Jens Hoffmann will concurrently work as director of exhibitions and public programs at the Jewish Museum, New York. In this new role, Hoffmann will also be responsible for the curatorial program at MOCAD, which includes two to three exhibitions per year. Hoffman previously served as the director of the CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco.

Hoffmann was curator or cocurator of numerous biennials:
He was co-curator of 9th Shanghai Biennial, 2012-2013, the inaugural exhibition of the Power Station of Art, China’s first public contemporary art museum. With Adriano Pedrosa he curated the 12th Istanbul Biennial in 2011. He co-curated the 2nd San Juan Triennial in Puerto Rico in 2009, was a guest curator of the 9th Lyon Biennial in 2007, guest curator for Manifesta 4 in Frankfurt in 2002 and co-curator of the 1st Berlin Biennial in 1998. With Harrell Fletcher, he developed the People’s Biennial (together with Independent Curators International), of which the first edition was presented in 2010-11 at five U.S. museums, the second edition will be presented at MOCA Detroit in 2014. In 1999 Hoffmann organized, together with Maurizio Cattelan, the 9th Caribbean Biennial in St, Kitts.

In 2009 he founded the publication The Exhibitionist: A Journal on Exhibition Making, and he has been editor-at-large for Mousse magazine since 2011.