Iwan Wirth
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Iwan Wirth (born 1970) is a Swiss art dealer and the president and co-founder of Hauser & Wirth, a contemporary art gallery.[1]Template:R/superscript
Life and career
Iwan Wirth was born in 1970[1]Template:R/superscript and spent his early life in St. Gallen, Switzerland,[2] where his father was an architect and his mother was a schoolteacher.[3] Wirth opened a commercial gallery in 1986 at the age of sixteen,[4] and began working as a private dealer in Zurich in 1990.[5]
Hauser & Wirth
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In 1992, Wirth opened the Hauser & Wirth gallery together with his wife Manuela and her mother Ursula, heirs to the Fust retail fortune.[6][7]
Other activities
In addition to his commercial activities, Wirth holds a variety of advisory positions, including:
- California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), member of the board of trustees (since 2016)[8]
- Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York, member of the board of trustees (since 2016)[9]
- Maria Lassnig Foundation, member of the board of trustees (since 2015)
- Royal Academy of Arts, member of the board of trustees (since 2014)[10]
- Serpentine Gallery, member of the council
- Tate, member of the South Asian Acquisitions Committee
From 1998 until 2009, Wirth and David Zwirner operated Zwirner & Wirth, which focused on private sales, in New York.[7]
In 2014, Wirth opened an arts complex in Bruton, Somerset, which includes the Roth Bar & Grill restaurant and a guesthouse hotel in the Durslade Farmhouse. The public garden is designed by Piet Oudolf.[6] He later purchased a hotel in Braemar, in Aberdeenshire in Scotland.[11][12] He is also part-owner of 'Manuela', a restaurant at the Hauser Wirth & Schimmel arts complex in Los Angeles.[13]
Recognition
In 2015, Iwan Wirth and Manuela Hauser were ranked number one on ArtReview's list of 'most powerful and influential figures in the art world'.[14][15] In 2012, Wirth and his wife endowed a senior lecturer position in modern and contemporary Asian art for the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.[16] In 2015, both were awarded honorary doctorates by Bath Spa University.[17]
Iwan and Manuela Wirth were named one of the 'Top 50 Philanthropists of 2019' by Town & Country,[18] after founding Hauser & Wirth Institute[19] and donating $1 million to Cal State LA through a partnership with Hauser & Wirth.[20]
Personal life
Iwan Wirth married Manuela Hauser, a former teacher, in 1996.[7] They have four children.[21]
They lived in Zurich until 2005, when the family moved to London's Holland Park. In 2007, the family made Somerset their primary residence.[6] They maintain apartments in London and New York[7] and a holiday home on Menorca's Isla del Rey, designed by Luis Laplace.[22]
References
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- ↑ a b Nick Clark (23 October 2015). Iwan Wirth: A creative pirate who shares his treasures. The Independent. Accessed August 2018.
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- ↑ a b c d Dan Duray (17 January 2012), The Constant Gardener: Iwan Wirth’s Hauser & Wirth Gallery Will Open a 15,000-Plus-Square-Foot Space Downtown This Year The New York Observer.
- ↑ Board of Trustees California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
- ↑ Board of Trustees Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York.
- ↑ Board of Trustees Royal Academy of Arts.
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- ↑ Nick Clark (23 October 2015), Iwan Wirth: The more public half of the art world’s most powerful couple is a creative pirate who shares his treasures The Independent.
- ↑ Maximilíano Durón (13 June 2019), Hauser & Wirth Will Open Exhibition Space, Residency Program on Menorca’s Isla del Rey ARTnews.
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