 As part of Art Basel Hong Kong 2026, Louis Vuitton is celebrating its more than two decades of collaboration with Frank Gehry with a retrospective booth. From visionary architecture to limited-edition handbags, perfume bottles and timepieces, his creations reflect an unmistakable marriage of innovation and savoir-faire. As a show partner of Art Basel Hong Kong, the Maison presents a chronologically curated production in eight chapters that highlights Gehry's most influential works as well as his contributions to the Louis Vuitton universe. Maquettes and works on display provide insights into his creative process and impressively highlight the enduring radiance of his work. The partnership between LVMH and the award-winning architect began back in 2001 with the conception of the Fondation Louis Vuitton, which opened in 2014 as an iconic glass building that reinterprets transparency, light and volume. In the same year, Gehry designed the "Twisted Box" bag for Louis Vuitton's 160th anniversary. This was followed by the Louis Vuitton Maison Seoul (2019), whose curved glass façade is inspired by both the Fondation and traditional Korean architecture. Other projects include the reinterpretation of the Louis Vuitton Trunk on the occasion of the 200th anniversary, as well as the Murano glass "Blossom" stoppers for Les Extraits Parfums. In addition, Gehry's "Monogram Studies" testify to his exploration of the Maison's iconic canvas and led to the development of new symbolic elements within the collaboration. A key highlight is the Louis Vuitton x Frank Gehry Handbag Collection, which debuted at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2023. The models – including the iconic Capucines, Twisted Boxes and the Bear With Us Clutch – translate central themes of his oeuvre into design: architecture and form, materiality and animal motifs. Innovative details and exceptional materials take the Maison's craftsmanship to new frontiers. The presentation is complemented by the Tambour watch (2024), which combines the watchmaking art of La Fabrique du Temps Louis Vuitton with sculptural elements and transfers Gehry's architectural signature into the dimension of time. Louis Vuitton will be at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (Management) Limited Centre from 27 to 29 March 2026. Louis Vuitton reveals Arts & Culture Program Spring 2026 around the world Louis Vuitton has revealed its Arts & Culture Program Spring 2026, a window to the world of arts and culture. Spanning cities and disciplines worldwide, the Maison presents renowned artists and major exhibitions worldwide, inviting audiences to share a dialogue shaped by creativity and exchanges. At the 2026 edition of Art Basel Hong Kong, Louis Vuitton celebrates renowned architect Frank Gehry, featuring over two decades of partnership with the Maison. From his audacious architectural projects to his Louis Vuitton x Frank Gehry limited edition handbag collection, as well as his collaborations for timepieces or perfume bottles and stoppers, Frank Gehry’s creations attest to a singular vision of innovation and savoir-faire that transcends time. Marking the 20th anniversary of the Espaces Louis Vuitton and the 10th anniversary of the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s Hors-les-murs program – which showcases works from the Fondation’s Collection across the world – the Espace Louis Vuitton Osaka opened the Paintings and Banality exhibition on February 15, 2026, devoted to the work of American artist Jeff Koons. The retrospective traces his practice from his early iconic series in the 1980s to recent monumental paintings. At the same time, from March 19 to September 13, 2026, the @Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo presents the exhibition "You made me leave home...” devoted to the work of South Asian diaspora artist Rina Banerjee, who transforms an array of found objects, textiles and feathers into mystical female sculptures and complex phantasmagorical installations.  Switzerland Avery Singer. War_overlays Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse 12 June – 5 September 2026 For Zurich Art Weekend 2026, US artist Avery Singer presents new paintings and a site-specific architectural intervention, transforming the upstairs Zurich gallery into a space reminiscent of a casino—a charged environment shaped by surveillance. Within the paintings, Singer expands upon the figure of the poker player: a protagonist that parallels the role of the artist, operating under high stakes, reading patterns, anticipating risk and perceiving what others might overlook. Moving away from animation software, Singer employs AI-based tools to select and incorporate images drawn from post-2001 contemporary warfare—using references that evoke the mediated violence of the era—to serve as the building blocks of her paintings. These fragments function like overlays within a larger composition, foregrounding the harsh realities that persist beyond the studio, yet are easily neglected in the everyday. Notably, Singer’s use of AI to develop the prompts and keywords that initiate aspects of the image generation process further implicates themes of automation and control, while exploring the paradoxes of the digital era. Singer’s pioneering techniques are deployed to question the ways in which images and their distribution in our contemporary world are increasingly informed by new media and technologies. James Jarvaise & Henry Taylor. Sometimes a straight line has to be crooked Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse 12 June – 5 September 2026 ‘Sometimes a straight line has to be crooked’ is the first European exhibition bringing together the work of Henry Taylor, one of today’s most celebrated artists, in dialogue with that of his teacher, California modernist James Jarvaise (1924 – 2015). It is significant that Taylor’s debut at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich takes place in dialogue with Jarvaise—the artist who saw something special in Taylor when he was a student in the 1980s. Travelling from Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, the exhibition will feature over seven decades of works that explore the artists’ mutual interest in the figure and landscape. On view will be paintings and drawings from Jarvaise’s Hudson River School series, which was included in the famous 1959 exhibition ‘Sixteen Americans’ at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. These historic works will be presented along with modernist collages from the 1950s and figurative paintings from the 1960s that were specifically chosen by Taylor. Encapsulating more than three decades, Taylor’s own work is represented by over 40 paintings to concentrate on portraits of friends, family and strangers, figure studies, neighborhood scenes and landscapes. The title is taken from advice Jarvaise imparted to his student: the words of a vital teacher who offered Taylor many lessons on how to build a painting with integrity. The exhibition coincides with Taylor’s major solo exhibition at Musée national Picasso Paris, opening 8 April 2026. Max Beckmann Hauser & Wirth Basel Opens June 2026 Widely regarded as one of the most important painters of the 20th Century, German artist Max Beckmann created a singular position in the history of art through a figurative language of extraordinary psychological depth, resisting categorization within expressionism and new objectivity. Ahead of Art Basel 2026, a dedicated exhibition on the artist—curated in close collaboration with his granddaughter, Mayen Beckmann—will open at the Basel gallery this June. Shaped by a life lived between two World Wars and culminating in his emigration to the United States in 1947, Beckmann’s work bears witness to the psychological intensity and moral fractures of the inter-war period. The exhibition spans the entirety of the artist’s career and brings together his brooding social allegories with luminous landscapes and portraits, revealing a tension between intimacy and the brutality of the 20th Century. Further exhibitions to be announced UK Francis Picabia. Expanding Horizons Hauser & Wirth London 21 May – 1 August 2026 Francis Picabia (1879 – 1953) is one of the most influential and essential artists of the 20th Century. His career and worldview were marked by ceaseless experimentation and his oeuvre demonstrated a rapid progression through various artistic movements, which included impressionism, fauvism, Dadaism and cubism. Organized in collaboration with the Comité Picabia, this wide-ranging overview covers five decades of Picabia’s career, from his early landscapes, Dada works and Transparencies through to his radical nudes, realist works made during World War II and the textured abstract paintings created in his final years. Shedding light across every area of the artist’s practice, this exhibition highlights his fluid shift between figurative art and abstraction, affirming Picabia’s reputation as one of art history’s most ingenious shape shifters. Roni Horn Hauser & Wirth London 21 May – 1 August 2026 For her first exhibition in London in a decade, Roni Horn will present never before exhibited works on paper from her new Seizure of Hope series, which explores the artist's preoccupation with repetition and the utilization of the written word. Featuring throughout the works on view, the phrase ‘I am paralyzed with hope’ comes from a monologue by the stand-up comedian Maria Bamford. Bamford’s quote was first used by the artist in her 2021 work ‘LOG (March 22, 2019 – May 17, 2020)’ and evolved into the Seizure of Hope series on view. The limited-edition title ‘Seizure of Hope’ by Hauser & Wirth Publishers reproduces her drawings in precise detail. Accompanying her drawings is one of her renowned glass sculptures; taking the form of a cube, the work is a rare example of Horn’s cast objects. ‘Untitled (“What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?”)’ (2022) balances solidity and fluidity, its glossy top recalling the crystal-clear surface of an undisturbed pool of water. Angel Otero Hauser & Wirth Somerset 2 May – 18 October 2026 Angel Otero makes his UK debut this spring, featuring a deeply personal body of work completed during an artist residency at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. Known for his physically immersive approach to paint as material, Otero transforms the medium itself—scraping, layering and peeling dried oil paint to create richly textured compositions that hover between abstraction and figuration. Moving his studio practice from Brooklyn NY and Puerto Rico temporarily to Somerset, the residency provides Otero with the opportunity to continue his exploration of memory, place and meaning in the context of a new environment. The exhibition unfolds across the galleries at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, in addition to an outdoor work, ‘Dreams and Salt’ (2026), that was first shown in Puerto Rico as part of La Gran Bienal Tropical in 2025. Paintings range from monumental compositions, including Otero’s largest figurative painting to date, that envelop the viewer in a fully immersive sensory experience to intimate encounters with smaller studies and works on paper, rarely presented outside the studio. A new film conceived in Puerto Rico brings elements investigated within the paintings into moving image for the first time. Paris Charles Gaines. Ciphering African Acacias and Supreme Court Decisions Hauser & Wirth Paris Opens 10 June 2026 For over five decades, conceptual artist Charles Gaines has used systems to create works that mine the complex relationship between perception and meaning. For his first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth’s Paris gallery, Gaines will unveil new Plexiglas works from his Numbers and Trees series, first conceived by the artist in 1986. Focusing on acacia trees, the compositions are based on photographs the artist shot during a trip to Tanzania in 2023. By converting the tree form into a gridded geometry, Gaines devised a distinctive process for charting and comparing differences, while also challenging the dominance of subjectivity in artistic expression. Gaines will also debut the latest installment from his Manifestos series, developed whilst in residence at the gallery’s Somerset location in 2025. Comprised of a new musical composition, two-channel video and five drawings, ‘Manifestos 7’ (2026) examines rulings from two landmark US Supreme Court cases, Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) and Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Charles Gaines will collaborate on—along with Firelei Báez and Cristina Iglesias—and contribute to a group exhibition organized by Rashid Johnson at Hauser & Wirth Menorca from June 2026. A book of Gaines’ collected writings will be released by Hauser & Wirth Publishers in spring 2027.  Menorca Directionless Hauser & Wirth Menorca 21 June – 25 October 2026 Opening this summer, ‘Directionless’ is a sweeping group exhibition organised by artist Rashid Johnson. The project begins with the premise that we are living in a moment of profound disorientation. This is a time when inherited narratives, stable identities and the systems that once structured social and aesthetic life feel increasingly insufficient. Rather than offering resolution, the exhibition asks how artists productively inhabit this uncertainty—how they develop new vocabularies and provisional orientations when established coordinates fail. To build a sense of indeterminacy and openness into the exhibition’s very structure, Johnson has invited Charles Gaines, Firelei Báez and Cristina Iglesias to each nominate artists from outside the gallery’s roster alongside his own selections. This artist-driven, polyphonic approach refuses singular narratives, instead proposing that creative practice itself might be a form of orientation-making in an illegible present. The developing artist list includes: Firelei Báez, Yto Barrada, Georg Baselitz, Claire Chambless, Ali Cherri, Teresita Fernández, Charles Gaines, Todd Gray, Alteronce Gumby, Mona Hatoum, Hugh Hayden, Hanna Hur, Cristina Iglesias, Rashid Johnson, Michael Joo, Sigalit Landau, Hannah Levy, Joiri Minaya, Julie Mehretu and Rayanne Tabet. Martin Creed Hauser & Wirth Menorca 25 April – 7 June 2026 This spring, Hauser & Wirth Menorca opens for a new season with a special presentation by Martin Creed. The exhibition brings together Creed’s ‘Work No. 3891: Half the air in a given space’ and a selection of wall paintings. ‘Half the air in a given space’ is one of Creed’s most celebrated works. First conceived in 1998 and subsequently created around the world, it involves a multitude of balloons which contain half of the air in a room. Acting as a tangible measure of the air, this playful inversion of art and space invites visitors to enter and change the work’s shape and volume themselves. It is a sculpture which takes the shape of the space between people and things, joining them together in a shared environment. Hong Kong Frank Bowling Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong 11 June – 29 August 2026 Opening in June in Hong Kong, Hauser & Wirth will present Bowling’s first solo exhibition in Asia, bringing together a selection of historical and recent works that showcase Bowling’s mastery of surface texture. Sir Frank Bowling OBE RA is widely regarded one of Britain’s most significant living artists. For over six decades, Bowling has relentlessly pursued a practice which boldly expands the possibilities and properties of paint. Ambitious in scale and scope, his dynamic engagement with the materiality of his chosen medium, and its evolution in the broad sweep of art history, has resulted in paintings of unparalleled originality and power. Bowling was elected a Royal Academician in 2005, appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2008 and knighted in 2020 for his services to art. His works are held in major museum collections worldwide, including Tate, The Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lucio Fontana: Spatialism. Pioneering the Contemporary An exhibition curated by Luca Massimo Barbero and Fondazione Lucio Fontana Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong 17 September – 19 December 2026 Breaking the boundaries between painting and sculpture, Lucio Fontana (1899 – 1968) transformed the canvas into a dynamic area of light, gesture and movement. His slashed and punctured surfaces, central to the Spatialism movement he founded, fundamentally redefined the relationship between artwork and space. Through an innovative aesthetic, his visionary practice paved the way for postwar contemporary art and continues to inspire artists around the world. In September 2026, Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong will present seminal works from 1949 onward, focusing on the revolutionary ‘Buchi’ (Holes) and ‘Tagli’ (Cuts), tracing the evolution of Spatialism and Fontana’s radical exploration of the canvas as a site of infinite possibility. The Hong Kong exhibition marks the final chapter of a trilogy realized in collaboration with Fondazione Lucio Fontana, following presentations in Los Angeles (2020) and New York (2023). A major new publication on Fontana is forthcoming from Hauser & Wirth Publishers. Published on the occasion of the exhibition, this volume marks the first widely available introduction to the artist’s practice in Mandarin, offering Chinese audiences a comprehensive account of his groundbreaking career spanning 1920s to late 1960s, alongside specifically translated writings by the artist. Hauser & Wirth Publishers Accompanying gallery exhibitions, new titles by Hauser & Wirth Publishers include: ‘Destiny Is a Rose: Art from the Eileen Harris Norton Collection,’ in conjunction with the show of the same name at Downtown Los Angeles; ‘Roni Horn: Seizure of Hope,’ tied to her London show; ‘Zhang Enli,’ on the occasion of his forthcoming show at West Hollywood; ‘Angel Otero,’ released during the artist’s Somerset show; and ‘Lucio Fonatana,’ coinciding with his autumn Hong Kong show. Spotlighting key modern masters are: ‘Life with P.: Journals, 1966–1976,’ an intimate account of Musa McKim’s life with painter Philip Guston, and ‘Hans/Jean Arp: Works with and on Paper.’ The next In the Studio release focuses on Louise Bourgeois, with a text by Justin Paton. This follows on from a title dedicated to Takesada Matsutani. Other artists in the collection include Phyllida Barlow, Jack Whitten and Lee Lozano. Outside the gallery programme, ‘The Forgotten Her Story’ tells the story of nine of the most remarkable creative women of our time through intimate conversations, with a preface by Manuela Wirth. For further information Hauser & Wirth Publishers’ 2026 titles, see catalogue here. Save The Date When Apricots Blossom  This April, Uzbekistan arrives at Milan Design Week for the first time with When Apricots Blossom, an immersive exhibition taking over the historic Palazzo Citterio in Brera from 20 to 26 April 2026. Presented by Gayane Umerova, Chairperson, Uzbekistan Art and Culture Development Foundation (ACDF) and curated by architect Kulapat Yantrasast of WHY Architecture, the show is one of the more compelling debuts of the season. Named after a 1930s Uzbek poem by Hamid Olimjon, the exhibition traces a narrative of resilience rooted in the Aral Sea region and Karakalpakstan, in northwestern Uzbekistan. Since the 1960s, the systematic diversion of the Aral Sea's feeder rivers caused the lake to lose over 90% of its volume, transforming a vast inland sea into desert. Kulapat Yantrasast frames craft and design as a living response to that legacy — not nostalgia, but a system of knowledge carrying memory and identity across generations — organising the exhibition around three pillars of Karakalpak culture: textiles, food and shelter. Twelve international designers — including Bethan Laura Wood, Marcin Rusak, Fernando Laposse, Nifemi Marcus-Bello and Bobir Klichev — present new commissions made in direct collaboration with Uzbek artisans. Each created a bread tray and two bread stamps using materials native to Karakalpakstan: wood, silk, felt, ceramic and reed, celebrating the central role of bread in Uzbek culture and hospitality. Elsewhere, Wood's hand-woven tapestry of tassels and ribbons transforms the palazzo's facade, while a deconstructed yurt in the garden serves as a pavilion for talks and workshops throughout the week. The exhibition also introduces ACDF's longer-term work in the region, including the Aral School design programme and the Aral Culture Summit. A specially commissioned film, Where The Water Ends, offers an intimate portrait of Karakalpak communities navigating life and memory amid environmental collapse. When Apricots Blossom is open 20–26 April, 10:00–18:00 daily, at Palazzo Citterio, Via Brera 12, Milan.  Mona Hatoum
Hamburger Bahnhof Lifetime Achievement Award 2026 Mona Hatoum. Courtesy of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.). Photo: Jens Ziehe. Galerie Chantal Crousel congratulates Mona Hatoum on being awarded the Hamburger Bahnhof Lifetime Achievement Award 2026. The award was presented by Frances Morris, Director Emerita of Tate Modern, and honours artists whose work has significantly shaped contemporary culture worldwide and who have a longstanding connection to Berlin and Germany. An exhibition by Mona Hatoum is currently on view at the Fondazione Prada in Milan, featuring three large-scale installations, until November 9, 2026. Learn more Comedian Rachman Blake Announces Swiss Tour Across Geneva, Zurich, Basel, Bern, and Lausanne  International stand up comedian Rachman Blake is bringing his sharp crowd work and storytelling comedy to Switzerland this March with a multi city tour across the country. Known for his improvisational style and spontaneous audience interaction, Blake’s shows combine stand up, real time crowd work, and freestyle moments that make every performance unique. The tour will begin in Geneva on March 11, followed by multiple shows in Zurich, along with performances in Basel, Bern, and Lausanne. Blake has built an international following through his live shows across Europe and viral YouTube clips featuring unpredictable audience interactions and candid stories about relationships, travel, and modern life. Each night’s show is different, with Blake weaving audience stories into the performance and often closing with improvised summaries of the night’s characters and moments. Swiss Tour Dates March 11, 2026 – Geneva March 12, 2026 – Zurich March 13, 2026 – Zurich March 14, 2026 – Basel March 15, 2026 – Zurich March 17, 2026 – Bern March 18, 2026 – Lausanne March 19, 2026 – Zurich March 20, 2026 – Zurich March 22, 2026 – Zurich Blake performs in English and attracts a mix of locals, expats, and travelers. Tickets are expected to sell quickly, particularly for the Zurich shows. For tickets and show details, audiences can visit the event pages or follow updates on Blake’s social channels. http://rachmanblake.com/ |
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