ALEXANDER HAHN
electronic media artist
NEWS
Mar 25 - 28, 2024
Jul 21, 2023
Apr 27, 2023
«INDOCAM»
2022, HD video, stereo
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
SHARK
2 versions:
NFT: 2500 × 2500 px, edition of 10
0.1 ETH
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
ENDLESS DREAM CO.
2 versions:
NFT: HD 1920 x1080 px, 4 loops @ 47 sec, edition of 5
0.2 ETH
Hardcover video book, edition of 20 + 2 AP
CHF 1’750
CHF 1’500 for members of the Kunstverein St.Gallen
Oct 29, 2022 - Apr 02, 2023
MEMORY OF LIGHT - LIGHT OF MEMORY
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
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)
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
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
Dec 10, 2021 - Jan 30, 2022
Dec 04 & 05, 2021
Oct 02, 2021 (Online publication date)
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
presents
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
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.
Oct 24, 2020 - Aug 29, 2021
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
presents
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
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
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
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
Art>Tour 2020
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
68 North Avenue
Owego, NY 13827
FACE TO FACE I
at
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.
Singular Acts
On bestowing permanence to the ephemeral
19a Adly Street,
Cairo, Egypt
Sun, Sept 15, 2019
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
See more …
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
See more …
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 Hahn • INDIA 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,
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
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