Our projects take creative approaches to increasing access to artists’ archives. Our new podcast series about artists’ archives and the people who create, care for, and are inspired by them introduces listeners to visionaries in the field. Our digital catalogues raisonnés make artwork research freely available to everyone. On this site, we also highlight the work of some of our grantees, including two recent oral history projects.

Grantee Project

EFA Robert Blackburn Oral Histories

In 2023, EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop was awarded a Hauser & Wirth Institute grant to complete a video-based oral history entitled The Only Thing That Lasts: An Oral History of Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop, to document founder Robert Blackburn (1920-2003) and the history of the community workshop.

Podcast

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.

Grantee Project

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.

Catalogue Raisonné
Pencil and ink drawing on paper by Eva Hesse

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.

Catalogue Raisonné
Black and white painting by Franz Kline

Franz Kline Paintings, 1950–1962

Produced by the Institute in cooperation with the Estate of Franz Kline, this online catalogue raisonné provides free and open access to a definitive resource on Kline’s paintings from a watershed period in his career.