Nicolas Party & Cristina Iglesias in London

Hauser & Wirth London ​ ​
​14 October – 20 December 2025

Nicolas Party. Clotho

The fantastical universe of Swiss painter Nicolas Party’s comes alive in his first solo exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London. Featuring new landscape, treescape and portrait paintings, this exhibition celebrates and challenges longstanding and cherished conventions of representational painting through Party’s signature style. Known for his unique use of soft pastel, the artist has become a master of the medium, employing the pigment’s versatility, immediacy and saturated colour. Party is known for conceiving his exhibitions as comprehensive environments, incorporating architectural interventions and extending the palette of his paintings across the gallery’s walls. Heightening the powerful effects—formal and psychological—of his subject matter, Party has chosen to steep the surrounding walls in a rich electric blue. ​

The first instalment of Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ new Contemporary Masters series, a new monograph focused on Nicolas Party’s mural work, will publish alongside this exhibition. ‘Nicolas Party: Copper & Dust’ is on view at The Holburne Museum in Bath until 31 August 2025, accompanied by a large site-specific pastel mural responding to a work from the museum’s collection, on display until 19 October 2025.

Cristina Iglesias. The Shore

This autumn will mark the first exhibition of Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias at Hauser & Wirth since joining the gallery’s roster. Iglesias is known for her a unique sculptural vocabulary developed over four decades, creating immersive and experiential environments that reference and unite architecture, literature, psychology, mechanics, natural elements and site-specific content. Combining the conventional matter of sculpture—familiar materials such as glass, steel, bronze—with non-traditional materials like water and sound, Iglesias produces works as powerfully mystical as they are muscular. This exhibition features three large-scale works, each taking a unique porous, rock-like form with water trickling and flowing inside, their meteorite appearance symbolizing the collision of outer space and Earth. The use of flowing water adds a layer of organic movement and a connection to geological processes. Guided by a profound cultural and historical sensitivity, as well as a deep concern for the natural world, Iglesias’ works poetically redefine the viewer’s relationship to time and place.

Coinciding with her London debut at Hauser & Wirth, Cristina Iglesias will also have a solo exhibition at Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera in Barcelona, Spain from 9 October 2025 – January 2026.

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^{Nicolas Party, Portrait with Auguste, 2025, Soft pastel on linen, Arch: 150 x 110 cm / 59 x 43 1/4 in © Nicolas Party. Courtesy the artist & Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Adam Reich}

^{Nicolas Party, Trees, 2025, Soft pastel on linen, 177.6 x 89.1 cm / 69 7/8 x 35 1/8 in © Nicolas Party. Courtesy the artist & Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Adam Reich}

^{Cristina Iglesias © Cristina Iglesias. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: José Luis López de Zubiria}