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\n\tThe new 2,600-square-foot gallery\u2014Hauser & Wirth\u2019s first in the Bay Area\u2014will occupy a former post office at 201\u2013225 Hamilton Avenue, a short walk from the Stanford University campus. Architect Luis Laplace, principal of Laplace, will lead the renovation.<\/p>\n
\n\tHauser & Wirth is the first mega-gallery to take a bet on the Bay Area since Pace Gallery closed<\/a> its outpost there in 2022\u2014a somewhat surprising development given that the region routinely ranks among the wealthiest metro areas in the United States. Gagosian operated a location in San Francisco, near SFMOMA, for around four years until December 2020. <\/p>\n \n\tAccording to Henley & Partners\u2019s U.S. Wealth Report 2024, the Bay Area has a comparable number<\/a> of millionaires and centimillionaires\u2014and slightly more billionaires\u2014than New York City.<\/p>\n \n\tThe region is home to many ARTnews Top 200 collectors, including Laurene Powell Jobs<\/a>, billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreesen<\/a> and Laura Arillaga-Andreesen<\/a>, Oracle founder Larry Ellison<\/a>, former Gap Inc. chairman Robert Fisher<\/a>, and tech power couple Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg, among others.<\/p>\n \n\tOn Tuesday evening, Shah told ARTnews that the new gallery \u201cmakes a lot of sense\u201d for Hauser & Wirth.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cPart of the Bay Area culture is to not talk about possessions or collecting, but there is an active community,\u201d Shah said, noting Hauser\u2019s ties to regional collectors, its connections to nearby Stanford, and a growing population of young collectors who she said need to be cultivated and engaged.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI\u2019m confident that Hauser will do it right\u2014with a host of programming, books, and activations alongside the art,\u201d she added. \u201cThey know how to go into a place and energize it.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe last wave of mega-gallery expansion in the Bay Area came in the mid-2010s, when Pace and Gagosian opened locations in Palo Alto (2014) and San Francisco (2016), respectively. At the time, the moves were seen as a sign of a maturing local scene and a strategic play<\/a> to court the region\u2019s growing class of tech collectors.<\/p>\n \n\tPace\u2019s initial Palo Alto gallery\u2014a former Tesla showroom\u2014was framed by president Marc Glimcher as a pop-up. It was rented from John Arrillaga, the late Silicon Valley real estate developer and father of Arrillaga-Andreessen. In 2018, the gallery relocated to a smaller, more permanent space in a converted movie theater nearby, but in August 2022, it announced<\/a> plans to shutter the outpost, citing a consolidation of its West Coast operations.<\/p>\n \n\tA month earlier, Artnet News had reported<\/a> that Powell Jobs\u2014long affiliated with Pace\u2014had shifted her support to Hauser & Wirth. Around this time, she also began to separate<\/a> from Superblue, the immersive art venture cofunded by Powell Jobs and Pace.<\/p>\n \n\tAs for whether Hauser might face the same challenges that Pace did, Shah said she sees the Swiss gallery moving in a \u201cmore deliberate and intentional\u201d way, with a diverse program that will \u201cmeet its match\u201d in the Bay Area\u2019s \u201cvery\u201d international community.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIf this is done right\u2014and I believe it will\u2014it would be a huge win for everybody,\u201d Shah said, citing collectors\u2019 strong support for local institutions such as Stanford\u2019s Cantor Arts Center and the Anderson Collection. \u201cThis seems like the right time and the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The art market may be on shaky ground, but no one told the megas. 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