EVA HESSE. Forms & Figures

Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse 1
16.09.2022 – 19.11.2022

EVA HESSE. Forms & Figures

Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse 1 presents two distinct bodies of work from Eva Hesse’s oeuvre, revealing the artist’s wide-ranging studio practice from early paintings to the late three-dimensional works she is best known for.

An icon of American art, Eva Hesse (1936 – 1970) produced a prodigious body of work in the 1960s that collapsed disciplinary boundaries and forged innovative approaches to materials, forms and processes. She cultivated mistakes and surprises, precariousness and enigma, in an effort to make works that could transcend literal associations.

Born in 1936, Eva Hesse is one of the icons of American art of the 1960s, her work being a major influence on subsequent generations of artists. Comprehensive solo exhibitions in the past 30 years, as well as a retrospective that toured from the San Francisco MoMA to the Museum Wiesbaden and finally to Tate Modern in London, have highlighted the lasting interest that her oeuvre has generated. The bodies of work on view at Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Bahnhofstrasse 1 have been included in two international travelling exhibitions: ‘Eva Hesse. Spectres 1960’ (2010 – 2011) and ‘Eva Hesse. Studiowork’ (2009 – 2011).