Hauser & Wirth Institute is dedicated to transforming the field of artists’ archives through nurturing equity and increasing access to archives. Operating independently of commercial interests, the Institute provides grants for progressive archival projects, organizes programs that expand the discourse around artistic legacies, and processes archives as a free service.
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Conversations in the Archives | Visual AIDS
For this episode, Hauser & Wirth Institute Executive Director Lisa Darms spoke with Kyle Croft and Jacs Rodriguez of Visual AIDS, the venerable New York-based organization devoted to preserving and honoring the work of artists with HIV/AIDS.
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Carolee Schneemann Oral History Interviews
The Carolee Schneemann Foundation was awarded a Hauser & Wirth Institute grant to conduct oral histories with nine artists and friends who spoke about their relationships to and collaborations with Carolee Schneemann.
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Eva Hesse Drawings
This project brings together Hesse’s complete body of works on paper for the first time. It comprises almost 1,100 sketches, prints, and drawings realized between 1952 and the artist’s death in 1970, including around 350 works from her teenage and student years.
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Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive will use this grant to support their Archive Night School (ANS), a new after-work education program that focuses on the practical and theoretical concerns of working with archives as an artist.
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Art South Asia Project / Asia Art Archive in India
The two organizations are partnering to host "Assembling Art Archives: Workshops for South Asia," a 10-month online program on archiving that will offer specialized training for archivists and arts professionals working with modern and contemporary South Asian art archives.