Ursula Hauser

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Ursula Hauser grew up in St. Gallen, Switzerland, where she co-founded and directed a family retail business. She began collecting art forty years ago, acquiring modern masters and developing an interest in contemporary art that burgeoned into a true passion. Ursula Hauser’s support of local Swiss artists has continued uninterrupted across the decades as her engagement with other artists from around the world has increased. She is celebrated as a major patron of the arts and the visionary behind an exemplary collection of modern and contemporary art in dialogue. In 1992, together with her son-in-law Iwan Wirth and her daughter Manuela, she founded the gallery Hauser & Wirth. Today, Ursula Hauser focuses primarily upon her collection, with its special emphasis on female artists. She is an active lender to exhibitions worldwide and is a committed cultural philanthropist. Her active engagement with artists and her collecting of their work in depth, has helped make her collection a unique resource for scholars and arts professionals. In recent years, works from the collection have been included in exhibitions at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany, and in the MDD, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle, Belgium, among many others. In 2012 an important exhibition of works from the collection by eight leading female artists was held in a former locomotive depot in St. Gallen called the Lokremise.