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Hans-Jürgen Hafner

HANS-JÜRGEN HAFNER is a Berlin-based author, critic, and curator.

Exhibitions
Wolfgang Tillmans at the Centre Pompidou
By Hans-Jürgen Hafner
On Sep 19, 2025

In Paris, a library overflows with the alt-iconographic displays that made the photographer synonymous with visual culture’s last new normal.

Interview
Ralph Gleis on the Museum’s Favorite Weapon
By Hans-Jürgen Hafner
On May 16, 2025

The new director of Vienna’s ALBERTINA on building a universal art institution to meet its many publics where they are.

Exhibitions
Chaïm Soutine at K20
By Hans-Jürgen Hafner
On Jan 9, 2024

While giving a systematically overlooked modernist his due, a Düsseldorf retrospective continues a long art-historical tradition of obscuring Soutine’s painterly ambivalence.

Exhibitions
Rosemarie Trockel at MMK Frankfurt
By Hans-Jürgen Hafner
On Jun 16, 2023

While its staging of 300+ works is uniquely comprehensive, a Frankfurt retrospective fails to contextualize Germany’s best-known woman artist.

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