Summary of Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke largely invented modern 'artivism' as a political strategy for conceptual artists. His work intervenes through the space of the museum or gallery to decry the influence of corporations on society and reveal the hypocrisy of liberal institutions accepting sponsorship from aggressive and conservative capitalists. This work has been immensely significant in prefiguring the modern challenge to 'artwashing', the attempted diversion from harmful business practices through philanthropic engagement with the arts.
Haacke's politics extend to his artistic career, providing a principled example to artists and audiences. He still maintains partial ownership over his artworks after sale, for example, allowing him a measure of control over the extent to which his protest can be coopted by the art market. As a teacher and writer Haacke's influence is not only in the work he directly produced himself, but in the dissemination of his political strategies through later generations of artists. Haacke's fearlessness and refusal to bend in relation to institutional pressure has had an enduring legacy that persists to this day.
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Artwork Info
- Artwork title
- Blue Sail
- Artist name
- Hans Haacke
- Date created
- Classification
- installation
- Medium
- chiffon, oscillating fan, fishing weights, and thread
- Dimensions
- × in. ( × cm)
- Date acquired
- Credit
- Collection SFMOMA
Accessions Committee Fund purchase - Copyright
- © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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- Artwork status
- Not on view at this time.
A pioneer of institutional critique, artist Hans Haacke creates conceptual works that expose connections among money, art, and politics. Haacke recounts the realizations that inspired him to explore the relationships between art and the outside world, as in his SFMOMA collection work News ().
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For six decades, Hans Haacke (b. , Cologne, Germany) has been a pioneer in kinetic art, environmental art, Conceptual art, and institutional critique. He has had one-person exhibitions at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (), New Museum, New York (, ); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (); MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (, ); X Initiative, New York (); Generali Foundation, Vienna (); Serpentine Gallery, London (); Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (); Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona (); Centre Pompidou, Paris (); Tate London (); Renaissance Society, Chicago (); Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (); Modern Art Oxford, UK (); and Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (), among others. He has participated in international exhibitions including documenta, Kassel (, , , , ); Lyon Biennial (); Venice Biennale (, , , ); Liverpool Biennial (); Mercosul Biennial (); Sharjah Biennial (); Gwangju Biennale (); Whitney Biennial, New York (); Skulptur Projekte Münster (, ); Johannesburg Biennial (); Sydney Biennial (, ); São Paulo Biennial (); and Tokyo Biennial (). He won the prestigious Golden Lion (shared with Nam
Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke, Photographic Notes, documenta 2,
Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York © Hans Haacke / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Bildrecht, Vienna
Hans Haacke, Large Condensation Cube, –67
Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York © Hans Haacke / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Bildrecht, Vienna
Hans Haacke, Blue Sail, –
Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York © Hans Haacke / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Bildrecht, Vienna Photo: Wolfgang Neeb
Hans Haacke, Sky Line,
Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York © Hans Haacke / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Bildrecht, Wien
Hans Haacke, Grass Grows,
Installation view: Hans Haacke: All Connected, , New Museum, New York © Hans Haacke / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Bildrecht, Vienna Photo: Dario Lasagni
Hans Haacke, News,
Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York © Hans Haacke / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Bildrecht, Vienna Photo: Ellen Wilson
Hans Haacke, Gift Horse, , sculpture garden at Belvedere 21
Foto: , Manue
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