Annette Hans

Function: Director Gak-Bremen Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Country: Germany Visiting period: 18 - 22 May Visiting year: 2022

Before she was artistic director of Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg where she realized exhibitions with a.o. Alex Wissel, Annika Larsson, Dara Friedman and Elif Saydam, started an exhibition series in four old station showcases and collaborated closely with Hamburgs Art School HFBK.

2013-2014 curator in residence at M.1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung Hohenlockstedt; 2009-2012 curator at Kunstverein in Hamburg; 2007-2009 curatorial trainée and Projektraum Schaufenster Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; 2006-2007 curatorial assistant European Kunsthalle, Cologne. Alongside her institutional practice she worked on independent projects in public space, was founding member of an international village magazine in Hohenlockstedt which implements artistic strategies, to challenge the historical and contemporary spheres of action of critical citizenship in its specific context. Together with Oliver Bulas, she forms How To: The Flow of Spirit which has been realizing dialogical workshop situations in Hamburg, Berlin, Rio de Janeiro and Lyon since 2018 to expand and reflect on social frames of action, and to transfer them into alternative and collective social relations.