Nicolaus Schafhausen is director of Kunsthalle Wien. Previously, he has been artistic director at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, director of Frankfurter Kunstverein, curator at NIFCA Helsinki, and director of Witte de With, Rotterdam. Since 2011, he has also been strategic director of Fogo Island Arts. In 1993, he organized Kai Althoff’s first solo exhibition at Galerie Lukas and Hoffmann, Berlin.