Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke (12 August 1936, Cologne) is a German-born artist who lives and works in New York.
Hans Haacke studied at the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany, from 1956 to 1960. He was a student of Stanley William Hayter, an English printmaker, draftsman, and painter. From 1961 to 1962 he studied on a Fulbright grant at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. From 1967 to 2002 Haacke was a professor at the Cooper Union in New York City. During his years in Germany, he was a member of Zero. In most of his work after the late 1960s, Haacke focused on the art world and the system of exchange between museums and corporations and corporate leaders; he often underlines its effects in site-specific ways. Haacke has been outspoken throughout his career about demystifying the relationship between museums and businesses and their individual practices. [1]
He has had solo exhibitions at the New Museum, New York (1986, 2019); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2012); and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (1967, 2011); among others. He has participated in international exhibitions including documenta, Kassel (1972, 1982, 1987, 1997, 2017); Lyon Biennial (2017); Venice Biennale (1976, 1993, 2009, 2015); Liverpool Biennial (2014); and others. He has been awarded numerous prizes for his work including the Golden Lion of the Biennale di Venezia in 1993 (which he shared with Nam June Paik), the Arnold-Bode-Prize in 1919 and the Goslarer Kaiserring in 2020.
Catalogues
- Hans Haacke. Werkmonographie, intro. Edward F. Fry, Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1972, 73+[56] pp, IA. (German)
- Hans Haacke: Framing and Being Framed: 7 Works 1970-75, Halifax: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and New York: New York University Press, 1975, 153 pp. With essays by Jack Burnham, Howard S. Becker and John Walton. (English)
- Hans Haacke, vol. 1, Oxford: Museum of Modern Art, 1978, 82 pp; Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, 1979, 82 pp. [2] (English)
- Hans Haacke: Recent Work, Chicago: Renaissance Society, 1979, 51 pp. Essay by Jack Burnham. (English)
- Hans Haacke: Mobil Observations, Alberta: Southern Alberta Art Gallery, 1982, [29] pp. (English)
- Hans Haacke, vol. 2, London: Tate Gallery, 1984.
- Hans Haacke: Unfinished Business, ed. Brian Wallis, New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986, 304 pp, OL. Excerpt. Essays by Rosalyn Deutsche, Hans Haacke, [Fredric Jameson]], Leo Steinberg, Brian Wallis. (English)
- Hans Haacke: artfairismes, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1989. Exh. held 3 May-18 Jun 1989.
- Hans Haacke, for real. Works 1959-2006, eds. Matthias Flügge and Robert Fleck, Düsseldorf: Richter, 2006, 339 pp, IA. Exh. held at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and Deichtorhallen Hamburg. (English)
- Hans Haacke 1967, ed. Caroline A. Jones, Cambridge, MA: MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2011, 28 pp. (English)
- Hans Haacke: Castles in the Sky, Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2012, 174 pp. Buskirk's essay. Publisher. (English)
- Castillos en el aire, Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2012, 174 pp. Publisher. (Spanish)
- Hans Haacke: All Connected, Phaidon, and New York: New Museum, 2019, 304 pp. Exh. reviews: Rivera (Studio Int'l), Kastner (Places), Brackman (Kunstkritikk). Exhibition. Publisher. (English)
Writings
- "Untitled Statement (1967)", in Walter Grasskamp, Molly Nesbit, Jon Bird, Hans Haacke, Phaidon Press, 2004, pp 102-103. On the difference between a "system" and a "sculpture"; previously unpublished.
- "Essays, Texts, Interviews von 1961-1971", in Hans Haacke. Werkmonographie, intro. Edward F. Fry, Cologne: DuMont Schauberg, 1972, pp 23-54, IA. (German)
- "The Constituency", Tracks 3:3, Fall 1977.
- "Symbolic Capital Management, or What To Do With the Good, the True, and the Beautiful" [1977], in The Academy and the Corporate Public, ed. Stephan Dillemuth, Cologne: Permanent Press, 2002, pp 28-39; repr. in Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, eds. Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, MIT Press, 2009. The essay began as a public lecture at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1977; a revised version of the lecture was presented at the Kunsthalle Zurich in 1996. (English)
- "Museums, Managers of Consciousness", Art in America 72:2, Feb 1984; repr., rev., in Hans Haacke: Unfinished Business, 1986, pp 60-72; repr. in Institutional Critique: An Anthology of Artists' Writings, eds. Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, MIT Press, 2009. [3] (English)
- "Lessons Learned", Tate Papers 12, London, 2009.
- Working Conditions: The Writings of Hans Haacke, ed. Alexander Alberro, MIT Press, 2016, 344 pp. (English)
Conversations, interviews
- Jeanne Siegel, "An Interview with Hans Haacke", Arts Magazine 45:7, May 1971, pp 18-21; repr. as "Hans Haacke: System Aesthetics", in Jeanne Siegel, Artwords: Discourse on the 60s and 70s, New York: Da Capo Press, 1992, pp 211-220. [4] [5]
- Margaret Sheffield, "Hans Haacke", Studio International 191:980, Mar-Apr 1976, pp 117-123. TOC.
- Robin White, "Hans Haacke", View 1:6, Oakland, CA: Crown Point, 1978, 24 pp.
- Yve-Alain Bois, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, "A Conversation with Hans Haacke", October 30, Autumn 1984, pp 23-48. (English)
- with Pierre Bourdieu, Libre-Échange, Paris: Seuil, and Dijon: Les Presses du reel, 1993, 152 pp. Publisher. (French)
- Free Exchange, Polity Press with Blackwell, 1995, 144 pp. (English)
- Lutz Dammbeck, "Interview: Hans Haacke", n.d. For the film Das Netz (2003). (German)
- Stian Gabrielsen, "Touching Institutional Nerves. Interview with Hans Haacke", Kunstkritikk, 22 Dec 2015. (English)
- "Hans Haacke: in Conversation with Terri Cohn", AQ 5, 6 Jun 2016. (English)
- "Hans Haacke with Yasi Alipour", Brooklyn Rail, Dec 2019. (English)
Literature
Books
- Walter Grasskamp, Molly Nesbit, Jon Bird, Hans Haacke, Phaidon Press, 2004, 160 pp. [6] (English)
- Walter Grasskamp, Hans Haacke, Photographic Notes documenta 2 1959, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2012. (English)
- Duncan McCorquodale, Hans Haacke: Once Upon a Time..., London: Black Dog, 2013, 109 pp. Publisher. (English)
- Rachel Churner (ed.), Hans Haacke, MIT Press (October Files), 2015, x+253 pp. Essays and interviews by Jack Burnham, Edward F. Fry, Walter Grasskamp, Yve-Alain Bois, Douglas Crimp, Rosalind Krauss, Leo Steinberg, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Rosalyn Deutsche, Luke Skrebowski, Sam Durant, and Jack McGrath. (English)
Essays, articles
- Jack Burnham, "Hans Haacke: Wind and Water Sculpture", Tri-Quarterly Supplement 1, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University, Spring 1967, pp 1-24. [7]
- Jack Burnham, "Systems Esthetics", Artforum 7:1 (Sep 1968), pp 30-35, HTML; repr. in Burnham, Great Western Salt Works, 1974.
- "Systémová estetika", trans. Lenka Dolanová, c2012. (Czech)
- "Esthétique des systèmes", trans. Franck Lemonde, in Jack Burnham and Hans Haacke, Esthétique des systèmes, ed. & pref. Emanuele Quinz, postf. Caroline A. Jones, Paris: Les presses du réel, 2015. [8] (French)
- Jack Burnham, "Real Time Systems", Artforum 8:1 (Sep 1969), pp 49-55; repr. in Burnham, Great Western Salt Works, 1974.
- trans. Franck Lemonde, in Jack Burnham and Hans Haacke, Esthétique des systèmes, ed. & pref. Emanuele Quinz, postf. Caroline A. Jones, Paris: Les presses du réel, 2015. [9] (French)
- Jack Burnham, "Steps in the Formulation of Real-Time Political Art", in Hans Haacke. Framing and Being Framed: 7 Works 1970-75, Halifax: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and New York: New York University Press, 1975, pp 127-143.
- Howard S. Becker, John Walton, "Social Science and the Work of Hans Haacke", in Hans Haacke. Framing and Being Framed: 7 Works 1970-75, Halifax: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and New York: New York University Press, 1975, pp 145-154.
- Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, "Hans Haacke: Memory and Instrumental Reason", Art in America, Feb 1988, pp 96ff.
- Mark Thomson, "Hans Haacke and the Era of Sponsorship", Art Monthly 129, London, Sep 1989, pp 10-11. [10] (English)
- Suzanne Weaver, "Hans Haacke: An investigation of four site-specific works that incorporate painting as a means of revealing interrelated cultural, economic, and political systems in society, 1982-1984", Denton, TX: University of North Texas, 1992. Master's thesis. [11]
- Marga Bijvoet, "Hans Haacke: Systems Artist", ch. 4 in Bijvoet, Art As Inquiry: Toward New Collaborations Between Art, Science, and Technology, Peter Lang, 1997. (English)
- "Hans Haacke: System-Künstler", ch. 4 in Bijvoet, Kunst-Forschung, n.d. (German)
- Luke Skrebowski, "All Systems Go: Recovering Hans Haacke's Systems Art", Grey Room 30 (Winter 2008), pp 54-83. (English)
- Julia Bryan-Wilson, "Hans Haacke's Paperwork", ch. 5 in Bryan-Wilson, Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era, University of California Press, 2009. (English)
- Caroline A. Jones, "Hans Haacke 1967", in Hans Haacke 1967, MIT Press, 2011, pp 6-28. (English)
- Diana Franssen, "Van Appel tot Zadkine. Hans Haacke (8) / From Apple to Zadkine. Hans Haacke (8)", Eindhoven: Van Abbemuseum, Mar 2012. (Dutch)/(English)
- Jeannine Tang, "Future Circulations: On the Work of Hans Haacke and Maria Eichhorn", in Provenance: An Alternate History of Art, Getty Research Institute, 2013, pp 173-196. (English)
- Luke Skrebowski, "After Hans Haacke: Tue Greenfort and Eco-Institutional Critique", Third Text 27:1, 2013, pp 115-130.
- John A. Tyson, "The Context as Host: Hans Haacke’s Art of Textual Exhibition", Word & Image 31:3, 2015, pp 213-232.
See also
Links
- Collections: Paula Cooper Gallery, NGA 11, Met 9, MoMA 8, Generali 7, NGA Canada 6, Walker 5, British Museum 4, Nationalgalerie 3, Tate 3, MACBA 3, Reina Sofia 3, Pompidou 3, Allen Memorial 3, Portland Art Museum 3, SFMOMA 2, MOCA 2, LACMA 2, Moderna Museet 2, SAAM 1, Whitney 1, Artic 1, MCA Chicago 1, Mumok 1, Israel Museum 1.