Nicolaus Schafhausen

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Nicolaus Schafhausen (* 1965 in Düsseldorf ) is a German curator and art manager and director of the Kunsthalle Wien from October 2012 to the end of March 2019 . In May 2018 he announced that he would resign his post early on March 31, 2019 for political reasons, as he sees “the future of the current nationalist politics in Austria and the European situation as to the effectiveness of cultural institutions like the Kunsthalle Wien”; In times of right-wing populist movements, much stronger support from independent state institutions and cultural institution administrations is required: in the future, he wants to work outside the usual institutions.

Life

Schafhausen studied art history at the Technical University of Berlin and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Before he decided on a career as a curator, Nicolaus Schafhausen worked as an artist and was a. a. Represented by Ascan Crone Gallery and Gasser Grunert Gallery. His last exhibition participation was at the Aperto '93 in Venice. During a scholarship in Berlin at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in 1991, he and the artist Markus Schneider founded the Lukas & Hoffmann gallery, which is named after the maiden names of their mothers. In the gallery, which was initially located in Berlin and later in Cologne, he realized his first exhibitions a. a. with Kai Althoff , Ólafur Elíasson , Carsten Höller and Lily van der Stokker.

From 1995 to 1998 Schafhausen was artistic director of the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart . In 1999 he was appointed director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein , whose artistic and commercial management he held until December 2005. In June 2005 he was appointed founding director of the European Kunsthalle in Cologne for a period of two years, a project that explores models for a potential institution of contemporary art. From 2006 to 2011 he was artistic and commercial director of the Witte de With , Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, Netherlands. In 2007 and 2009 he was the commissioner responsible for the German pavilion at the 52nd and 53rd Biennale di Venezia . He was co-curator of the 1st Brussels Biennale 2008, curator of the Festival Media City Seoul 2010, curator for the Dutch House at the Expo in Shanghai 2010 and has exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Lenbachhaus in Munich, the National Museum of Architecture, Art and Curated design in Oslo and CCA in Vilnius. Since 2011 Schafhausen has been the strategic director of the Canadian Shorefast Foundation | Fogo Island Arts, which initiated a resident program on the Newfoundland island of Fogo and is looking for ways to revitalize the area threatened by emigration in dialogue with artists and scientists.

Schafhausen is the author and editor of numerous texts and publications on contemporary art. He was a collection advisor for the FRAC Nord - Pas de Calais and a member of the board of the IKT network (International association of curators of contemporary art). In addition, Schafhausen was a member of the board of directors of the Ursula Blickle Foundation, the Independent Curators International (ICI) and the Comite van Roosendaal. In 2003 he was awarded the Hessian Culture Prize. Schafhausen teaches at HISK, Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Gent. In 2014 he curated the 55th Belgrade October Salon at the Museum of the City of Belgrade (Muzej grada Beograda) together with Vanessa Joan Müller .

Curated exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions / selection

  • E , (1993), artists: Kai Althoff, Burchill / McCamley, Katja Davar, Lukas Duwenhögger, Carsten Höller, Susanne Riedel, Torsten Slama, Lily van der Stokker, Octavian Trauttmannsdorff, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
  • nach Weimar , (1996), Weimar art collections
  • The conversion room , (1996 to 1998), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, artists: Gregor Schneider
  • To the people of the city of the Euro (1999), Frankfurter Kunstverein , artists: Monica Bonvicini, "Hammering Out", Olafur Eliasson , "Your Double Day Diary", Blinky Palermo, "Staircase II / Experimenta 4, 1971" (Reconstruction), Jeroen de Rijke and Willem de Rooij , "Of Three Men", Octavian Trauttmansdorff, "If the packaging falls, the goal falls, the construct reveals itself", Phantom Büro, "Video installation (cinema of deconstruction)"
  • You have to learn a lot to function here (2000), artists: Ayse Erkmen, Rainer Ganahl, Pia Greschner, Oliver Husain, Kai Kaljo, Dorit Margreiter, Anny Öztürk, Julika Rudelius, Anri Sala , Rea Tajiri, Wawrzyniec Tokarski , Jun Yang
  • Neue Welt , (2001), artists: Haluk Akakçe, Pawel Althamer, Kai Althoff, Yael Bartana, Reinhard Bernsteiner, Roger Bundschuh, Elmgreen and Dragset , Alexandra Duwe / Holger Wüst, Malachi Farrell, Carsten Fock, Penelope Georgiou, Fabrice Gygi , Paul Graham, Rodney Graham, Jeppe Hein, Nikolaus Hirsch / Finn Geippel, Dan Holdsworth, Laura Horelli, Runa Islam, Mike Kelley, Anna Klamroth, Ken Lum, Bernhard Martin, Kenny MacLeod, Bruce Nauman, Seamus Nicolson, Henrik Olesen, Phillipe Parreno, Stephen Prina, Gerhard Richter, Jeroen de Rijke / Willem de Rooij , Willem de Rooij / Jane Ostermann-Petersen, Józef Robakowski, Roth / Stauffenberg, Anri Sala , Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier, Anne Tallentire, Wolfgang Tillmans, Octavian Trauttmansdorff, Barbara Visser, Frankfurter Kunstverein
  • New Heimat , (2001), In addition to works of contemporary art by Michael Beutler, Andrea Bowers, Jeanne Faust, Naya Hatakeyama, Sharon Lockhart, Bjarne Melgaard, Isa Melsheimer, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Adrian Piper, Richard Prince, Tobias Rehberger, Gretchen So, Haim Steinbach , Nasrin Tabatabai and Jun Yang objects from Bali, Brazil, Nigeria and Papua New Guinea are shown. Allegedly, the so-called globalization leads to a worldwide standardization of culture, Frankfurter Kunstverein
  • non-places (2001), artists: Emmanuelle Antille, Siegrun Appelt, Gabriele Basilico, Michael Blum, Martin Boyce, Thomas Demand, Peter Friedl, Ori Gersht, Jonathan Horowitz, Anna Jermolaewa, Viola Klein, Katrin Korfmann, Mark Lewis, Friedrich Ludewig, Olaf Metzel, Nick Relph & Oliver Payne, Martha Rosler, Julika Rudelius, Sofie Thorsen, Frankfurter Kunstverein
  • Dark Spring , (2002), artists: Slater Bradley, Matthew Brannon , Heather Burnett, Nathan Carter, Sean Dack, Jeremy Deadman, Duwe / Wüst, Carsten Fock, Jonathan Horowitz, Bernhard Martin, Marcel Odenbach, Julika Rudelius, Lee Taylor , Stephanie Taylor, Ursula Blickle Foundation
  • Nation , (2003), artists: Thomas Bayrle, Marc Bijl, Heather Burnett, Nathan Carter, Jason Dodge, Gili Dolev, Michael Elmgreen / Ingar Dragset, Keith Farquhar, Nicolas Floc'h, Jonathan Horowitz, Brian Jungs, Nina Könnemann , Germaine Koh, Marko Lulic, Marcin Maciejowski, Josephine Meckseper , Sarah Morris, Audrius Novickas, Marcel Odenbach, Erik Parker, Bruno Peinado, Egle Rakauskaite, Jeroen de Rijke, Willem de Rooij, Shirana Shahbazi , Tim Stoner, Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier, Evren Tekinoktay, Andrei Ujica, Mark Wallinger, David Zink Yi , Frankfurter Kunstverein
  • Adorno - The possibility of the impossible (2003), Artists: Carl Andre, Samuel Beckett, Martin Boyce, Andre Cadere, Martin Creed, Thomas Demand, Jason Dodge, Maria Eichhorn, Peter Friedl, Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen , Louise Lawler, Euan MacDonald, John Massey, Jonathan Monk, Sarah Morris, Bruce Nauman, Kirsten Pieroth, Mathias Poledna, Stephen Prina, Florian Pumhösl, Ad Reinhardt, Gerhard Richter, Markus Schinwald, Andreas Slominski , Lawrence Weiner, Christopher Williams, Cerith Wyn Evans
  • deutschemalereizweitausenddrei , (2003), artists: Tomma Abts, Yesim Akdeniz Graf, Kai Althoff, Monika Baer, ​​Frank Bauer, Dirk Bell, Ümit Bilgi, Henning Bohl, André Butzer, Thomas Eggerer, Tim Eitel, Jesko Fezer / Axel John Wieder , Lutz Fezer, Christian Flamm, Carsten Fock, Caroline von Grone, Katharina Grosse, Gabi Hamm, Sebastian Hammwöhner / Uwe Henneken / Dani Jakob / Gabriel Vormstein, Klaus Hartmann , Eberhard Havekost, Thilo Heinzmann, Andreas Hofer, Sergej Jensen, Johannes Kahrs, Kiron Khosla, Jutta Koether, Hendrik Krawen, Kalin Lindena , Dietmar Lutz, Antje Majewski, Bernhard Martin, Rupprecht Matthies, Jonathan Meese, Birgit Megerle, Stephan Melzl, Klaus Merkel, Stefan Müller, Martin Neumaier, Frank Nitsche, Silke Otto-Knapp, Susanne Paesler, Gunter Reski, Anselm Reyle, Thomas Scheibitz, Tilo Schulz, Andreas Schulze, Eva Schwab, Markus Selg, Torsten Slama, Johannes Spehr , Lee Thomas Taylor, Wawrzyniec Tokarski, Corinne Wasmuht, Thomas Werner, Johannes Wohns zeal, Daniela Wolfer, Katharina Wulff, Amelie von Wulffen, Frankfurter Kunstverein
  • Emotion Eins , (2004), artists: Fikret Atay, Vanessa Beecroft, Marc Brandenburg, Duncan Campbell, Sebastian Diaz Morales, Rineke Dijkstra, Matias Faldbakken, Ulrike Feser, Liam Gillick, Alexander Gutke, Richard Hawkins, Carsten Höller, Laura Horelli , Nestor Krüger, Hans-Jörg Mayer, Shahryar Nashat, Mark Raidpere, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Egle Rakauskaite, Roth / Stauffenberg, Stiina Saaristo, Seifollah Samadian, Kevin Schmidt, David Shrigley, Javier Téllez, Su-Mei Tse, Gavin Turk , Gitte Villesen / Lars Erik Frank, Markus Weisbeck, Andro Wekua , Florian Wüst, Ursula Blickle Foundation and Frankfurter Kunstverein
  • Populism , (2005), artists: Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa, Fatma Akinçi, Petra Bauer, Bernadette Corporation, Marc Bijl, Jakob Boeskov, Phil Collins, Minerva Cuevas, Jeremy Deller, Dias & Riedweg , Wang Du, Gardar Eide Einarsson & Matias Faldbakken, Esto TV, Anita Fricek, Jens Haaning & Superflex, Russell Haswell, Henry VIII's Wives, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Amar Kanwar, Per Kirkeby, Matthieu Laurette, Jani Leinonen, Erik van Lieshout , Mindaugas Lukosaitis, Annika Lundgren , Cildo Meireles, Sarah Morris, Begoña Muñoz, Roman Ondák , Willem de Rooij, et al., Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius; National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Frankfurter Kunstverein
  • Stage of Life - Rhetoric of Feeling , (2006), artists: Fikret Atay, Michael Beutler, Gerard Byrne, Cerith Wyn Evans, Gardar Eide Einarsson / Matias Faldbakken, Olafur Eliasson, Matias Faldbakken, Isa Genzken, Liam Gillick, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Jesper Just, Romuald Karmakar, Sarah Morris, Mark Raidpere, Benny Nemerowsky Ramsay, de Rijke / de Rooij, Michael Sailstorfer, Seifollah Samadian , Markus Schinwald, Javier Téllez, Gavin Turk, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
  • Don Quijote , (2006), artists: Michael Beutler, Johanna Billing, Manon de Boer, Gerard Byrne, Ryan Gander, Tue Greenfort, William Hunt, Sven Johne, Jesper Just, Annette Kelm, David Lieske, Damian Moppett, Chris Moukarbel , Ivan Navarro, Christopher Orr, Pablo Pijnappel, Mark Raidpere, Hannah Rickards, Markus Schinwald, Anj Smith, Kostis Velonis, Richard T. Walker, Witte de With
  • Street. Behind the Chliché , (2006), artists: Joachim Baan, David Blandy, Henning Bohl, Martin Boyce, Tobias Buche, Jason Dodge, Marius Engh, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Isa Genzken, Pieterjan Ginckels, Sascha Hahn, Laura Horelli, Pieter Hug, Ian Kiaer, Germaine Kruip, Klara Liden, Gareth Moore, Alex Morrison, Chloe Piene, Robin Rhode, Ugo Rondinone, Matt Stokes, Aram Tanis, An Te Liu, Luc Tuymans, Silke Wagner , and Tobias Zielony, Witte de With
  • Models for Tomorrow , (2007), artists: Vito Acconci, Michael Beutler, Bik van der Pol, Andreas Fogarasi, Luca Frei, Liam Gillick , Tue Greenfort, Karl Holmqvist, International Festival, Erik van Lieshout, An Te Liu, Alex Morrison, Olaf Nicolai, Tobias Rehberger, Pia Rönicke, Silke Schatz, Sean Snyder, Superflex, Lawrence Weiner, Axel John Wieder & Jesko Fezer and Haegue Yang, European Kunsthalle, Cologne
  • Köln Show 2 , (2007), artists: David Blandy, Simon Denny , Maya Hayuk, William Hunt, Jesper Just, Marijn van Kreij, Germaine Kruip, Chris Lipomi, Pere Llobera, Keegan McHargue, Gareth Moore, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Joao Onofre, Hannah Rickards, Aida Ruilova, Margaret Salmon, Fernando Sanchez Castillo, Karen Sargsyan, Andrew Schoultz, Kwang-Ju Son, Kostis Velonis, Tris Vonna-Michell, European Kunsthalle, Cologne
  • Brussels Biennale 1, Show me, don't tell me , (2008), artists: Bircken, Alexandra, Karla Black, Corbusier, Simon Denny, Edith Dekyndt, Marius Engh, Geoffrey Farmer, Buckminster Fuller, Adam Gillam, David Keating , Annette Kelm, Sister Crita Kent, Olaf Metzel, Danijela Micanovic, Kate Newby, Jurgen Ots, Falke Pisano, Taller popular derigrafia, Kostis Velonis, Pieter Vermeersch, Jeronimo Voss , Stelios Votsis, Silke Wagner , Xenakis, Brussels

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicolaus Schafhausen becomes head of the Kunsthalle, Der Standard, June 13, 2012
  2. ^ Nicolaus Schafhausen leaves Kunsthalle Wien. In: Wiener Zeitung . May 23, 2018. Retrieved May 23, 2018 .
  3. ^ Badische Zeitung: A clear stance required - Art - Badische Zeitung . ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on June 30, 2018]).
  4. ^ Website Fogo Island Arts
personal data
SURNAME Schafhausen, Nicolaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German curator and art manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf