Alfons Hug (born 16 March 1950[1] in Hochdorf, West Germany) is a curator, critic and exhibition organizer.

He curated the XXV and XXVI São Paulo Art Biennial in 2002 and 2004.

Since the mid-1980s Hug worked as director of Goethe-Institutes (German Cultural Centres) in Lagos, Medellín, Brasília, Caracas and Moscow.

From 2002 to 2015 he occupied this position at the Goethe-Institute in Rio de Janeiro and from July 2015 to February 2016 in Singapore.

From 1994 to 1998 Hug headed the Visual Arts Department at the House of World Cultures, Berlin.