Trailer: Studio Visit at Hauser & Wirth New York, Wooster Street

Why It Matters

By activating a historic performance venue as a collaborative studio, the exhibition reinforces New York’s experimental art infrastructure and creates new networks that can propel emerging artists into the city’s cultural mainstream.

Key Takeaways

• Curators invite artists to create experimental, collaborative performance installations
• Performance Space New York, founded 1980, shapes downtown artistic identity
• Studio visits foster hallway encounters, lifelong artistic friendships, dialogue
• Exhibition blends emerging talent with long‑standing networked artists
• Space itself acts as character, influencing radical video and sculpture work

Summary

The trailer previews a studio‑visit exhibition hosted by Hauser & Wirth’s Wooster Street gallery, centered on New York’s historic Performance Space. Curators Josh and Anukica invite artists to re‑imagine the venue as a living installation, emphasizing its role as a character in the city’s artistic narrative.

Rather than imposing strict guidelines, the team gave participants open‑ended parameters, encouraging experimental, process‑based work. The show blends emerging creators from the past decade with long‑standing networked artists, turning the exhibition itself into a collaborative artwork that reflects Performance Space’s legacy of defining American performance since 1980.

As one speaker notes, “the notion of a studio visit takes on many layers and meaning, a space for exchange…anywhere.” The narrative also highlights hallway encounters that spark lifelong friendships, and stresses that Performance Space remains “one of the last spaces for radical experimental work in video, performance, sculpture and installation.”

The project underscores how flexible, artist‑driven programming can sustain experimental venues and nurture cross‑generational dialogue. For galleries and cultural institutions, it offers a model for preserving avant‑garde spaces while amplifying emerging talent within established artistic ecosystems.

Original Description

Pati Hertling, Senior Director of Performance Space New York, Josh Kine and Anicka Yi introduce the exhibition ‘Studio Visit’ — a curatorial project by Kline and Yi for Performance Space New York — now on view at our Wooster Street gallery in New York.

‘Studio Visit’ is an exhibition in partnership with Performance Space New York—a nonprofit organization that since 1980 has served as a laboratory for cultural experimentation and artistic dissent— and Hauser & Wirth is proud to support its mission and future programming. Between 2007 and 2010, artists Anicka Yi and Josh Kline collaborated with Jon Santos to form Circular File, a brief but consequential art collective that experimented with collaborative video production, improvisation and the sociality of artistic labor. Fifteen years later, Yi and Kline reconvene to initiate ‘Studio Visit,’ a curatorial project that will also be an art installation in its own right.

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Hauser & Wirth is an international contemporary and modern art gallery with spaces in Zurich, London, Somerset, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Gstaad, St. Moritz, Monaco, Menorca, Paris and Basel.

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