Description
?Eva Hesse: Exhibitions 1972-2022' offers a historical account of the artist's landmark institutional exhibitions. Contributions from the museum curators involved in organizing these shows reflect the personal dimension of crafting an exhibition, such as intent and reception; in chronological order, these include Linda Shearer (Guggenheim Museum, New York, etc., 1972), Sir Nicholas Serota (Whitechapel Gallery, London, etc., 1979), Ellen Johnson (Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, etc., 1982), Helen Cooper (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, etc., 1992), Elisabeth Sussman (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, etc., 2002), Renate Petzinger (Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, etc., 2002), Sabine Folie (Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, etc., 2004), Fred Wasserman (Jewish Museum, New York, 2006), Catherine de Zegher (Drawing Center, New York, etc., 2006), Briony Fer and Fiona Bradley (Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, etc., 2009), Luanne McKinnon (Hammer Museum, etc., 2010), Brigitte Kölle and Petra Roetti (Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany, 2013), Andrea Gyorody (Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, etc., 2019), and Lena Stringer (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2022). Extensive installation views will be included throughout, along with exhibition-related ephemera, lending historical texture to these essays.
