Maja Hoffmann
Maja Hoffmann (born 1956) is a Swiss art collector,
Early life and education
Hoffmann is the granddaughter of the
Hoffmann's grandmother, Maja Stehlin (1896–1989), collected Pablo Picasso, Jean Arp, Fernand Léger, Jean Tinguely and Georges Braque. She created the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation (whose collection forms the main core of the Schaulager) in 1933 to honor her grandfather Emanuel, who had died when his car was hit by a train when her father, Luc, was still a child.[5]
In the 1980s, Maja studied film at the
Art collecting
Hoffmann began her
In 2015,
Documentary film executive production
As an executive producer, Hoffmann has realised a number of documentary films, including
Philanthropy
Hoffmann's philanthropy supports
Hoffmann currently is active with her
Hoffmann also serves as a
Hoffmann was part of the jury which selected Clément Cogitore as winner of the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2018.[13] In 2023 Hoffmann became the first female board president for the Locarno Film Festival.[14]
LUMA Foundation
In 2004, Hoffmann founded the LUMA Foundation (Zurich) as a vehicle to express her ongoing artistic commitments, followed by LUMA Arles (France) in 2013, an experimental and cross-disciplinary platform dedicated to the production of exhibitions, art and ideas, research, education, and archives. Located at the Parc des Ateliers in Arles, a former industrial site, LUMA Foundation includes a resource center designed by architect Frank Gehry; various industrial buildings rehabilitated by Annabelle Selldorf; and a public park designed by landscape architect Bas Smets. The site’s main building, the LUMA Tower by Gehry, opened in the summer of 2021.
Hoffmann works closely with a core group of art advisors that include Tom Eccles (executive director and associate exhibition curator at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College), artist Liam Gillick, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, artist Philippe Parreno and curator Beatrix Ruf on a program of exhibitions and multidisciplinary projects presented each year in the site’s newly rehabilitated venues.
La Chassagnette
Hoffmann also runs the
Personal life
Hoffmann has two adult children with the film producer Stanley F. Buchthal, who in some of Hoffmann's films, acts as co-executive producer.[16] Buchthal, who comes from Teaneck, New Jersey was a founder of the Bugle Boy company and now runs his own media company, with Liz Garbus, The Dakota Group Limited.[17]
Footnotes
- New York Times.
- ^ "Maja Hoffmann at W magazine". Archived from the original on 2013-07-07. Retrieved 2013-08-23.
- ^ "This French City Is the Art World's New Hot Spot". Architectural Digest. 15 November 2016. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
- ^ Service funèbre announcement
- ^ "Maja Hoffmann at W magazine". Archived from the original on 2013-07-07. Retrieved 2013-08-23.
- ^ "Maja Hoffmann at W magazine". Archived from the original on 2013-07-07. Retrieved 2013-08-23.
- ^ Steidl: "This is the House that Jack Built"
- ^ Steidl: "This is the House that Jack Built"
- ^ "Maja Hoffmann at W magazine". Archived from the original on 2013-07-07. Retrieved 2013-08-23.
- ^ “Association pour le Cheval de Przewalski Archived 2013-03-31 at the Wayback Machine” Official TAKH site. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
- New York Times.
- ^ "Maja Hoffmann at W magazine". Archived from the original on 2013-07-07. Retrieved 2013-08-23.
- ^ Alex Greenberger (15 October 2018), Clément Cogitore Wins 2018 Prix Marcel Duchamp ARTnews.
- ^ [1] Variety, Maja Hoffmann First Female Board President of the Locarno Film Festival
- New York Times.
- ^ "Maja Hoffmann at W magazine". Archived from the original on 2013-07-07. Retrieved 2013-08-23.
- ^ "Maja Hoffmann at W magazine". Archived from the original on 2013-07-07. Retrieved 2013-08-23.