Nicolaus Schafhausen is a curator

Curator

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Since 2006, Schafhausen is the artistic and financial director of Witte de Withhttp://www.wdw.nl, Center for Contemporary art in Rotterdam

Rotterdam

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, The Netherlands.
He was the founding director of the "European Kunsthalle"http://www.eukunsthalle.com initiative in Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

, which began in 2005.
He worked during the 1990s as the artistic director at the Künstlerhaus Stuttgarthttp://www.kuenstlerhaus.de and he was director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein

Frankfurter Kunstverein

The Frankfurt Art Association is an art museum founded in 1829 by a group of influential citizen of the city of Frankfurt, Germany. The aim of the institution is to support the arts in the city, which was an important center of trade and business...

 from 1999 - 2005.
Schafhausen was the curator of the German Pavilionhttp://www.deutscher-pavillon.org for the 52nd in 2007 and the 53rd in 2009 Venice Biennial

His thematic orientated group exhibitions have in the most part examined specific art practice in relation to contemporary social-political issues. This approach was made visible in projects such as "Populism" at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, CAC in Vilnius, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo and the Frankfurter Kunstverein in 2005. His curated group exhibitions include: "Adorno

Theodor W. Adorno

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, The possibility of the impossible" (2003), "Neue Welt", "non-places", "New Heimat" (2001-2002). He curated several one-person exhibitions, including Kai Althoff

Kai Althoff

- Life and work :Kai Althoff was born in Cologne, Germany. He is a multimedia artist and a painter.He has shown work in exhibitions including the 2004 Venice Biennale, Drawing Now at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Chère Paintre, Liebe Maler, Dear Painter at the Pompidou Centre in Paris and A...

, Gerard Byrne

Gerard Byrne

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, Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson

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, Brian Jungen

Brian Jungen

Brian Jungen is a Canadian artist from British Columbia with Swiss and Dunne-za First Nations ancestry...

, Isa Genzken

Isa Genzken

Isa Genzken is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Berlin.-Education:Genzken studied fine arts and art history at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts from 1969–1971, the Berlin University of the Arts from 1971–1973, and Arts Academy Düsseldorf from 1973-1977. Genzken married German visual...

, Liam Gillick

Liam Gillick

Liam Gillick is a British conceptual artist who lives in New York City. He is often associated with the artists included the 1996 exhibit Traffic, which first introduced the term Relational Art.-Life and career:...

, [Billy Apple] Billy Apple

Billy Apple

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 Mathias Poledna, Stephen Prina

Stephen Prina

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 and Cerith Wyn Evans

Cerith Wyn Evans

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