Hauser & Wirth at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
Installation view, Hauser & Wirth at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025, Booth 1C21 Photo: JJYPHOTO Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
Booth 1C21, 28 – 30 March
•Highlights include masterpieces by Louise Bourgeois, Philip Guston and Jack Whitten
•Works by artists new to the program, including Nairy Baghramian, Jeffrey Gibson, Lee Bul and Michaela Yearwood-Dan.
Hauser & Wirth returns to Art Basel Hong Kong this year with a presentation of exceptional works spanning generations. Exemplary master artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Philip Guston, Jack Whitten and Maria Lassnig, will feature alongside leading international contemporary voices, such as Mark Bradford, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Nicole Eisenman, Rashid Johnson, Allison Katz, William Kentridge, Angel Otero, Avery Singer, Zeng Fanzhi and Zhang Enli, and artists who have joined the gallery in the past year, including Nairy Baghramian, Jeffrey Gibson, Lee Bul and Michaela Yearwood-Dan.
Highlights:
Louise Bourgeois Cove 1988, cast 2010 (lifetime) Bronze, silver nitrate patina, with stainless steel base Overall: 167.6 x 91.4 x 50.8 cm / 66 x 36 x 20 in © The Easton Foundation/VAGA at ARS, NY Photo: Christopher Burke
• Louise Bourgeois’ remarkable and highly personal installation ‘Cell (Choisy Two)’ (1995) confronts her feelings towards her childhood, confinement, fear, voyeurism and self-reflection, and ‘Cove’ (1988, cast 2010 [lifetime]) presents a balance between abstraction and representation, male and female, tenderness and ferocity. These works are presented in tandem with the artist‘s solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong, and her major museum show at Fubon Art Museum in Taipei, which will later travel to Hoam Art Museum in Seoul this autumn.
• Philip Guston’s ‘Blue Cover’ (1977) captures the confessional intimacy, introspection and self-revelation that typify the artist’s late paintings. ‘Ypsilon I’ (1978) from Jack Whitten’s renowned Greek Alphabet series is exemplary of the artist’s distinct way of making, which blends formal experimentation with his own contemplative and spiritual concerns.
• Commanding sculptures include Barbara Chase-Riboud’s ‘Matisse’s Back in Twins, Red’ (1967/2024). Whilst paying homage to Henri Matisse’s Back series (1909-1930), the artist forges a highly distinctive sculptural vocabulary by introducing textile to enrich the conversation between mass and materiality. This anticipates the artist‘s first monographic exhibition in Asia, on view at Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai from October. Nairy Baghramian’s ‘Dwindler_Downdraft_down’ (2018) draws from the lineage of readymade sculptures and minimalism, yet she repositions this tradition within a state of dereliction— sculpture as a residual trace of its own decay. A video installation by Pipilotti Rist offers an opportunity to view the artist’s work before her exhibition at UCCA Beijing, opening in July.
• ‘Untitled’ (2024) marks a breakthrough in Zeng Fanzhi’s remarkable painting practice, reimagining abstraction through experimentations with figurative representation. Nicole Eisenman paints layers of nuanced thoughts and feelings in ‘Life’s Path’ (2020-2024), exposing the paradoxes and contradictions of the human experience. Further contemporary works include a mixed-media piece by Mark Bradford, who will have an exhibition at Amorepacific Museum of Art in Seoul in August.
Lee Bul Untitled (Anagram Leather #11 T.O.T.) 2003/2018 Leather-covered cast fiberglass, stainless steel, stainless-steel wire 115 x 75 x 65 cm / 45 1/4 x 29 1/2 x 25 5/8 in © Lee Bul. Courtesy of the artist Photo: Jeon Byung-cheol
• Lee Bul, newly represented by Hauser & Wirth, will present a sculpture ‘Untitled (Anagram Leather #11 T.O.T.)’ (2003/2018) and a new diptych painting ‘Perdu CCIX’ (2025). Commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 2024, her sculptures for its Fifth Avenue facade, ‘The Genesis Facade Commission: Lee Bul, Long Tail Halo’ remain on view until 10 June 2025. A major touring survey, co- curated by Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, and M+, Hong Kong, will open at Leeum Museum of Art in September 2025, before touring to M+ in March 2026 and other international venues.
• A group of compelling works will debut at the fair this year such as Jeffrey Gibson’s ‘Your spirit whispering in my ear’ (2025), Allison Katz’s ‘Nightcap (Hitchcock)’ (2025), Angel Otero’s ‘Dream Rider’ (2025), Thomas J Price’s ‘Sonic Work (Inner Landscape 1)’ (2025), Avery Singer’s ‘Untitled’ (2025) and Michaela Yearwood-Dan‘s ‘Kiss Me Goodbye (Don’t forget)’ (2025).
Installation view, Hauser & Wirth at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025, Booth 1C21 Photo: JJYPHOTO Courtesy Hauser & Wirth
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