Talk:Jens Hoffmann

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Joojay in topic Sexual harassment controversy

multiple issues edit

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for books. This article does not cite any references or sources. curatorsedit 12:16, 19 March 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brbrlouise (talkcontribs)

Year of birth edit

Due to some entries in VIAF he was born in 1972, see also Perlentaucher and other sources. -- Jesi (talk) 12:05, 14 October 2016 (UTC)Reply

I am now seeing conflicted 1972 vs 1974 year of birth information for Jens Hoffman. The VIAF link (listed above) shows both years of birth also. See also: 1972---[1],[2] vs 1974---[3],[4],[5],[6],[7],[8],[9],[10] -Jooojay (talk) 01:57, 27 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

The negative BLP issue edit

seems adequately sourced. Please discuss here or at WP:BLPN -- Dlohcierekim (talk) 23:58, 19 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

I disagree, this BLP is missing a lot of citations unfortunately and needs clean up. Almost none of the exhibition history is cited, none of this early history is cited. I will try to add in tags to it is made clear and can be worked on. Jooojay (talk) 18:30, 22 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

Large uncited lists and details edit

This article currently has large, uncited lists of information - much of which is personal to Jens Hoffman and relatively un-encyclopedic, such as every location he has ever lectured at. I have moved this to the talk page for now, before moving it back to the main article, please clean it up with citations and pair down the list aspect. Thank you. Jooojay (talk) 18:51, 22 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

Hoffmann has given lectures are a variety of international universities, and museums.
Lectures and seminars (universities, colleges, and art schools)

• Buffalo State University (2017) • California College of the Arts, San Francisco (2017) • California College of the Arts, San Francisco (2016) • The New School for Social Research, New York (2016) • School of Visual Arts, New York (2015) • Sydney College of Arts (2015) • College for Creative Studies, Detroit (2014) • Tyler School of Arts, Philadelphia (2014) • Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town (2013) • Vera List Center for Art and Politics, New York (2013) • Institute for Art and Visual Culture, University of Sydney (2013) • Vanderbilt University, Department of Art, Nashville (2012) • Center for Curatorial Studies/Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (2011) • Sam Fox School, Washington University, St. Louis (2011) • College of Arts & Science, New York University, New York (2011) • Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis (2011) • Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2010) • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (2010) • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City (2010) • Center for Curatorial Studies/Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (2010) • Royal College of Art, London (2009) • University of British Columbia, Vancouver (2009) • San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco (2009) • Ruskin School of Fine Arts, Oxford University (2008) • Mills College, Oakland (2008) • Adam Art Gallery, Victory University of Wellington (2008) • Lewis and Clark, College of Arts and Science, Portland (2008) • Roski School of Fine Arts at University of Southern California, Los Angeles (2008) • Centro Teorico Cultural, Havana (2007) • Università IUAV, Venice (2007) • University of Leeds, Leeds (2006) • School for Art Theory and Practice, Budapest (2006) • Emily Carr Institute of the Arts, Vancouver (2006) • Royal College of Art, London (2005) • Jagiellonian University, Kraków (2005) • The Architecture Association, London (2005) • Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (2005) • California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles (2005) • Royal Art Academy, Stockholm (2004) • Wimbledon School for the Arts, London (2004) • Gothenburg University (2004) • Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague (2004) • Art Center Pasadena, Los Angeles (2004) • Royal College of Art, London (2004) • Lund University (2004) • Escola De Artes Visuais Do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro (2003) • Center for Curatorial Studies/Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (2003) • Royal Art Academy, Stockholm (2002) • School of Visual Arts, Braunschweig (2002) • University of the Arts, Berlin (2002) • School for Art and Media, Tampere (2002) • Concordia University, Montreal (2002) • York University, Toronto (2002) • University of the Arts, Berlin (2001)

Lectures and conferences (museums)

• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (2017) • Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2017) • Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis (2017) • Swiss Institute, New York (2017) • 1st Honolulu Biennial (2017) • Garage Center for Cotemporary Art, Moscow (2016) • Swiss Institute, New York (2016) • Centro de la Imagen, Mexico (2015) • Museum of Modern Art, Medellín (2015) • MFA Boston (2015) • Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu (2015) • Swiss Institute, New York (2015) • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2015) • Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal (2014) • Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2014) • Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2013) • Art Gallery Auckland (2013) • Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey (2012) • Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (2012) • Power Plant, Toronto (2012) • Fondazione Antoni Ratti, Como (2011) • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2010) • Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010) • Witte de With, Rotterdam (2009) • Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo (2009) • Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth (2009) • Aspen Art Museum (2009) • Christchurch Art Gallery (2009) • Artsonje Center, Seoul (2009 • ArtPace, San Antonio (2009) • Plug In – Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg (2007) • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2006) • Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (2006) • Hugh Lane Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2005) • Banff Center (2005) • Reykjavik Art Museum (2005) • Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (2005) • Kunst Museum Bern (2004) • Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2004) • Plug In – Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg (2004) • Centre de Art Santa Monica, Barcelona (2004) • Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2003) • Kunstverein Munich (2003) • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2003) • Cornerhouse – Center for Contemporary Art, Manchester (2003) • De Appel Art Center, Amsterdam (2003) • Bergen Kunsthall (2003) • CaixaForum, Barcelona (2002) • Bunkier Sztuki – Contemporary Art Gallery, Krakow (2002) • Fundacio Mercantil, Caracas (2002) • Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2002) • Banff Center (2002) • Kunst-Werke, Berlin (2001) • Index, Stockholm (2001) • Turku Art Museum (2001) • Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2001) • Platform Garanti, Istanbul (2001) • De Appel Art Center, Amsterdam (2000)

Memberships

American Association of Museums (since 2014); College Art Association (since 2008); Association of Art Museum Curators (since 2013); Democratic Socialists of America (since 2017); National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (since 2017.)

Juries and selection committees

Sinap Art Award, Sindho Foundation, selection of award winner, Seoul (2017) •Headlands Center for the Arts Residency, selection committee, San Francisco (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017) •Sinap Art Award, Sindho Foundation, selection of award winner, Seoul (2016) •Aperture Art Book Award, jury member, Paris Photo (2016) •ARTBO, selection of Project Sector, Bogotá (2016) •MiArt, Herno Prize, jury member, Milan (2015) •Frieze Art Fair, Frieze Stand Prize, jury member, London (2015) •Palais de Tokyo, Nouvelles Vague: Emerging Curator Award, jury member, Paris (2013) •Musée d’art Contemporain de Lyon, Rendez-vous, selection committee, Lyon (2012) •DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Artist-in-Berlin, jury member, Berlin (2011) •Creative Capital, jury member, New York (2011) •School of the Art Institute of Chicago, jury member for MFA scholarships, Chicago (2011) •DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), Artist-in-Berlin, jury member, Berlin (2010) •Future Generation Art Prize, Pinchchuk Art Center, jury member, Kiev (2010) •Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award, selection committee, New Haven (2010) •ArtPace International Artist-In-Residence, selection of resident artists, San Antonio (2009) •Schering Stiftung Art Award, jury member, Berlin (2009) •Prize of the National Gallery, Berlin National Gallery, jury member, Berlin (2007) •Institute for Contemporary Art, Becks Futures Art Award, jury member (2005, 2006)

Early life and education

While studying at Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, Hoffmann staged and directed a number of productions at the school theatre Berlin Workers' Theater (also known as Berliner Arbeiter-Theater), including fragments and adaptations of works by Nikolai Gogol, William Shakespeare, Heiner Müller, and Alexander Ostrovsky.[citation needed] His final production at Berlin Workers' Theater was Oscar Night, written by Rene Pollesch.[citation needed]

Vandalism edit

Bouncing IP edits happening, edit warring and deleting parts of this BLP. Please use talk page to discuss these changes. New information is added without any citation, please add citation if you are adding something to a BLP. Jooojay (talk) 20:26, 24 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

I am noticing that much of the disruptive editing involves adding or fluffing the credentials for Hoffmann (without citation), it's possible this is a connected editor. Jooojay (talk) 20:49, 24 January 2018 (UTC)Reply
Months later and this is still an issue. Primarily with removal of the cited "Sexual harassment controversy" paragraph and removal of multiple citations throughout the article. Jooojay (talk) 17:30, 7 April 2018 (UTC) This same vandalism happened again in Nov 2018. Jooojay (talk) 02:47, 10 December 2018 (UTC)Reply
This is still an issue, years later. Blanking of sections and removal of sexual harassment information and citations. Joojay (talk) 16:18, 15 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

There is no dispute about the allegations being made. The article continues to mention those allegations with citations. However other new researched material on parts of the article is being removed repeatedly even though it is written from an NPOV and not fluffing any credentials as previously remarked by another editor. Pol1997 (talk)

Your re-arrangement of the article is not an improvement and reduces the impact of the sexual harassment remarkably. The NPOV issues had been resolved, but then you added more with your edits. Please stop edit warring. Joojay (talk) 12:39, 16 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

Sexual harassment controversy edit

I am adding a note here about all of the news sources that have acknowledge Jens Hoffmann's issues with the sexual harassment controversy - since there seems to be a misunderstanding by an single editor (with a bouncing IP) that this news was only published in ArtNews.com or ArtNet.com. I have found this news is also on various other new websites, including: New York Times, SF Gate, Metro Times Detroit, Huffington Post, ArtForum, Forward.com, ArtAsiaPacific, Hypoallergenic, Frieze, The Times of Israel, and more.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] Please use the talk page if you wish to discuss this further. Jooojay (talk) 06:49, 9 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

References

  1. ^ Farago, Jason (2018-01-25). "A Museum's Fresh Take on the Whole Megillah". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  2. ^ Desmarais, Charles (2017-12-29). "The year 2017 was a fiery one, in art as in life". SFGate. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  3. ^ DeVito, Lee. "Jens Hoffmann resigns from MOCAD following sexual harassment claims". Detroit Metro Times. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  4. ^ Frank, Priscilla (2018-03-15). "The Museum World Is Having An Identity Crisis, And Firing Powerful Women Won't Help". Huffington Post. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  5. ^ Witkin, Daniel. "After Sexual Harassment Investigation, Jewish Museum Severs Ties With Prominent Curator". The Forward. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  6. ^ "Organizations Cut Tieswith Jens Hoffmann Following Sexual Harassment Allegations". artasiapacific.com. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  7. ^ "Jewish Museum Terminates Jens Hoffmann Following Sexual Harassment Investigation". Hyperallergic. 2017-12-19. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  8. ^ "Jewish Museum's Jens Hoffmann Out After Investigation Into Sexual Harassment". frieze.com. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
  9. ^ "NY Jewish Museum fires senior curator accused of sexual harassment". www.timesofisrael.com. Retrieved 2018-12-10.
The issues of harassment were indeed published by other news outlets but are simply a reputation from what ArtNet and ArtNew reported without any further original research going into those articles. All these sources can be added to the article if other editors which to do so. I just noticed that because of this issue other edits about the person have been repeatedly been undone as far back as 2018 and by only one specific editor. I suspect a possible bias. Pol1997 (talk)
@POL1997: the original research WP:NOR on this topic is not appropriate for Wikipedia. These twelve citations, all from WP:RS should be enough for the statements. This article has a long history of COI edits from bouncing IPs, and many of the past COI edits look similar to your current ones. I am sure you understand how that would be problematic and raise concerns by multiple editors here. Joojay (talk) 13:06, 16 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

Sexual Harassment Controversy edit

The accusations about sexual harassment in regards to Jens Hoffmann are all unsubstantiated. No fact, no evidence or proof was brought forward. ArtNews reported on this first and a number of other web-sites republished the ArtNews posting with very little variation and again without bringing any evidence forward. At this point these allegations are simply gossip and slander and possibly cause Hoffmann harm. There has never been an official statement by the Jewish Museum about what actually took place, what the allegations were or who made them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.203.129.70 (talk) 12:57, 11 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

This is all published news already by many sources, nothing in this section is new therefore it cannot be slander. Jooojay (talk) 21:35, 11 June 2019 (UTC)Reply
Allegations were made, they were investigated by the Jewish Museum, he was fired from or resigned from several positions. None of this is disputed by any of the parties. Hoffmann's position is literally quoted in the section. Plandu (talk) 04:40, 12 June 2019 (UTC)Reply

Page on Jens Hoffmann edit

I noticed that new information I provided according to Wiki guidelines and the updates to the post with new research, including sources for verification all written from an NPOV, have been removed twice. I also fixed typos and reordered information for clarity only. No information was removed. Please edit the page further rather than undo my work. Thanks! Pol1997 (talk) 06:17, 16 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

Pol1997, with regards to updates to the post with new original research, please see Wikipedia:No_original_research Vexations (talk) 11:39, 16 August 2021 (UTC)Reply

I am referring to new research. Thanks for the help. Pol1997 (talk) 06:17, 16 August 2021 (UTC)Reply