Forthcoming Hauser & Wirth Exhibitions in Europe & Asia Spring / Summer 2026

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.
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