Hauser & Wirth to open Paris gallery in October with Henry Taylor exhibition

Regardless of a lot speak of a strengthening post-Brexit French artwork market, worldwide mega galleries have been gradual to settle in Paris.

Gagosian bought the ball rolling in 2010 by establishing store on rue de Ponthieu, within the eighth arrondissement, earlier than inaugurating a huge location in Le Bourget in 2012 and a smaller one on rue de Castiglione in 2021.

In 2019, David Zwirner adopted go well with on rue Vieille-du-Temple, opening in what was the previous headquarters of Yvon Lambert after which VNH Gallery.

This autumn, will probably be the flip of the Swiss model Hauser & Wirth to launch in Paris. The gallery, which has simply opened the exhibitions Cindy Sherman, Roni Horn and The God That Failed (of Louise Bourgeois, Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko) as a part of the Zurich Artwork Weekend, already has premises in Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles, London, Somerset, St. Moritz, Gstaad, Menorca and Monaco.

The brand new Paris gallery will open on 14 October, a couple of days earlier than the second version of Paris+ by Artwork Basel. It will likely be positioned in a nineteenth century neoclassical non-public mansion at 26 bis rue François 1er, within the eighth arrondissement, not removed from the Champs-Élysées and the stylish Avenue Montaigne. Set over 4 flooring, the 800 sq. metre house has been redesigned by Laplace, a Parisian structure studio, and a site-specific set up by the British artist Martin Creed will adorn the spiral staircase.

The gallery will likely be overseen by Séverine Waelchli, Hauser & Wirth’s new senior director for France who can even handle the Monaco gallery. Waelchli, most not too long ago a director at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, studied artwork historical past on the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich earlier than working for Sprüth Magers gallery—notably managing its Paris workplace—earlier than becoming a member of Yvon Lambert gallery.

For the opening present, Hauser & Wirth Paris will current an exhibition of beforehand unseen work, sculptures and installations by the Los Angeles-based artist Henry Taylor, coinciding with a serious retrospective on the Whitney Museum of American Artwork in New York (4 October to twenty-eight January, 2024). Many of those works are being made through the artist’s residency in Paris in June and July.

The gallery additionally says it intends “set up significant native partnerships to create an inclusive studying program as an integral a part of the presence in Paris.”

Hauser & Wirth’s arrival will undeniably strengthen Paris’s inventive providing.

Marc Payot, Hauser & Wirth’s president, says the opening of the Paris gallery “is the realisation of a long-held dream, one we’ve shared with our artists because the founding of Hauser & Wirth thirty years in the past…Town has equipped a lot inspiration to our artists—from these like Louise Bourgeois and Pierre Huyghe who have been born there, to those that arrived from elsewhere like Takesada Matsutani, Alina Szapocznikow and Ed Clark, amongst others—that their careers could be unimaginable with out it.”