14 January 2015
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Anri Sala: The Present Moment (in B-flat)

Hauser & Wirth is pleased to announce ‘The Present Moment (in B-flat)’, an exhibition including a body of new works by Anri Sala. The presentation runs parallel to the debut of ‘The Present Moment (in D)’ at Haus der Kunst, Munich, and explores a present moment where concurrent notions of past and future arise.

Anri Sala

Saturday 22 November 2014 to Saturday 10 January 2015
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Bharti Kher: three decimal points. of a minute. of a second. of a degree

For her first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Bharti Kher unveils a new ensemble of sculptures that have been growing in her studio over the last few years.

Bharti Kher

Saturday 22 November 2014 to Saturday 10 January 2015
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Matthew Day Jackson: Family

Hauser & Wirth is excited to announce Matthew Day Jackson

Matthew Day Jackson

Saturday 30 August 2014 to Saturday 08 November 2014
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Philippe Vandenberg: Dog Day Curated by Harald Falckenberg

Hauser & Wirth is pleased to present the work of the Belgian artist Philippe Vandenberg for the first time in Switzerland. Curated by Harald Falckenberg,

Philippe Vandenberg

Saturday 30 August 2014 to Saturday 08 November 2014
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Lines

This exhibition brings together a group of international artists active between the 1950s and today, all of whom explore new frontiers for abstraction The exhibition examines how the element of the line is used by these artists to introduce new meaning to Formalism, and to find new uses for geometric form – continuously challenging the limits of abstract art.

Lygia Pape Nasreen Mohamedi R. H. Quaytman Geta Br?Tescu Johanna Calle Marilá Dardot Channa Horwitz Ivens Machado

Saturday 22 March 2014 to Wednesday 21 May 2014
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Guillermo Kuitca L'Encyclopédie Nos. I, II, III, IV, V, VI

Guillermo Kuitca (b. 1961, Buenos Aires) is one of the most pre-eminent artists working in Latin America today. He draws on a range of iconography including architectural plans, maps, theatres, musical scores and domestic spaces. His work explores themes of structured absence, sound and silence and the tension between the empirical map and abstract form.

Guillermo Kuitca

Saturday 18 January 2014 to Friday 14 March 2014
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Roman Signer Skulptur - Installation

Roman Signer incorporates time and change into the artistic process, exploring the possibilities of the sculptural medium. Although Signer first achieved artistic notoreity by using explosives, it is primarily the unspectacular and subtle aspects that best characterise his work. Through happenings and installations, he has been re-defining sculpture for more than forty years.

Roman Signer

Saturday 18 January 2014 to Friday 14 March 2014
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Rashid Johnson The Gathering

Hauser & Wirth are excited to announce Rashid Johnson’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland, ‘The Gathering’, comprising over a dozen new works including sculpture, painting and video. For this exhibition, Johnson will unveil a new series of abstract portraits which he refers to as ‘characters’.

Rashid Johnson

Saturday 02 November 2013 to Saturday 21 December 2013
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Rodney Graham The Four Seasons

Nestled between snow-covered mountains and the edge of the Pacific Ocean, Vancouver is the most extraordinary city; it is at once remote and removed from the centre of the Western World, yet it sustains the vibrancy of a thriving modern metropolis.

Rodney Graham

Saturday 02 November 2013 to Saturday 21 December 2013
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

David Zink Yi Why am I here and not somewhere else – Independencia II

Hauser & Wirth presents a new sound and video installation by the Peruvian-born, Berlin-based artist David Zink Yi. The title of the 11-part work, ‘Why am I here and not somewhere else – Independencia II’, refers both to the work itself and to its viewer.

David Zink Yi

Saturday 31 August 2013 to Saturday 19 October 2013
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Martin Eder The Collective Unconscious

Hauser & Wirth is pleased to present Martin Eder’s first exhibition in Zurich. ‘The Collective Unconscious’ highlights Eder’s sculptural work, a lesser known, yet integral aspect of his artistic practice. The exhibition will feature a massive new sculptural installation by Eder, complemented by a new, large-scale painting.

Martin Eder

Saturday 31 August 2013 to Saturday 19 October 2013
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Thomas Houseago

With each of Thomas Houseago’s enigmatic works, the artist breathes new life into sculpture by injecting it with elements of craft and folk art, the natural and supernatural world, and the masters of modern art.

Thomas Houseago

Monday 24 June 2013 to Monday 30 September 2013
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Lee Bontecou Works on Paper

Hauser & Wirth is proud to present a rare exhibition of drawings by the American artist Lee Bontecou, whose enigmatic practice defies attempts to categorise her work within the traditional doctrines of art history.

Lee Bontecou

Sunday 09 June 2013 to Saturday 27 July 2013
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

Wilhelm Sasnal

Hauser & Wirth Zürich is proud to present an exhibition of new works by the Polish artist, Wilhelm Sasnal. Sasnal’s artistic practice creates an archive from the sprawling mass of images that flood contemporary society.

Wilhelm Sasnal

Sunday 09 June 2013 to Saturday 27 July 2013
Art exhibition in Switzerland.

7 collections

Roni Horn

‘I don’t think of the object, the material thing or what is produced as the endpoint of a work. The aspiration is always the experience, which means the audience, the individual, is integral to the value of the work.’ – Roni Horn

Roni Horn

Saturday 23 March 2013 to Saturday 25 May 2013
Art exhibition in Swaziland.