Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke
Hans Haackeis a German-born artist who currently lives and works in New York...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth12 August 1936
CountryGermany
Hans Haacke quotes about
educational views museums
Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
photography tasks use
Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.
artist order survival
An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically there are no limits to his involvement.
artist issues psychology
It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psychology, and that the rest should be left to other professions.
interesting effort corporations
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.