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Artist-led sustainability platform Artists Commit has developed the concept of a Climate Impact Report for specific exhibitions to enable our team to cut emissions and reduce waste from these projects. Our first Climate Impact report was carried out and published via Artists Commit for the Gustav Metzger exhibition we hosted at Hauser & Wirth Somerset in 2021. The gallery team worked to produce an environmentally-responsible exhibition and achieve a low carbon footprint by matching the environmental impact of the exhibition with the sustainability interests at the heart of Metzger’s practice. Read the report here. 

‘We commend initiatives such as the Gallery Climate Coalition and Galleries Commit which are helping to galvanize the art world to take positive action,’ says Iwan Wirth, President, Hauser & Wirth. ‘As we take this journey and learn from it, we will also share knowledge with our wider art community and, in doing so, create opportunities for greater change. Each day we are taking steps to find new, increasingly innovative, and more sustainable ways of conducting our business. The scale of the challenges facing all of us will require both immediate action and long-term commitment. The state of our planet has long been of critical concern to our artists, including Mika Rottenberg, George Condo and Rashid Johnson, who inspired our land conservation partnership with Art to Acres.’ 

Listen to Iwan Wirth discuss the gallery’s efforts with Dr. Haley Mellin and CNBC’s Tania Bryer.