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Eva Hesse

The Estate of Eva Hesse

Biography

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Born

Hamburg, Germany, 1936

Education

Studied at Cooper Union, New York NY, 1954 – 1957

Received a Yale-Norfolk Fellowship, 1957

Studied at Yale University, New Haven CT, 1959

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

Hauser & Wirth, 'Eva Hesse. Five Sculptures', New York NY 

2022

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 'Eva Hesse: Expanded Expansion', New York NY

Hauser & Wirth Bahnhofstrasse, 'Eva Hesse. Forms & Figures', Zurich, Switzerland

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 'Forms Larger and Bolder. Eva Hesse Drawings', Oberlin OH (Travelling Exhibition)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

MoMA Museum of Modern Art, 'Vital Signs: Artists and the Body', New York NY 

BAMPFA Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, 'To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection', Berkeley CA

2023

Draiflessen Collection, 'Threads. Material, Myths & Symbols', Mettingen, Germany

The Roberts Institute of Art, 'Close Looking: Collection Studies from the Roberts Institute of Art', London, UK 

Richard Saltoun Gallery, 'A woman's work is never done', London, UK 

Nasjonalgalleriet, 'Louise Bourgeois. Imaginary Conversations', Oslo, Norway

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 'Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction', Los Angeles CA

The Warehouse, 'Open Storage: 25 Years of Collecting', Dallas TX

Bibliography

Monographs

2024

Rosen, Barry (ed.), 'Eva Hesse. Exhibitions 1972-2022', Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2024, ill.

2019

Rosen, Barry (ed.), 'Eva Hesse. Oberlin Drawings. Drawings in the Collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College', Zurich: Hauser & Wirth Publishers, 2019, ill.

Publications

2024

Murphy, Maia, Clark, Olivia, Flint, Charlotte (eds.), 'Great Women Sculptors', London/UK: Phaidon, 2024, p. 140, ill. in colour 

2023

Bechthold, Tim, Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum (eds.), 'Future Talks 021. Smart Solutions in the Conservation of the Modern', Munich: Die Neue Sammlung – The Design Museum, 2023, ill. 

Kothe, Juliet, Stosch, Natanja von, 'Boobs in the Arts. Female Bodies in Pictorial History', Berlin: Distanz Verlag, 2023, p. 53, ill.

Packard, Cassie, 'Art Rules. How Great Artists Think, Create and Work', London: Quarto Group, 2023, p. 116, ill. 

Spitz, Maria, Alvensleben, Jörg von, Brenninkmeijer, Martin Rudolf (et al.), 'Threads. Material, Myths & Symbols: Draiflessen Collection', Cologne: Walther und Franz König, 2023, pp. 68-81, ill.

Anni's, 'repetition, repetition', Berlin: Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, 2023, pp. 141, 209, ill.

Gómez, Isabel C., Hansen Esplin, Marlene (eds.), 'Translating Home in the Global South. Migration, Belonging, and Language Justice', London: Routledge, 2023, p. 124, ill. 

Weinhart, Martina (ed.), 'Plastic World', Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2023, ill. (exh. cat.) 

Elkin, Lauren, 'Art Monsters. Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art', London: Chatto & Windus, 2023, ill. 

Curtis, Penelope, Fontan del Junco, Manuel, Vallejo, Inés (eds.), 'Escala: Escultura 1945-2000. Scale: Sculpture 1945-2000', Madrid: Fundación Juan March, 2023, p. 40, ill. (exh. cat.)

Archer, Michael, 'Composition. Uncover the Ideas Behind Great Works of Modern Art', London: Hachette, 2023, p. 187, ill.

Selected Press

2024

Kelly, Brian P., '"Eva Hesse: Five Sculptures" Review: A Postminimalist's Maximal Talent', on: wsj.com [The Wall Street Journal], 28 June 2024, ill.

Sundell, Margaret, 'Eva Hesse. Mystery and Mortality in Five Major Sculptures by the Artist', on: 4columns.org, 7 June 2024, ill.

Gluibizzi, Amanda, 'Eva Hesse: Five Sculptures', on: brooklynrail.org, June 2024, ill.

Packard, Cassie, '"Time’s Passage, Indexed in Rubber": On Eva Hesse’s "Five Sculptures"', on: frieze.com, 16 May 2024, ill.

Westall, Mark, 'Hauser & Wirth to Present a Rare Exhibition of Museum-Loaned Works by Eva Hesse', on: fadmagazine.com, 8 April 2024, ill.

Douglas, Sarah, 'Hauser & Wirth to Mount Rare Exhibition of Major Museum-Loaned Works by Eva Hesse', on: artnews.com, 8 April 2024, ill.

2022

Packard, Cassie, 'One Work: Eva Hesse’s "Expanded Expansion"', on: artnews.com/art-in-america, 30 September 2022, ill.

Payne, Cynthia, 'Eva Hesse: Expanded Expansion', on: brooklynrail.org, September 2022, ill.

Felsenthal, Daniel, 'Eva Hesse’s "Expanded Expansion" Has Aged at Human Scale', on: villagevoice.com, 3 August 2022, ill.

Foster, Hal, '60 Years Antinomies', in: Artforum, vol. 60, no. 11, Fall 2022, pp. 249-255, ill.

Anapur, Eli, 'A Powerful Work by Eva Hesse on Public Display for the First Time in 35 Years', on: widewalls.ch, 12 July 2022, ill.

Gural, Natasha, 'Stupendous Restored Eva Hesse Masterwork, Must-See Cecilia Vicuña and Kandinsky Exhibitions, Worth A Day At The Guggenheim', on: forbes.com, 12 July 2022, ill.

Voon, Claire, '"Unexhibitable" Eva Hesse sculpture will go on view at the Guggenheim following restoration', on: theartnewspaper.com, 27 June 2022, ill.