HANS HAACKE WINS 2017 ROSWITHA HAFTMANN PRIZE

Hans Haacke has been awarded the 2017 Roswitha Haftmann Prize in recognition of his life’s work. For more than fifty years, Haacke has examined systems—biological, economic, and social—in order to understand their meanings, machinations, habits, and failures. Haacke’s work has been featured at the 1993 and 2009 editions of the Venice Biennale. He has also had exhibitions at the Foundazione Antonio Ratti in Como, the MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, the Generali Foundation in Vienna, Frankfurt’s Portikus, the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, and at Paula Cooper Gallery—who represents the artist—in New York, among many other institutions and galleries throughout the world. He was also a professor at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City from 1967 until 2002. Haacke was featured in “Artists on Political Art,” a series of video interviews with seven artists made to coincide with the November 2016 issue of Artforum and the US presidential election.

The Roswitha Haftmann Prize is a cash award worth about $150,000.