Sarà a Los Angeles, in una ex officina d'auto la diciassettesima galleria di Hauser & Wirth. Prosegue così la crescita di questo che oramai è il più importante promotore di arte contemporanea al mondo.
Nell'elegante quartiere di West Hollywood, aprirà nell'autunno del 2022 sulla Santa Monica Boulevard in un nuovo spazio ampio e luminoso che sarà riprogettato dallo studio Selldorf Architects, con un'azione di conservazione e tutela dello storico edificio.
Marc Payot announced today that the gallery will expand its Los Angeles presence with a second location opening Fall 2022 in West Hollywood, a cultural and geographic hub of America’s second largest city. The new venue will occupy the site of a vintage automobile sales showroom at 8980 Santa Monica Boulevard, where a white stucco façade and red tile roofing typify the distinctive 1930s Spanish Colonial Revival style of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
In creating a second LA space, the gallery seeks to extend its commitment to a city and cultural community that have been integral to the gallery’s vision and program since its founding almost three decades ago. Los Angeles artists represented by Hauser & Wirth include Larry Bell, Mark Bradford, Charles Gaines, Richard Jackson, Rachel Khedoori, Paul McCarthy, Christina Quarles, Gary Simmons, Henry Taylor, Diana Thater, and the late artists Luchita Hurtado, Allan Kaprow, Mike Kelley, and Jason Rhoades.
The new Westside location will serve as a counterpoint and complement our dynamic Downtown LA Arts District venue within the historic 116,000 square foot Globe Mills complex on East 3rd Street. Opened in March 2016, the Arts District gallery is today a thriving international arts destination. In West Hollywood, Hauser & Wirth will create 5,000 square feet of exhibition space, as well as a new restaurant – a combination of features conceived to welcome Angelenos at the crossroads of the Design District, ‘Historic Boys Town,’ and Beverly Hills. With vaulted wood truss ceilings and expansive windows onto the street, this new site will encourage a synergy between the gallery’s vigorous program and the bustling energy of the lively cafes, legendary music venues, and leading interior design and retail boutiques that make West Hollywood a famously vibrant and storied creative center.
Like the gallery’s Arts District complex, the new Santa Monica Boulevard space will be designed by Annabelle Selldorf, Principal of Selldorf Architects, who has worked closely with the gallery since its founding in 1992. Earlier collaborations between Selldorf and Hauser & Wirth have involved the adaptive reuse of such historically significant sites as the legendary Roxy roller rink and dance club on West 18th Street and a historic Upper East Side townhouse in New York City; a former brewery complex in Zurich; a landmarked bank building in London; and a listed 18th century farmstead in Somerset, Southwest England. Selldorf’s most recently completed project with Hauser & Wirth is the gallery first purpose-built, ground-up building, which opened to the public in 2020 at 542 West 22nd Street in the West Chelsea Arts District. Selldorf’s West Hollywood project for Hauser & Wirth will continue the gallery’s longstanding commitment to supporting the cultural and architectural heritage of the communities where it does business.
