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Cultural Manager Hoffmann: From Hamburg to Kassel
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Götz Wrage / documenta and Museum Fridericianum / picture alliance / dpa
The culture manager Andreas Hoffmann becomes managing director of the Documenta in Kassel.
Documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH announced on Thursday that he will take up his position at the most well-known show for contemporary art on May 1st.
Hoffmann is currently still managing director of the Bucerius art forum in Hamburg.
Until he takes over the office, Ferdinand von Saint André will continue to manage the business.
After the end of the Documenta Fifteen, he was hired as interim managing director.
Previously, culture manager Alexander Farenholtz had temporarily taken over the business after the general director of the documenta, Sabine Schormann, resigned from her position a month after the start of the previous show.
The trigger was the scandal surrounding Documenta artworks, which had been interpreted as anti-Semitic.
"The personnel decision for the new managing director also sets the course for the future of Documenta in Kassel," said the Documenta supervisory board chairman, Lord Mayor Christian Geselle (SPD), and Hesse's Minister of Art Angela Dorn (Greens).
As a cultural institution, the Documenta must continue to face questions of content and structural challenges.
Culture Manager Andreas Hoffmann, born in Norden in 1971, has been Managing Director of the Bucerius Kunstforum since January 2007.
Until 2019, he was also program manager for art and culture for the music and monument projects of the »Zeit« Foundation Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius.
feb/dpa
