Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke ( born August 12, 1936 in Cologne) is an internationally acclaimed conceptual artist. He caused a stir mainly due to the political aspects of his work.
Life and work
Haacke studied from 1956 to 1960 at the State Academy in Kassel plant. 1961-1962 he was a Fulbright scholar at the Tyler School of Art of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Already Haacke's early work as a concept artist themed systems and processes. The young artist made in his works also interactions between physical and biological systems, animals, plants and states of water and wind (see, Condensation Cube, 1963-1965 ). Some of his approaches were moving in the direction of the Land Art Later he turned to more socio - political and artistic perspectives. Haacke represented throughout his critical views about museums and art galleries, which are frequently exploited by wealthy classes for the purpose of manipulation and seduction of the public. Between 1967 and 2002 Haacke was an art professor at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City. 1998 awarded him the Bauhaus University Weimar honorary doctorate.
The spectacular cancellation of his planned show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1971, six weeks before the opening by the then director Thomas Messer, made Haacke's work Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, A Real Time Social System, as of May 1, 1971, which deals with real estate ownership and speculation, an icon of the political concept art. The management argued, in substance, that this handle to a specific social study that is not art. Has been speculated over and over again entanglements of individual trustees of the Guggenheim Museum in the documented Immobliengeschäfte. The curator of the exhibition, Edward Frey, who sided with Haacke, was dismissed.
Hans Haacke in 1972 ( Documenta 5 ), 1982 ( Documenta 7 ) and 1987 ( Documenta 8 ) in the documenta in Kassel.
1974 -stretched Haacke in Cologne: The artist documented the provenance Édouard Manet Asparagus still life, the purchase of the Cologne collection at the initiative of the then chairman of Friends of Hermann Josef Abs and its role in the Third Reich. This documentation has been the Director of the Wallraf -Richartz- Museum of the project 74 -Show - with the telling motto art is art - not admitted.
In 1978 a solo exhibition Haacke held at the Museum of Modern Art (Oxford). For this was their own work, " A Breed Apart", the critique of the state-owned British Leyland practiced, police and military vehicles exported in practicing racial segregation countries such as the former South Africa. Since the late 1980s, Haacke served increasingly to painting and large sculptural installations. In 1984 he participates in the exhibition From here - Two months new German art in Dusseldorf in part, in 1988 he exhibited at the Tate Gallery in London from. Among other things, a portrait of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has been shown that the known art patrons Maurice and Charles Saatchi presented in " supporting roles ".
Haacke's controversial painting of a smoking cowboy 1990 transformed a classic Picasso picture in a cigarette advertising. Speak English. The work could also be understood as a reaction to the financial support of the 1990 Cubism exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art by the tobacco company Phillip Morris. Haacke published a book about the ideas and practices behind contemporary conceptual art ( "Framing and Being Framed" ).
Haacke solo exhibitions were also at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Stedelijk van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
In 1993 Haacke shared with Nam June Paik, the Golden Lion for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Haacke's installation " Germania " was referring to the roots of the Biennale in the cultural politics of the former fascist Italy.
In 1995, Haacke teamed up with Pierre Bourdieu: a record of their discussions was published in book form ( "Free Exchange "). Haacke and Bourdieu made their common interest in the relationship between art and politics clearly.
In 1999, the art project The population in the German Reichstag building.
2004 the artist received the Peter Weiss Prize of the City of Bochum and the Roland Prize for Art 2006 he was awarded in a public space.
2006 Haacke was part of a work - retrospective of his work of art no more beautiful country. Because they do not stick temporarily to German looked facade of the building of the Academy of the Arts ( Berlin) with posters on which the fates of 46 deaths xenophobic violence in Germany have been described since 1990.
2012 awarded him the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid with an extensive retrospective.
Haacke currently lives and works in New York.
Dispute over image rights
In August 2006, Haacke's work The population was discussed in connection with a potential lawsuit for the recovery of a photo of the work: A blogger had mapped parts of the writing on their website and then received by VG Bild-Kunst, a warning. The collecting society stated Haacke himself had prohibited the " publishing his book The Population 'on [ the ] website ." In particular, it was commented on the discrepancy with the statement of the writing.