Background
Hoffmann is the granddaughter of the industrialist Emanuel (Manno) Hoffmann (1896-1932), daughter of Daria Hoffmann-Razumovsky (1925-2002) and the pharmaceutical magnate and renowned naturalist Luc Hoffmann.
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Maja Hoffmann
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Education
In the 1980s, Maja Hoffmann studied film at the New School and at New York University in New York City.
Career
Hoffmann’s grandmother, Maja Stehlin (1896-1989), collected Pablo Picasso, Jean Arp, Fernand Léger, Jean Tinguely and Georges Braque. She then made a documentary film about the fishermen of the Sahara. Maja Hoffmann"s philanthropy supports contemporary art, film, and environmental programmes around the world.
She began her art collecting in the 1980s in New York in the company of Swiss theatre director Werner Düggelin.
They encountered and purchased works there by Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, Andy Warhol and others In the 1990s, she worked at Luc Hoffmann"s Louisiana Tour du Valat, focusing in on the breeding of the Przewalski’s horse (Equus ferus przewalskii) and she helped reintroduce them to their native Mongolia in 2004.
She currently is active with her philanthropy at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Venice Biennale, the Serpentine Gallery in London, and Human Rights Watch in New New York She is a key backer of the ongoing cultural programme in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Activities in Arles
As part of a major initiative to transform Arles into an art city, Hoffmann founded LUMA Arles.
In 2014, she broke ground on LUMA Arles, a cultural complex designed by Frank Gehry for the production of art exhibitions, research, education and archives. lieutenant is scheduled for completion in 2018. Meanwhile, architect Annabelle Selldorf is renovating a cluster of 19th-century industrial buildings into spaces to make and show art
One of them is to house photography and be part of the city’s annual international photography festival, Rencontres d"Arles.
Hoffmann also runs the Michelin-starred organic restaurant Louisiana Chassagnette, an organic restaurant in the Camargue outside Arles.
Achievements
Membership
Hoffmann also serves as a board member of Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, New York’s New Museum (where a floor is dedicated to her) and London’s Tate Gallery, heading up its international council and funding its film programme.
