Alfons Hug (born in Hochdorf, Southern West Germany) 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-1980s Hug has worked as director of Goethe-Institutes (German Cultural Centres) 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" (House of World Cultures), Berlin. History 2020: Curator "Invisible Biennale" 2018: Curator of the 11th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil 2016: Curator of the 3rd Bienal de Montevideo, Uruguay 2015: Curator of the Latin American Pavilion, IILA, Venice Biennial 2014: Curator of the 2nd. Bienal of Montevideo, Uruguay 2013: Curator of the Latin American Pavilion, IILA, Venice Biennial 2013: Curator Proyecto "Trapananda", Aysén, Chile 2012: Curator of the "BRICS"-project, Kochi Biennial, India 2012: Curator of the 1st. Bienal of Montevideo, Uruguay 2011: Curator of the Latin American Pavilion, IILA, Venice Biennial 2011: Curator of the Bienal de Curitiba, Brazil 2009: Curator of the Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina 2005: Curator of Brazilian Pavilion, Venice Biennial 2005: Curator of Brazilian Representation, New Delhi Triennial 2004: Curator of Brazilian Representation, Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador 2004: Chief Curator, 26th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (917,000 visitors) 2003: Organizer of "Old Art from Africa", Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (750,000 visitors) 2003: Curator of Brazilian Pavilion, Venice Biennial 2003: Co-curator, 4th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, Brazil 2002: Chief Curator, 25th Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil (670,000 visitors) Curated also: 2022: "SILK", Giudecca Art District, Venice 2021: Oriental Heritage, Hamam in Icherisheher, Baku 2021: Haft Paykar, Kapellhaus Baku 2019: The Theft of Fire, Kapellhaus Baku 2019: A Doll's House, Kapellhaus Baku 2018: Géricault's shipwreck, Kapellhaus Baku 2017-18: Ex Africa, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, São Paulo) 2017: The Atlantic Triangle, Lagos, Nigeria as well as Saracura art space in Rio de Janeiro 2017: Vanishing Voices,