Hans Haacke

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort…

— Hans Haacke

There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, 'Degenerate Art,' which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work…

— Hans Haacke

I have a particular interest in corporations that give themselves a cultural aura and are in other areas suspect. Philip Morris presents…

— Hans Haacke

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

— Hans Haacke

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

— Hans Haacke

It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate…

— Hans Haacke

A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example…

— Hans Haacke

What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in…

— Hans Haacke

The artist's business requires an involvement in practically everything... The total scope of information he receives day after day is of concern.

— Hans Haacke

Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

— Hans Haacke

If you look at the size of the art world in terms of the money that is being transacted compared to other…

— Hans Haacke

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing…

— Hans Haacke

An artist is not an isolated system. In order to survive he has to interact continuously with the world around him... Theoretically…

— Hans Haacke

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate.

— Hans Haacke

Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use…

— Hans Haacke

In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of 'works of art' it is…

— Hans Haacke

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in…

— Hans Haacke

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a…

— Hans Haacke