MFA, University of Fine Arts, Zurich/CH, 1974-1979
Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York, 1981
lives and works in New York and Zürich
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 Harvestworks, New York (Cao Chang Di Road on November 24 2009 I Stood There Waiting)
2010 Kunstraum Oktogon, Bern/CH (Bringing Things to a Standstill)
Le Petit Versailles, New York (Luminous Point)
2008 Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa/IT
(Festival della Scienza: Alexander Hahn - Luminous Point)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco/US
(Room for Thought: Alexander Hahn & Yves Netzhammer)
2007 Padiglione d‘Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara/IT
(La Signoria degli Astri)
Museum der Moderne Salzburg/AT (Works 1976-2006)
Kunstmuseum Solothurn/CH (Works 1976-2006)
2006 Darat-al-Funun, Amman/JO
2002 Musée Jenisch, Vevey/CH (Mémoires Astrales d'un Homme Volant)
2000 Netmage, LINK, Bologna/IT (Memory of Presence)
1999 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin/DE (I Came Here to Sleep)
1998 World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam/NL (Popular Admiration of Great Thieves)
1997 Kunstmuseum Bern/CH
1996 International Center of Photography, New York/US (Fundamentals of Legerdemain)
Galeria Foksal, Warsaw/PL (On the Nature of Things)
1995 Kunsthaus Zürich/CH (Personal Records)
1994 Daad Galerie, Berlin/DE (Rats)
1993 World Wide Video Centre, The Hague/NL
1984 White Columns, New York/US (Cyborgs and Other New Machines)
1982 Franklin Furnace, New York/US (Plant #50-316)
Group exhibitions and festivals, including :: Lemancolia, Musée Jenisch, Vevey/CH (2013), Video Lounge, India Art Fair, New Delhi/IN (2013), Parallel Cities, Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhawan, New Delhi/IN (2013), Sarai Reader 09 | Event 03, Devi Art Foundation,Gurgaon/IN (2013), Heimspiel, Kunsthalle St. Gallen/CH (2012), Springende Lachse, Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil/CH (2012), ctrl + 0 - digital Art, nextex, St. Gallen/CH (2011), Tribute to the Experimental Television Center, Anthology Film Archives, New York (2011), Art&Friends, Deutsches Haus, New York (2011), Amphibian, Time In Gallery, New York (2011), Café des Rêves, Helmhaus Zurich/CH (2011), IMAI Videolounge, Art Cologne/DE (2010), Festival des Films sur l'Art, Montréal/CA (2010), Timelapse, Centre PasquArt, Bienne/CH (2010), Imaging the Future, 5th Edition, Theatre du Passage, Neuchatel/CH (2010), An Evening of Swiss Video Art, Kunsthaus Aarau/CH (2010), Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit, Kunstmuseum Solothurn/CH (2010), Playlist, Galeria NeonCampobase, Milano/IT (2010), Videonale Bonn/DE (2010), Media Art China 2009 : Timelapse, National Art Museum of China, Beijing/CN (2009), art limited – multiple art, 18th Triennale Grenchen/CH (2009), 30th Anniversary Benefit, Harvestworks, New York/US (2008), Swiss Video Art from the 70s and 80s. A Reconstruction, Kunstmuseum Lucerne/CH (2008), I LOVE Jenisch, Musée Jenisch, Vevey/CH (2008), Comme des bêtes, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne/CH (2008), Brave Lonesome Cowboy, Villa Merkel, Esslingen/DE (2007), Unterwegs, Trudelhaus, Baden/CH (2007), Dumbo Arts Festival, New York (2005), Cinema Texas, Austin (2005), Gallery 128, New York (2005), Transat Video, Caen/FR (2005), Mediaart Friesland, Harlingen/ NL (2005), Brennpunkt Schweiz, Kunstmuseum Bern/CH (2005), whiz bang, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY and Harvestworks, New York/US (2004), Travel of the Immobile Man, Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca/IT (2003), and Villa Croce, Genova/IT (2002), Bleibe, Akademie der Künste, Berlin/DE (2000), Phototage, Biel/CH (1999), Video-Vidim, Swiss Institute, New York (1996), Lab V, Center for Contemporary Arts, Warschau/PL (1994), The Final Frontier, The New Museum, New York (1993), Museum of Modern Art, Oslo/NO (1993), Neues Technisches Museum, Dresden/DE (1993), Projekt Schweiz, Kunsthalle Basel/CH (1992), Videoskulptur, Kunstverein Köln/DE, und Kunsthaus Zürich/CH (1989), Artists Space, New York/US (1989), Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Tokyo/JP (1989), Video Gallery Scan, Tokyo/JP (1989), SIGGRAPH, Atlanta, Georgia (1988), 3rd Australian Video Festival, Sydney/AU (1988), WNET/13, New Television, New York (1988), American Film Institute, Los Angeles (1987), American Museum of the Moving Image, New York (1987), Techno Bop, The Kitchen, New York (1987), Ars Electronica, Linz/AT (1987), Int’l Festival of New Cinema/Video, Montreal/CN (1987), World Wide Video Festival, Den Haag/NL (1987), American Film Institute, Los Angeles, Anthology Archives, New York (1986).
Video installations, among them :: The Dead : Max Mathews, cylindric-anamorph HD video for mirrored tube and flat screen (2012), ON, HD video loop for flat screen (2012), Public Spaces - Private Strangers - Temporal Attractions, 3 channel flat screens (2011), Wait on Caochangdi Road, HD video projection (2011), Propitious Stars and the Master of the Staring Eyes, HD video mural (2007), Luminous Point, interactive DVD (2007), Occurrence on Broadway & Columbus, circular floor projection (2005), N 36º25’12” W 116º48’43“ (Zabriskie Pt.), 16:9 plasma display work (2004), Rabbit in your Headlights, 2 ch. anamorph video mural (2003), 5 Anamorphoses, 5 TV tubes & cylindrical mirrors (2002), Plant Cycle, computer animation for 4:3 TV tube or LCD monitor, Memory of Present, 4 anamorph video projections (2000), My Own Private Universe, 3 computer animations for rear projection (1999), Memory of Light - Light of Memory, for 2 video beams (1998), The Invisible Never Happens, for 3 video beams and wax screens (1998), Séance, for image wiper and video beam (1997), On The Nature Of Things, for rain machine, 4 TV tubes & 1 video beam (1996), The Kircher Itinerary, cycle of 4 installations w. stripped tv tubes (1990-1993), Arthur, 5 video channels for 8 TV tubes, soundscape w. 10 audio channels (1988), Urban Memories, for 3 TV monitors (1986), Plant # 216/349, 2 TV-tubes, doll, anamorph paper shapes (1982)
Single Channel Videos, e.g. :: Antloop, 6:33' (2013), Capturing Natural Sounds in the age of the vintage 78 records and other thoughts on traveling between different realities, parts 1-4, 8:21‘ (2005), Dirt Site, 15:30' (1990), Aerial Stills, 5:00' (1988), Viewers of Optics, 11:30' (1987), Aviation Memories, 7:30' (1986), Secret Sanctions, 10:00' (1986), State of Being, 20:00' (1982), The Outer Plant, 28:00' (1982), A Real World Film, 6:00' (1981), Demis, 15:00' (1977) Jona, 3:00' (1977)
CG Imagery | Prints, most recent :: Bringing Things to a Standstill (2010), The Artist's Studio as Encryption Lab (1996 + ongoing), Black Hole Sun (2007-2010), Answerable Questions and Questionable Answers to Various Visual Systems (2001+ ongoing)
Has been awarded with the Cultural Prize of the City of Rapperswil-Jona/CH (2011), Cultural Award of St. Gallen/CH (2009), Media Production Grant of the New York State Council on the Arts, New York/US (2008), Work Grant of the City of Zurich/CH (2007), Finishing Funds Experimental TV Center, Owego, NY/US (2005), the namics Art Prize/CH (2002), the Laser d’Oro, VideoArt Festival, Locarno/CH (1998), Price for Young Swiss Art, Zurich/CH (1995), NYSCA Media Production Grant, New York/US (1988/89/90/95), Swiss National Grant/CH (1987/88/93),World Wide Video Festival Installation Award, the Hague/NL (1992), Grand Prix Festival International du Jeune Vidéo Montréal/CA (1992), Special Mention 6eme MIV & TV Festival, Montbéliard/FR (1992), Work of Excellence, Tokyo Video Festival/JP (1990) Honorable Mention Australian Video Festival (1990), New York Foundation for the Arts/US (1986), Art Matters, New York (1986); received the Bogliasco a.i.r. in Genova/IT (2006), a.i.r. at Darat-al-Funun in Amman/JO (2006), DAAD fellowship in Berlin/DE (1993), a.i.r. at Harvestworks, New York/US (1989)
Lectures
Pratt Institute for Art and Design, New York (2013, 2011, 2009, 2003)
FICAFoundation for Indian Contemporary Art, New Delhi, India (2012)
Fudan University, Shanghai, China (2009)
Media Art Academy Hangzhou, China (2009)
Now Art Museum, Beijing, China (2009)
CEPV, Centre d'enseignement professionel de Vevey, Switzerland (2007, 2008, 2009)
School of Design, Basel, Switzerland (2007, 1986)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland (2002)
ESBAT, École supérieure des Beaux-Arts Tours, France (1997)
Kunstschule Wetzikon, Switzerland (2000)
Humboldt University, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Berlin, Germany (1999)
University of Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland (1997)
University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany ( 1993)
Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany (1993)
Bibliography
Alexander Hahn - La Signoria degli Astri - The Signiory of Stars, 36p./DVD, Italian, Padiglione d‘Arte Contemporaneo, Ferrara/IT (2007)
Alexander Hahn - Works 1976-2006, 236 p./DVD, German/English, Kunstmuseum Solothurn/CH, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg/DE (2007)
Mémoires Astrales d'un Homme Volant, 72 p. French/English, Musée Jenisch, Vevey/CH (2002)
O Naturze Rzecze - On the Nature of Things, 36 p. Polish/English, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw/PL (1996)
La natura delle Cose, 36 p. Italian/English, Link Project, Bologna/IT (1996)
Personal Records, 72 p. German/English, Kunsthaus Zürich/CH (1995)
Rats - Ratten, 72 p. German/English, DAAD Galerie Berlin/CH (1994)
Of Shadow & Light, 36p., English. World Wide Video Centre, Den Haag/NL, Stop Over Press, Berlin/DE
One Hour of Deception, artist book, 48p. English, Istituto Svizzero, Roma, IT (1991)
Godzina Iluzji, artist book, 48p. Polish translation, Warsaw/PL (1995)
Electronic Media, 48p. German/English, Kunstreihe Pro Helvetia, Zürich/CH (1989)
