Speaker Series: Jens Hoffmann

Costa Rican-born, German-raised writer and curator Jens Hoffmann is the director of exhibitions at the ICA in London, England. Previously based in Berlin, he worked as an independent curator and his projects include Spectacular: The Art of Action at the Museum Kunst-Palast in Düsseldorf, Institution[n.sup.2]: Art Institutions: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Working with Contemporary Art at Kiasma in Helsinki, and the 6th Caribbean Biennial in St Kitts, West Indies (an infamous mock exhibition co-organized with Maurizio Cattelan in 1999). Under his direction, projects at the ICA include Artists’ Favourites: An Exhibition in Two Acts, in which individual artists chose a favourite artist’s work for display in a group-show and Six Easy Steps a six part exhibition where invited London-based curators presented their interpretation of the current artistic and cultural life of London in a series of six week long exhibitions.

The Speaker Series (2000–2006) was a programme of visiting artist talks and lectures organized by Charles H. Scott Gallery in conjunction with the Art Now course at ECIAD. The programme was initiated by ECIAD faculty Ian Wallace in the 1970’s as a series of lunchtime artist talks. Wallace ran the programme until 1998.