Alfons Hug

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Alfons Hug (2004)

Alfons Hug (* 1950 in Hochdorf , Biberach district) is a German curator , art critic and exhibition organizer .

Life

Hug studied linguistics, comparative literature and cultural studies in Freiburg, Berlin, Dublin and Moscow. Since the mid-1980s he has headed the Goethe Institutes in Lagos , Medellín , Brasília , Caracas and Moscow and then in Rio de Janeiro .

As an exhibition organizer, he was the first non-Brazilian to curate the art biennials in São Paulo in 2002 and 2004. In the 1990s he was head of the visual arts department at the House of World Cultures , and in 2011 he was the curator of the Latin American pavilion at the 2004 Venice Biennale and chief curator of the 1st to 3rd Bienal de Montevideo 2012 to 2016. In 2018 he was responsible for the Bienal do Mercosul in Porto Alegre .

Curations (selection)

  • 2002: 25th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2003: Co-Curator, 4th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre , Brazil
  • 2003: Brazilian Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale 2003
  • 2003: Arte da África. Obras-primas do Museu Etnológico de Berlim , Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil , Rio de Janeiro, with 750,000 visitors (Peter Junge, curator; Alfons Hug, organizer)
  • 2004: 26th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil, with 917,000 visitors
  • 2009: Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia , Tierra del Fuego, Argentina
  • 2011: Bienal Internacional de Curitiba , Brazil
  • 2012: 1st Bienal de Montevideo, Uruguay
  • 2014: 2nd Bienal de Montevideo, Uruguay
  • 2016: 3rd Bienal de Montevideo, Uruguay
  • 2018: 11th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Three articles and a video by / with Alfons Hug. Concept. Exhibition “The Tropics. Views from the center of the globe ”. Berlin, 2008.
  2. ↑ Alfons Hug. Exploring the Great South. A conversation about the First Biennale Montevideo by Heinz-Norbert Jocks . In: Kunstforum International , Volume 220, 2013, p. 226 ff.
  3. ^ Brazil - national presentation, 50th Venice Biennale 2003. In: universes-in-universe.de. Retrieved April 23, 2018 .
  4. ^ Bibliotecas BB. In: com.br. www.bibliotecasbb.com.br, accessed April 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hug, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German curator, art critic and exhibition organizer
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Hochdorf , Esslingen district