Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013
NY Electronic Festival, Harvestworks, New York (Indian Records)
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 & festivals
2014
whitelabs, Milano/IT
(vis-à-vis #6 : Chiara Coccorese & Alexander Hahn)
XX San Gio Video Festival, Veronal/IT
HyperSeeing, CAFA Museum, Beijing/CN
Continuum…., Unbound Studio & Studio21, Kalkota/IN
The Invisible Force Behind – Materiality in Media Art, intermedia art institute, Düsseldorf
Hitzewelle, Kunstmuseum Solothurn/CH
2013
Lemancolia, Musée Jenisch, Vevey/CH
Experimental Documentaries, Anthology Archives, New York
Difference Screen, Artisterium, Tbilisi/GE
Difference Screen, Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery, Ulaanbaatar/MN
Difference Screen, Clarewell Caves, Forest of Dean/GB
VideoEx, Zürich
Video Lounge, India Art Fair, New Delhi/IN
Parallel Cities, Goethe Institut Max Mueller Bhawan, New Delhi/IN (2013) Sarai Reader 09 | Event
03, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon/IN
2012
Heimspiel, Kunsthalle St. Gallen/CH
Springende Lachse, Kunst(Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil/CH
2011
ctrl + 0 – digital Art, nextex, St. Gallen/CH
Experimental Television Center Tribute, Anthology Film Archives, New York
Art&Friends, Deutsches Haus, New York
Amphibian, Time In Gallery, New York
Café des Rêves, Helmhaus Zurich/CH
2010
IMAI Videolounge, Art Cologne/DE
Festival des Films sur l’Art, Montréal/CA
Timelapse, Centre PasquArt, Bienne/CH
Imaging the Future, 5th Edition, Theatre du Passage, Neuchatel/CH
An Evening of Swiss Video Art, Kunsthaus Aarau/CH
Die Entdeckung der Langsamkeit, Kunstmuseum Solothurn/CH
Playlist, Galeria NeonCampobase, Milano/IT
Videonale Bonn/DE
2009
Media Art China 2009 : Timelapse, National Art Museum of China, Beijing/CN
art limited – multiple art, 18th Triennale Grenchen/CH
2008
30th Anniversary Benefit, Harvestworks, New York/US
Swiss Video Art from the 70s and 80s. A Reconstruction, Kunstmuseum Lucerne/CH
I LOVE Jenisch, Musée Jenisch, Vevey/CH
Comme des bêtes, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne/CH
2007
Brave Lonesome Cowboy, Villa Merkel, Esslingen/DE
Unterwegs, Trudelhaus, Baden/CH
2005
Dumbo Arts Festival, New York
Cinema Texas, Austin
Gallery 128, New York
Transat Video, Caen/FR (2005)Mediaart Friesland, Harlingen/ NL
Brennpunkt Schweiz, Kunstmuseum Bern/CH
whiz bang, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY and Harvestworks, New York/US
2003
Travel of the Immobile Man, Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca/IT
2002
Travel of the Immobile Man, Villa Croce, Genova/IT
2000
Bleibe, Akademie der Künste, Berlin/DE
1999
Phototage, Biel/CH
1996
Video-Vidim, Swiss Institute, New York
1995
Vagamundo: reflexiones sobre el exilio, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid/ES
1994
Lab V, Center for Contemporary Arts, Warschau/PL
1993
The Final Frontier, The New Museum, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Oslo/NO
Neues Technisches Museum, Dresden/DE
1992
Projekt Schweiz, Kunsthalle Basel/CH
Videoskulptur, Kunstverein Köln/DE
1989
Videoskulptur, Kunsthaus Zürich/CH
Artists Space, New York/US
Japan Broadcasting Corporation, Tokyo/JP
Video Gallery Scan, Tokyo/JP
1988
SIGGRAPH, Atlanta, Georgia
3rd Australian Video Festival, Sydney/AU
North Florida Video Festival, Jacksonville
Video Wochen im Wenkenpark, Basel
WNET/13, New Television, New York
1987
American Film Institute, Los Angeles
American Museum of the Moving Image, New York
Techno Bop, The Kitchen, New York
Ars Electronica, Linz/AT
Int’l Festival of New Cinema/Video, Montreal/CN
World Wide Video Festival, Den Haag/NL
American Film Institute, Los Angeles
1986
Anthology Archives, New York
Cast Iron Cable TV, New York
Städtische Galerie Erlangen/DE
1985
Alternating Currents, Alternative Museum, New York
Future Histories, Anderson Gallery, Richmond/US
Video Works On Paper, Film Video Arts, New York
1984
Artists as Filmakers, Franklin Furnace
Makkom, Amsterdam/NL
Video 84, Montréal/CA
1983
International Video Art Festival, Locarno/CH
Szene Schweiz, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne/DE
Image Latente, 96 Grand Street Gallery, New York
Terminal Show, Brooklyn
Science & Prophecy, White Columns
1982
Campus, Montréal/CA
International Video Art Festival, Locarno
Judy Caden Gallery, New York
The Pyramid, New York,
Ward Nasse Gallery, New York
1981
A’s new York
Des Refuses, New York
Monumental Show, Brooklyn
Video installations
2014
Anaµorphosis | 2014 (anamorphic HD video shrines with mirrored cylinders
2012
Morse Rigveda X, 158, 4-5, HD video, projection or flatscreen, 1:34′, loop,
Caochangdi Road, HD video projection, 41:43′, loop,
Anaµorphosis | Max Mathews, anamorphic HD video with mirrored cylinder
ON, single channel HD loop
2011
Public Spaces – Private Strangers – Temporal Attractions, covert HD videos
2007
Luminous Point, interactive DVD
2005
Occurrence on Broadway & Columbus, circular floor projection
2004
N 36º25’12” W 116º48’43“ (Zabriskie Pt.), 16:9 plasma display work
2003
Rabbit in your Headlights, 2 ch. anamorph video mural
2002
5 Anaµorphoses, 5 TV tubes & cylindrical mirrors
Plant Cycle, computer animation for 4:3 TV tube or LCD monitor
2000
Memory of Present, 4 anamorph video projections
1999
My Own Private Universe, 3 computer animations for rear projection
1998
Memory of Light – Light of Memory, for 2 video beams
The Invisible Never Happens, for 3 video beams and wax screens
1997
Séance, for image wiper and video beam
1996
On The Nature Of Things, for rain machine, 4 TV tubes & 1 video beam
1990 – 1993
The Kircher Itinerary, cycle of 4 installations w. stripped tv tubes
1988
Arthur, 5 video channels for 8 TV tubes, soundscape w. 10 audio channels
1986
Urban Memories, for 3 TV monitors
1982
Plant # 216/349, 2 TV-tubes, doll, anamorph paper shapes
Awards
2011
Cultural Prize of the City of Rapperswil-Jona/CH
2009
Cultural Award of St. Gallen/CH
2008
Media Production Grant of the New York State Council on the Arts, New York
2007
Work Grant of the City of Zurich/CH
2005
Finishing Funds Experimental TV Center, Owego, NY/US
2002
the namics Art Prize/CH
2003
Cultural Foundation Award, Union Bank of Switzerland
1998
The Laser d’Oro, VideoArt Festival, Locarno/CH
1995
Price for Young Swiss Art, Zurich/CH
Media Production Grant of the New York State Council on the Arts, New York
1993
Swiss National Grant/CH
1992
World Wide Video Festival Installation Award for The Bernoulli Itinerary, the Hague/NL
Grand Prix Festival International du Jeune Vidéo for Dirt Site, Montréal/CA
Special Mention 6eme MIV & TV Festival for Dirt Site, Montbéliard/FR
1990
Work of Excellence for Dirt Site, Tokyo Video Festival/JP
Honorable Mention for Dirt Site, Australian Video Festival
Media Production Grant of the New York State Council on the Arts, New York
1989
Media Production Grant of the New York State Council on the Arts, New YorkS
San Francisco Poetry Film Festival Kenneth Patchen Award for Arthur
1988
Swiss National Grant/CH
World Wide Video Festival Installation Award for Arthur, the Hague/NL
Media Production Grant of the New York State Council on the Arts, New York
1987
Recognition Award for Urban Memories, Union Bank of Switzerland
Swiss National Grant/CH
Grand Prix de la Ville de Genève for Viewers of Optics,
2e Semaine Internationale de Vidéo, Genève/CH
Best of Festival for Viewers of Optics, North Florida Video Festival
Award 12th Poetry Film Festival for Viewers of Optics, San Francisco
1st Prize Computer Graphics for Urban Memories,
Video Culture International, Don Mills, Ontario/CA
1986
New York Foundation for the Arts/US
Art Matters, New York
1985
Recognition Award, Union Bank of Switzerland
1984
Committee for the Visual Arts Grant, New York
Fondation de la Vocation
Artist in Residencies
2012
Pro Helvetia Artist Residency, New Delhi and Varanasi/IN
2006
Bogliasco Foundation, Artist in Residence, Genova/IT
Darat-al-Funun A.I.R., Amman/JO
1998
Bogliasco Foundation, Artist in Residence, Genova/IT
1994 – 1995
art+com, Artist in Residence, Berlin/DE
1993
DAAD fellowship, Berlin/DE
1990
Istituto Svizzero di Roma/IT
1989
Harvestworks Residency, New York/US
1986
Experimental Television Center Residency, Owego/NY (1986, annually through 2012)
Visiting Artist, Lectures, Jury
2014
Tongji University, Shanghai, China
Bogliasco Foundation, jury member
New York Festivals International TV & Film Competition
advisory board (2014) and jury member (since 2004)
School of Design, Basel, Switzerland (2014, 2007, 1986)
Pratt Institute for Art and Design, New York (2014, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2003)
2009
Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Media Art Academy Hangzhou, China
Now Art Museum, Beijing, China
CEPV, Centre d’enseignement professionel de Vevey, Switzerland (2007, 2008, 2009)
2002
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland
1997
ESBAT, École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts Tours, France
2000
Kunstschule Wetzikon, Switzerland
1999
Humboldt University, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Berlin, Germany
1997
University of Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
1993
University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany
Monographic Publications
2007
Alexander Hahn – La Signoria degli Astri – The Signiory of Stars, 36p./DVD, Italian, Padiglione d‘Arte Contemporaneo, Ferrara/IT
Alexander Hahn – Works 1976-2006, 236 p./DVD, German/English, Kunstmuseum Solothurn/CH, Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg/DE
2002
Mémoires Astrales d’un Homme Volant, 72 p. French/English, Musée Jenisch, Vevey/CH
1996
O Naturze Rzecze – On the Nature of Things, 36 p. Polish/English, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw/PL
La natura delle Cose, 36 p. Italian/English, Link Project, Bologna/IT
1995
Personal Records, 72 p. German/English, Kunsthaus Zürich/CH
1994
Rats – Ratten, 72 p. German/English, DAAD Galerie Berlin/CH
Of Shadow & Light, 36p., English. World Wide Video Centre, Den Haag/NL, Stop Over Press, Berlin/DE
1991
One Hour of Deception, artist book, 48p. English, Istituto Svizzero, Roma, IT
1995
Godzina Iluzji, artist book, 48p. Polish translation, Warsaw/PL
1989
Electronic Media, 48p. German/English, Kunstreihe Pro Helvetia, Zürich/CH
