"In the last four years of her life, Louise Bourgeois made a series of gouaches featuring a distinctly personal iconography of the couple referencing conception, pregnancy, birth, breast-feeding, the family, and flowers.
Curated by the renowned writer and curator Philip Larratt-Smith and organised in collaboration with The Easton Foundation, this exhibition will present a representative survey of this singular body of work, complemented by sculptures from throughout Bourgeois’ career which address the same formal and thematic concerns."
Louise Bourgeois, Petite Maman, 2008. Photo: Christopher Burke, © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York
Louise Bourgeois: Gathering Wool
"Gathering Wool explores the artist's complex relationship to abstraction through a series of late sculptures, reliefs and works on paper, many of which have never been exhibited before. These will be installed alongside a selection of earlier works to illuminate the consistency of Bourgeois’s themes and her development of a symbolic abstract language."
Marie-Ève de Grave's new documentary film ‘Louise Bourgeois: The Rage to Understand’ is screening at Hauser & Wirth 18th Street, on January 24, 2026 at 3pm.
Louise Bourgeois, Gathering Wool, 1990. Photo: Peter Bellamy, © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York
GIRLS. On Boredom, Rebellion and Being In-Between
"GIRLS explores the beauty and complexity of girlhood. How has girlhood been represented? How is it remembered? And how does the idea of ‘the girl’ continue to shape visual culture and fashion?"
This group exhibition includes footage and garments from Bourgeois's 1992 performance She Lost It and other archival materials.
Louise Bourgeois, Le Cannet, France, 1922. © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York
"'Every day,' Louise Bourgeois said, “you have to abandon your past or accept it, and then, if you cannot accept it, you become a sculptor.” For her, making art entails trying to translate experience into form—an operation that she compares with exorcism. In Bourgeois’s works on view in these galleries, organic formations fuse with the inorganic materiality of the media in which they are rendered, be it marble, wood, or bronze…"
Louise Bourgeois, Crouching Spider, 2003. Photo: Christopher Burke, © The Easton Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York