Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p 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. From 2002 to 2006 Hoffmann was the director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and from 2007 to 2012 he was director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, where he also directed Capp Street Project an artist in residence program established in 1983 dedicated to the creation and presentation of new art installations.Since 2006 Hoffmann has been senior advisor for the Kadist Art Foundation based in Paris and San Francisco, for which he has assembled the 101 Collection with artworks by artists from the West Coast of the United States, as well as El Sur, featuring artworks of emerging artists from Latin America. Both collections merged in 2014 to form the Americana collection. He is currently organizing Age of Extremes bringing together photographic works from the Kadist Art Foundation as well as from La Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel (CIAC), Mexico City. The exhibition will tour in Latin America in 2015 and 2016.Since 2012 he has been senior adjunct curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, his exhibition The Past Is Present opened in September 2013. 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. Forthcoming exhibitions organized by Hoffmann at MOCA Detroit include The People's Biennial 2014 (co-curated with Harrell Fletcher), opening in September 2014, Detroit City (co-curated with Rebecca Mazzei and Greg Baise), opening in 2015, as well as Working Class, opening in late 2015. Since 2013 he is Curator for Special Programs and a member of the selection committee of New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center, New York.Together with Edoardo Bonaspetti, Andrea Lissoni, and Filipa Ramos, Hoffmann developed Vdrome.org, an online platform offering screenings of films and videos directed by visual artists and filmmakers.Hoffmann's exhibition No Such Thing As History: Four Collections and One Artist, which opened in March 2014, is currently on view at the Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton in Munich.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 is the only member. He was an original member of the Union of the Imaginary (VOTI), the first online network for curators (1998-2000).. }
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- Jens_Hoffmann abstract "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. From 2002 to 2006 Hoffmann was the director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and from 2007 to 2012 he was director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco, where he also directed Capp Street Project an artist in residence program established in 1983 dedicated to the creation and presentation of new art installations.Since 2006 Hoffmann has been senior advisor for the Kadist Art Foundation based in Paris and San Francisco, for which he has assembled the 101 Collection with artworks by artists from the West Coast of the United States, as well as El Sur, featuring artworks of emerging artists from Latin America. Both collections merged in 2014 to form the Americana collection. He is currently organizing Age of Extremes bringing together photographic works from the Kadist Art Foundation as well as from La Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel (CIAC), Mexico City. The exhibition will tour in Latin America in 2015 and 2016.Since 2012 he has been senior adjunct curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, his exhibition The Past Is Present opened in September 2013. 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. Forthcoming exhibitions organized by Hoffmann at MOCA Detroit include The People's Biennial 2014 (co-curated with Harrell Fletcher), opening in September 2014, Detroit City (co-curated with Rebecca Mazzei and Greg Baise), opening in 2015, as well as Working Class, opening in late 2015. Since 2013 he is Curator for Special Programs and a member of the selection committee of New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center, New York.Together with Edoardo Bonaspetti, Andrea Lissoni, and Filipa Ramos, Hoffmann developed Vdrome.org, an online platform offering screenings of films and videos directed by visual artists and filmmakers.Hoffmann's exhibition No Such Thing As History: Four Collections and One Artist, which opened in March 2014, is currently on view at the Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton in Munich.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 is the only member. He was an original member of the Union of the Imaginary (VOTI), the first online network for curators (1998-2000).".