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Cologne, Germany, 1-1-1936
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Hans Haacke (Cologne, Germany, 1936), one of the key figures in Conceptual art, studied at the Staatliche Werkakedemie in Kassel and joined the atelier of the artist Stanley William Hayter in Paris in 1960. He made his first trip to the United States to study art in Philadelphia in 1961, and settled permanently in New York four years later. Influenced by his involvement with Group Zero, Haacke’s early works explored physical and biological processes. After moving to the United States, he combined the legacy of his interest in the aesthetic and kinetic style of this European group with the American Minimalists’ critique of modern visuality. As a result, his artistic practice embraced a ‘systems aesthetics’ and he began using investigative methods to explore socio-political structures with an emphasis on art institutions. Since then, his installations, which are critical of the role of museums as part of a cultural industry at the service of power, have often been censored. In 1971, his exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York was cancelled, and in 1974 one of his works was removed from the exhibition Kunst bleibt Kunst at the Museum of Cologne. In the early nineties, Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona terminated its agreement with the artist on discovering the project he was planning to present. And in 2000, his project Der Bevölkerung (To the People), created at the Reichstag in Berlin, sparked fierce controversy.
All of which makes Haacke a pioneer of ‘institutional critique’, which is now an integral part of contemporary art practice Haacke’s installations have been shown at Documenta in Kassel on more than one occasion, and several retrospectives have been organised around them, notably by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 2006 and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) in Madrid in 2012. He has also exhibited his work at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (1986), Van Abbemuseum in Antwerp (1979) and Centre George Pompidou in Paris (1989), among many others. His work is included in the collections of the Generali Foundation in Vienna, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Tate Gallery in London, New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and MACBA in Barcelona.
All of which makes Haacke a pioneer of ‘institutional critique’, which is now an integral part of contemporary art practice Haacke’s installations have been shown at Documenta in Kassel on more than one occasion, and several retrospectives have been organised around them, notably by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 2006 and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) in Madrid in 2012. He has also exhibited his work at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York (1986), Van Abbemuseum in Antwerp (1979) and Centre George Pompidou in Paris (1989), among many others. His work is included in the collections of the Generali Foundation in Vienna, Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Tate Gallery in London, New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and MACBA in Barcelona.
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Bernard Blistène, col·leccionisme i museu. Construir una memòria crítica d'una època -- Museu: història i col·leccionisme. Patrimoni, autoria, nació, modernitat i altres mites fundacionals del museu. Curs d'art i cultura contemporanis [Enregistrament audiovisual activitat]
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17-10-2005
Hans Haacke i Walter Grasskamp, experiments amb col·leccions... Què és una col·lecció? Per a què serveix? -- Museu: història i col·leccionisme. Patrimoni, autoria, nació, modernitat i altres mites. Curs d'art i cultura contemporanis fundacionals del museu. Curs d'art i cultura contemporanis [Enregistrament audiovisual activitat]
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10-10-2005
Inserts : advertising supplement to the New York Times / Group Material ; [with artworks by Mike Glier, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Carrie Mae Weems, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nancy Spero, Nancy Linn, Hans Hacke, Richard Prince, Louise Lawler ; sponsored by the Public Art Fund, Inc.]
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[1988]
Inserts : advertising supplement to the New York Times / Group Material ; [with artworks by Mike Glier, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Carrie Mae Weems, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nancy Spero, Nancy Linn, Hans Hacke, Richard Prince, Louise Lawler ; sponsored by the Public Art Fund, Inc.]
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[1988]
Inserts : advertising supplement to the New York Times / Group Material ; [with artworks by Mike Glier, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Carrie Mae Weems, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Nancy Spero, Nancy Linn, Hans Hacke, Richard Prince, Louise Lawler ; sponsored by the Public Art Fund, Inc.]
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[1988]
The chocolate master / Hans Haacke
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1982
Haackes trockene Kunst der Fakten : im Frankfurter Kunstverein / Eduard Beaucamp
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[1976]
Framing and being framed : 7 works 1970-75 / Hans Haacke
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1975
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum board of trustees : exhibition, Stefanotty Gallery, New York City, March 12-April 13, 1974 / Hans Haacke
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[1974]
Carta : Mönchengladbach, a Hans Haacke, Krefeld, 1972 gen. 13
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1972
These questions and your answers are part of a work in progress by Hans Haacke at the John Weber Gallery, October 7 through 24, 1972
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[1972]
Carta : Nova York, a Karl Heinemann, Mönchengladbach, 1972 gen. 29
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1972
Kunststadt New York am Ende? : wie sich das Beispiel Paris wiederholt / Werner Spies
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1971
Fehler im System : Haacke-Ausstellung
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[1971]
Hans Haacke : Liliane & Michael Durand-Dessert : vernissage mardi 18 janvier à 18 h
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Carta : Colònia, a Karl Heinemann, Mönchengladbach, 1969 gen. 27
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1969
Haacke baby boy : University Hospital, New York University Medical Center : newborn identification
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1969
Die Kontinente durchpflügen : Land-art-Ausstellung an der Cornell-Universität Ithaca, N.Y. / Fritz Neugass
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1969
[Resguard d'una transferència bancària de Karl Heinemann a Hans Haacke, 30.6.1969]
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1969
[Formulari de transferència bancària de Karl Heinemann a Hans Haacke, 30.6.1969]
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1969
[Albarà de Hans Haacke a Karl Heinemann, 19.6.1969]
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1969
Carta : Nova York, a Karl Heinemann, Mönchengladbach, 1969 juny 19
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1969
Carta : Mönchengladbach, a Hans Haacke, Nova York, 1969 març 15
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1969
Carta : [Mönchengladbach], a Hans Fischer, Colònia, 1969 gen. 21
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1969
Carta : [Mönchengladbach], a Hans Fischer, Colònia, 1969 gen. 2
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1969
Boykott der Künstler vor der Biennale von Sao Paulo / Fritz Neugass
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[1969]
[Resguard d'una transferència bancària de Karl Heinemann a Hans Haacke, 30.6.1969]
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1969
Carta : Mönchengladbach, a Hans Haacke, Nova York, 1969 maig 19
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1969
Carta : [Mönchengladbach], a Hans Haacke, Nova York, 1968 set. 7
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1968
Carta : Mönchengladbach, a Hans Haacke, Nova York, 1968 nov. 11
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1968
Carta : Mönchengladbach, a Hans Fischer, Colònia, 1968 des. 3
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1968
Carta : Mönchengladbach, a Hans Haacke, Nova York, 1968 des. 3
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1968
Carta : Nova York, a Karl Heinemann, Mönchengladbach, 1968 nov. 29
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1968
Carta : Nova York, a Karl Heinemann, Mönchengladbach, 1968 nov. 3
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1968
[Factura de Hans Fischer a Karl Heinemann, 13.11.1968]
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1968
Carta : Nova York, a Karl Heinemann, Mönchengladbach, 1967 abr. 17
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1967
Carta : Mönchengladbach, a Hans Haacke, Nova York, 1967 abr. 17
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1967
Carta : [Mönchengladbach], a Hans Haacke, Nova York, 1967 març 20
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1967
Carta : [Nova York], a Karl Heinemann, Mönchengladbach, 1967 abr.11
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1967
Carta : Dusseldorf, a Karl Heinemann, Mönchengladbach, 1967 març 17
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1967
Carta : Mönchengladbach, a Alfred Schmela, Dusseldorf, 1966 des. 28
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1966
Carta : Colònia, a Margrit Hirche, Mönchengladbach, 1965 set. 7
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1965
Carta : Mönchengladbach, a Hans Haacke, Köln, 1965 ag. 25
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1965
Carta : Colònia, a Karl Heinemann, Mönchengladbach, 1965 ago.29
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1965
Hans Haacke : Einladung zur Eröffnung der Ausstellung "Wind und Wasser" [...] 6. Mai 1965, 20 Uhr, in der Galerie Schmela Düsseldorf
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1965
[Nota manuscrita]
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