BAMPFA Presents the Largest Retrospective of Maren Hassinger '69
On view from June 6 through November 29, 2026, this career-spanning exhibition of Maren Hassinger ’69's work at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will feature live performance, site-specific installations, and participatory elements.
The most comprehensive retrospective to date of Maren Hassinger '69 will open at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in June 2026, featuring half a century of work by one of the most influential living artists in the United States.
Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing encompasses the full scope of Hassinger’s output across an eclectic range of forms, including large-scale sculpture, site-specific installations, video, and performance. The exhibition will display more than twenty of Hassinger’s most notable works from the 1970s to the present, as well as participatory and performance elements executed in partnership with the artist.
Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing will be accompanied by an extensive exhibition catalogue, featuring new scholarly essays and previously unpublished documentation of Hassinger’s work.