Alfons Hug

Alfons Hug (born 16 March 1950 in Hochdorf, West Germany) 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-1980s Hug worked as director of Goethe-Institutes (German Cultural Centres) in Lagos, Medellín, Brasília, Caracas and Moscow. From 2002 to 2015 he occupied this position at the Goethe-Institute in Rio de Janeiro and from July 2015 to February 2016 in Singapore. From June 2016 until June 2017 he was again director of the Goethe-Institute in Lagos, Nigeria, and from 2017 to 2023 founding director of the Goethe-Zentrum in Baku, Azerbaijan.

From 1994 to 1998 Hug headed the Visual Arts Department at the House of World Cultures, Berlin. Provided by Wikipedia