Alfons Hug

Alfons Hug (b. 1950 in Hochdorf, Southern Germany) is a curator, critic and exhibition organizer.

Hug studied Linguistics, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies in Freiberg, Berlin, Dublin and Moscow. He curated the XXV and XXVI São Paulo Art Biennial in 2002 and 2004. Hug was the first non-Brazilian to curate this art event.

Since the mid-'80s Hug has worked as Director of Goethe-Institutes (German Cultural Centres) in Lagos, Medellín, Brasilia, Caracas and Moscow. He now occupies this position in Goethe Institut in Rio de Janeiro.

In the '90s Hug was head of the Visual Arts Department at “Haus der Kulturen der Welt” (House of World Cultures), Berlin.

History

*2005: Curator of Brazilian Pavilion, Venice Biennial
*2005: Curator of Brazilian Representation, New Delhi Triennial
*2004: Curator of Brazilian Representation, Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador
*2004: Chief Curator, 26th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (917,000 visitors)
*2003: Organizer of “Old Art from Africa”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (750,000 visitors)
*2003: Curator of Brazilian Pavilion, Venice Biennial
*2003: Co-curator, 5th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
*2002: Chief Curator, 25th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (670,000 visitors)

Curated:
*2006: “Fußball: Zeichnung auf grünem Grund”, CCBB Rio de Janeiro
*2006: Neue brasilianische Fotokunst, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
*2005: “Alegoria barroca na arte contemporânea”, CCBB, Rio de Janeiro
*2004: “Carnaval”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
*2000: “90x60x90-El síndrome de la Miss”, Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas
*1999: Internetproject with ZKM (Karlsruhe): Philip Pocock, Roberto Cabot, W. Staehle
*1999: El Retorno de Humboldt (Caracas)
*1998: Biennale de Dakar, co-curator, Contemp. Korean Art, (Berlin)
*1997: Painting from China (organizer), Berlin
*1997: Die anderen Modernen (25 Artists from Latin America, Asia and Africa), (Berlin)
*1996: Colours – South African Art (Berlin)
*1995: Havanna/São Paulo- Contemporary Art from Latin America (Berlin)
*Die Rote Burg – Art from Spain and North Africa (Berlin)
*Contemporary African Art (Berlin)
*1994: Soundscape Brasília, various venues in Brasilia
*1994: Revendo Brasília, Galeria Athos Bulcão (Brasilia), Museu de Imagem e Som (São Paulo), Palácio Gustavo Capanema (Rio de Janeiro), Museu Metropolitano de Arte (Curitiba)
*1984-87: 10 individual and group shows of Nigerian artists in Lagos
*1992-93 : Arte Amazonas, Museu de Arte Moderna (Rio de Janeiro), Museu de Arte, (Brasilia), Kunsthalle Berlin, Ludwig Forum, Aachen