Hans Haacke Retrospective at Schirn Kunsthalle Reveals Decades of Institutional Critique
From November 8 to February 9, Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt will host a retrospective of Hans Haacke, featuring his exploration of political systems and institutional frameworks. This exhibition is set to move to the Belvedere in Vienna in 2025. Notable pieces include his early participation in documenta in 1959, the 1971 project about the Shapolsky real estate group that was ultimately rejected, and the 1988 installation in Graz that suffered damage from an arson attack. Haacke highlights persistent resistance, especially at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. A discussion with Liam Gillick will touch on works like Condensation Cube (1963–67), A Breed Apart (1978), and To the Population (2000), underscoring Haacke's emphasis on ecological and political issues.
Key facts
- Hans Haacke's retrospective opens at Schirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt on November 8.
- The exhibition will travel to the Belvedere in Vienna in 2025.
- Haacke worked as an installer at documenta in Kassel in 1959 and took photographs of visitors.
- In 2020, it was revealed that at least ten of the first documenta's organizers had been Nazis.
- Haacke's 1971 work on the Shapolsky real estate group led to a canceled Guggenheim exhibition.
- His 1988 installation in Graz for Steirischer Herbst was damaged in an arson attack.
- Haacke created the permanent installation To the Population at the German Bundestag in 2000.
- He remains unwelcome at the Museum of Modern Art in New York due to his critical works.
Entities
Artists
- Hans Haacke
- Liam Gillick
- Jack Burnham
- Herbert Marcuse
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Pontus Hulten
- Peter Ludwig
- Werner Haftmann
- Harry Shapolsky
- Thomas Messer
- Jack Wendler
- George Stubbs
Institutions
- Schirn Kunsthalle
- Belvedere
- documenta
- New Museum
- Museum of Modern Art
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Generali Foundation
- Steirischer Herbst
- Venice Biennale
- German Pavilion
- Pompidou
- Palais Bourbon
- Bundestag
- Reichstag
- St. Nicholas Church
- South Africa House
- Guggenheim Museum
- October
- Frieze
- Artforum
- Hyperallergic
- ARTFEED
- Paula Cooper Gallery
- MACBA
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Aesthetica Magazine
Locations
- Frankfurt-am-Main
- Germany
- Vienna
- Austria
- Cologne
- Kassel
- New York
- USA
- England
- London
- South Africa
- Paris
- France
- Graz
- Styria
- Venice
- Italy
- Leipzig
- Middle East
- Harlem
- Lower East Side
- Turkish
- GDR
- Sweden
- Frankfurt
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Manhattan
- Bonn