London Gallery Weekend Exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth
Press Release
Michaela Yearwood-Dan. No Time for Despair
Hauser & Wirth London
13 May – 2 August 2025
‘Looking at Michaela’s work, you’re left with a sense of boundless possibility.’—Curator Ekow Eshun
Through paintings, sculpture, site-specific murals and installations, Michaela Yearwood-Dan endeavors to build spaces of community, abundance and joy. Yearwood-Dan’s debut exhibition with Hauser & Wirth will take place in London, featuring new paintings ranging from monumental to intimate in scale, including an expansive 11m-long panelled landscape painting, alongside richly adorned ceramic sculptures and benches. Through these multiple mediums, Yearwood-Dan explores the quieter tones of femininity and queer community guided by deep intuition. The lyrical quality of the paintings will be complemented by a new immersive sound piece made in collaboration with the composer Alex Gruz, a reflection on the analogous experience of art and music alike, setting the tone with which to view the paintings. The title of the show, ‘No Time for Despair,’ is a call to action to find joy and connect in times of darkness, referencing an article written by Toni Morrison for The Nation, which states, ‘In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.’
Yearwood-Dan’s unique visual language draws on a diverse range of influences, including Blackness, queerness, femininity and healing rituals. Lush and brightly hued, the work is at once personal and political. She often engages colors and materials for their symbolic associations, such as ceramic petals collaged into her recent paintings, as seen in ‘Fxxk the opinions and all the logistics’ (2025), that evoke the queer histories of carnations and pansies. The surfaces of her canvases are dense with generous and purposeful swathes of lavish pigments, as well as textures and embellishments using subversive and non-traditional materials such as gold leaf, crystals, sequins and glitter.
Figure + Ground. Selected Film and Video Works
Hauser & Wirth London
6 June – 2 August 2025
Featuring Sonia Boyce with Ain Bailey, Mark Bradford, Geta Brătescu, Martin Creed, Jeffrey Gibson, David Hammons, Camille Henrot, Rashid Johnson, William Kentridge, Glenn Ligon, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg, Anri Sala, Cindy Sherman, Roman Signer, Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, David Zink-Yi
This summer, Hauser & Wirth is proud to present ‘Figure + Ground,’ an exhibition of selected, single-screen film and video works made by 19 leading artists from the gallery’s roster. Opening during London Gallery Weekend, the North Gallery will be transformed into a screening room for the first time.
The exhibition brings together a variety of artists whose films and videos can be interpreted as exploring the dynamic between figure and ground in diverse ways. The selection of works also spotlights the development of moving image from the late 1960s to today. From film to the advent of analog (single channel) video technologies during the early 1970s onwards, and later digital video, this technological expansion engendered a new genre of artistic production.
Press Contacts:
Alice Haguenauer, alicehaguenauer@hauserwirth.com, +44 7880 421 823
Manisha Bhogal, manishabhogal@hauserwirth.com, +44 7917 075313
Copyright and Courtesy Credits:
Installation view, ‘Michaela Yearwood-Dan. No Time for Despair,’ Hauser & Wirth London, 2025. © Michaela Yearwood-Dan. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Marianne Boesky Gallery. Photo: Alex Delfanne
Pipilotti Rist, (Entlastungen) Pipilottis Fehler, <(Absolutions) Pipilotti’s Mistakes>, 1988, video still © Pipilotti Rist. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, Luhring. Augustine and videoart.ch / 2025, DACS