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Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.

Hans Haacke's Popular Quotes

A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cult…

- Hans Haacke

Art-making is just another part of the consciousness industry.

- Hans Haacke

When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that…

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It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material or manipulate the findings of perceptual psy…

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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

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Whenever the medium of photography is useful for a particular task, I use it. If another medium is more suitable I use that.

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In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of 'works of art' it is helpful - among other investigations…

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Trivializing the Holocaust is the last thing I want to do.

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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

- Hans Haacke