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Hannah Weinberger

Exhibitions

HEK

Basel

Hannah Weinberger

As if I became upside down, right side up (Permanent)

Apr 24, 2024

Kunstmuseum Solothurn

Solothurn

Hannah Weinberger

Here They Come And There They Go

Sep 17, 2023

Dec 31, 2023

Musée Gadagne

Lyon

Hannah Weinberger

16th Lyon Biennale “manifesto of fragility”

Sep 14, 2022

Dec 31, 2022

Basel, Berlin, Dhaka, Lagos, Los Angeles, Mexico City, New York, Oslo, Paris, São Paulo, Shanghai, Tehran, Tokyo

Hannah Weinberger

wedidntwant
toleave.live

Sep 17, 2020

Sep 20, 2020

Centre d’Art Contemporain

Geneva

Hannah Weinberger

we didn’t want to leave

Nov 08, 2019

Jan 05, 2020

Villa Merkel

Esslingen

Hannah Weinberger

When Time Lies

Dec 16, 2018

Mar 03, 2019

Freedman Fitzpatrick

Paris

Hannah Weinberger

Day by Day, Night by Day

Apr 06, 2018

May 27, 2018

Kunstverein

Braunschweig

Hannah Weinberger

You can just reach for me

Sep 09, 2017

Nov 12, 2017

Freymond Guth

Basel

Hannah Weinberger

On seen

Jun 13, 2016

Jul 16, 2016

Badischer Kunstverein

Karlsruhe

Hannah Weinberger

You’ll be there when I’ll be near

Feb 05, 2016

Apr 03, 2016

Freedman Fitzpatrick

Los Angeles

Hannah Weinberger

Awake, while you’re dreaming

May 31, 2015

Jun 06, 2015

Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof

Hamburg

Hannah Weinberger

As If I became upside down, right side up

Apr 18, 2015

Jul 26, 2015

KUB Arena Kunsthaus

Bregenz

Hannah Weinberger

Hannah Weinberger

Oct 18, 2014

Jan 11, 2015

MIT List Visual Arts Center

Cambridge

Hannah Weinberger

Open Tunings

Oct 10, 2014

Jan 04, 2015

Kunsthalle

Freiburg

Hannah Weinberger

FRI ART

Nov 30, 2013

Feb 09, 2014

Swiss Institute

New York

Hannah Weinberger

Le Moi Du Toi

Jun 27, 2012

Aug 05, 2012

Istituto Svizzero

Milan

Hannah Weinberger

Concerto Locale

May 30, 2012

Jun 24, 2012

Kunsthalle

Basel

Hannah Weinberger

When You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I‘ll Think You‘re Walking In

Jan 29, 2012

Mar 18, 2012

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Born 1988, Filderstadt (Swiss/USA), Lives and works in Basel.

Education

2013MFA Zurich University of the Arts

2010BFA Zurich University of the Arts

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023Here They Come and There They Go, Kunstmuseum Solothurn
When Times Ring, Oto Sound Museum

2020wedidntwanttoleave.live,presented by Fitzpatrick Gallery & The Performancey Agency in various locations: Institut Kunst, Basel;
TV Bar, Berlin; 16/16, Lagos; MAK Center for Art & Architecture, Mackey Apartments, Los Angeles; Casa Pani, Mexico City; Schloss, Oslo; Honey’s, New York; LAMYLAND, Paris; São Paulo; Club All, Shanghai; Pejman Foundation, Tehran; Bazament, Tirana; Fig. Tokyo
Nicolas Krupp Contemporary Art, Basel
TIC TAC, Quartier Général, centre d’art contemporain, La Chaux- de-Fonds, Switzerland
Johanniskirche, Schwäbisch Gmünd, KulturRegion Stuttgart

2019we didn’t want to leave, Centre d‘Art Contemporain, Geneva
solid mumbled into line, DokFest Forum, Fridericianum, Kassel (Per- formance)
Concierto Local, Frecuancia Singular Plural V, Centro Centro, Madrid (Performance)

2018When Time Lies, Villa Merkel, Esslingen
Day by Day, Night by Day, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris

2017Sounds like news, Istituto Svizzero di Roma
You can just reach for me, Kunstverein, Braunschweig
On Air, Dr. Georg and Josi Guggenheim- Stiftung Prize, F+F Schule für Kunst and Design, Zurich
just take it and leave it, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris

2016On seen, Freymond Guth, Basel
Welcome Home (with Aline Zeltner), Riverside, Worblaufen, Switzerland
You’ll be there when I’ll be near, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe PERFORMANCE PERFORMANCE, Schinkel Klause, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

2015Awake, while you’re dreaming, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
As If I became upside down, right side up, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg

2014Open Tunings, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
Hannah Weinberger, KUB Arena, Kunsthaus Bregenz

2013abc - art berlin contemporary, Berlin (with Freedman Fitzpatrick)
Hannah Weinberger, Kunsthalle Freiburg
Looking Forward, Hacienda, Zurich

2012Le Moi Du Toi, Swiss Institute, New York
Concerto Locale, Istituto Svizzero, Milan
When You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I‘ll Think You‘re Walking In, Kunsthalle, Basel

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Long gone, still here – sound as message, Martha Herford Museum
Schimelrych bis Chrottehalde: Kunst und Natur in Laufenburg, Rehmann-Museum
Time Please, Kunstraum Riehen
Nature. Fields. Memory, Kunsthaus Baselland
Des rencontres et des liens, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
The Music Chamber, Artgeneve Musique, Geneva

2022 Manifesto of Fragility, Biennale de Lyon, Musée Gadagne (FR) Joyfully waiting, online project
The Architecture of Transformation, BNKR, Munich Ärt Ausstellung, Basel
Bang Bang, Tinguely Museum, Basel

2021Dorothea Von Stetten Art Award 2020,Kunstmuseum, Bonn Pathologically Social, organised with Mark Verabioff, O-Town House, Los Angeles

2020Kunsttage Basel, Kunst Institut, Basel
EVA, Adam and Eve house, Ardez , Engadin , Switzerland State of the Arts, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
A table for 50, PCP Gallery, Paris
Dorothea von Stetten Preis, Kunstmuseum Bonn Stadtgalerie, Bern

2019Swiss Art Awards, Basel
Screening, Congress: Chronicle in Reverse, Ventilator Gallery, Basel
do it (curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist), Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York
Gränslandet Festival, Stockholm
The New Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville

201820 Jahre Kunst Raum Riehen - Die Jubiläumsausstellung, Kunst Raum Riehen, Riehen
The Marvelous Cacophony, 57th October Salon, Belgrade
New Swiss Performance Now, Kunthalle Basel, Basel

2017Ex Situ. Samples of Lifeforms, Copenhagen Contemporary
Four Rooms, Freedman Fitzpatrick at MD72, Berlin
A Birthday Present as a Watch, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris
Reflections on the surface, Freymond Guth, Basel
Freshwater Fish, Sommer Gallery, Tel Aviv
Why Patterns?, Vleeshal, Middelburg, NL
COSIMA VON BONIN, LANG & BAUMANN, HANNAH WEINBERGER, Zabriskie Point, Geneva

2016L’état Parfait, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Basel
Meaning Can only Grow out of Intimacy (limbs, water, nostalgia), Musée Arlaud, Festival Les Urbaines, Lausanne
Okayama Art Summit 2016, Development, Okayama
in one’s own time, Emalin, San Giuseppe delle Scalze, Salita Pontecorvo, Naples
Manifesta 11, Zurich

2015DISTRIBUTORS, West Den Haag, Netherlands
The second axis, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, Kunsthalle Basel
O.T., Kunstraum Riehen
Toys Redux - On Play and Critique, Migrosmuseum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Comment, please, sic! Raum für Kunst, Luzern
Plumbing, Nicolas Krupp, Basel

2014Monumental Fatigue, Freymond-Guth, Zurich
A Picture is No Substitute, Seventeen, London
Europe Europe, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
Biennial of Moving Images, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
Megarave-Metarave, Kunsthaus Langenthal
Attitudes: Now and Here, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
Guyton Price Smith Walker, Plymouth Rock, Zurich
Swiss Art Awards, Basel
A Place Like This, Klöntal Triennale, Kunsthaus Glarus
Postcards, Casa do Povo, Sao Paulo
Die Marmory Show, Deborah Schamoni, Munich
Momentum? Maybe the time has come to live our corporality rather than speak our sexuality, PSM, Berlin
Elevation 1049, Gstaad
do it, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City; Musée de la danse, Rennes; Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow; The Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, PA; Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town; The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia; Denier Art Gallery, Saint Paul; Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, Adelaide (curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist)

2013do it, Socrates Sculpture Center; Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier, OH; tranzit, Budapest; MU artspace, Eindhoven; Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester; Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania; Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca, New York; Stacion - Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina (curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist)
Regionale 14, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel
Listen Up!, 1after320 contemporary art projects, New Delhi
Starship presenta: Una Versión de Zigaretten Rauchen en México, Goethe-Institut Mexico, Mexico City
Contemporary Art Club, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Stacion, Center for Contemporary Art Prishtina
Meanwhile… Suddenly and Then, 12th Biennale de Lyon, La Sucrière and Museum and Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon
Hi from California, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles

2012Standard Operating Procedures, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles Tirana Ekspres, Tirana
The Mind And The Mood, Galerie Koal, Berlin
Wandering No.2, HHDM - Hinter haus des Merres, Vienna
First Among Equals, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
A Strangely Luminous Bubble, Live In Your Head, Geneva

2011Inside/Outside: Dressing the Monument Opening Reception, Lynden Sculpture Park, Milwaukee
Corso Multisala, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Magical & Poetical Structures, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil
Group Affinity, Kunstverein München, Munich

2010The Village Cry, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
SLIP SNIP TRIP, Karma International, Zurich
Of Objects, Fields, and Mirrors, Kunsthaus Glarus
On Pubications, Portraits, Public Art and Performance, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
New Jerseyy, Hard Hat, New York
Quick Brown Fox & Lazy Dog, Karma International, Zurich

2009Bridges & Tunnels, Hard Hat, Geneva (curated by New Jerseyy)
FILE RIO, Rio Futuro Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro

2008The World Is Our Culture, ZHdK, Zurich
Naomi, Naomi, Seebahnstrasse 255, Zurich
Electronic Rendez-vous, [plug.in], Basel
Shift (Electronic Arts), Festival, Basel
FILE – Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paulo

Performances
2022 14 Meows of the future, Foundation Beyeler, Riehen

2020 PudelRudel, Online performance

2019Hannah Weinberger: solid mumbledinho line, Fridericianum, Kassel
Concierto Local, Frecuancia Singular Plural V, Centro Centro, Madrid

2018facilities and utilities, New Swiss Performance Now, Kunsthalle Basel

2017You can just reach for me, Kunstverein Braunschweig

2016Labor 0 Labor, La Friche, Triangle France, Marseille
Okayama Art Summit 2016, Development, Okayama
No Honey, Manifesta 11, Zurich
Schinkel Haus, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

2014Kunsthaus Bregenz (as LKW)

2013New Theater, Berlin (as LKW) Liste 18, Basel

2012Maryanne Amacher: Intelligent Life Workshop, daad galerie, Berlin
Concerto Locale, Istituto Svizzero, Milano
Standard Operating Procedures, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles

2011Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing, Kunstverein München Inside/Outside: Dressing the Monument Opening Reception, Lynden Sculpture Park, Milwaukee
Corso Multisala, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
PASSAGE(s),Theatre de L‘Usine, Geneva
Jam Session, Museumsnacht, Kunsthalle Basel

2010Regionales Konzert, The Village Cry, Kunsthalle Basel
Transdisziplinäres Konzert, ZHdK, Zurich

2009Interdisziplinäres Konzert, ZHdK, Zurich

Projects
2023 Basel Social Club at Franck Regionale Ausstellung, Kunsthalle Basel

2022 Beverlyholz, Basel Social Club, Basel
Videoprogram Nordwestschweiz, Tinguely Museum, Basel Commisionned project for the Lyon Biennale, Counsulat Suisse, Lyon

2021 The Architecture of Transformation, BNKR, Zurich
asweleavethewindowopen.live
Take me to the river where happiness comes in waves. Performances and Concerts
Kunst am Bau, Lysbüchel Schule Base
Kunst am Bau, Volksschule Matte, Bern

2020Film music for Deutsch Süd-Ost by Ingo Niermann
Kunst am Bau, Schulhaus Lysbüchel, Basel

2019 Film music for Oceano de Amor by Alexa Karolinski & Ingo Niermann
Ongoing Kunsthalle Bar/ Artists Bar Organizer

2018 - PresentHidden Bar, Messehalle 2.2, Art Basel, Basel

2014Frieze Sounds, Frieze New York

2011 - 2013Elaine - Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel (with Tenzing Barshee, Nikola Dietrich, and Scott Cameron Weaver)

2012Radio Arthur

Awards & Grants
2022 Ongoing Kulturpreisjury, Kanton Basel Stadt

2013 - 2022 Board Member of Kunsthalle Basel

2021 Dorothea von Stetten Preis, Kunstmuseum Bonn

2019 Suisse Art Award

2018Société Générale Swiss Emerging Artist Prize 2018 Dr. Georg and Josi Guggenheim Prize

2016Swiss Art Award

2015Vordemberege-Gildewart Stiftung (nominated) Studio Roma, Institute Svizzero

2014Swiss Art Awards (nominated)

2013Fondation Liechti, Fribourg

2010Travel Award of Regionale 11, Basel

Permanent Collection
Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris
HEK, Basel

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Exhibition Catalogues and Publications

2017Hannah Weinberger, Edizioni Periferia Luzern/Poschiavo

2016Development, Okayama Art Summit 2016, (curated by Liam Gillick)

2013Entre-temps… Brusquement, Et Ensuite.12th Biennale de Lyon. (exh. cat.)
do it: the compedium. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist in collaboration with Independent Curators International.
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., New York
Wandering No. 2. Edited by Tenzing Barshee, Dan Solbach, Pippin Wigglesworth. Motto, Berlin.

2012Hannah Weinberger: Le Moi Du Toi. Text by Fabrice Stroun. Conversation with Piper Marshall, Gianni Jetzer, Hannah Weinberger. Swiss Institute, New York. (exh. cat.)

Bibliography

2020Arcinfo online, June 2020, ‘‘La Chaux-de-Fonds: une exposition qui fait «waouf, dring, tic-tac»’’, review by CFA
Brand New Life, January 2020, ‘‘The Curtain was drawn’’, Review by Laurence Schmidlin

2019La Tribune de Genève, December 2019, ‘‘Les Paysages Sonores de Hannah Weinberger’’, Review by Irène Languin
Le Courrier, December 2019, ‘‘Hannah Weinberger. Couleurs sonores’’, Review by Samuel Schellenberg

2018Ackermann, Julie. „Hannah Weinberger fait de la galerie d’art un espace de vie bienveillant“, Les Inrocktuptibles, April 2018

2017Kron, Cat. “Review: A Few Open Systems at AND NOW“, Artforum, June 2017

2015Kissick, Dean. “Review: Awake While You‘re Dreaming, Freedman Fitzpatrick” Artforum, May 2015

2014Marshall, Piper. “Critic’s Picks: Guyton, Price, Smith, Walker.” artforum.com (June 2014) [online]
Dietrich, Nikola. “Art and Social Practice.” Mousse (Summer 2014): 188-191
Lovay, Balthazar. “The Ephemeral Experiences — Hannah Weinberger.” Flash Art (May - June 2014): 88-93
Fellmann, Christoph. “Eine Wanderung durch das Tal der Klön und der Kunst.” Basel Zeitung (July 4, 2014)
Hesse, Fiona. “Hannah Weinberger.” Artline Kunstmagazin (June 14, 2014) (online)
Stroun, Fabrice. “What’s Next?”, Frieze d/e no. 14, May 2014

2013Guthery, Summer. “Critic’s Picks: Hi from California.” Artforum (May 20, 2013) [online]
Kirszenbaum, Martha. “Visit: Hi from California.” Kaleidoscope (May 20, 2013) [online]

2012Kissick, Dean. “Review: Awake While You‘re Dreaming, Freedman Fitzpatrick” Artforum
Wilson, Michael. “Hannah Weinberger at Swiss Institute.” Artforum (October 2012): 269-270
Latimer, Quinn. “Hannah Weinberger: Laptops, Loops und Körper- bewegungen.” Frieze d/e no. 5 (Summer 2012): 116-117
Szewcyzk, Monica. “The Changing Times: Cevdet Erik and Hannah Weinberger.” Afterall (March 21, 2012) [online]
Bauer, Simon. “Im Rückwärtsgang Kunst Hören.” Basellandschaftli- che Zeitung (February 1, 2012): 38
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Morgenthaler, Daniel. “Hier spielt der Musik.” Basler Zeitung (Janu- ary 29, 2012): 26
Domesle, Andrea. “Akustische Spuren in der Kunsthalle.” Tages Woche (January 28, 2012) [online]
Zuber, Daniel. “Ein Soudtrack für die Kunsthalle.” Tachles (January 27, 2012): 8
“Die Dichte eines leeren Raumes.” Basler Zeitung (January 26, 2012): 45

Selected Artworks
Hannah Weinberger
we didn’t want to leave, 2023
Interactive single-chanel installation
Variable dimensions
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Hannah Weinberger
Eternally…, 2023
In collaboration with Fatuma Osman
Details from film stills 20’ (loop)
Edition of 3 plus 1 AP
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Hannah Weinberger
Vis-à-vis, 2023
Single channel 1 hour audio sound composition (looped), Verrucano stone, amplifier, cable, exciters, subwoofers
3.3 tones
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Hannah Weinberger
Here They Come and There They Go, 2023
Interactive video installation
Variable dimensions
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Hannah Weinberger
Here They Come, 2023
Video 8’ (loop)
Variable dimensions
Edition of 3 plus 1 AP
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Hannah Weinberger
We Didn’t Want To Leave, 2019
Hannah Weinberger
We didn’t want to leave, 2019
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Hannah Weinberger
Untitled, 2018
Artist-made light-box (lambda print, wooden frame, LED strips, plexiglass, aluminum, wire)
45 x 63 x 9 cm
17.5 x 25 x 3.5 in
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Hannah Weinberger
You Can Just Reach For Me, 2017
Hannah Weinberger
Untitled (Aquarium), 2016
video and audio
Dimensions variable cm ( inch ) 31 min. 01 sec. loop
3 + 1 AP
Hannah Weinberger
You’ll Be There When I’ll Be Near, 2016
Hannah Weinberger
Untitled (NY / Paris), 2016
video and audio
Dimensions variable cm ( inch ) 12 min. 34 sec. loop
3 + 1 AP
Hannah Weinberger
Untitled (Dancing Folks), 2016
video and audio
Dimensions variable cm ( inch ) 29 min. 16 sec. loop
3 + 1 AP
Hannah Weinberger
Untitled (Marmor / Skulpturen), 2016
video and audio
Dimensions variable cm ( inch ) 13 min. 26 sec. loop
3 + 1 AP
Hannah Weinberger
Untitled (Friart), 2014
10 channel video, 5 channel audio installation; 1 hr 35 min. (video, looped); 3 min. 40 sec. (audio, looped)
3 Artworks with 1 artist proof
Hannah Weinberger
As if I became upside down, right side up, 2013
3-channel 1 hour audio sound composition (looped), quarried stone, amplifier, cable, exciters
80 x 60.1 x 45.1 cm
31 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 17 3/4 in
3 artworks and 1 artist proof
Hannah Weinberger
When You Leave, Walk Out Backwards, So I‘ll Think You‘re Walking In, 2012
22-channel audio installation; 22 hours total
3 artworks with 1 artist proof
Dimension Variable
Edition of 3 plus 1 AP
Hannah Weinberger
Le Moi Du Toi, 2012
Sound installation with various audio equipment
Dimensions variable
Edition of 3 + 1 AP
FF/2