Hans Haacke

Retrospective

November 8, 2024 – February 9, 2025

Press Texts

Lorem Ipsum

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.

Here you can read the wall panels as well as the text of the audio spots in the exhibition.

Press Images

  • Hans Haacke: Retrospective, installation view: Gift Horse, 2014
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Hans Haacke: Retrospective, installation view: Gift Horse, 2014
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Hans Haacke: Retrospective, installation view: We (All) Are the People, 2003/2017
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Hans Haacke: Retrospective, exhibition view
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Hans Haacke: Retrospective, exhibition view
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Hans Haacke: Retrospective, installation view: Sphere in Oblique Air Jet, 1964/2011
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Hans Haacke: Retrospective, installation view: Column with Two Immiscible Liquids, 1965
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Hans Haacke: Retrospective, exhibition view
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Hans Haacke: Retrospective, installation view: Manet-PROJEKT ’74, 1974
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Hans Haacke: Retrospective, exhibition view
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Hans Haacke: Retrospective, installation view: Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, a Real-Time Social System, as of May 1, 1971
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Hans Haacke: Retrospective, installation view: Photoelectric Viewer-Controlled Coordinate System, 1968
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Hans Haacke: Retrospective, installation view: Oil Painting: Homage to Marcel Broodthaers, 1982
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • Hans Haacke: Retrospective, installation view: Oil Painting: Homage to Marcel Broodthaers, 1982
    © Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt 2024, Photo: Norbert Miguletz
  • 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, Portrait of the artist, 2015
    © Photo: Justin Tallis / AFP via Getty Images
  • 04:20

Further Offers

 

Press Mailing List

Receive all press information about our exhibitions, projects and events in time.

Info & Service

We look forward to your visit to the SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT. As part of an editorial report, you will receive free admission to our exhibitions on presentation of a valid press card. We will be happy to arrange a personal appointment with you. Register with us for guided tours and events via presse@schirn.de.

Would you like to arrange an interview, request a photo or filming permit or require further information on our exhibitions, events and projects? In our service area you will find the next press dates and our contact details. Please feel free to contact us.

If you wish to make your own film, photo or audio recordings for non-commercial, editorial purposes, please contact us in advance. Please also note our instructions for audio, photo and film recordings on the premises of the SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT. Here you will find an overview of the press guidelines for recordings in the SCHIRN.

Extensive video content is produced for the exhibitions and projects of the SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT. We are happy to make this available to you free of charge for your current editorial reporting. We also offer you extensive uncut footage in HD quality for your own productions. You can request it directly from us here. You can find an overview of our entire range of videos on our YouTube channel.

Would you like to report on the SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT in your blog, on your social media channel or in a digital medium? In our newsroom you will find the latest press releases and press images that you can use in your reporting. To receive all press information on our exhibitions, projects and events, please subscribe to our press mailing list and follow us on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok!

Do you have questions about our opening hours, tickets, accessibility or directions? Here you will find all the information you need about a visit to the SCHIRN KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT.