
Mostre personali
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)
Mostre collettive e festival
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
Premi
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
Residencies d’artista
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
Monografie e pubblicazioni
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