11.07.2024 | The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is presenting in a wide-ranging retrospective from November 8, 2024 to February 9, 2025 Haacke’s influential oeuvre from 1959 to the present day.
HANS HAACKE: RETROSPECTIVE
NOVEMBER 8, 2024 – FEBRUARY 9, 2025
Hans Haacke (b. 1936) has shaped “political art” to a greater extent than any other artist of his generation. Keen criticism of institutions, political awareness, and an uncompromising defense of democratic principles to the point of activism all characterize his approach. His work is marked by directness and theoretical clarity, and yet it is poetic, metaphorical, ecological, and in many respects highly topical at the same time. More than once his controversial artistic contributions to contemporary discourse have been excluded from exhibitions. In a wide-ranging retrospective, the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt will be examining Haacke’s influential oeuvre from 1959 to the present day.
In a wide-ranging retrospective, the Schirn will be examining Haacke’s influential oeuvre from 1959 to the present day
He has pursued a variety of artistic strategies, working from an early stage in the fields of ecology and science and taking up the approaches of, for example, the group ZERO and minimal art, as well as conceptual art, art in public space, and poster art. The exhibition at the Schirn, with some 70 paintings, objects, photographs, and installations, demonstrates how Haacke became one of the most important political artists on the international art stage.
Hans Haacke, Photographic Notes, documenta 2, 1959, 26 b/w photographs selection), 16.8 × 25.1 cm each, Edition 2 of 3, Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, © Hans Haacke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke, News, 1969, Teletype machine, paper, wire service, variable dimensions, Edition 2/3, Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, © Hans Haacke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Ellen Wilson
Hans Haacke, Large Condensation Cube, 1963–67, Acrylic glass, distilled water, 76.2 x 76.2 x 76.2 cm, MACBA Collection, MACBA Foundation, Gift of National Comitee and Board of Trustees Whitney Museum of American Art, © Hans Haacke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke, Grass Grows, 1969, earth, grass seeds, 150 × 300 cm (diameter), exhibition view: Hans Haacke: All Connected, 2019, New Museum © Hans Haacke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Dario Lasagni
Hans Haacke, Sky Line, 1967, C-print on aluminum, 152.4 × 99.7 cm, Edition 1/3, Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, © Hans Haacke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke, Water in Wind, 1968, C-print on aluminum, 39 x 60 cm, Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, © Hans Haacke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke Monument to Beach Pollution, 1970, Slabs of construction material, plastic containers, and other detritus collected from a 200 × 50 cm stretch of beach and put in a pile, executed in Carboneras, Spain, C-print on aluminum, 51 × 76 cm, Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, © Hans Haacke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke, Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time Social System, as of May 1, 1971, 1971, b/w photographs, typewritten maps, 20.5 × 31 cm each diptych, Edition 2/2, © MACBA Collection, MACBA Foundation / Whitney Museum of American Art, © Hans Haacke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke, The Right to Life, 1979, Color photograph on tricolor silkscreen print, 127 x 101 cm, edition 2/2, Courtesy the artist and Collection Lila and Gilbert Silverman, Detroit, © Hans Haacke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Steven Probert
Hans Haacke, Der Pralinenmeister (The Chocolate Master), 1981, collage of multicolor silkscreen prints, photographs, chocolates, and chocolate wrappers, 100 × 70 cm each, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, , © Rheinisches Bildarchiv Köln, rba_d048571_1 / Museum Ludwig Köln, Grafische Sammlung / Hans Haacke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Sabrina Walz
Hans Haacke, GERMANIA, German Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 1993, Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, © Hans Haacke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke, DER BEVÖLKERUNG (TO THE POPULATION, 2000, View of the installation DER BEVÖLKERUNG in the northern atrium of the Reichstag building in Berlin, 2008, C-print on aluminum, 232 × 178 cm, Courtesy the artist and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut / Hamburg, © Hans Haacke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Stefan Müller
Hans Haacke, We (All) Are the People, 2003/2017, Banners and posters, Variable dimensions, Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, © Hans Haacke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Steven Probert
Hans Haacke, Gift Horse, 2014, Bronze with black patina and wax finish, stainless-steel fasteners and supports, and 5 mm flexible LED display with stainless-steel armature and polycarbonate face, 464.8 x 429.3 × 165.1 cm, Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, © Hans Haacke / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Photo: Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke, Portrait of the artist, 2015, © Photo: Justin Tallis / AFP via Getty Images