ALEXANDER HAHN

electronic media artist

NEWS

Mar 25 - 28, 2024

Jul  21, 2023

Apr 27, 2023


«INDOCAM»

2022, HD video, stereo

RED FOX

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Tblisi, Georgia


«INDOCAM»

2022, HD video, stereo

ON ART - POLAND

The biggest open-air film festival in Central Europe, 

showing in 15 cities in Poland


Centrum Kultury w Lublinie

18h00 - 19h30 

Peowiaków 12, 

Lublin, lubelskie, 20-007, 

Poland



«INDOCAM»

2022, HD video, stereo

TRANSPARENT FILM FESTIVAL

New York

Apr 02, 2023

Kunstmuseum and Kunstverein St.Gallen drop their first NFTs, the 3D-CGI «Shark»and the 3D-computer animation «Endless Dream Co.», two new works of mine, available on the  Rarible marketplace 

SHARK

2 versions:

NFT: 2500 × 2500 px, edition of 10

0.1 ETH

Buy NFT 

       

Inkjet print on reflex free glass, 30 × 30 cm, edition of 10  + 2 AP
CHF 1'500
CHF 1'250 for members of the Kunstverein St.Gallen

Order print

ENDLESS DREAM CO.

2 versions:

NFT: HD 1920 x1080 px, 4 loops @ 47 sec, edition of 5

0.2 ETH

Buy NFT

        

Hardcover video book, edition of  20  + 2 AP
CHF 1’750
CHF 1’500 for members of the Kunstverein St.Gallen

Order edition

Oct 29, 2022 - Apr 02, 2023

«Memory of Light - Light of Memory», solo exhibition of Alexander Hahn, announcement Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

MEMORY OF LIGHT - LIGHT OF MEMORY


KUNSTMUSEUM ST. GALLEN


The Kunstmuseum St. Gallen is presenting «Memory of Light - Light of Memory», a large survey of my video installations, kinetic objects, video vignettes and computer generated images: brand new works like the LED mosaic «Transit of Earth» (2022) or the 3D computer graphic image «The Sands of Mars» (2022); a few pieces from my repertoire, tailored for this exhibition, e.g. «On the Nature of Things» (1996), the video installation with the venerable rain machine; parts of the extensive «Indian Cycle», shown for the first time in Switzerland with a premiere of «Thomas Daniell in the Ruins of Naurattan» (2022). 


There will be various accompanying events, coming up is the panel discussion ‹Diving into another reality› history and fascination of Game Design with Mona Mur, musician and composer, and Prof. Ulrich Götz, head of Game Design, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.. 



More info here >>>

Dec 09, 2022

CLOSE:UP

EDINBURGH DOCUFEST

Edinburgh


2022,HD video, stereo

Nov 26 & 27, 2022

Oct 10 - Nov 24, 2022

from May 21, 2022

photo: Urs Burger

Original Artist Postcards

Original Künstlerkarten

Annual Group Show


Haltestelle Strahlholz/CH


Curators: 

Birgit Widmer, Harlis Schweizer Hadjidj & 

Hans Schweizer

Participating with Occult Chemistry 

(2019  8’4:40’, HD video, stereo)

INTERMEDIALE

VIDEOSYNTEZY

2022


Galeria Ring

Legnica/PL

KUNSTMUSEUM ST. GALLEN

St. Gallen/CH

The Collection ::

Highlights & Heavyweights

Participating with

N 47.2915° - E 9.3294° (Bernard T.)

1988/2017, 2:17’, loop,HD video, stereo

Private collection

Computer generated Alpine mountains and analog video window. A stationary camera, positioned at

N 47.2915° - E 9.3294°, on Mt Kronberg, captures a wanderer appearing and disappearing in the mist. Single channel video, originally part of an artist video brochure.

curated by Nadia Veronese & Matthias Wohlgemuth

Friday, Jan 21, 2022 & Tue, Jan 25, 2022

Jan 13 -15, 2022

I N D O C A M


W O R L D  P R E M I E R E

at the

5 7 .  F I L M T A G E  S O L O T H U R N

Check it out here >>>


INDOCAM is an experimental video about the artist’s travels from the US to India. Secretly shot with a cheap Chinese camera watch, it’s an attempt to capture the unforeseen reality unaltered by the apparent presence of a lens. The viewers travel along like stowaways: visa office, subway, airport, immigration, supermarket, civic reception, art opening, religious ritual, protest vigil. Experimental in genre, composited frame by frame from shaky footage and an erratic codec, INDOCAM looks at the fortuitous crisscross of the artist’s itinerary with other private lives and public events, some of which would shape the politics of India to this day.




Dec 23, 2021 - Jan 03, 2022

Dec 01 & Dec 02, 2021

GoGoGo

Videos by Anne Sylvie Henchoz, Joan Jonas, Paola Junqueira, Donna Kukama, Luc Mattenberger, Tony Morgan, Adrien Missika, Muriel Olesen, Viola Poli, Anne Sauser-Hall, Alexander Hahn, Katja Schenker, Veronika Spierenburg, Salla Tykkä, Adrianna Wallis.

 curated by Marie-Ève Knoerle

Le Grütli

Geneva/CH


Participating with Dirt Site 

(1990, 15:50', SD video, stereo)

We are Family

Group Show


LaMaMa

La Galleria

47 Great Jones St

New York, NY 10003


Woman in a Houndstooth Suit Collapsed at the Bottom of the Stairs (Detail ), pigment ink on glass


Visiting Artist

at

PRATT INSTITUTE

Digital Design Department

Brooklyn, NY


Local - Global - Martian

zoom.us

presentation

Duration: 2.5 hr

Link available by request

Dec 10, 2021 - Jan 30, 2022

Dec 04 & 05, 2021

 Oct 02, 2021 (Online publication date)

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen 

presents


H E I M S P I E L  2 0 2 1


The HEIMSPIEL/HOME GAME is an an overview of the current work of artists from Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein, the cantons of Appenzell Ausserrhoden and Innerrhoden, St. Gallen, Thurgau and Glarus. The exhibition venues are the Kunsthalle Appenzell, the Kunstraum Dornbirn, the Kunsthaus Glarus, the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, where my work will be shown, a small selection from my posts on social media during the pandemic, monocular ink jet prints and videos, all views from my Chinatown studio window onto the Park below.


Curators: Nadia Veronese and Lorenz Wiederkehr

Project management: Nina Keel and Anna Vetsch

Original Artist Postcards

Original Künstlerkarten

Annual Group Show


Haltestelle Strahlholz/CH



Curators: 

Birgit Widmer, Harlis Schweizer Hadjidj & 

Hans Schweizer

Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY 

presents

7 L I N K S

Webwork


A pictorial riddle with seven keys, celebrating and honoring the 50th birthday of the EXPERIMENTAL TELEVISION CENTER, OWEGO, NY

It turned out to be far more extensive than I had anticipated — reflecting the contagious spread of things ETC in my work and life.

Check it out here >>>






Oct 24, 2020 - Aug 29, 2021

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen   

presents


WORLD ON A WIRE

artists: 

Karin Karinna Bühler, Silvie & Chérif Defraoui, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Georg Gatsas, Andy Guhl, Alexander Hahn, Mona Hatoum, Peter Liechti, MANON, Matthew McCaslin, Norbert Möslang, Jason Rhoades, Pipilotti Rist, Keith Sonnier, Aleksandra Signer, Roman Signer

curator: 

Roland Wäspe



Participating with 

The Bernoulli Itinerary

1989, b/w video projection and one stripped, hanging TV tube, sound,

alternatively 4 hanging, stripped TV tubes  

Collection Kunstmuseum St. Gallen

Mar 18 - Apr 04, 2021

Nov 28 & 29, 2020

Nov 23 & 24, 2020

GETTING OUT OF ROUT(IN)E

Videoformes 2021

Clermont-Ferrand/FR


During the first lockdown in France, VIDEOFORMES launched the call for project “Getting Out of Rout(in)e” and collected more than 90 videos, covering the period from March to July 2020. At the time, the situation was still unprecedented and exceptional. 

Let yourself go through glances from all horizons: experimental and sensible videos and quirky or poetic visions regarding this strange period.

The videos are gathered in units about 30 minutes each.

My contribution is Essential Workers  - Men in Hazmat Suits

Original Artist Postcards

Original Künstlerkarten

Annual Group Show


Haltestelle Strahlholz/CH


curators: 

Birgit Widmer, Harlis Schweizer Hadjidj &  Hans Schweizer

Visiting Artist

at

PRATT INSTITUTE

Digital Design Department

Brooklyn, NY


Plein-air

zoom.us

presentation

Duration: 2.5 hr

Link available by request

Oct 01 - Dec 28, 2020

Jul 25, 2020

Jun 11 - Jun 21, 2020

#ICPConcerned

Global Images for Global Crisis


International Center of Photography

New York


Participating with

Night Shift

Date: 2020

Technique: inkjet print

Dimension: 26 x 20 inch


curators: 

David Campany & ICP staff

Interview with Rico Steinemann 

Zürcher Oberländer

Wetzikon/CH



Pdf (in German)

Art>Tour 2020


Oberländer Kunstschau

Wetzikon/CH


Special Guest

Participating with

Urban Memories

Date: 1987

Technique: 3 ch. video installation


curators: Sergio Tommasi, Claudine Sprenger, Franziska Dora

Apr 28, 2020

Feb 21 - 28, 2020

Jan 18 - Feb 02, 2020

Visiting Artist

at

PRATT INSTITUTE

Digital Design Department

Brooklyn, NY


Adventures in my Apartment

zoom.us

presentation

Duration: 1 hr

Link available by request

Artist in Residence

at

SIGNAL CULTURE

Owego, NY


Image 

generation/processing

for


Occult Chemistry

Work in progress

3 channel anamorphic video installation

for prisms, video projectors

and wax screens



Signal Culture

 68 North Avenue

Owego, NY 13827

FACE TO FACE I

at

KUNSTRAUM OKTOGON

Bern/CH


artists: 

Aeppli, Anker, Baselitz, Bieler, Denzler, Dubois, Egger, Gertsch, Giacometti, Hahn, Hari, Hodler, Klee, Kratki, Lüthi, Manon, Michel, Nauman, Oppenheim, Paladino, Picasso, Rainer, Raetz, Redon, Rembrandt, Schnider, Tinguely, Tschumi, Tuymans, Villon, Warhol, Wick, Wols


curator:

Ferdinand Oberholzer

Sept 09 - Sept 30,  2019

Jun 14 - Sept 14, 2019

Jun 01 - Aug 11, 2019

Occult Chemistry

single channel video, 6:04’

2019


World premiere at the 

9th Cairo Video Festival

Cairo, Egypt


The Cairo Video Festival is an annual showcase of video art and experimental film, organized by Medrar, a non-profit collective based in Cairo, Egypt.

 

A R T I S T  T A L K 

Singular Acts

On bestowing permanence to the ephemeral


Cimatheque

19a Adly Street,

Cairo, Egypt


Sun, Sept 15, 2019


Short video by Medrar TV 

on the opening in Medrar

RR Enters a Gallery & Sees a Likeness of Herself in Chandigarh …

Date: 2017

Technique: series of 7, pigment ink on glass, mixed media, edition of 3, 1 AP

Dimension: 11 x 14 inch, each



Art & Friends, a group show at Deutsches Haus @ NYU, features works by artists Therese Balduzzi, Jon Dee, Douglas Eisenstark, Alexander Hahn, Kay Hines, Bruno Jakob, Regula Rüegg, Silvelin von Scanzoni and Hans Witschi. The exhibition hosts a range of different personal approaches to the themes of life and personality, from abstract to representation, expressed in various media - photography, print, video, painting and drawing.


Deutsches Haus @ NYU

42 Washington Mews

New York, NY


Opening  Fri, Jun 14 at 6:30 PM

On view until Sept 14, 2019



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CFL - Coded Fluorescent Light 

Video Triptych 

2019


as part of the 

New York Electronic Art Festival 2019

 curated by Carol Parkinson


This year’s theme is Physical and Digital: multifaceted visions in electronic art, an exhibition with Julia Sinelnikova, Amy Youngs, LoVid, Zahra Poonawala, Alexander Hahn, Susie Ibarra, Michael Schumacher, Ursula Scherrer, Moreshin Allahyari and Amanda Gutiérrez, Russian Sound Art Showcase (RSAS)


Building 10a / Nolan Park / Governors Island, New York, NY


from Jun 01 thru Aug 11, 2019



A R T I S T  T A L K


Sat., Jun 22nd, 3-5pm




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May 24, 2019

Jan 21, 2019

Inauguration of


ALBEDO 0.30 

video for LED mosaic

24 hours, loop

2019



commissioned by F. Hoffmann-La Roche,

permanently installed at

LaRoche's Home for IT in Kaiseraugst/CH

Installation, putting into service and handing over of


ALBEDO 0.30 

video for LED mosaic

24 hours, loop

2019


commissioned by F. Hoffmann-La Roche,

permanently installed at

LaRoche's Home for IT in Kaiseraugst/CH

Nov 08 - 16 , 2018

Apr 28 - May 08, 2018

ETHEREA 2nd edition

NO LIMITS


artists: 

Peter Aerschmann, Stefano Cagol, Alexander Hahn, Georgette Maag, Roberto Rossini, Sara Tirelli, Christian Zanotto


curated by 

Viana Conti, Derrick de Kerckhove, Virginia Monteverde


Opening:

Saturday, November 08 2018, 

4:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.


Palazzo Ducale, Loggia degli Abati

Genova/IT 


Showing:

Moonlighting: dance by lunar polarity

VR animation, 2017

THE SHED

presents


Alexander HahnINDIA MATERIAL

digital & kinetic works


Opening: Saturday, April 28, 2018, 8 p.m. - 10 p.m.

April 28 - May 08, 2018 - by appointment



India Material is an artistic take on the spiritual concept of reincarnation, the endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. The fruit of an artist residency in India, the works integrate video with early forms of animation and historic devices, precursors to modern time-based media. The loop in particular acts as a vehicle to virtually sculpt from everyday life essential, alas transient moments while keeping everything in flux – replay ad infinitum.




The Shed Space

366 6th Street, 

Brooklyn, NY 11215 

www.shedspace.org

November 18 - 25, 2017

Nov 01, 2017 - Oct 15, 2018

ETHEREA 1st edition

IL MEDIUM E IL MESSAGIO


artists: 

Peter Aerschmann, Stefano Cagol, Alexander Hahn, Georgette Maag, Roberto Rossini, Sara Tirelli, Christian Zanotto


curated by 

Viana Conti, Derrick de Kerckhove, Virginia Monteverde


Opening:

Saturday, November 18, 2017 

4:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.


Chiesa di Sant'Agostino and Palazzo Ducale, Loggia degli Abati

Genova/IT 


Premiere of:

On the Rationalization of Sight 

5 gif animations for 4K flat screen TVs 

(2017) 


HD Projection of 

My Own Private Universe 

The Great Attractor

Computer animation

(1999)

Kunstzeughaus Rapperswil, Switzerland

IN FOCUS • ALEXANDER HAHN


Opening: 

Wed, Nov 01 2017, 6.30 p.m.

through October 15, 2018


Welcome speech: 

Dr. Patrick Sommer, President of the Foundation Kunst(Zeug)Haus

Introduction: Victoria Fleury and Lorin Reichwein, exhibition co-curators and collection research assistants.


The Focus-Exhibition will concentrate on Alexander Hahn, whose works collectors and art patrons Peter and Elisabeth Bosshard have been collecting for several decades. Highlights from our extensive collection will give unique insight into the multi-faceted oeuvre of this internationally renowned electronic media artist.



Image: Alexander Hahn

Broadway & Columbus – the prints, 2005


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