Two years into her tenure at the helm of New York’s Swiss Institute, Hessler continues to question and reinvent its role. Spora, her ongoing ‘environmental institutional critique’ programming, was augmented with an intervention by Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Raven Chacon, while the ambitious group show Energies, staged across the Swiss Institute’s three storeys as well as in other community locations throughout the East Village, garnered critical acclaim – a reviewer calling it ‘one of the boldest curatorial feats… in recent memory’. Tapping into the local history of a sweat-equity co-op (which powered through the 1973 oil crisis with its own wind turbine and went on to win a legal battle against energy giant Con Edison), the show mixed archival material with intergenerational artistic perspectives on the universal and urgent topic of energy to demonstrate the power of cooperation and community organisation in the face of environmental collapse. Meanwhile, across the pond, Hessler curated Art Basel’s outdoor Parcours section this past summer, including work by Rirkrit Tiravanija and Joanna Piotrowska.