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Hans Haacke |
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Visitors' Profile, Directions 3: Eight Artists, Milwaukee Art Centre, June 19 through August 8, 1971 |
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1971 |
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Hans Haacke was born in 1936 in Cologne, Germany. From 1956 to 1960 he studied at Staatl, Germany and in 1961 and 1962 had a Fulbright Grant, which supported his study in Philadelphia at Temple University. Hans Haacke moved to New York to become an instructor at Cooper Union in 1965 where he continues to live and work. He has been included in such major group exhibition as Documenta 5 (1972) and 10 (1997) and Sculpture.projects, Münster (1987 and 1997).
Haacke is known for his work as a conceptual artist and his involvement in the politics of art. Outspoken about his beliefs that museums and galleries were often used by the wealthy to seduce public opinion, one of his most well-known works, Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, A Real-Time Social System as of May 1, 1971, 1971, exposed the malpractice of Harry Shapolskyís real-estate business and caused Haacke’s April 1971 exhibition at the Guggenheim to be cancelled. In 1990, Haacke continued to make controversial art with his Cowboy with Cigarette piece that protested to corporate sponsorship of museums. His painting, Cowboy with Cigarette, was a protest against the Phillip Morris Company and the Museum of Modern Art who had used Picasso’s Man with a Hat (1912-13) in a cigarette advertisement. Haacke’s work has consistently been based in institutional critique, manifest in his installation for the German Pavilion at the Venice Biennial (1993), as well as his celebrated project for the German Reichstag (2000). In 1988 and 1996, he developed projects in Graz concerning the problematic political situation in Austria. Most recently his first major show in Vienna addressed the construction of national identity, bringing together a series of older works and a brand new installation titled Mia san mia—"We are who we are."
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