Opening Soon in Zurich

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

For her second exhibition with Hauser & Wirth and her first solo show in Switzerland, 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. 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.

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

This January, the artist Rachel Khedoori will present an installation of new work in the second-floor gallery 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 aluminium, 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 Contacts

Maddy Martin ​
​Hauser & Wirth
​maddymartin@hauserwirth.com

Kristin Brüggemann
​Hauser & Wirth
​kristinbrueggemann@hauserwirth.com

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^{Uman, Red hot summer, 2024. Acrylic, oil, and oil stick on canvas. 243.8 x 243.8 cm / 96 x 96 in © Uman. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Nicola Vassell Gallery. Photo: Sarah Muehlbauer}

^{Uman, Purple Painting, 2024. Acrylic, oil, and oil stick on canvas. 243.8 x 243.8 cm / 96 x 96 in © Uman. Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth and Nicola Vassell Gallery. Photo: Sarah Muehlbauer}

^{Rachel Khedoori, Untitled (detail), 2024 © Rachel Khedoori. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth}

^{Rachel Khedoori, Untitled, 2024. Resin infused polymethyl methacrylate and encaustic wax, 141.5 x 45 x 45 cm / 55 3/4 x 17 3/4 x 17 3/4 in © Rachel Khedoori. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Jon Etter}