
HANS HAACKE
1936, Koln, Germany - Lives and works in New York City
F / B / S / V / INSTV
| ARTISTS' BOOKS | ||
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| Business As Usual | John Weber Gallery, New York | 1988 |
| Hans Haacke: Four Recent Works of Art | Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz | 1977 |
| Hans Haacke: Four Works 1978-79 | John Weber Gallery, New York | 1979 |
| Hans Haacke: Upstairs at Mobil | John Weber Gallery, New York | 1981 |
| Seurat's "Les Poseuses" (small version), 1888 - 1975 | John Weber Gallery, New York | 1975 |
| The Chocolate Master [in German] | Paul Maenz, Koln | 1981 |
| The Chocolate Master | Metrepole, Toronto | 1982 |
| The Good Will Umbrella [Mobil Oil] | John Weber Gallery, New York | 1977 |
| The Philips Pieces [7 stapled pages with images and text on one side. Philips is headquarted in Eindhoven.] | Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven | 1979 |
| (We believe in the power of creative imagination) [Fabrique Nationale - with gun sales internationally - is headquarted in Hestral, Belgium] | Gent, Belgium | 1980 |
| EXHIBITIONS CURATED BY HAACKE | ||
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| Viewing Matters / AnsichtsSachen | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam | 1999 |
| DOCUMENTS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS | ||
| Art Workers Coalition - Open Hearing | Art Workers Coalition | 1969 |
| Democracy: A Project by Group Material | Bay Press / Dia Art Foundation | 1990 |
| Dokumente zur Aktuellen Kunst 1967 -1970 [materials from the archives of Harald Szeemann] | Kunstkreis AG Luzern | 1972 |
| Inserts ["Advertising Supplement to The New York Times" sponsored by the Public Art Fund] | Group Material | 1988 |
| John Weber Gallery Newsletter | John Weber Gallery , New York | 1975 |
| What Do You Expect? | Paul Maenz, Koln | 1977 |
| EPHEMERA | ||
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| Hans Haacke [poster - text and images on both sides - for the exhibition at the Van Abbemuseum - exhibition - Volume 1 - shared with the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford where it was first installed in 1978] | Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven | 1979 |
| Hans Haacke: Business could hold art exhibitions to tell its own story [announcement card, text on one side] | John Weber Gallery , New York | 1979 |
| John Weber Gallery Visitors' Profile: Results - Hans Haacke [announcement card with text on both sides] | John Weber Gallery , New York | 1973 |
| Hans Haacke: Memory and Instrumental Reason [announcement card for a lecture by Benjamin Buchloh in conjuntion with the exhibition: Unfinished Business] | The New Museum of Contemporary Art | 1987 |
| Hans Haacke: Nach allen Regeln der Kunst (announcement card with image) | Kunsthalle Bern | 1985 |
| Hans Haacke: New York (large heavy stock card with announcement information including: "Demonstrationen der physikalischen Welt Biologische und gesellschaftliche Systeme" - card has four ring holes for binder) | Museum Haus Lange Krefeld | 1972 |
| From Hans Haacke: On the Wallrf-Richartz-Museum's censorship of my project for Projekt '74 [artists statement, 2 pages] | Self, Cologne, June 24 | 1974 |
| Vocation / Vacation Project (including Hans Haacke Garry Kennedy and Michael Asher [3 page carbon copy announcement sent to Judith Hoffberg] | Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada | 1981 |
| ARTICLES BY OR ABOUT / INTERVIEWS WITH | ||
| Artist as Corporate Critic: and interview with Hans Haacke | Parachute # 23 | 1981 |
| Fictional Community [Haacke - Reichstag work] | Parachute # 103 | 2001 |
| Hans Haacke's Cancelled Show at the Guggenheim [Jack Burnham] | Artforum, June | 1971 |
| Hans Haacke: Memory and Instrumental Reason [Benjamin H.D. Buchloh] | Art in America, February | 1988 |
| Hans Haacke: Where the Consciousness Industry is Concentrated [includes interview and numerous works] | Cultures in Contention, The Real Comet Press | 1985 |
| Hans Haacke wind and water sculpture [Jack Burnham] | Tri-Quarterly Supplement | 1967 |
| Joint Statement [presented as an ad] in Artforum regarding exhibitions and artists rights (in response to Documenta 5) | Artforum, June | 1972 |
| Touching the Rawest Nerves | Contemporanea, April | 1990 |
| INDIVIDUAL CATALOGUE / BOOKS | ||
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| Framing and Being Framed | The Press of Nova Scotia College | 1975 |
| Free Exchange [Hans Haacke and Pierre Bourdieu] | Stanford University Press | 1995 |
| Hans Haacke - Volume 1 | Museum of Modern Art, Oxford / Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven | 1978 / 9 |
| Hans Haacke - Volume 2 | The Tate Gallery / Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven | 1984 |
| Hans Haacke | Galerija Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb | 1980 |
| HansHaacke | Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena | 1978 |
| Hans Haacke: For Real Works 1959-2006 | Deichtorhallen, Hamburg | 2007 |
| Hans Haacke: Mia san mia | Generali Foundation | 2001 |
| Hans Haacke: Mixed Messages [included in larger catalogue Give & Take] | Serpentine Gallery, London | 2001 |
| Hans Haacke: Recent Work | The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago | 1979 |
| Hans Haacke: Unfinished Business [plus supplement] | The New Museum of Contemporary Art | 1986 |
| CATALOGUES INCLUDING HAACKE | ||
| A Different War: Vietnam in Art [mentioned in Lippard's essays, not in the exhibition] | Independent Curators Incorporated, New York [traveled] | 1990 |
| A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation [not in exhibition but mentioned in catalogue essay by Anne Rorimer: Photography - Language - Context: Prellude to the 1980s] | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | 1989 |
| Air Art | Arts Council YM/YWHA, Philadelphia | 1968 |
| A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968 | The Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A. | 2004 |
| Art and the Dialectic Process [catalogue brochure] | Everhart Museum, Scranton, Pennsylvania | 1987 |
| Art by Telephone | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | 1969 |
| Arte de Sistemas | Museo De Arte Moderno / CAYC - Centro de Arte y Communicacion, Buenos Aires | 1971 |
| Artists Look At Art | Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas | 1978 |
| Artists of Conscience | The Alternative Museum, New York | 1991 |
| A View of a Decade 1967-1977 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | 1977 |
| Behind the Facts: Interfunktionen 1968-1975 | Fundacio Jan Miro, Barcelona | 2004 |
| Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-1970s | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | 2004 |
| Committed to Print: Social and Political Themes in Recent American Printed Art | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 1988 |
| Compassion and Protest: Recent Social and Political Art from the Eli Broad Family Foundation Collection | San Jose Art Museum | 1991 |
| Conception, Conceptual Documents 1960-1990 | Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design, U.K. | 2001 |
| Conceptual Art Conceptual Aspects | The New York Cultural Center | 1970 |
| Contemporary Sculpture. Projects in Munster 1997 | Munster, Germany | 1997 |
| Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984 | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | 1984 |
| Contra Media | The Alternative Museum, New York | 1983 |
| Difference: On Representation and Sexuality | The New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York | 1984 |
| Directions 1: Options | Milwaukee Art Center | 1968 |
| Directions 3: Eight Artists | Milwaukee Art Center | 1971 |
| Disarming Images: Art for Nuclear Disarmament | The Art Museum Association of America | 1984 |
| Documenta 5 | Documenta | 1972 |
| Documenta 7 | Kassel, Germany | 1982 |
| Documenta 8 [curator: Manfred Schneckenburger] | Kassel | 1987 |
| Documenta 10 | Kassel, Germany | 1997 |
| Drawings | John Weber Gallery, New York | 1991 |
| Earth Art | Andrew Dikson White Museum of Art, Cornell | 1969 |
| Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Elements of Art | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | 1971 |
| Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies | The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio | 2002 |
| 557,087 | Seattle | 1969 |
| Fragile Ecologies: Contemporary Artists' Interpretation and Solutions [mentioned in the essays, not included in the exhibition] | The Queens Museum, New York | 1992 |
| From the Collection of Sol LeWitt | Independent Curators | 1985 |
| Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s | Queens Museum of Art | 1999 |
| Homeland | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York | 2003 |
| Image World: Art and Media Culture | Whitney Museum for American Art | 1989 |
| Information | The Museum of Modern Art, NY | 1970 |
| "Konzept" - Kunst | Kunstmuseum, Basel | 1972 |
| La Biennale di Venezia 1976 - From Nature to Art, from Art to Nature - Nature and Anti-Nature / also included in: International Events | Venice | 1976 |
| la Biennale di Venezia 45: National Pavilion - Germany [with Paik] | Venice, various locations | 1993 |
| Magiciens de la Terre | Musee National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou | 1989 |
| Marcel Broodthaers: Correspondances | Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich and David Zwirner, New York | 1995 |
| Matrix, A Changing Exhibition of Contemporary Art [1977] | Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT | 1975+ |
| Messages: Words and Images | Freedman Gallery, Albright College | 1981 |
| 955,000 | Vancouver Art Gallery | 1970 |
| No Art = No City! Urban Utopias in Contemporary Art | Stadtutopien in der zeitgenossischen Kunst | 2003 |
| Occupying Space: Sammlung Generali Foundation Collection | Generali Foundation | 2003 |
| Open Systems: Rethinking Art c. 1970 | Tate Modern | 2005 |
| Other Ideas | The Detroit Institute of Arts | 1969 |
| Perverted by Language | Hillword Art Gallery, New York | 1987 |
| Prospect 69 | Kunsthalle Dusseldorf | 1969 |
| Public Art | Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta | 1985 |
| Reagan: American Icon | Center Gallery of Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania | 1989 |
| Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975 | The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles | 1995 |
| Robert Barry, Victor Burgin, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Hans Haacke, John Hilliard, Kosuth/Charlesworth, David Tremlett, Lawrence Weiner | Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh | 1976 |
| Signs of Life: Process and Materials, 1960-1990 | Institute of Contemporary Art, U. of Pensylvania, Philadelphia | 1990 |
| '60 - '80: Attitudes / Concepts / Images | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam | 1982 |
| Software: Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art | The Jewish Museum | 1970 |
| Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection | The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York | 1995 |
| The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | 2008 |
| The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 80s | The New Museum of Contemporary Art / The Studio Museum of Harlem / the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art,, New York | 1990 |
| The Desire of the Museum | Whitney Museum Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza | 1989 |
| The Last Picture Show | The Walker Art Center | 2003 |
| The Machine as seen at the end of the mechanical age | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 1968 |
| The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 1999 |
| The 1984 Show | Ronald Feldman Fine Art, Inc, New York | 1983 |
| The Political Arm | John Weber Gallery / Washington University Gallery of Art | 1991 |
| The Real Big Picture | The Queens Museum, New York | 1986 |
| 13 >Projekt '74< Artists | Paul Maenz | 1974 |
| Vocation / Vacation | The Baniff Center, School of Fine Arts | 1981 |
| When Attitudes Become Form (Bern and London) | Kunsthalle Bern | 1969 |
| Whitney Biennial 2000 [Michael Auping, Valerie Cassel, Hugh M. Davies, Jane Farver, Andrea Miller-Keller, and Lawrence R. Rinder] | Whitney Museum of American Art | 2000 |
| Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990 | Milwaukee Art Museum | 1990 |
| Worthless (Invaluable) | Moderna galerija Ljubljana | 2000 |
| EAST VILLAGE EXHIBITIONS [INVITATIONS ONLY] | ||
| All The News That's Fit For Prints: A parallel of social concerns of the 1930's/80's | P.P.O.W. | 1987 |
| 100 Years: A Tradition of Social and Political Art on the LOWER EAST SIDE | P.P.O.W. | 1988 |
| GROUP MATERIAL EXHIBITIONS | ||
| MASS | The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York | 1986 |
| Resistance (Anti-Baudrillard) | White Columns, New York | 1987 |
| SELECTED BOOKS INCLUDING HAACKE | ||
| Alternative Art New York 1965-1985 | The Drawing Center / University of Minnesota Press | 2002 |
| Appropiation [Documents of Contemporary Art] | MIT Press / Tate Gallery | 2009 |
| Art, Activism & Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage | Duke University Press | 1998 |
| Art After Conceptual Art | MIT Press / Generali Foundation | 2006 |
| Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation | The New Museum of Contemporary Art | 1984 |
| Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium | Thames & Hudson | 2001 |
| Art and Life | Prager | 1971 |
| Art and Social Chane: A Critical Reader | Tate Publishing in association with Afterall | 2007 |
| Art & Technology: A Report on the Art & Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967-1971 | Los Angeles County Museum of Art / The Viking Press | 1971 |
| Art in the Age of Mass Media | Westview Press | 1994 |
| Art in the Land: A Critical Anthology of Environmental Art | E. P. Dutton | 1983 |
| Art Povera: Eartheworks/Impossible Art/Actual Art/ Conceptual Art | Germano Celant | 1969 |
| Art Talk: The Early 80s | Da Capo Press | 1988 |
| Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam Era | University of California Press | 2009 |
| Beyond Recognition: Representation, Power, and Culture | University of California Press | 1992 |
| Challenging Art: Artforum 1962-1974 | Soho Press | 2000 |
| Changing: Essays in Art Criticism [Lucy Lippard] | E. P. Dutton & Co. | 1971 |
| Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945 | University of Minnesota Press | 2007 |
| Conceptual Art | Dutton | 1972 |
| Conceptual Art | Phaidon | 1998 |
| Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology | MIT Press | 1999 |
| Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity | MIT Press | 2003 |
| Conceptuallism in Latin American Art: Didactics of Liberation | University of Texas Press | 2007 |
| Creative Time: The Book 33 Years of Public Art in NYC | Princeton Architectural Press | 2007 |
| English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas [Fusco, Coco] | The New Press, New York | 1995 |
| 5000 Artists Return to Artists Space: 25 Years | Artists Space / D.A.P. Press | 1998 |
| From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art | MIT Press | 1999 |
| From the Center: feminist essays on women's art | Dutton | 1976 |
| Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change [Lucy Lippard] | E.P. Dutton | 1984 |
| Great Western Salt Works: essays on the meaning of Post-Formalist art | George Braziller | 1974 |
| Land and Environmental Art | Phaidon | 1998 |
| Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art | Bay Press | 1995 |
| Minimal Art: A Critical Survey | E.P. Dutton & Co. | 1968 |
| Museums by Artists | Art Metropole, Toronto | 1983 |
| New Art | Rizzoli | 1991 |
| New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality | Thames and Hudson | 2001 |
| New Art of Cuba [author: Luis Camnitzer] (Haacke's influence on Cuban artists) | University of Texas Press, Austin | 1994 |
| One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity | MIT Press | 2004 |
| On the Beaten Tack: tourism, art, and culture | The New Press, New York | 1999 |
| On the Museum's Ruins | MIT Press | 1993 |
| Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965-1975 | School of Visual Arts | 2000 |
| Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory | Pantheon | 1983 |
| Rewriting Conceptual Art | Reaktion Books [Critical Views], London | 1999 |
| Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object.... | Praeger | 1973 |
| The Bodies That Were Not Ours and other writings [Coco Fusco] | Routledge | 2001 |
| The Context of Art / The Art of Context | Navado Press, Trieste | 2004 |
| The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art | MIT Press | 2003 |
| The Everyday [Documents of Contemporary Art] | MIT Press and Whitechapel Gallery | 2008 |
| The Lure of the Local: senses of place in a multicentered society | The New Press, New York | 1997 |
| Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings | University of California Press | 1996 |
| The Pink Glass Swan: Selected Feminist Essays on Art | The New Press, New York | 1995 |
| The Un/Necessary Image | Tanam Press | 1982 |
| Thinking About Exhibitions | Routledge | 1996 |
| Who Cares | Creative Time Books | 2006 |
| Words To Be Looked At: Language in 1960s Art | MIT Press | 2007 |
| SELECTED PERIODICALS INCLUDING HAACKE | ||
| Artforum [Jack Burnham: Systems Esthetics] | September | 1968 |
| Artforum [Two Contributions of the Art and Science Muddle] | January | 1969 |
| Artforum [Real Time Systems] | September | 1969 |
| Artforum [Documenta 5] | October | 1972 |
| Art in America [Manhattan Seven (including Matta-Clark, Sonfist, and Haacke)] | July-August | 1977 |
| Art in America [article by Benjamin Buchloh on Haacke] | February | 1988 |
| Art in America [Moral Rights: First Stage of False Start? by Martha Buskirk] | July | 1991 |
| Art International [Artists on Their Art] | April 20 | 1968 |
| Art Journal [On Social Grease] | Summer | 1982 |
| Art Journal [The Need for Public Representation and the Burden of the German Past] | Winter | 1989 |
| Art Journal [The Second Johannesburg Biennale] | Summer | 1998 |
| Art Nexus Vol.27 [The Second Johannesburg Biennial] | January-March | 1998 |
| Avalanche # 01 [Rumbles] | Avalanche | 1970 |
| Grand Street #69 - Berlin | Grand Street | 1999 |
| Interfunktionen #09 | Interfunktionen | 1972 |
| October 39 | The MIT Press | 1986 |
| Parachute # 23 [Hans Haacke and the Aesthetics of Legitimation] | Parachute, Montreal | 1981 |
| Parachute # 103 | Parachute, Montreal | 2001 |
| Studio International Vol. 195 No. 990 - Special Issue: Art Galleries & Alternative Spaces | Studio International | 1980 |
| Third Text # 24 | Third Text, Autumn | 1993 |
| Third Text # 38 [The 23rd Sao Paulo International Biennial: Dematerialization and Contextualisation ] | Third Text, Spring | 1997 |
| Trans> arts.cultures.media # 7 [included in article: Knowing Can Be Destroying] | Passim Inc. | 2000 |
| TriQuarterly #32 | Charles Newman | 1975 |
| Upfront # 05 - PAD/D [Political Art Documanetation / Distribution] | PAD/D | 1983 |
| Upfront # 14/15 - PADD [Politicial Art and Documentation / Distribution] | PAD/D | 1987/8 |
| Vision #3 - New York City | Crown Point Press | 1976 |
| Vision #5 - Artists' Photographs | Crown Point Press | 1982 |
| EXHIBITION REVIEWS | ||
| Hans Haacke: Viewing Matters | Art Journal, Fall | 1999 |