ALEXANDER CALDER, GEORGIA O’KEEFFE

New York...Marc Payot, Iwan Wirth and Manuela Wirth, Presidents of Hauser & Wirth, todayannounced that the gallery’s newest California location will open in downtown Palo Alto on 3 October2026, inaugurated by the first ever exhibition devoted to the mutual admiration and artistic kinshipbetween Alexander Calder and Georgia O’Keeffe, two defining figures of American modernism.

To mark the opening and celebrate the local community, the gallery will host a festival of publicactivities on Saturday 3 October, including a series of events in the new Hauser & Wirth Bookshop.Conceived as a welcoming community hub, the Bookshop will be a site of ongoing public programsin the future, extending the gallery’s longstanding commitment to publishing, learning and culturaldialogue.

Developed in close collaboration with the Calder Foundation, ‘Calder | O’Keeffe’ brings togetherexceptional works by both artists, complemented by archival materials documenting their decadeslong friendship.

Informed by research undertaken with the guidance of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, the exhibitionreflects Hauser & Wirth’s foundational commitment to cultivating new perspectives on canonicalartists, fostering original art historical scholarship, and catalyzing cultural dialogue among artists andthe public: the inaugural Palo Alto exhibition ‘Calder | O’Keeffe’ harkens in spirit back to the gallery’svery first public exhibition, ‘Alexander Calder. Mobiles and Gouaches’ / ‘Joan Miró. Sculptures andPaintings,’ presented in Zurich in 1992.

‘Calder | O’Keeffe’ is organized by Hauser & Wirth Curatorial Senior Director Alexis Lowry. Theexhibition is Hauser & Wirth’s second major presentation of Calder’s work in California—the criticallyacclaimed exhibition ‘Calder: Nonspace’ was held at the gallery’s downtown Los Angeles complex in2018.

Courtesy Hauser & Wirth.