Maja Hoffmann (art collector)

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Maja Hoffmann with Hans Ulrich Obrist , Philippe Parreno and Asad Raza at a presentation on January 5, 2015

Maja Hoffmann (* 1956 in Basel ) is a Swiss art collector , art patron , documentary film producer and businesswoman. She is the founder of the Swiss Luma Foundation .

Life

Maja Hoffmann is the daughter of Daria Hoffmann-Razumovsky (1925–2002) and the pharmaceutical magnate and natural scientist Luc Hoffmann (1923–2016) and granddaughter of the industrialist Emanuel Hoffmann (1896–1932). She has three siblings: Vera , André and Daschenka. Hoffmann's grandmother Maja Hoffmann-Stehlin (1896–1989) collected works by Pablo Picasso, Jean Arp, Fernand Léger, Jean Tinguely and Georges Braque and founded the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation in 1933 , the collection of which forms the core of the Schaulager. Hoffmann's cousin Maja Oeri is also a collector and patron.

In the 1980s Hoffmann studied film at The New School and New York University in New York City. It was then that she began collecting contemporary art. In 2012, the American culture magazine W named her one of the most influential people in the modern art world. ARTnews counts her among the 200 most important art collectors worldwide.

Maja Hoffmann is part of the shareholder pool of Roche Holding AG, which controls the Swiss company Hoffmann-La Roche .

Hoffmann has two children with her partner Stanley Buchthal.

activities

Maja Hoffmann is President of the Kunsthalle Zürich Association and Vice President of the Council of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation in Basel, whose art collection was founded by her grandparents and is now part of the Kunstmuseum Basel Gegenwart . Hoffmann is a board member of the Vincent van Gogh Arles Foundation in Arles , New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art , London's Serpentine Galleries and the Tate International Council.

In 2004 she founded the Swiss Luma Foundation, named after her children Lukas and Marina. The foundation supports the activities of independent artists and pioneers as well as institutions that are active in the fields of visual and performing arts, photography, journalism, documentary film and multimedia.

As part of this foundation, in 2014 she laid the cornerstone for the Luma Arles cultural complex , an experimental and interdisciplinary platform dedicated to exhibitions, art, research, education and archives. Located on the former industrial site of the Parc des Ateliers in Arles (France), it includes a main building designed by architect Frank Gehry , several industrial buildings renovated by Annabelle Selldorf and a public park designed by landscape architect Bas Smets . Until the opening in 2021, Hoffmann will work on the program for Arles with a team of artistic advisors (Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno and Beatrix Ruf).

To date, Hoffmann has invested around 150 million euros. The mayor of Arles is hoping for the Bilbao effect , alluding to the northern Spanish city, which has been attracting numerous visitors with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, built by Gehry, in the late 1990s . But the investments of the “Queen of Arles”, as she is called by the French media, are also attracting criticism. Years ago, their influence in Arles, which is affected by high unemployment, met with suspicion. The regional satirical magazine Le Ravi portrays her as the boss of the city. A caricature shows her next to a city sign that reads: "Welcome to Majahoffmarles".

As a film producer she is known for documentaries such as 2007 about Lou Reed , 2012 about Marina Abramović or 2015 about Peggy Guggenheim .

Publications (selection)

literature

  • Luc Boltanski, Arnaud Esquerre: Enrichment. A criticism of the goods . Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-58718-8 . ( Online at Google Books)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article: Admission ticket to a dream world, p. 28 , e-periodica.ch, accessed on September 17, 2019
  2. ↑ Diane Solway: The Insider. (accessed on August 30, 2019)
  3. ^ The top 200 collectors . Art news , 2019 (accessed August 30, 2019)
  4. ↑ majority shareholders. Retrieved September 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Diane Solway: The Insider. (accessed on September 11, 2019)
  6. ↑ Board of Trustees of the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation
  7. ↑ Accueil. Retrieved September 4, 2019 (French).
  8. ↑ Martina Meister: Is Arles also experiencing a Bilbao effect? In: Die Welt , August 5, 2017
  9. ↑ Nina Belz: Arles - how a Roche heiress transformed the face of a Provencal city . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , August 16, 2019
  10. ↑ Ulrike Koltermann: France: Billionaire expands Arles . In: ZDF , July 29, 2018
  11. ↑ Arles gets an iceberg In: Monopoly , August 7, 2019
  12. ↑ See also the web link IMDb
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Maja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss art collector, art patron, documentary filmmaker and businesswoman
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel