Hauser & Wirth at Art Basel

Spotlight on Hauser & Wirth at Art Basel and in the city

13 – 16 June 2024 Booth C11

• At Art Basel’s Unlimited, three major installations: Henry Taylor, Jenny Holzer and Zoe Leonard

• ·Landmark works by Philip Guston, Louise Bourgeois, Arshile Gorky, Maria Lassnig, Alexander Calder and David Smith as well as Francis Picabia, Georgia O’Keeffe and Bruce Nauman

• ·New works by Mark Bradford, Rashid Johnson, Nicolas Party, Flora Yukhnovich, William Kentridge, alongside contemporary artists Amy Sherald and Roni Horn, among others

Henry Taylor, 'Untitled,' 2022

Art Basel’s Unlimited
Henry Taylor’s monumental mixed-media work ‘Untitled’ (2022) pays homage to the Black Panther Party and to his brother, Randy. The work was previously exhibited in his museum solo show ‘Henry Taylor: B Side’ at MOCA Los Angeles (2022) and the Whitney Museum in New York (2023). Jenny Holzer’s ‘Survival’ (1989) is presented in tandem with her solo show ‘Jenny Holzer: Light Line’ at the Guggenheim Museum, New York, where the work originally debuted in the artist’s 1989 retrospective. Zoe Leonard’s 40-part photographic work ‘Prologue’ (2017/2022) is drawn from the artist’s epic work ‘Al río/To the River’ (2016 – 2022).

Philip Guston, 'Orders,' 1978

20th-century master works
Standout paintings include Francis Picabia’s ‘Nu assis (Seated Nude)’ (ca. 1942), Philip Guston’s ‘Orders’ (1978), coinciding with the artist’s solo show at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich, Arshile Gorky’s ‘Gray Drawing (Pastoral)’ (ca. 1946 – 1947), alongside major works by Bruce Nauman, Georgia O’Keeffe, Maria Lassnig and Agnes Martin. Louise Bourgeois’s ‘Woman with Packages’ (1987 – 1993), a never-before-seen late sculpture, features in addition to 20th-century sculptures by Alexander Calder, David Smith, sculptural lamps by Alina Szapocznikow, and a biomorphic bronze work by Hans Arp.

Louise Bourgeois, 'Three Horizontals,' 1998

Direct from the studio and contemporary showstoppers
A new painting by Mark Bradford, ‘Pink Pearl,’ (2024) is unveiled alongside ‘Soul Painting “Raise It Up”’ (2024) from Rashid Johnson’s new series, a pastel on linen by Nicolas Party, a new sculpture by William Kentridge and ‘Fast and Loose’ (2024) by Flora Yukhnovich. Amy Sherald’s powerful single-figure portrait ‘Varsity Girl’ (2016), Roni Horn’s cast-glass sculpture, complementing her current exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Menorca, and George Condo’s ‘Pink Sculpture Head’ (2017) are on view.

Mark Bradford, 'Pink Pearl,' 2024

Healing Arts at Art Basel

Debbie Hillyerd, Senior Director of Learning at Hauser & Wirth, is pleased to take part in the ‘Healing Arts: Reimagining Healthcare’ panel discussion at Art Basel on 12 June at 6.30pm. More information here.

‘Modern Masters’ at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse

Jean-Michel Basquiat, 'Untitled,' 1988

Opening during Zurich Art Weekend 2024, Hauser & Wirth’s Bahnhofstrasse location will present a showcase of selected masterpieces across painting and sculpture by modern masters from the gallery’s artists, estates and beyond. The presentation includes works by celebrated 20th-century artists, including Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Untitled’ (1988), painted in the final year of the artist’s life, as well as Louise Bourgeois’s ‘Three Horizontals’ (1998), plus Hans Arp, Max Beckmann, Alexander Calder, Barbara Chase- Riboud, Ferdinand Hodler, Maria Lassnig, Agnes Martin, Henry Moore, Georges Vantongerloo and more.

William Kentridge, 'Tap,' 2024

Also on view in Zurich at the gallery’s Limmatstrasse location is ‘Philip Guston. Singularities’ and ‘Nairy Baghramian. Modèle vivant (Se ployant).’ For Art in the Park this year, Hauser & Wirth presents sculptures by William Kentridge in the gardens of the Baur au Lac in Zurich.

Francis Picabia, ‘Nu assis (Seated Nude),’ ca. 1942

Hauser & Wirth’s new permanent space in Basel

‘Vilhelm Hammershøi. Silence,’ curated by Felix Krämer, inaugurates the gallery’s new Basel location at Luftgässlein 4. The first exhibition in Switzerland of the celebrated 19th- and early 20th-century Danish master.

‘Mika Rottenberg. Antimatter Factory’ at Museum Tinguely, Basel In one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of her work to date, Museum Tinguely offers a survey of Mika Rottenberg’s diverse oeuvre, opening 5 June 2024.

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