Alfons Hug 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-'80s Hug has worked as Director of Goethe-Institutes in Lagos, Medellín, Brasília, Caracas and Moscow. From 2002-2015 he occupied this position at the Goethe-Institute in Rio de Janeiro and from July 2015-February 2016 in Singapore. From June 2016 till June 2017 he was again director of the Goethe-Institute in Lagos, Nigeria. Hug is currently director of Goethe-Zentrum in Baku. In the 1990s Hug was head of the Visual Arts Department at "Haus der Kulturen der Welt", Berlin.
2016: Jogos do Sul, Centro Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro
2016: Club Berlin, Deck Artspace, Singapore
2015: Zeitgeist Berlin, CCBB Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Brasilia
2015-16: O papagaio de Humboldt-Indigenous voices, Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Oca, Bienal de Curitiba, Bienal de Asuncion, Bienal de Nuevos Medios, Santiago, HAU 2, Hellerau Dresden, Ramallah
2013: O jogo só acaba quando termina - art and football
2012: "High Tech-low tech": Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte
2010-2011: "Menos Tiempo que Lugar": Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Salta, Quito, Santiago, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Medellín, La Paz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Lima, Guadalajara
2009: "Arte da Antártida", Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro
2009-2010: "Intemperie", Ushuaia, Punta Arenas, Rosario, Montevideo, Porto Alegre, Curitiba, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Boston, Quito, Toulouse, Kiel, Berlin, Hong Kong, Manila
2007-2009: "The Tropics", CCBB Brasília, CCBB Rio de Janeiro, Martin-Gropius-Bau, National Gallery, Jim Thompson Art Center
2007: "Relíquias e Ruinas", Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro
2007: "Arte da China", CCBB Rio de Janeiro
2006: "Fußball: Zeichnung auf grünem Grund", CCBB Rio de Janeiro
2006: Neue brasilianische Fotokunst, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein
2005: "Alegoria barroca na arte contemporânea", CCBB, Rio de Janeiro
2004: "Carnaval", Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
2000: "90x60x90-El síndrome de la Miss", Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas
1999: Internetproject with ZKM : Philip Pocock, Roberto Cabot, W. Staehle
1999: El Retorno de Humboldt
1998: Biennale de Dakar, co-curator, Contemp. Korean Art,
1997: Painting from China, Berlin
1997: Die anderen Modernen,
1996: Colours – South African Art
1995: Havanna/São Paulo- Contemporary Art from Latin America
Die Rote Burg – Art from Spain and North Africa
Contemporary African Art
1994: Soundscape Brasília, various venues in Brasília
1994: Revendo Brasília, Galeria Athos Bulcão, Museu de Imagem e Som, Palácio Gustavo Capanema, Museu Metropolitano de Arte
1984-87: 10 individual and group shows of Nigerian artists in Lagos
1992-93 : Arte Amazonas, Museu de Arte Moderna, Museu de Arte,, Kunsthalle Berlin, Ludwig Forum, Aachen
