Hauser & Wirth to open a gallery space in St. Moritz, Switzerland
(Artdaily.org)

Iwan Wirth, President and co-Founder of Hauser & Wirth, announced today that the gallery will inaugurate a new space in St. Moritz, in the heart of Switzerland’s Engadin Valley. Opening in December 2018 with an exhibition of works by renowned late French-American artist Louise Bourgeois, Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz is a natural extension of the gallery’s activities in its native Switzerland. It will be Hauser & Wirth’s third Swiss location and its ninth outpost internationally. Hauser & Wirth was first established in Zurich in 1992 and, along with several of the city’s museums, became a founding tenant in 1996 of the converted historic Löwenbräu brewery building in that city’s industrial district. In 2015, Hauser & Wirth launched its second location in Switzerland, a private gallery in Le Vieux Chalet, a traditional ski chalet in Gstaad. Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz will occupy the Palace Galerie space in the