Maja Hoffmann

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Maja Hoffmann (born 1956) is an avid Swiss art collector, art patron, documentary filmmaker, impresario, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of the LUMA Foundation in the Provençal city of Arles France. 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 (1923–2016). Hoffmann's grandmother, Maja Stehlin (1896–1989), collected Pablo Picasso, Jean Arp, Fernand Léger, Jean Tinguely and Georges Braque. She created the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation (whose collection forms the main core of the Schaulager) in 1933 to honour her husband Emanuel, who had died when his car was hit by a train when her father, Luc, was still a child. In the 1980s, Hoffmann studied film at the New School and at New York University in New York City. She then made a documentary film about the fishermen of the Sahara. Today, she is part of the shareholder pool made up of descendants of the founder of the Roche Holding AG, which controls the Swiss health-care company Hoffmann-La Roche. Hoffmann has two children with the film producer Stanley F. Buchthal, who in some of Hoffmann's films acts as co-executive producer. Buchthal, who comes from Teaneck, New Jersey was a founder of the Bugle Boy company and now runs his own media company, with Liz Garbus, The Dakota Group Limited. Hoffmann's philanthropy supports contemporary art, film, and environmental programmes around the world. In the 1990s, she worked at Luc Hoffmann's La 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, Rencontres d'Arles in Arles, the Venice Biennale, the Serpentine Gallery in London, and Human Rights Watch in New York.[citation needed] She is president of Kunsthalle Zürich and Vice-President of the Council of the Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung (Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation) in Basel whose art collection was started by her grandparents and is now part of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel). 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. She is a key backer of the ongoing cultural programme in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. 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. It is scheduled for completion in 2019. 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 La Chassagnette, an organic restaurant in the Camargue outside Arles.