26 Facts About Jens Hoffmann

Jens Hoffmann's work has attempted to expand the definition and context of exhibition making.

From 2003 to 2007 Hoffmann was director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London.

Jens Hoffmann has held several teaching positions including California College of the Arts, the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti and Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as others.

Jens Hoffmann trained as a theater director, studied stage directing and dramaturgy at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin.

From 1993 to 1995 Jens Hoffmann worked as an assistant dramaturg under Tom Stromberg at Theater At The Tower in Frankfurt, where he worked on productions of such directors as Rene Pollesch, Stefan Pucher, Reza Abdoh, Needcompany, Michael Laub, Jan Fabre, Baktruppen, Gob Squad, and Heiner Goebbels.

Jens Hoffmann started his museum career as an intern at the Portikus Kunsthalle Frankfurt in 1995, followed by two years at the Dia Art Foundation in New York from 1995 until 1997.

Jens Hoffmann worked at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum as an assistant curator from 1998 until 2000.

From 2001 to 2002 Jens Hoffmann worked as a curator at the Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf.

From 2003 to 2007 Jens Hoffmann was the director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and from 2007 to 2012 director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco.

Since 2006, Jens Hoffmann has worked as a curator and senior advisor for the Kadist Art Foundation, for which he formed the Americana Collection, featuring over 300 works by emerging artists from Latin and North America.

Jens Hoffmann organized Camera of Wonders for Kadist, bringing together photographic works from the Kadist Art Foundation and the Coleccion Isabel y Agustin Coppel, Mexico City, which opened at the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City in November 2015, and traveled to the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin, Colombia in 2016.

Between 2013 and 2017, Jens Hoffmann was the curator for special programs and a member of the selection committee of the New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center, New York.

In 2012, together with Edoardo Bonaspetti, Andrea Lissoni, and Filipa Ramos, Jens Hoffmann developed the ongoing Vdrome.

In 2007 Jens Hoffmann founded the Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities, for which he has curated two exhibitions: Section IV, Department of Light Recordings: Lens Drawings, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, and Section III, Department of Pigments on Surface: Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London.

Jens Hoffmann's final exhibition at MOCA Detroit was a solo exhibition by artist Carlos Bunga titled Doubled Architecture, which opened in February 2018.

Jens Hoffmann was deputy director of the Jewish Museum in New York from 2012 until 2016.

From 2016 until 2018, Jens Hoffmann served as the director of exhibitions and public programs.

From 2013 to 2017 Jens Hoffmann organized the recurring public program AM at the JM, an event that invited artists to be in conversation with the curator starting at 8am and taking place at Think Coffee at New York's Union Square every other month.

Jens Hoffmann co-founded the Espacio Mango art gallery in Bogota, Colombia.

Jens Hoffmann was guest lecturer at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan from 2004 to 2016 and associate professor at the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2006 to 2012.

In 2012, Jens Hoffmann was visiting professor and co-taught with Carol Yinghua Lu the curatorial course at the 4th Gwangju Biennale.

Jens Hoffmann organized the 2010 Max Wasserman Forum the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, titled Parody, Politics, and Performativity, a forum to address critical issues in contemporary art and culture through arts professionals and which included presentations by artists Tino Sehgal, Tania Bruguera, Joan Jonas, and Claire Fontaine as well as art historians Dorothea von Hantelmann and Frazer Ward.

In 2000 Jens Hoffmann was visiting professor at the department of Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.

Jens Hoffmann has written and edited over three dozen books and exhibition publications.

Jens Hoffmann has been editor-at-large for Mousse magazine since 2011 and is a frequent contributor to Frieze and Artforum.

Jens Hoffmann has written for Parkett, Texte zur Kunst, DOMUS, and Critique d'Arts, and was a columnist for Purple from 2001 to 2003 as well as a correspondent for Flash Art from 2002 to 2007.