Michael Hafftka > Portraits

Michael Hafftka, Portrait of Ira Sadoff

Portraits Michael Hafftka Visit Artist page Portraiture has been an important part of Michael Hafftka’s painting practice since he started in the 1980s. While most non-portraitists will attempt the odd one from time to time (or abandon the genre altogether), Hafftka returns to it again and again. Where his figurative works allow him to explore […]

Michael Hafftka > Remembering Stéphane Janssen

Michael Hafftka, Portrait of Stephane Janssen, 2018 (detail)

Portrait of a Collector Michael Hafftka Visit Artist page In September 2020, the artworld lost a great collector of contemporary art, Stéphane Janssen. For the past 20 years, I have been fascinated by what drives collectors and why they build the collections that they do, so it was a privilege to get to know this […]

Michael Hafftka > Monotypes

Michael Hafftka, Natalia, 2019

Monotypes Michael Hafftka Visit Artist page After a break of 14 years, Michael Hafftka is back at the press! When I remarked that his prints look like the work of a painter – in that they are very painterly – Hafftka attributed that to not being fussy about the plate or process like a traditional […]

Michael Hafftka > In the shadow of the Holocaust

Michael Hafftka, The Selecting Hand, 1986

In the shadow of the Holocaust Michael Hafftka Visit Artist page THIS EXHIBITION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH THE ARTIST: Michael Hafftka on the shadow of the Holocaust. (> Artist page) On 9-10 November 1938, the Nazis began their systematic persecution of Jews throughout Germany in what became known as Kristallnacht (the Night […]

Michael Hafftka > Figurative Paintings

Figurative Paintings Michael Hafftka Visit Artist page We are pleased to present a selection of figurative paintings by Michael Hafftka. Hafftka has said that growing up in the concrete jungle of New York, the human figure was the most natural thing in his environment and so he was drawn to it. His figures originate in his visions […]