Forthcoming Exhibitions and Publications in Europe

Francis Picabia. Éternel recommencement / Eternal Beginning
​Hauser & Wirth Paris ​
​18 January – 16 March 2025 ​

In collaboration with the Comité Picabia, Hauser & Wirth Paris will display an exhibition of post-war artworks by Francis Picabia. Curated by Beverley Calté and Arnauld Pierre, this will be the first major solo exhibition exclusively exploring Picabia’s unique final period, created after his return to Paris in 1945 until the year before his death in 1953. The exhibition, which contains over 40 works by the artist, will then travel to Hauser & Wirth New York, 22nd Street from 1 May – 25 July 2025.

Often overshadowed by other periods of his oeuvre, Picabia’s last series saw the artist abandon his famous wartime Nudes, heralding a new era of nonfigurative art, coupled with a particular interest in surface texture and new sources of inspiration. Characteristic of Picabia’s restless artistic talent, forever changing directions, these paintings represent his own definitions of abstraction, creating a new visual language which distinctly sets this bold group of works apart from anything he had done before.

The exhibition catalogue illustrating Picabia’s visually imposing works also contextualises his very personal position within the vibrant post-war Parisian art scene and the rise of art informel. This bilingual publication by Hauser & Wirth Publishers includes essays by Arnauld Pierre and Candace Clements, with an introductory preface from Beverley Calté, President of the Comité Picabia.

^{Press contact: Alice Haguenauer, Hauser & Wirth London / Paris, alicehaguenauer@hauserwirth.com}

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Skifahrer (Skier), 1983 © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Collection Carmignac, Photo: Thomas HennocqueJean Michel-Basquiat, Brook Bartlett and Bruno Bischofberger at the Cresta Klubhaus in St. Moritz on January 30, 1983. Photo: Christina Bischofberger © Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Männedorf- Zurich, Switzerland

Jean-Michel Basquiat. Engadin
​14 December – 29 March 2025
​Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz

Exploring various artistic motifs that combine the natural and cultural landscape of the Engadin with the metropolis of New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s first solo exhibition dedicated to the paintings he created in and inspired by his visits to Switzerland opens on 14 December at Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz. ‘Jean-Michel Basquiat. Engadin’ traces the renowned artist’s connections to the country, which began in 1982 with his first show at Galerie Bruno Bischofberger in Zurich, returning over a dozen times to St. Moritz, Zurich, Appenzell and Basel. The Engadin region in particular continued to fascinate Basquiat long after his return to New York, resulting in a body of work that captures his impressions of the Swiss Alpine landscape and culture through the lens of his highly distinctive and personal artistic language.

‘Jean-Michel Basquiat. Engadin’ will be accompanied by a catalog from Hauser & Wirth Publishers, featuring a foreword by Bruno Bischofberger and a text by Dr. Dr. Dieter Buchhart to give visitors a unique insight into this specific chapter of one of the most important artists of the 20th Century. The exhibition is supported by Dr. Dr. Dieter Buchhart and Dr. Anna Karina Hofbauer, internationally renowned curators and Basquiat experts.

^{Press contact: Maddy Martin, Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz / Zurich, maddymartin@hauserwirth.com}

Paul McCarthy
​Hauser & Wirth London ​
​4 February – 17 April 2025

One of the leading contemporary American artists of his generation, Paul McCarthy has developed a distinct and subversive artistic practice throughout his long career, which now spans more than five decades. In this exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London, McCarthy will construct an installation within the North Gallery, utilising a disused theatre set as a location for drawing, digital recording and AI interaction. This format is part of a trajectory in McCarthy’s work going back to the 1960s of drawing and painting as action or performance.

The exhibition will display a continuation of themes explored in improvised performances between Paul McCarthy and German actor Lilith Stangenberg entitled ‘Adolf & Eva, Adam & Eve,’ a satirically uncompromising oeuvre. This project reflects McCarthy’ lifelong exploration of bodily abjection, human entanglement, power, Hollywood and the underbelly of the 20th- and 21st-century’s cultural and political climate. The works on view will serve as documentation of both McCarthy’ incisive critical lens and his practice of synthesizing performance, film, painting, drawing, sculpture and sound.

A unique artist’s book documenting artist Paul McCarthy and Lilith Stangenberg’s acclaimed performance piece, ‘Paul McCarthy: A&E, ADOLF & EVA, ADAM & EVE, DEAD END HOLE, PICNIC,’ will be released by Hauser & Wirth Publishers in January 2025.

^{Press contact: Alice Haguenauer, Hauser & Wirth London / Paris, alicehaguenauer@hauserwirth.com}

Mike Kelley. Vice Anglais
​Hauser & Wirth London ​
​4 February – 17 April 2025

Over the course of his four-decade career, Mike Kelley (1954 – 2012) addressed the relation of establishment culture to counterculture. He shed light on social rituals and subcultures, whilst simultaneously parodying the imposition of institutionalised power and instruction, with his Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction (EAPR) series (2000 – 2011). Kelley set out to make 365 videos and video installations, one for each day of the year. Often accompanied by partial or full stage sets and sculptural components, these ‘video narratives’ restaged found photographs of extracurricular activities culled from Kelley’s collection of high school yearbooks. The EAPR series is closely related to Kelley’s seminal project ‘Educational Complex’ (1995), an architectural model of all the educational institutions he attended in which he left out the parts he could not remember, exploring the pervasiveness of repressed memory syndrome. The EAPR series came to an early end with ‘Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36 (Vice Anglais)’ (2011), one of the last videos Kelley ever made.

The exhibition focuses on this final EAPR through related works, including a series of large-scale paintings of the cast of transgressive characters in ‘Vice Anglais,’ a lightbox still of a scene from the video and sculptures made using props from his videos. ‘Vice Anglais’ is rooted specifically in Kelley’s interest in the Romantic movement of the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries, characterised as the original counterculture. In addition, the video evokes the legacies of Romanticism in the later 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England, as well as the resonances of this specifically British counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s. A special screening of the video will be held during the exhibition run.

This exhibition runs concurrently with the major survey ‘Mike Kelley: Ghost and Spirit’ at Tate Modern, on display until 9 March 2025.

^{Press contact: Alice Haguenauer, Hauser & Wirth London / Paris, alicehaguenauer@hauserwirth.com}

An Uncommon Thread
​8 February – 27 April 2025
​Hauser & Wirth Somerset

Featuring Rachael Louise Bailey, Max Boyla, KV Duong, Charlotte Edey, Nour Jaouda, Lindsey Mendick, Jack O’Brien, Nengi Omuku, Tai Shani, Georg Wilson.

The exhibition is in collaboration with Alice Black, Berntson Bhattacharjee, Carl Freedman Gallery, Gathering, Ginny on Frederick, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery and Union Pacific.

‘An Uncommon Thread’ features ten contemporary artists living and working in the UK, highlighting the transformative power of unconventional mediums in evoking personal and collective memories. Each artist places an unwavering commitment to the integral role materials and techniques play in their creative process, employing unexpected painting surfaces, adapting formal craft traditions and repurposing discarded products into compelling works. Through individual investigations of identity, tradition, nature, fantasy and the environment, the exhibition invites viewers to engage with the rich stories woven into each work, driven by a curiosity and inventive approach to materiality and process.

This multidisciplinary group exhibition follows ‘Present Tense’ (2024) and is part of an ongoing initiative at our Somerset gallery that champions emerging and mid-career artists beyond Hauser & Wirth’s roster. An extended events and learning program will run alongside the exhibition, engaging with key themes addressed within the exhibition and facilitating further dialogue around points of intersection between the artists’ practices.

^{Press contact: Laura Cook, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, lauracook@hauserwirth.com}

UMAN. A FANTASTIC WOMAN
​Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse ​
​Opens 23 January 2025

For her second exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, Uman presents all new paintings and works on paper at the gallery’s Zurich location on Limmatstrasse, in equal partnership with Nicola Vassell Gallery, New York NY. Living and working in Upstate New York, Uman’s new paintings reflect her reverence for the natural world. Fluidly navigating in-between realms to explore both the physical and spiritual, intertwining abstraction, figuration and meditative patterning, Uman draws upon her memories of her East African childhood, rigorous education in traditional Arabic calligraphy, deep engagement with dreams and fascination with kaleidoscopic color and design. Expanding on this unique visual language, Uman’s new body of work also explores ideas of color field painting, looking to artists such as Frank Bowling in her practice. With some works suspended from the ceiling and a site-specific wall mural that will transform part of the gallery space, Uman invites the viewer to be immersed in her lavishly detailed and opulently colored worlds, replete with gesture, geometry and evocations of the sublime.

^{Press contact: Maddy Martin, Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz / Zurich, maddymartin@hauserwirth.com}

Rachel Khedoori
​Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse ​
​Opens 23 January 2025

This January, the artist Rachel Khedoori will present an installation of new work in the second-floor galleries of Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse. Minimalist in form and haptic in feeling, Khedoori’s sculptures oscillate between representation and abstraction. Models of rooms are stacked to become towers or collapsed structures. These are then reduced to flattened planes on the floor. Cutouts with holes become passageways for the eye to peep (or punch) through. Incorporating a range of materials and techniques—cast aluminum, bronze, 3-D printing, resin, encaustic paint and paper—the exhibition is staged as an overall site of construction and deconstruction. Like a ruin, everything seems to be in the process of slowly falling apart. The use of shadows and reflections compound this sense of ephemerality by invoking the illusionary realm of film and the spectral projections of a phantasmagoria.

Khedoori’s art explores the physical and psychological boundaries of interior space, with work that challenges viewers’ perceptual experience by interweaving mirrors, films and scale models into the installation. While the work is noticeably void of any representations of the figure, the viewer’s physical presence assumes the role of subject.

^{Press contact: Maddy Martin, Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz / Zurich, maddymartin@hauserwirth.com}

Press Contacts:

Alice Haguenauer
​Hauser & Wirth London / Paris
​alicehaguenauer@hauserwirth.com

Maddy Martin ​
​Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz / Zurich
​maddymartin@hauserwirth.com

Laura Cook ​
​Hauser & Wirth Somerset ​
​lauracook@hauserwirth.com

^{Copyright and Courtesy Credits}

^{Francis Picabia, Symbole (Symbol), 1950, Oil on plywood in original frame, 100 x 85.5 cm / 39 3/8 x 33 5/8 in, Musée - bibliothèque Pierre André Benoit, Alès, France, Photo: Mercatorfonds, Belgium and Archives Comité Picabia, Paris}

^{Picabia dans son appartement du 26 rue Danielle-Casanova ancienne rue des Petits-Champs, Paris, v. 1948-1949 / Picabia in his studio at 26 rue Danielle-Casanova (formerly rue des Petits-Champs), Paris, ca. 1948–49. Archives Comité Picabia, Paris}

^{Jean-Michel Basquiat, Skifahrer, 1983, Oil on canvas, 70 x 90 x 2 cm / 27 1/2 x 35 3/8 x 3/4 in © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York. Collection Carmignac, Photo: Thomas Hennocque. © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York}

^{Jean-Michel Basquiat, Brook Bartlett and Bruno Bischofberger at the Cresta Klubhaus in St. Moritz on January 30, 1983 Photo: Christina Bischofberger © Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Männedorf-Zurich, Switzerland ​ ​}

^{Paul McCarthy ‘A&E Drawing Session, Santa Anita’, performance still, 2021 © Paul McCarthy. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth.}

^{© Paul McCarthy. Photo: Mara McCarthy, 2001. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth}

^{Mike Kelley, Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #36 (Vice Anglais), 2011, Lenticular panel, light box, Edition of 5 + 2 PPs, 3 APs, 82.6 x 122.6 x 9.2 cm / 32 1/2 x 48 1/4 x 3 5/8 in © Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts. All Rights Reserved/VAGA at ARS, NY. Courtesy the Foundation and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Genevieve Hanson}

^{Nengi Omuku, Nzogbu Nzogbu, 2024, Oil on sanyan, 130 x 120 cm, 51 1/4 x 47 1/4 in. Private Collection. Courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery © Nengi Omuku. Photo: Todd-White Art Photography}

^{Lindsey Mendick, It was just a bit of fun, 2024, Glazed ceramic, 71 x 58 x 58 cm, 28 x 23 x 23 in. Courtesy the artist and Carl Freedman Gallery © Lindsey Mendick}

^{KV Duong, Where Water Remembers Fire 1, 2024, Acrylic on latex (resin backing), painted wooden stretcher, 198 x 100 cm © KV Duong}

^{Uman in the studio, 2023 © Uman. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Nicola Vassell Gallery. Photo: Joe Perez}

^{Rachel Khedoori © Rachel Khedoori. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth}