Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Ivan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by partner and Vice President Marc Pajo. A family business with a global perspective, Hauser & Wirth has expanded over the past 27 years to include branches in Hong Kong, London, New York, Los Angeles, Somerset, Gstaad and St. Moritz. The gallery represents more than 75 artists and members of the estate who have been instrumental in shaping its identity over the past quarter century and are the inspiration for Hauser & Wirth’s diverse art, education, preservation and sustainability activities.
Hauser & Wirth has earned a reputation for its dedication to artists and its support of visionary art projects around the world. In addition to presenting a dynamic exhibition schedule, the gallery collaborates with renowned curators to present museum-quality reviews and invests significant resources in new research and scholarship. From its earliest days, the gallery has hosted historically significant exhibitions. The first exhibition in 1992 was held in the first Hauser & Wirth gallery, located in an apartment on the first floor of an Art Deco villa in the heart of Zurich; it combined mobiles and gouaches by Alexander Calder with sculptures and paintings by Joan Miró. Since then, the gallery has continued to shape an academically rigorous and ambitious program of historical exhibitions, providing a natural home for a number of major 20th century European and American artists’ estates and encouraging an ongoing and fascinating discussion of their work. These include the Louise Bourgeois, the Philip Gaston Estate, the Eva Hesse Estate, the Allan Kaprow Estate, the Mike Kelly Art Foundation, the Jason Rhodes Estate, the Dieter Roth Estate, and the David Smith Estate.
Exhibitions at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong span the breadth of the gallery’s program from major modern masters of the 20th century to leading figures in contemporary art.