Hannah Wilke: HWCALA News

Selected Exhibitions

2009-10: Sculpture and drawings by Hannah Wilke in the permanent collection are on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in "Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, 1940-1980." (catalog)

Alison Jacques Gallery, London, exhibited work from HWCALA at the following art fairs during 2009: Art Forum, Berlin: Artissima,Turin: Frieze, London: and Art Basel, Miami where Hannah Wilke's work was received with great interest and success.

"Hannah Wilke Through the Large Glass," Wilke's 1976 performance, is featured in the Le Silo symposium at the National Institute of the History of Art, Paris, that addresses the relationship between the Serge Eisenstein film "Glass House" and contemporary art and also includes the work of Gordon Matta-Clark, Charlie Chaplin and Mark Lewis. January 12, 2010.

"Philly," and "Hannah Wilke Through the Large Glass," videos of Hannah Wilke's 1976 performance at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, were shown at the Philadelphia Museum in the exhibition curated by Michael R. Taylor, "Marcel Duchamp: Etant Donnes." The exhibition, which opened in August, 2009, is dedicated to the memory of Anne D'Arnoncourt and commemorates the fortieth anniversary of the original installation of the Duchamp work at the Philadelphia Museum (catalog).

"Women Artists: elles @ centrepompidou," curated by Camille Morineau, an exhibition of work by women artists in the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou, opened at Centre Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris, on May 27 and will continue through June, 2010 (catalog). The exhibition features Hannah Wilke's "S.O.S. Starification Object Series, An Adult Game of Mastication," 1975, and includes Wilke's ceramic and kneaded eraser sculpture and the performance videos, "Hello Boys," filmed in Paris in 1975, and "Hannah Wilke Through the Large Glass," 1976.

"Compass in Hand," Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collections, which includes Hannah Wilke drawings from HWCALA purchased by the Foundation and given to the Museum of Modern Art, opened at MOMA, April 21, 2009 (catalog).

Hannah Wilke's "Ponder-r-rosa #4, White Plains, Yellow Rocks," 1975, has been installed for public viewing in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. This important work can be viewed in the late Minimalism gallery, along with work by Eva Hesse, Louise Bourgeois, and Bruce Nauman.

2008-09: Hannah Wilke's "SOS Starification Object Series (Guns)," 1975, now in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, was exhibited there in "Photo Conversation Number 6: Identity, " from December, 2008.

Photographs from Wilke's "Gestures," the "Gestures" videotape and Intra-Venus drawings were included in "Hands," a group exhibition at SolwayJones, Dec.6, 2008 - January 17, 2009.

"Hannah Wilke: Gestures," curated by Tracy Fitzpatrick, was shown at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, from October 3, 2008 -January 25, 2009 (catalog). The exhibition, which focused on Wilke's sculptural practise, included a panel discussion featuring the feminist scholar, Griselda Pollock, and was held in conjunction with "Great Women Artists: Feminist Art from the Permanent Collection," curated by Thom Collins with Camilla Cook.

The Wilke 1976 performance video, "Hannah Wilke Through the Large Glass," was exhibited in "Number Two: Fragile," work in the permanent collection of the Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany.

2007-09: Hannah Wilke work was included in "Wack!, Art and the Feminist Revolution," curated by Connie Butler, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The show traveled, to the Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; P.S.1, Queens, NY; and the Vancouver Art Museum, B.C., Canada. (catalog).

2007: The 1976 performance video, " Hannah Wilke Through the Large Glass," was exhibited in "Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators," curated by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, at the American University Museum, Washington, D.C. (catalog).

Drawings from HWCALA in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, were exhibited in "Live/Work: Performance into Drawing," curated by Connie Butler, Robert Lehman Chief Curator of Drawings, January 31 - May 21, 2007.

2006-07: Hannah Wilke's "S.O.S. Starification Object Series" (Curlers)," 1975, now in the permanent collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art was exhibited there in "Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F.Holland Day," curated by Carrie Springer, December 20, 2006 - March 4, 2007.

2006: "Advertisements for Living," a one-woman exhibition of work in HWCALA, was held at SolwayJones, Los Angeles, April 22 - May 20, 2006, and featured the installation of the same name and other photographic and text-based Wilke work.

2005-6: Hannah Wilke drawings from HWCALA in MOCA's permanent collection were exhibited in "Recent Acquisitions" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November 20, 2005 - January 9, 2006.

2005: "Hannah Wilke: The Rhetoric of the Pose," curated by Shelby Graham and Joyce Brodsky, with a catalog essay by Amelia Jones, was held at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, October 5 -December 3, 2005 (catalog) in conjunction with a conference sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Feminist Research, UC Santa Cruz. A panel, "Rethinking Hannah Wilke," featured Joanna Frueh, and the panel transcript was published in Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations, New Pacific Press, Santa Cruz, CA, 2006.

Work from HWCALA was shown at "Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women's Health in Contemporary Art," at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (catalog).

2004: "Hannah Wilke: Selected Work, 1960-1992," a survey of work from the Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, was exhibited at SolwayJones, Los Angeles, January 10 - February 21, 2004 (catalog).

2003: Art in HWCALA was included in the group exhibition "Micropoliticas III," at Espai d' Art Contemporani, Castello, Spain (catalog).

A three-person exhibition, "Merce Cunningham, Robert Smithson, Hannah Wilke: Drawings and Collages," was held at SolwayJones, Los Angeles.

2000: HWCALA work was exhibited in a one-woman Hannah Wilke survey, "Interrupted Career," at the Neue Gesellschaft, Berlin (catalog).

Gifts and Acquisitions

Since the Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles, was founded in 1999, important work in the collection has been acquired by prominent public museums including the Jewish Museum, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Hannah Wilke work has also been acquired by private collections, and gifts have been made to selected public collections, including the museums noted above, and to the Centre Pompidou Foundation, a non-profit foundation whose mission is to acquire work by American artists for the Centre Pompidou, Paris

2009: The Philadelphia Museum of art acquired from HWCALA and EAI the 1976 Hannah Wilke videos "Philly" and "Hannah Wilke Through the Large Glass."

2008: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired two iconic Hannah Wilke works featured in "WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution": "Marxism & Art," 1977, silkscreen on plexiglas, and the 1975 latex installation, "Ponder-r-rosa # 4, White Plains, Yellow Rocks."

2007: The Centre Pompidou Foundation purchased Hannah Wilke's historic mixed media photo installation, "S.O.S.Starification Object Series: An Adult Game of Mastication," 1975, which the Foundation donated to the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, with a partial gift from the Scharlatt Family.

2006: Hannah Wilke's 1976 kneaded eraser postcard work, "Mountain Creek," was donated to the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, in honor of Joanna Frueh. The contemporary collection focuses on art of the environment and the West.

2005: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchased Hannah Wilke's iconic mixed media photographic work, "S.O.S. Starification Object Series," 1974-75.

2004: The Whitney Museum of American Art acquired the Wilke photo work "S.O.S.Starification Object Series (Curlers)," 1975.

The Los Angeles County Art Museum acquired Wilke's "S.O.S.Starification Object Series (Guns)," 1975.

2003: A group of ten exemplary Wilke drawings was purchased by the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection which was donated to the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, acquired three Wilke drawings from the early 1960's.

1999: The Jewish Museum, New York, acquired five Hannah Wilke 1982-84 "Venus Pareve" sculptures.

Publication Information

The Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles, has initiated the publication of a hard-cover monograph about Hannah Wilke to be written by Nancy Princenthal and published by Prestel Publishing Company, New York, in 2010.

"Hannah Wilke: Selected Work, 1962-91" was published jointly by the Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles, and SolwayJones Gallery in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name in 2004. The catalog features essays by Arlene Raven, Marsie Scharlatt, and Michael Solway.

Catalogs for the 1994 exhibition "Intra Venus" and the 2004 exhibition "Hannah Wilke Selected Work, 1960-1992," are available through the Hannah Wilke Collection & Archive, Los Angeles, P.O. Box 480111, Los Angeles, CA 90048.