Jens Hoffmann - Monday Oct 26

About Jens Hoffmann

Jens Hoffmann is a writer and curator of exhibitions. He has worked as a curator since 1997 and is currently the Director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. From 2003 to 2007 he was the Director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. He is currently a curator for the CIAC FOundation in Mexico City and Curatorial Director of the 101 Collection in San Francisco. He has curated over 30 exhibitions internationally since the late 1990s. Most recently he was co-curator of the 2nd San Juan Triennial, Puerto Rico, 2009 and is currently co-curating, with Harrell Fletcher, the People's Biennial, to be held in 2010 at five US museums, organized by Independent Curators International in New York. In 2009 Hoffmann founded The Exhibitionist: A Journal for Exhibition Making. He was nominated by the Menil Collection in Houston for the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement in 2008.

Hoffmann was trained as a theater director and studied Stage Directing, Dramaturgy and Cultural Sociology at the Ernst Busch School for Performing Arts in Berlin. He holds an MA in Theater from DasArts – School for Advanced Research in Theatre and Dance Studies in Amsterdam.

Sign up will be posted 11AM Monday October 19
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Monday Oct 26

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Talk at 7:30