FORA.tv Speaker - Jens Hoffmann

Jens Hoffmann born in San Jose, Costa Rica in 1972, has been director of Exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London since 2004. At ICA he has organized several group exhibitions including: Artists' Favorite (2004), 100 artists See God (2004-2005), London in Six Easy Steps (2005), Around the World in Eighty Days (2006) and Alien Nation (2006). He also curated solo exhibitions for John Bock, Cerith Wyn Evans, Tino Sehgal, Jonathan Monk and Martha Rosler. Hoffmann has worked for institutions and exhibitions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Dia Center for the Arts, New York ; Portikus Kunsthalle, Frankfurt and Documenta X, Kassel. He has curated exhibitions for KIASMA, Helsinki; Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne and Kunst-Werke, Berlin. He was co-curator of 1st Prague Biennial (2003), 1st Tirana Biennial (2001) and assistant curator of the 1st Berlin Biennale (1998).