On the occasion of 'Louise Bourgeois. Soft Landscape' at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong, join us for a conversation between Ulf Küster, Senior Curator of Fondation Beyeler, and Philip Larratt-Smith, Curator of The Easton Foundation, about the modern art master Louise Bourgeois, moderated by Mark Rappolt, Editor in Chief of ArtReview.

The talk will be held at JC Cube, Tai Kwun from 2.30 pm to 3.30 pm. This event is free, but reservations are recommended. Please register here.

You're also welcome to join us for the exhibition opening reception at our Hong Kong gallery at 5 – 7 pm on the same day.

About Ulf Küster

Dr Ulf Küster (born 1966, Stuttgart) is Senior Curator of the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel. Exhibition projects on nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century art (including “Segantini”, 2011, “Ferdinand Hodler”, 2013, “Courbet”, 2014, “Monet”, 2017) on modern art (including “Bonnard”, 2012, “Kandinsky, Marc & Der Blaue Reiter”, 2016) and on post-war Modernism and Contemporary Art (including “Action Painting”, 2008, “Alberto Giacometti”, 2009, “Louise Bourgeois. À l'infini”, 2011, and “Peter Doig”, 2014). More recently, he curated the exhibitions “Edward Hopper”, 2020, “Mondrian Evolution”, 2022, “Wayne Thiebaud”, 2023. Currently, his exhibition “Nordlichter” about Scandinavian and Canadian landscape-painting between 1880 and 1930 is on show at the Fondation Beyeler.

Ulf Küster is currently working on an exhibition project dedicated to Louise Bourgeois for 2027. He is also working on a publication of the correspondence between Louise Bourgeois and her husband Robert Goldwater.

About Philip Larratt-Smith

Philip Larratt-Smith is a writer and curator based in New York, and since 2019, Curator of The Easton Foundation, which administers the legacy of Louise Bourgeois. He has curated exhibitions of the work of Bourgeois, Cy Twombly, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Yayoi Kusama, Bruce Nauman, Joan Mitchell, Andy Warhol, Tracey Emin, Paul McCarthy, and Larry Clark. As well, he has written extensively on postwar and contemporary artists such as Philip Guston, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Jannis Kounellis, Alice Neel, and Milton Resnick. Larratt-Smith is currently preparing the selected psychoanalytic writings of Louise Bourgeois for publication.

About Mark Rappolt

Mark Rappolt is the Editor-in-Chief of ArtReview. He founded its sister publication, ArtReview Asia, in 2013. His writing has appeared in a number of publications, ranging from The Times and Die Zeit to i-D and Citizen K, and includes exhibition catalogues on artists such as David Cronenberg, Matthew Krishanu, Ha Chong-Hyun, Bharti Kher, Wang Guangle, Yuko Mohri and Liu Xiaodong. Books include monographs on architects Greg Lynn and Frank Gehry. Between 2016 and 2018, with Aimee Lin, he curated Xiàn Chang, a special section of the West Bund Art & Design fair in Shanghai. Recent exhibitions include Like a Moth to a Flame (2017), cocurated with Tom Eccles and Liam Gillick, a two-part exhibition at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and the OGR, Turin; Now or Never (2018) at Galerie Crone, Vienna; Sometimes You’re the Hammer; Sometimes You’re the Nail (2019) and Zhu Jia: Faraway Friends (2020) both at Modern Art Base, Shanghai; Before the Cockerel Crows (2021), cocurated with Tom Eccles and Liam Gillick at the Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene; the touring show Breaking the Waves (2021) at the chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai and the K11 MUSEA, Hong Kong; and One Tiger or Another (2022), cocurated with Tom Eccles at Mathaf, Doha.