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Jens Hoffmann is responsible for the development of exhibitions and public programs in venues on CCA's San Francisco campus. He also directs the Capp Street Project artists' residency program there.

Before arriving at Wattis, Hoffmann was director of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London, a position he held from 2004 to early 2007. At the ICA, he organized several group exhibitions, including Artists' Favorite (2004), 100 Artists See God (2004-5), London in Six Easy Steps (2005), Around the World in Eighty Days (2006) and Alien Nation (2006). He also curated solo exhibitions for John Bock, Cerith Wyn Evans, Tino Sehgal, Jonathan Monk and Martha Rosler.

Hoffmann has worked for institutions and exhibitions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Dia Center for the Arts, New York; Documenta X, Kassel; and Portikus Kunsthalle, Frankfurt. He has curated exhibitions for KIASMA — Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Kolnischer Kuntstverein, Cologne; Kunstverin, Hamburg; Kunst-Werke, Berlin; and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.

Hoffmann was co-curator of the First Prague Biennial (2003) and the First Tirana Biennial (2001), and he was assistant curator of the First Berlin Biennial (1998). As an independent curator, Hoffmann has organized exhibitions since 1998, including "A Little Bit of History Repeated," Berlin (2001); "A Show That Will Show That A Show Is Not Only A Show," Los Angeles (2002); "The Exhibition As A Work of Art," Rio de Janeiro (2003); "A Walk to Remember," Los Angeles (2005); and "Home of the Free," Chicago (2006).