Hauser & Wirth Announces Opening Show At New Location in Palo Alto
3July 17, 2026
On Wednesday, mega-gallery Hauser & Wirth announced that they will expand their already considerable presence in California with a new gallery opening in tech-friendly, income-saturated Palo Alto. To commemorate the opening, which will take place on October 3, 2026, the Hauser & Wirth Palo Alto will host a festival of public activities and debut an exhibition entitled “Calder | O’Keeffe.”
Centering around the mutual respect and admiration that flowed between the two artists Alexander Calder and Georgia O’Keeffe, the exhibition will include noteworthy works from both artists as well as archival materials, in collaboration with the Calder Foundation and with research guided by the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Both artists were fascinated by the raw potential represented by organic subject matter.
Hauser & Wirth, which was founded in 1992 in Zurich, Switzerland, established a downtown Los Angeles gallery in 2016 in the city’s arts district. There, they set up shop in a 116,000-square-foot former flour mill. Later, in 2023, Hauser & Wirth opened a West Hollywood outpost.
Hauser & Wirth’s new Palo Alto location, which will be their first foray in Silicon Valley, will also include a new bookshop; the organization intends this literary space to be a site of community programming and cultural exchange. The new location will occupy a century-old post office building in downtown Palo Alto, close to Stanford University.
“California—the defining role its artists, institutions, patrons, collectors and geographic attributes have played in the evolution of modern and contemporary art—has been integral to Hauser & Wirth’s vision and program since our founding more than three decades ago,” Marc Payot, President of Hauser & Wirth, said in a statement. “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.”
By moving into the neighborhood, Hauser & Wirth will join a handful of existing galleries, including Pamela Walsh Gallery, which was founded in 2019, and Qualia Contemporary Art, which opened in 2020. Pace Gallery maintained a location in Palo Alto from 2016 until 2022; it was closed after Pace determined that their Los Angeles space was strong enough to represent Pace on the West Coast.