Alfons Hug

Who is Alfons Hug?

Alfons Hug is a curator, critic and exhibition organizer.

Hug studied Linguistics, Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies in Freiburg, Berlin, Dublin and Moscow. He curated the XXV and XXVI São Paulo Art Biennial in 2002 and 2004. Hug was the first non-Brazilian to curate this art event.

Since the mid-'80s Hug has worked as Director of Goethe-Institutes in Lagos, Medellín, Brasília, Caracas and Moscow. He now occupies this position in Goethe Institut in Rio de Janeiro.

In the '90s Hug was head of the Visual Arts Department at “Haus der Kulturen der Welt”, Berlin.