Hans Haacke

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Hans Haacke (born August 12, 1936 in Cologne ) is a German conceptual artist . He caused a stir mainly because of the political aspects of his work.

life and work

Haacke studied from 1956 to 1960 at the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel and from 1961 to 1962 was a Fulbright scholar at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania .

Haacke's early work as a concept artist already thematized systems and processes. In his works he also portrayed interactions between physical and biological systems, animals, plants and the states of water and wind (cf. Condensation Cube , 1963–1965). Some of his approaches moved in the direction of Land Art . Later he turned to more socio-political and art-political perspectives. Haacke consistently represented his critical views on museums and art galleries, which, in his opinion, are often used by wealthy classes for the purpose of manipulating and seducing 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 . In 1998 the Bauhaus University Weimar awarded him an honorary doctorate.

The spectacular cancellation of his planned personnel at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1971, six weeks before the opening by its 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, became an icon of conceptual political art. The management argued that it was a specifically social study that was not art. There was repeated speculation about the involvement of individual trustees of the Guggenheim Museum in the documented real estate transactions. The curator of the exhibition, Edward Frey, who showed solidarity with Haacke, was fired.

Haacke has taken part in the documenta in Kassel five times : Documenta 5 (1972), Documenta 7 (1982), Documenta 8 (1987), Documenta 10 (1997) and Documenta 14 (2017).

In 1974 Haacke hit Cologne: He documented the provenance of Édouard Manet's asparagus bundles , the purchase for the Cologne collection on the initiative of Hermann Josef Abs, chairman at the time, and his role in the Third Reich . This documentation was not approved by the director of the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum for the Project 74 show - with the telling motto art remains art .

In 1978 a Haacke solo exhibition took place at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford. A separate work was created for this, “A Breed Apart” , which criticized the state-owned British Leyland , which exported police and military vehicles to segregated states such as South Africa at the time. Since the late 1980s, Haacke increasingly made use of painting and large sculptural installations . In 1984 he took part in the exhibition Von hier aus - Two months of new German art in Düsseldorf , and in 1988 he exhibited at the Tate Gallery in London . Among other things, a portrait of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was shown, who presented the well-known art patrons Maurice and Charles Saatchi in "supporting roles" .

Haacke's controversial painting of a smoking cowboy from 1990 transformed a classic Picasso picture into a cigarette advertisement. Speak English. The work could also be understood as a reaction to the financial support of the 1990s Cubism exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art by the tobacco company Phillip Morris . Haacke also published a book on the ideas and practices behind contemporary conceptual art (Framing and Being Framed) .

Haacke has also had solo exhibitions at the New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York; in the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; in the Center Georges Pompidou , Paris.

In 1993 Haacke shared the Golden Lion with Nam June Paik for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Haackes installation “Germania” referred to the roots of the Biennale in the cultural politics of the former fascist Italy.

In 1995 Haacke teamed up with Pierre Bourdieu : A recording of their conversations was published in book form ("Free Exchange") , in which Haacke and Bourdieu presented their mutual interest in the relationship between art and politics.

In 1999 he realized the art project The Population in the German Reichstag building .

In 2006, Haacke had a work retrospective for his work of art No beautiful land. Because they did not look German, temporarily pasted the facade windows of the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) building with posters depicting the fate of 46 victims of right-wing extremist violence in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1990.

In 2012 an extensive retrospective took place in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

From March 2015 to September 2016 Haackes Gift Horse was on display in Trafalgar Square in London : The depicted skeleton of a horse refers to a work by George Stubbs in the neighboring National Gallery , around a foreleg is a "gift ribbon" draped from a live ticker with the share prices of the FTSE 100 .

Haacke has lived and worked in New York since 1965.

Dispute over image rights

In August 2006, Haacke's work The Population was discussed in connection with a possible legal dispute about the exploitation of a photo of the work: A blogger had shown parts of the lettering on her website and then received a warning from VG Bild-Kunst . The collecting society stated that Haacke himself had forbidden the "publication of his work 'The Population' on [the] website". In the comments, particular attention was drawn to the discrepancy with the statement made in the lettering.

Awards

literature

  • Pierre Bourdieu , Hans Haacke: Free exchange. For the independence of imagination and thought. Translated by Ilse Utz, Hans Haacke. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-10-007803-9 .
  • Michael Diers , Kasper König : The population. Essays and documents on the debate about the Reichstag project by Hans Haacke. Portikus, Frankfurt am Main / Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-88375-458-7 .
  • Stefan Germer : Haacke, Broodthaers, Beuys. in: October 45 (Summer 1988), pp. 63-75.
  • Walter Grasskamp : Hans Haacke. Photo notes Documenta 2/1959 . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-07068-4 .
  • Hans Haacke: Framing and Being Framed. 7 Works 1970-75. Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, NS / New York University Press, New York 1975, ISBN 0-919616-07-0 .
  • Gabriele Hoffmann: For an “art with consequences”. The artist Hans Haacke in conversation. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 13./14. March 2004, No. 61, IA, p. 48.
  • Luke Skrebowski: All Systems Go: Recovering Hans Haacke's Systems Art. In Gray Room 30 (Winter 2008), pp. 54-83.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See e.g. B. Hans Haacke: Shapolsky et al Manhattan real estate ownership. A real-time social system. Status 1/3/72 (!) . In: inter functions 9 (1972), pp. 95-109.
  2. ↑ Intellectual brilliance Hans Haacke receives the highest endowed European art prize of CHF 150,000 from the Zurich Roswitha-Haftmann-Foundation. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. February 3, 2017, accessed August 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ kassel.de
personal data
SURNAME Haacke, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German concept artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne