OMG, It's Curator Nicolaus Schafhausen!!!

Curating is so, so hot right now. Hence our weekly guide to curators! Collect them all! (Haha, GET IT?)

This week’s “OMG” curator of interest: Nicolaus Schafhausen.

Born in: 1965.

This just in: became artistic director of the Kunsthalle Wien in June. (That’s Vienna, silly!)

Hot news: also just appointed curator of the Bucharest Biennale 6!!!

Former posts: Director of Witte de With in Rotterdam, founding director of European Kunsthalle in Cologne.

Fancy gigs: Curated the German pavilion for both the 52nd and 53rd Venice Biennial.

Fun fact: Founded a gallery in Berlin with a friend that they named after their mothers!

Not afraid of: the commercial side of artistic practice, the alienation of modern life.

Killer quotes: “To modernism, abstraction meant an absolute belief in progress.”

Weirdest place worked: Nova Scotia!!!

Back in the day: Curated “a group show on the nebulous topic of nonplaces”!

Some of his faves: Adorno, Olafur Eliasson, Liam Gillick, Isa Genzken.

Single? He’s not telling!

Lost in translation: “Schaf Hausen” in German kind of means “Live Sheep” or “Sheep-Liver”!!!