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Artists›Hans Haacke

Hans Haacke

1936

WA-00003702

InstallationInstitutional Critique

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None documented

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70%

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ657647

MoMA

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1 cross-verified · 2 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓
NationalityArtsy· 85%
LocationGallery Generic· 72%

Source Registry (2)

Paula-Cooperhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/hans-haacke
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/2429
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Hans Haacke is a German-born, New York-based artist whose installations, photographs, and text-based works expose the entanglement of art institutions with corporate power, real-estate capital, and political authority. His systems-oriented practice, rooted in physical and social processes, has been presented at the Venice Biennale and the New Museum, among other institutions.

Source: Paula Cooper · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago

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Art Institute of Chicago Tate

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Artworks (13)

A Breed Apart

1978 · 7 photographs, black and white and colour, on paper on hardboard

image, each: 910 x 910 mm

Tate

Seurat's "Les Poseuses" (small version), 1888-1975

1975 · 14 Photostats and collaged silver gelatin prints, 1 chromogenic print

14 panels; each: 76.2 × 50.8 cm (30 × 20 in.); one color reproduction: 59.4 × 69.3 cm (23 3/8 × 27 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Board of Trustees

1974 · Silkscreen ink on paper, 7 parts

Each 24 3/16 x 20 1/4 x 1 1/16" (61.5 x 51.5 x 2.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, from The New York Collection for Stockholm

1973 · Silkscreen on paper

30.5 × 22.9 cm (12 1/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled from The New York Collection for Stockholm

1973 · Screenprint from a portfolio of seventeen screenprints, nine lithographs, two lithographs with screenprint, one photocopy, and one photograph

composition (irreg.): 4 7/8 x 6 1/2" (12.4 x 16.5cm); sheet: 12 x 9" (30.5 x 22.9cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1961 · Inkless intaglio

plate: 3 1/8 x 9 7/16" (8 x 24 cm); sheet: 12 11/16 x 19 3/4" (32.2 x 50.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1961 · Inkless intaglio

plate: 3 7/8 x 3 7/16" (9.8 x 8.8 cm); sheet (irreg.): 15 1/16 x 11 1/8" (38.3 x 28.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1961 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 9 1/2 x 9 5/8" (24.2 x 24.4 cm); sheet: 22 5/16 x 15 1/16" (56.7 x 38.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1961 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 3 15/16 x 13 1/16" (10 x 33.2 cm); sheet: 15 1/16 x 22 5/16" (38.3 x 56.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1961 · Inkless intaglio

plate: 4 3/8 x 11 3/4" (11.1 x 29.8 cm); sheet: 12 13/16 x 19 13/16" (32.6 x 50.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1961 · Etching

plate: 11 7/8 x 5 15/16" (30.1 x 15.1 cm); sheet: 22 1/16 x 14 15/16" (56.1 x 38 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1961 · Etching

plate: 19 7/16 x 7 3/8" (49.3 x 18.8 cm); sheet: 24 13/16 x 11" (63 x 28 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1960 · Etching

plate: 4 5/8 x 3 1/2" (11.8 x 8.9 cm); sheet: 8 11/16 x 6 1/16" (22 x 15.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (3)

13 published of 23 catalogued · 23 with image

MoMA
10 publishedof 20 catalogued20 img
Art Institute Chicago
2 published2 img
Tate
1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

A Breed Apart
1978 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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23 assets

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Collections3

Art Institute of Chicago Tate Phillips

Institutional

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Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Tate

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Phillips

Background

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Tyler School of Art

Visual Arts

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