Hauser & Wirth to Open Palo Alto Outpost
122Aug. 1, 2025
Swiss gallery Hauser & Wirth on July 30 announced plans to expand into Palo Alto, in northern California’s Silicon Valley, in the spring of 2026. The gallery’s new space will be its third in California, where it opened branches in Los Angeles in 2016 and 2023, and its seventeenth overall, joining locations scattered across New York, England, Switzerland, Spain, France, Monaco, and Hong Kong. Hauser & Wirth is hoping to succeed where others of its ilk have failed: Both Gagosian and Pace were stymied in their attempts to establish footprints in the billionaire-heavy Bay Area, with Gagosian lasting just five years in the San Francisco branch it established in 2016 and Pace lasting for six in the Palo Alto outpost it launched that same year.
“Los Angeles, where we maintain important spaces in the Downtown Arts District and West Hollywood, is a globally recognized hub of cultural production and home to many of the exceptional artists we represent,” said gallery president Marc Payot in a statement. “But northern California occupies an equally powerful position as home to a fantastically dedicated community of collectors and the museums they have built. Perched in its prime spot on the edge of the Pacific Rim and populated by generations of astute and ambitious patrons of the arts, the Bay Area is a place where we are proud to be creating a new space, an energy center for our artists and the community.”
The new gallery is to be located on Hamilton Avenue in downtown Palo Alto, near the Stanford University campus and a stone’s throw from the headquarters of major tech companies including Meta and Google. Boasting roughly 2,600 square feet of gallery space and a bookstore, the outpost will occupy a onetime post office. The building, which dates to the early 1900s, is being redesigned by architect Luis Laplace, who also renovated the gallery’s location on Paris’s Right Bank.