Hans Haacke (born August 12, 1936) is a German-American artist who lives and works in New York. Read full biography of Hans Haacke →
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if... →
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was... →
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with... →
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for... →
I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in... →
What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have... →
When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against... →
Hans Haacke (born August 12, 1936) is a German-American artist who lives and works in New York.