Nicolaus Schafhausen (born 1965) is a German

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, director, author, and editor of numerous publications on

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. Since 2012 he has been the Strategic Director of Fogo Island Arts, an initiative of the Canadian Shorefast Foundation to find alternative solutions for the revitalization of the area that is prone to emigration. Schafhausen is also a Visiting Lecturer at HISK, Higher Institute of Fine Arts, Gent. Schafhausen co-curated the 6th

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in 2015. He has curated a number of international festivals and exhibitions such as "Media City" Seoul 2010, or the "Dutch House" for the Expo 2010 in Shanghai. In 2007 and 2009 he was the curator of the German Pavilion for the 52nd and 53rd

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, and for the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015 he curated the Kosovo Pavilion. In addition to curating exhibitions, national pavilions and other curatorial projects, Schafhausen has led institutions such as the Frankfurter Kunstverein, the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, and the

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in Rotterdam. He was the founding Director of the European Kunsthalle, conceived as a project to examine the conditions and structures of contemporary art institutions, independent of local government mandates. He was the Director of

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until 2018.
e-flux announcement. He was born in

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