Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke
Hans Haackeis a German-born artist who currently lives and works in New York...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth12 August 1936
CountryGermany
Hans Haacke quotes about
wall museums jacuzzi
Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
interesting effort corporations
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
holocaust lasts want
Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.
art people lines
A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
art money looks
If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other parts of the 'consciousness industry,' it is minuscule. But if you look at what happens in this small sector, how it rubs off on the rest of it, it is astonishing.
artist issues psychology
It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psychology, and that the rest should be left to other professions.
art art-making consciousness
Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.
art play needs
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
art new-york giving
I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents itself in New York as the lover of culture while it turns out that if you look behind the scenes, it is also a prime funder of Jesse Helms, someone who is very hostile to the arts.
art thinking media
Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.
photography tasks use
Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.
artist order survival
An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no limits to his involvement.
art issues museums
What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
art sick exhibitions
There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called 'sick' and put in the trash heap. The sentiments expressed toward contemporary art by Jesse Helms, Pat Robertson and Mayor Giuliani recall the language used by the Nazis.