Eva Hesse: Exhibitions, 1972-2022 - by Eva Hesse & Barry Rosen (Hardcover)

About the Book

"Fifteen museum curators chronicle Eva Hesse's landmark exhibitions over the years following her death. This book offers a historical account of the artist's landmark institutional exhibitions after her death. Contributions from the museum curators involved in organizing these shows reflect the personal dimension of crafting an exhibition. Extensive installation views, along with exhibition-related ephemera, lend historical texture to the curators' essays. Contributors include Linda Shearer (Guggenheim Museum, New York, etc., 1972), Sir Nicholas Serota (Whitechapel Gallery, London, etc., 1979), Elisabeth Sussman (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, etc., 2002), Briony Fer and Fiona Bradley (Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, etc., 2009), Brigitte Kèolle and Petra Roetti (Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany, 2013), Lena Stringer (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2022), and others."--

Book Synopsis

Fifteen museum curators chronicle Hesse's landmark exhibitions over the years

German-born American artist Eva Hesse (1936-70) was a pioneering figure in Postminimalism, known for her use of materials such as latex and fiberglass to evoke fleshy, organic forms. This volume provides a historical account of Hesse's landmark institutional exhibitions following her death, from 1972 to the present. Contributions from the museum curators involved in organizing these shows reflect the personal dimension of crafting an exhibition, such as intent and reception. Extensive installation views are included throughout, along with exhibition-related ephemera, lending historical texture to the curators' essays.
Curators and corresponding exhibitions include: Linda Shearer (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1972); Nicholas Serota (Whitechapel Gallery, London, 1979); Ellen Johnson (Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, 1982); Helen Cooper (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1992); Elisabeth Sussman (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2002); Renate Petzinger (Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, 2002); Sabine Folie (Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, 2004); Fred Wasserman (Jewish Museum, New York, 2006); Catherine de Zegher (Drawing Center, New York, 2006); Briony Fer (Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 2009); Luanne McKinnon (University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, 2011); Brigitte Kölle and Petra Roettig (Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, 2013-14); Andrea Gyorody (Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio, 2019/22); Lena Stringari (Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2022).

Review Quotes

In essays that plot the traverse of her oeuvre across the United States and Europe, curators and scholars describe it as surprising, sublime, infinite. For some, it was a distillation of Jewish life in postwar America; for others, an archival challenge; for others still, a lesson in "mistrust of the perfect and the beautiful."--Emily LaBarge "Bookforum"