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Jens Hoffmann Mesèn is a writer and exhibition maker. He currently is Deputy Director of The Jewish Museum in New York, where he oversees exhibitions, collections, and public programs. He has curated more than 50 exhibitions internationally and written more than 200 texts on art and exhibition making.〔http://thejewishmuseum.org/press/staff-profile/jens-hoffmann〕 == Career == Hoffmann started his museum career as an intern at the Portikus Kunsthalle Frankfurt (1995), followed by two years as an exhibitions assistant at the Dia Art Foundation, New York (1995-1997). He worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as an assistant curator from 1998 to 2000. From 2001 to 2002 Hoffmann worked as a curator at the Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf. From 2003 to 2007 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 2013 he is Deputy Director of the Jewish Museum in New York. 〔https://www.cca.edu/news/2006/jhoffmann〕 Since 2006 Hoffmann has been a curator for the Kadist Art Foundation in Paris and San Francisco. He most recently organized ''Camera of Wonders'', bringing together photographic works from the Kadist Art Foundation and La Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel (CIAC), Mexico City, which opened at the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City in November 2015. Since 2012 he has been senior curator-at-large at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit,〔http://www.freep.com/article/20130505/ENT05/305050051/MOCAD-curator-new〕 where his exhibition ''The Past Is Present'' opened in September 2013.〔http://www.mocadetroit.org/past-exhibitions.html〕 In February 2014 he co-curated, with (Triple Candie ), ''I Cancel All My Works At Death'', the first comprehensive survey of the actions and performances of James Lee Byars. Other exhibitions organized by Hoffmann at MOCA Detroit include ''The People's Biennial 2014'' (co-curated with Harrell Fletcher), 2014; ''Detroit City'', opening in September 2014 and ongoing; ''United States of Latin America'' (co-curated with Pablo Leon de la Bara), 2015; ''Working Class'', opening in early 2017 as well as ''Mike Kelly: Under the Influence'' in 2017. 〔http://www.mocadetroit.org/〕 Since 2013 Hoffmann has been curator for special programs and a member of the selection committee of the New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center, New York. Hoffmann was a guest curator for the 30th Istanbul Film Festival in 2011, for which he organized a series of screenings ''Untitled (Film)'', including films by Peter Watkins, William E. Jones, Ousmane Sembene, Tevfik Başer, Derek Jarman, Guy Debord, Konrad Wolf, and others. In 2012, together with Edoardo Bonaspetti, Andrea Lissoni, and Filipa Ramos, Hoffmann developed the ongoing (Vdrome.org ), an online platform offering screenings of films and videos directed by visual artists and filmmakers. Based on Jean-Pierre Melville's Association des Cinématographie Indépendants (ACI), Hoffmann founded the Association des Conservateurs Indépendants (ACI) (Association of Independent Curators) in 2008. He was an founding member of the Union of the Imaginary (VOTI).〔http://www.thislongcentury.com/?p=3828&c=98〕 In 2007 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 (2013), and ''Section III, Department of Pigments on Surface: Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative'', Thomas Dane Gallery, London (2007). The next exhibition for the Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities will be ''Section II, Department of Carving and Modeling'' (2019).〔http://www.thomasdanegallery.com/exhibitions/46/works/〕 〔http://www.mariangoodman.com/exhibitions/2013-06-28_lens-drawings/〕 In 2009 he founded, with Harrell Fletcher, the People’s Biennial. The first edition was organized in 2010 by Independent Curators International (ICI) and toured to five museums in the United States in 2011-12: ICA, Portland, Oregon; Dahl Art Center, Rapid City, South Dakota; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona; and Cantor Fitzgerald Galleries, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania. The People’s Biennial 2014 took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.〔http://www.biennialfoundation.org/2014/08/peoples-biennial-is-an-exhibition-series-conceived-by-artist-harrell-fletcher-and-curator-jens-hoffmann-in-2009-it-examines-the-work-of-artists-and-other-creative-individuals-who-operate-outside-t/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jens Hoffmann」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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