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”!!!