Our projects take creative approaches to increasing access to artists’ archives. With our in-house archiving program, we provide free cataloging and preservation services for artists and organizations that want to make their archives accessible, but may lack resources to do the work themselves. 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.

Archive

Dieu Donné Archives

Hauser & Wirth Institute is processing the institutional archives of Brooklyn-based papermaking organization Dieu Donné.

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.

Archive

The Drawing Center

The Institute is digitizing a portion of the institutional archive of The Drawing Center, and facilitating the donation of the full archive to a major research library.

Archive

Jesse Murry Papers

The Institute is processing and selectively digitizing the archive of painter, poet, and art critic Jesse Murry, and will support the Jesse Murry Foundation in finding a permanent home for donation of the collection.

Archive
Colorful abstract painting by Mary Dill Henry

Mary Dill Henry Papers

The Institute has processed and digitized the papers of American abstract painter Mary Dill Henry. This archive includes sketchbooks, photographs, letters, artist statements, press clippings, and records of Henry’s professional graphic design work.

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.

Archive
Art installation with a red, white, and blue sphere, brown boxes, colorful buckets, extension cords, and neon lights

Jason Rhoades Archive

We are processing and digitizing the archive of Jason Rhoades. The archive comprises material documenting the artist's monumental, room-filling installations, along with slides, photographs, receipts, correspondence, drawings, notebooks, and audiovisual material.

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.