Zaha Hadid ‘I Think There Should Be No End to Experimentation’

LUMA Arles presents Hans Ulrich Obrist Archives Chapter 6: Zaha Hadid ‘I Think There Should Be No End to Experimentation’, marking ten years since the death of Zaha Hadid. The exhibition revisits Hadid’s practice through her long-running dialogue with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, tracing her development from early conceptual work to built projects, and situating her approach to architecture within a broader field of artistic and theoretical inquiry.

Presented in the Tower at the Parc des Ateliers, designed by Frank Gehry, the exhibition brings together paintings, drawings, notebooks, archival materials, and previously unseen interviews. Focusing on her early calligraphic works and their relationship to later buildings, the presentation outlines a practice that moved between abstraction and construction, emphasizing experimentation as a central method in Hadid’s approach to space and form.