Psychoanalysis and art: the new group exhibition at Hauser & Wirth

Lucio Fontana
Ambiente spaziale con neon, 1967/2017
Installation view at Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, 2017
Originally realised for the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1967
Courtesy Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan
©Fondazione Lucio Fontana
Photo: Agostino Osio

Psychoanalysis and art: the new group exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Louise Bourgeois, Isa Genzken, Rodney Graham and more artists in the «Bride of God» exhibition In 1885, a highly regarded German judge Daniel Paul Schreber was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. He transformed his decade-long institualisation experience into «Memoirs of My nervous Illness», a rich narrative that became iconic in the history of psychoanalysis. More than 130 years later, this work has inspired a group exhibition that will inaugurate the new building of Hauser & Wirth. The issues that form the core of Schreber’s ‘Memoirs’ – identity, sexuality, death, religion, sanity, and creativity – also animate the works on view in the exhibition at Hauser & Wirth. On view from May 2nd through July 31st, the exhibition will include modern and contemporary paintings, sculptures, installations, and video among other works. Works by Louise Bourgeois, Isa Genzken, Rodney Graham, Philip Guston, Jenny Holzer, Roni Horn, Mike Kelley, Maria Lassnig, Glenn Ligon, Paul McCarthy, Pipilotti Rist and others will be on display, accompanied by performances, talks, and screenings.

Jack Whitten
Space Flower #9, 2006
Acrylic, pastel, powdered Mylar on Rice paper
18.4 x 21 cm / 7 1/4 x 8 1/4 in
© Jack Whitten Estate
Courtesy the Jack Whitten Estate and Hauser & Wirth