{{Short description|Costa Rican writer and educator (born 1974)}} {{for|the German director|Jens Hoffmann (filmmaker)}} {{family name hatnote|Hoffmann|Mesén|lang=Spanish}} {{BLP sources|date=January 2018}} {{Infobox person | name = Jens Hoffmann | image = | caption = Jens Hoffman in 2008 | birth_name = Jens Hoffmann-Mesén | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1974}} | birth_place = San José, Costa Rica | alma_mater = Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, <br> Amsterdam University of the Arts | known_for = Exhibition making, writing and publishing | website = https://jenshoffmann.org/ }}
'''Jens Hoffmann Mesén''' (born 1974 in San José, Costa Rica)<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.canadianarchitect.com/architecture/curator-jens-hoffmann-lectures-at-the-power-plant-international-lecture-series/1001229374/|title=Curator Jens Hoffmann lectures at the Power Plant International Lecture Series|date=2012-05-09|work=Canadian Architect|access-date=2018-01-22|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123072420/https://www.canadianarchitect.com/architecture/curator-jens-hoffmann-lectures-at-the-power-plant-international-lecture-series/1001229374/|archive-date=2018-01-23|url-status=dead}}</ref> is a writer, editor, educator, and exhibition maker. His work has attempted to expand the definition and context of exhibition making.<ref name=":2" /> From 2003 to 2007 Hoffmann was director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://curatorsintl.org/collaborators/jens_hoffmann|title=Jens Hoffmann - Collaborators|website=Independent Curators International|language=en|access-date=2018-04-05}}</ref> He is the former director of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art from 2007 to 2016 and deputy director for exhibitions and programs at The Jewish Museum from 2012 to 2017; he was terminated from the position following an investigation into sexual harassment allegations raised by staff members.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2017/12/04/jewish-museum-suspends-jens-hoffmann-sexual-harassment-allegations-surface/|title=Jewish Museum Suspends Jens Hoffmann After Sexual Harassment Allegations Surface, MOCAD, Honolulu Biennial, and Kadist Follow|last=Battaglia|first=Andy|date=2017-12-04|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-22}}</ref><ref name=":4"/> Hoffmann has held several teaching positions including California College of the Arts, the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti and Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as others.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-fairs-art-brussels-announces-artistic-programme-landmark-35th-edition|title=Art Brussels Announces Artistic Programme for Landmark 35th Edition|date=2017-03-22|work=Artsy|access-date=2018-01-24|language=en}}</ref>
== Education and early theater work == Hoffmann trained as a theater director, studied stage directing and dramaturgy at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://200-percent.com/jens-hoffmann-part-2/|title=Jens Hoffmann (Part 2)|date=2012-09-01|work=200percentmag|access-date=2018-01-22|language=en-US}}</ref> He holds an M.A. from DasArts: School for Advanced Research in Theater and Dance Studies at the Amsterdam University of the Arts.<ref name=":1" /> His early work was interested in postdramatic theatre, not based on dramatic text.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/artnet-asks-jens-hoffmann-1694|title=artnet Asks: Jens Hoffmann|last=Milliard|first=Coline|date=2014-02-21|work=artnet News|access-date=2018-01-28|language=en-US}}</ref>
From 1993 to 1995 Hoffmann worked as an assistant dramaturg under Tom Stromberg at Theater am Turm (TAT) in Frankfurt,<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://sfaq.us/2015/01/jens-hoffmann-in-conversation-with-jordan-kantor/|title=Jens Hoffmann: In Conversation With Jordan Kantor|work=SFAQ / NYAQ / LXAQ|access-date=2018-01-22|publisher=SFAQ|language=en-US}}</ref> where he worked on productions of such directors as Rene Pollesch, Stefan Pucher, Reza Abdoh, Needcompany, Michael Laub, Jan Fabre, Baktruppen, Gob Squad, and Heiner Goebbels.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://sfaq.us/2015/01/jens-hoffmann-in-conversation-with-jordan-kantor//|title=JENS HOFFMANN: IN CONVERSATION WITH JORDAN KANTOR}}</ref> With Stromberg Hoffmann organized Theater Outlines, the performing-arts program of Documenta X in Kassel (1997).<ref name=":1" />
== Career == Hoffmann started his museum career as an intern at the Portikus Kunsthalle Frankfurt in 1995, followed by two years at the Dia Art Foundation in New York from 1995 until 1997. He worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum as an assistant curator from 1998 until 2000. From 2001 to 2002 Hoffmann worked as a curator at the Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.e-flux.com/announcements/42949/spectacular-the-art-of-action/|title=Spectacular-}}</ref> From 2003 to 2007 Hoffmann was the director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, and from 2007 to 2012 director of the Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts in San Francisco. In addition Hoffmann was director of the Capp Street Project from 2007 to 2012, San Francisco. From 2012 to 2017 he was deputy director of the Jewish Museum (Manhattan) in New York. In 2017 he was guest curator at the Fundación Arte in Buenos Aires.
Since 2006, Hoffmann has worked as a curator and senior advisor for the Kadist Art Foundation, for which he formed the Americana Collection, featuring over 300 works by emerging artists from Latin and North America. He also organized ''Camera of Wonders'' for Kadist, bringing together photographic works from the Kadist Art Foundation and the Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel (CIAC), Mexico City, which opened at the Centro de la Imagen (Center of the Image) in Mexico City in November 2015, and traveled to the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia in 2016.
Between 2013 and 2017, Hoffmann was the curator for special programs and a member of the selection committee of the New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center, New York. Hoffmann was a guest curator for the 30th Istanbul Film Festival in 2011, for which he organized a series of screenings ''Untitled (Film)'', including films by Peter Watkins, William E. Jones, Ousmane Sembène, Tevfik Başer, Derek Jarman, Guy Debord, Konrad Wolf, and others. In 2012, together with Edoardo Bonaspetti, Andrea Lissoni, and Filipa Ramos, Hoffmann developed the ongoing Vdrome.org, an online platform offering screenings of films and videos directed by visual artists and filmmakers.
In 2007 Hoffmann founded the Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities, for which he has curated two exhibitions: ''Section IV, Department of Light Recordings: Lens Drawings'', Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris (2013), and ''Section III, Department of Pigments on Surface: Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative'', Thomas Dane Gallery, London (2007). The next exhibition for the Museum of Modern Art and Western Antiquities will be ''Section II, Department of Carving and Modeling'' (2019).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thomasdanegallery.com/exhibitions/46/works/|title=Works - Thomas Dane Gallery|website=Thomas Dane Gallery}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mariangoodman.com/exhibitions/2013-06-28_lens-drawings/|title=Exhibitions - Marian Goodman Gallery|website=Mariangoodman.com|access-date=25 January 2018|archive-date=2018-01-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180126185015/https://www.mariangoodman.com/exhibitions/2013-06-28_lens-drawings/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
=== People's Biennial === In 2009 he founded the People's Biennial with artist Harrell Fletcher. The People's Biennial explores and presents the creative activities of individuals and collectives as expressions of society's cultural diversity that would otherwise be overlooked, neglected, or even actively repressed.<ref name=":3" />
The first edition was organized in 2010 by Independent Curators International (ICI) and toured to five museums in the United States in 2011–2012: Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon; Dahl Art Center, Rapid City, South Dakota; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona; and Cantor Fitzgerald Galleries, Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blogs.haverford.edu/biennial/|title=People's Biennial|website=Haverford College|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-28}}</ref> The People's Biennial 2014 took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit.<ref name=":3">{{cite web|url=http://www.biennialfoundation.org/2014/08/peoples-biennial-is-an-exhibition-series-conceived-by-artist-harrell-fletcher-and-curator-jens-hoffmann-in-2009-it-examines-the-work-of-artists-and-other-creative-individuals-who-operate-outside-t/|title=People's Biennial is an exhibition series conceived by artist Harrell Fletcher and curator Jens Hoffmann in 2009. It examines the work of artists and other creative individuals, who operate outside the conventional art world.|publisher=Biennial Foundation|date=22 August 2014|access-date=25 January 2018}}</ref>
From 2011 to 2012 Hoffmann and Fletcher operated the one year long People's Gallery in San Francisco's Mission District, presenting solo exhibitions of six artists from the inaugural People's Biennial.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.refinery29.com/peoples-gallery-closing-party|title=The Peoples Gallery San Francisco|access-date=2018-01-28|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/san-francisco-kadist-the-thing-peoples-gallery/|title=Trio of Art Entities Opens in San Franciscos Mission District - Art in America|work=Art in America|access-date=2018-01-28|language=en-US}}</ref>
=== Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit === Between 2013 and 2016 he was senior curator at large, and from 2017 to 2018, he served as chief curator at large at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD).<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://observer.com/2013/05/jens-hoffman-joins-staff-of-museum-of-contemporary-art-detroit/|title=Jewish Museum's Jens Hoffmann Joins Staff of Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit|last=Miller|first=M.H.|date=2013-05-07|work=Observer|access-date=2018-04-04|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":6" /> His exhibition, ''The Past Is Present,'' opened in September 2013 and looked back at the last 80 years of the city of Detroit with reflection on Diego Rivera's 27-panel mural, ''Detroit Industry''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://mocadetroit.org/the-past-is-present/|title=The Past is Present|work=Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit|access-date=2018-04-04|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{cite web|url=http://www.mocadetroit.org/past-exhibitions.html|title=Exhibition Archive - Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit|website=Mocadetroit.org|access-date=25 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120103118/http://www.mocadetroit.org/past-exhibitions.html|archive-date=20 November 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> In February 2014 he co-curated, with Triple Candie, ''I Cancel All My Works At Death'', the first comprehensive survey of the actions and performances of James Lee Byars.<ref name=":7" /> Other exhibitions organized by Hoffmann at MOCA Detroit include ''The People's Biennial 2014'' (co-curated with Harrell Fletcher), 2014; ''Detroit City'', ongoing since 2014; ''United States of Latin America'' (co-curated with Pablo Leon de la Bara), 2015; ''99 Cents'', 2017 and ''Sonic Rebellion: Music as Resistance'', 2017.<ref name=":7" /> His final exhibition at MOCA Detroit was a solo exhibition by artist Carlos Bunga titled ''Doubled Architecture'', which opened in February 2018.
=== Jewish Museum === Hoffmann was deputy director of the Jewish Museum in New York from 2012 until 2016. From 2016 until 2018, Hoffmann served as the director of exhibitions and public programs.
From 2013 to 2017 Hoffmann organized the recurring public program ''AM at the JM'', an event that invited artists to be in conversation with the curator starting at 8am and taking place at Think Coffee at New York's Union Square every other month.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thejewishmuseum.org/calendar/category/am-at-the-jm|title=Calendar - AM at the JM|website=The Jewish Museum|access-date=2018-01-28}}</ref> Participating artists have included: Erica Baum, Brian Belott, Dara Birnbaum, Christian Boltanski, Andrea Bowers, Luis Camnitzer, Ian Cheng, Clarie Fontaine, Dani Gal, Ryan Gander, Liam Gillick, Nicolas Guaagnini, Camille Henrot, Allan McCollum, Adam McEwen, Ken Okishi, Adam Pendelton, Alix Perlstein, Walter Price, Lucy Raven, Adrian Villar Rojas, Rachel Rose, Eva Rothschild, Erin Shirreff, Taryn Simon and others.
====Sexual harassment controversy==== In December 2017, the Jewish Museum suspended Hoffmann from his position following allegations of sexual harassment leveled against him by staff members.<ref name=":4" /> The Honolulu Biennial then cut its ties with Hoffmann, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit suspended him from his role as chief curator at large (he resigned the position later that month), and the Kadist Art Foundation suspended him from his position as curator and adviser.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2017/12/07/jens-hoffmanns-suspension-sexual-harassment-claims-institutions-await-fate|title=After Jens Hoffmann's Suspension Over Sexual Harassment Claims, Other Institutions Await His Fate|last=Battaglia|first=Andy|date=2017-12-07|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-25|archive-date=2018-01-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103001320/http://www.artnews.com/2017/12/07/jens-hoffmanns-suspension-sexual-harassment-claims-institutions-await-fate/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite news|url=https://www.metrotimes.com/the-scene/archives/2017/12/22/jens-hoffmann-resigns-from-mocad-following-sexual-harassment-claims|title=Jens Hoffmann resigns from MOCAD following sexual harassment claims|last=DeVito|first=Lee|date=2017-12-22|work=Detroit Metro Times|access-date=2018-01-24|language=en|archive-date=2018-01-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180123134636/https://www.metrotimes.com/the-scene/archives/2017/12/22/jens-hoffmann-resigns-from-mocad-following-sexual-harassment-claims|url-status=dead}}</ref> The 3rd People's Biennial was supposed to take place at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art in 2019, with Hoffmann co-directing; however, the museum suspended its involvement with Hoffmann after the sexual harassment allegations at the Jewish Museum were not resolved.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2017/12/07/jens-hoffmanns-suspension-sexual-harassment-claims-institutions-await-fate/|title=After Jens Hoffmann's Suspension Over Sexual Harassment Claims, Other Institutions Await His Fate|last=Battaglia|first=Andy|date=2017-12-07|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-28}}</ref>
On December 17, 2017, the Jewish Museum terminated Hoffmann after a review of the allegations. Hoffmann denied "knowingly or purposefully [behaving] in a bullying, intimidating, harassing, or sexually inappropriate manner."<ref name=":4">{{Cite news|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/following-termination-jewish-museum-jens-hoffmann-responds-sexual-harassment-allegations-1183490|title=Fired by the Jewish Museum for Sexual Harassment, Jens Hoffmann Is Both Apologetic and Defiant|last=Halperin|first=Julia|date=2017-12-19|work=artnet News|access-date=2018-01-24|language=en-US}}</ref>
===Post–2017 work===
Hoffman wrote the essay describing the exhibition "Presumed Innocence, or Fifty Shades of Green: On the Work of Anna Weyant" at the 56 Henry gallery in Manhattan that was on show from September through November 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Welcome to the Dollhouse|url=https://56henry.nyc/exhibitions/welcome-to-dollhouse/|access-date=2020-12-06|website=56 Henry|date=13 September 2019 }}</ref> He also co-founded the Espacio Mango art gallery in Bogotá, Colombia.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-11-07|title=Wet Paint: The Biggest Flippers of the Fall Auctions, Warren Kanders Squares Off With the Whitney, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/wet-paint-fall-auctions-1698252|access-date=2020-12-06|website=artnet News|language=en-US}}</ref>
== Teaching == From 2003 to 2008 he served as adjunct faculty member in the curatorial studies program at Goldsmiths, University of London.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cca.edu/news/2010/cca-wattis-director-jens-hoffmann-appointed-curator-12th-international-istanbul-bie|title=CCA Wattis Director Jens Hoffmann Appointed Curator of 12th International Istanbul Biennial|date=2010|website=California College of the Arts|access-date=2018-01-24|archive-date=2018-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125015558/https://www.cca.edu/news/2010/cca-wattis-director-jens-hoffmann-appointed-curator-12th-international-istanbul-bie|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Hoffmann was guest lecturer at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan from 2004 to 2016 <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cca.org.il/en/case-in-point-jens-hoffmann/|title=Case in Point: Jens Hoffmann {{!}} CCA {{!}} המרכז לאמנות עכשווית|date=2013|website=The Center for Contemporary Art|language=en-US|access-date=2018-01-24|archive-date=2018-01-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180125135917/https://cca.org.il/en/case-in-point-jens-hoffmann/|url-status=dead}}</ref> and associate professor at the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at California College of the Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2006 to 2012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fondazioneratti.org/mat/mostre/XV.%20Curating%20the%20Most%20Beautiful%20Kunsthalle%20in%20the%20World/Information%20Sheet%20Jens%20Hoffmann.pdf|title=Archived copy|access-date=2018-04-09|archive-date=2018-04-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180409233616/http://www.fondazioneratti.org/mat/mostre/XV.%20Curating%20the%20Most%20Beautiful%20Kunsthalle%20in%20the%20World/Information%20Sheet%20Jens%20Hoffmann.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2012, Hoffmann was visiting professor and co-taught with Carol Yinghua Lu the curatorial course at the 4th Gwangju Biennale.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news|url=http://www.biennialfoundation.org/2012/05/the-gwangju-biennale-announces-jens-hoffmann-and-carol-yinghua-lu-as-visiting-professors-of-the-2012-gbicc/|title=The Gwangju Biennale announces Jens Hoffmann and Carol Yinghua Lu as Visiting Professors of the 2012 GBICC.|date=2012-05-08|work=Biennial Foundation|access-date=2018-01-27|language=en-US}}</ref>
Hoffmann organized the 2010 Max Wasserman Forum the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, titled ''Parody, Politics, and Performativity'', a forum to address critical issues in contemporary art and culture through arts professionals and which included presentations by artists Tino Sehgal, Tania Bruguera, Joan Jonas, and Claire Fontaine as well as art historians Dorothea von Hantelmann and Frazer Ward.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://listart.mit.edu/events-programs/max-wasserman-forum-parody-politics-and-performativity|title=Max Wasserman Forum Parody, Politics and Performativity|website=MIT List Visual Arts Center|language=en|access-date=2018-01-25|date=2016-05-31|archive-date=2020-09-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918164743/https://listart.mit.edu/events-programs/max-wasserman-forum-parody-politics-and-performativity|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2000 Hoffmann was visiting professor at the department of Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artandeducation.net/announcements/111480/konstfack-s-ma-in-critical-writing-and-curatorial-practice|title=Konstfack's MA in Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice - Announcements - Art & Education|date=2007-04-11|website=www.artandeducation.net|language=en|access-date=2018-01-27}}</ref>
== Books and publications == Hoffmann has written and edited over three dozen books and exhibition publications.
=== Select books === Among his book publications are:
*{{Cite book|title=(Curating) From A to Z|last=Hoffman|first=Jens|publisher=JRP Ringier|year=2017|isbn=978-3-03764-372-3|edition=2|series=Hapax Series}} *{{Cite book|title=The Exhibitionist: Journal on Exhibition Making: The First Six Years|last=Hoffman|first=Jens|publisher=The Exhibitionist|year=2017|isbn=978-1942884125}} A book publication of 12 issues of The Exhibitionist journal. *{{Cite book|title=Show Time: The 50 Most Influential Exhibitions of Contemporary Art|last=Hoffman|first=Jens|publisher=Thames & Hudson Ltd|year=2017|isbn=978-0500292624|edition=2}} *{{Cite book|title=Theater of Exhibitions|last=Hoffman|first=Jens|publisher=Sternberg Press|year=2015|isbn=978-3-95679-087-4}} *{{Cite book|title=(Curating) From A to Z|last=Hoffman|first=Jens|publisher=JRP Ringier|year=2014|isbn=978-3037643723|edition=1|series=Hapax Series}} *{{Cite book|title=Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating|last=Hoffman|first=Jens|publisher=Mousse|year=2013|isbn=9788867490530}} *{{Cite book|title=The Studio|last=Hoffman|first=Jens|publisher=MIT Press|year=2012|isbn=9780262517614|series=Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art}}
=== Select co-authored books ===
*{{Cite book|title=Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist|last1=Hoffman|first1=Jens|last2=Nahson|first2=Claudia J.|publisher=Jewish Museum|year=2016|isbn=9780300212150}} *{{Cite book|title=No Boundaries: Aboriginal Australian Contemporary Abstract Painting|last1=Skerritt|first1=Henry F.|last2=Hoffman|first2=Jens|last3=Fox|first3=William|last4=Carty|first4=John|last5=Circuitt|first5=Edwina|publisher=Prestel|year=2015|isbn=978-3791354491}} *{{Cite book|title=The Power of Pictures: Early Soviet Photography, Early Soviet Film|last1=Tumarkin Goodman|first1=Susan|last2=Hoffman|first2=Jens|last3=Lavrentiev|first3=Alexander|publisher=Jewish Museum|year=2015|isbn=978-0300207682}} *{{Cite book|title=Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation|last1=Pedrosa|first1=Adriano|last2=Hoptman|first2=Laura|last3=Hoffman|first3=Jens|publisher=Phaidon Press|year=2014|isbn=978-0714868578}} *{{Cite book|title=Perform|last1=Hoffman|first1=Jens|last2=Jonas|first2=Joan|publisher=Thames & Hudson|year=2005|isbn=0500930066|series=Art Works}} *{{Cite book|title=The Next Documenta Should Be Curated By An Artist|last1=Bronson|first1=AA|last2=Hoffman|first2=Jens|last3=Jaar|first3=Alfredo|last4=Grigely|first4=Joseph|publisher=e-flux/Revolver|year=2004|isbn=3937577416}}
=== Journals and magazines === ''The Exhibitionist: A Journal on Exhibition Making'' was founded in 2009 by Hoffmann;<ref name=":8">{{Cite web|url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/49246/the-exhibitionist-journal-on-exhibition-making/|title=The Exhibitionist: Journal on Exhibition Making|website=www.e-flux.com|language=en|access-date=2018-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://viaartfund.org/grants/the-exhibitionist/|title=The Exhibitionist|website=VIA Art Fund|language=en-US|access-date=2018-12-11}}</ref> the journal has advocated the author theory as developed specifically by François Truffaut in his 1954 essay "Une certaine tendance du cinéma français" ("A certain tendency in French cinema") and adapted Truffaut's ideas to the sphere of exhibition making.{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}} Hoffman is the editor of ''The Exhibitionist.''<ref name=":8" />
Hoffmann has been editor-at-large for ''Mousse'' magazine since 2011 and is a frequent contributor to ''Frieze'' and ''Artforum''.{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}} He has written for ''Parkett'', ''Texte zur Kunst'', ''DOMUS'', and ''Critique d'Arts'', and was a columnist for ''Purple'' from 2001 to 2003 as well as a correspondent for ''Flash Art'' from 2002 to 2007.{{Citation needed|date=December 2018}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://jenshoffmann.org/home Official site]
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