eva hesse, lukas heerich, rindon johnson

max goelitz is pleased to invite Hauser & Wirth on the occasion of Various Others 2026. The exhibition places works by contemporary artists Lukas Heerich and Rindon Johnson in dialogue with selected early works on paper and a painting by Eva Hesse. Across generations, these artists share an interest in material experimentation, occupying a space in which form emerges through process and reveals both physical and conceptual tensions. Within this presentation, Heerich and Johnson draw on Hesse’s practice as a point of departure, reflecting on and extending themes that resonate throughout her painting and works on paper.

They respond to Hesse’s embrace of instability, nonconformity, and vulnerability, as well as her exploration of corporeality and psychological entanglement, by reconfiguring the gallery space itself. Rather than treating architecture as a neutral container, both artists engage it as a porous body. Parts of the walls are removed, exposing the infrastructure behind them, while subtle yet decisive interventions guide perception and movement. The exhibition thus unfolds as a fragmented environment in which visibility and obstruction become active sculptural and conceptual conditions. In Hesse’s work, processes of looking and self-examination are inseparable from questions of form, fragmentation, and embodiment. Heerich and Johnson mirror these concerns through their own materials and spatial strategies, evoking a bodily experience in which the viewer becomes newly aware of presence, orientation, vulnerability, and control.