Alexander Hahn (artist)

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Alexander Hahn (born June 9, 1954 in Rapperswil SG ; resident in Rapperswil SG) is a computer and video artist. One of the most prominent video pioneers in Switzerland, he is one of those artists who have continuously developed the medium as a content and technical research platform between image, animation and construction.

Life

Hahn grew up in Rapperswil SG. He attended high school at the Zurich Oberland Cantonal School in Wetzikon (1966–1973), where he first came into contact with a computer. In the programming language APL he created a snake and ladder game. After graduating from high school, he studied from 1974 to 1979 at the Kunstgewerbeschule, today's Zurich University of the Arts. During this time his first videos and Super8 films were made, e.g. B. Flight and Glass (1976) or the Mockumentary Demis (1977) about the singer Demis Roussos . In 1981 he moved to New York and took part in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (ISP).

In 1990 he spent a year at the Istituto Svizzero in Rome. From 1991 to 1994 he lived in Berlin, first as a scholarship holder at the DAAD ( German Academic Exchange Service ), then as an artist in residence at ART + COM . From 1995 to 1997 he lived in Warsaw. Today Hahn lives and works in New York's Lower East Side and in Zurich.

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Since his debut in 1978 at the Apropos gallery in Lucerne, Hahn has shown his work in over 20 solo exhibitions and in more than 100 group exhibitions and video festivals around the world. In 2007 the Kunstmuseum Solothurn and the Museum der Moderne Salzburg organized a comprehensive retrospective on his work. The monograph Alexander Hahn :: Werke - Works 1976 - 2006 was published by Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg .

Selection of works

  • 1977 First Take - First Flight, Video, 1:24 '
  • 1977 Demis, S-8 Mockumentary about the singer Demis Roussos, 15:20 '
  • 1981 Random Frequencies, Video, 3:34 '
  • 1982 The Outer Plant, Video, 25:15 '
  • 1984 Cyborgs & Other New Machines, sculptures made from electronic waste
  • 1983 A Young Person's Guide to Walking Outside the City, computer animation, 2:25 '
  • 1986 Aviation Memory, virtual video installation, 6:14 '
  • 1987 Viewers of Optics, Video, 10:52 '
  • 1988 Arthur, 8 channel video installation
  • 1989 Dirt Site, Video, 15:50 '
  • 1990 The Bernoulli Itinerary, 3-channel video installation
  • 1993 Fundamentals of Legerdemain, 5-channel computer animation, installation
  • 1995 The Artist's Studio as Encryption Lab, computer graphics series, inkjet prints
  • 2011 Public Places - Private Strangers, 3-channel HD video installation
  • 2002 5 anamorphic, 5-channel cylinder anamorphic video installation
  • 2005 Capturing Natural Sounds in the Age of the 78 Record, Computeranimation, 1:00 '
  • 2005 Luminous Point, interactive video installation, 90 '
  • 2007 Propitious Stars - Master of the Staring Eye, 3-channel HD video projection
  • 2010 Remade Histories and Topographies, computer graphics series, inkjet prints
  • 2011 Public Places - Private Strangers, 3-channel HD video installation
  • 2012 Cao Chang Di Road on Nov 24 2009 I stood there Waiting, HD video installation, 5.1 surround sound
  • 2013 Antloop, HD Video, 6:13 '
  • 2015 The Dead, cylinder anamorphic HD video installation
  • 2015 Fake Drawings - Spurious Engravings - Liquid I, computer graphics series, inkjet prints
  • 2016 CFL - Coded Fluorescent Light, 3-channel HD video monitor installation
  • 2018 Triumph of Labor, LED wheel installation
  • 2018 Gentleman of the Road - Going Back I'll Give You 100 Rupees, kinetic projection objects

architectural art

  • 1999 My Own Private Universe, 3-channel computer animation, rear projections, Swisscom Management Building, Worblaufen
  • 2019 Albedo 0.30, Hoffmann-La Roche, Home for IT, Kaiseraugst

fiction

  • 1984 Wide Shot of Delft, New York, 1984
  • 1991 One Hour of Deception, Rome, 1992
  • 1994 Rats - Ratten, Berlin, 1994
  • 1995 Personal Records, Zurich, 1995
  • 1996 On the Nature of Things - Godzina Iluzji, Warsaw, 1996

Solo exhibitions

  • 1978 Apropos Gallery, Lucerne
  • 1979 Toni Gerber Gallery, Bern
  • 1982 Franklin Furnace, New York (Plant # 50-316)
  • 1984 White Columns, New York (Cyborgs and Other New Machines)
  • 1993 World Wide Video Center, The Hague (Light of Shadows)
  • 1994 Daad Gallery, Berlin (Councils)
  • 1995 Kunsthaus Zurich (Personal Records)
  • 1996 Galeria Foksal, Warsaw (On the Nature of Things)
  • 1996 International Center of Photography, New York (Fundamentals of Legerdemain)
  • 1997 Kunstmuseum Bern
  • 1998 World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam (Popular Admiration of Great Thieves)
  • 1999 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (I Came Here to Sleep)
  • 2000 Netmage, LINK, Bologna (Memory of Presence)
  • 2002 Musée Jenisch, Vevey (Mémoires Astrales d'un Homme Volant)
  • 2003 Kunsthalle Winterthur (Mémoires Astrales d'un Homme Volant)
  • 2005 Old factory, Rapperswil
  • 2006 Darat-al-Funun, Amman, Jordan
  • 2007 Kunstmuseum Solothurn (works 1976-2006)
  • 2007 Museum der Moderne Salzburg (Works 1976-2006)
  • 2007 Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Ferrara (La Signoria degli Astri)
  • 2008 Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova (Festival della Scienza: Alexander Hahn - Luminous Point)
  • 2008 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (Room for Thought: Alexander Hahn & Yves Netzhammer)
  • 2010 Kunstraum Oktogon, Bern (Bringing Things to a Standstill)
  • 2012 Harvestworks, New York (Cao Chang Di Road on November 24, 2009 I Stood There Waiting)
  • 2013 NY Electronic Festival, Harvestworks New York (Indian Records)
  • 2014 c | e contemporary (formerly whitelabs), Milano (vis-à-vis # 6 :: Chiara Coccorese & Alexander Hahn)
  • 2015 Kunstraum Oktogon, Bern (Alexander Hahn - All the World is a Stage)
  • 2018 The Shed Space, Brooklyn (India Material)

Awards

  • 1984 Rothchild Fondation de la Vocation, Geneva
  • 1985 Recognition Award, Union Bank of Switzerland
  • 1986 New York Foundation for the Arts
  • 1986 Art Matters, New York
  • 1987 Grand Prix de la Ville de Genève for Viewers of Optics, 2nd Semaine Internationale de Vidéo, Geneva
  • 1987 1st Prize Computer Graphics for Urban Memories, Video Culture International, Don Mills, Ontario, Canada
  • 1987 Best of Festival for Viewers of Optics, North Florida Video Festival
  • 1987 Federal Art Scholarship
  • 1988 Media Production Grant of the New York State Council on the Arts, New York
  • 1988 World Wide Video Festival Installation Award for Arthur, The Hague
  • 1988 Federal art grant
  • 1989 Media Production Grant of the New York State Council on the Arts, New York
  • 1989 San Francisco Poetry Film Festival Kenneth Patchen Award for Arthur
  • 1990 Media Production Grant of the New York State Council on the Arts, New York
  • 1990 Work of Excellence for Dirt Site, Tokyo Video Festival
  • 1992 World Wide Video Festival Installation Award for The Bernoulli Itinerary, The Hague
  • 1993 Federal Art Scholarship
  • 1995 Prize for Young Swiss Art, Kunsthaus Zurich
  • 1995 Media Production Grant of the New York State Council on the Arts, New York
  • 1998 The Laser d'Oro, VideoArt Festival, Locarno
  • 2002 namics art award, St. Gallen
  • 2007 works grant from the city of Zurich
  • 2009 Media Production Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, New York
  • 2009 Culture Prize of the Canton of St. Gallen
  • 2011 Culture Prize of the City of Rapperswil-Jona

Secondary literature

  • Bitterli, Konrad and Hahn, Alexander, “Of Shadow & Light - Riddle of Images. On the Pulsating of Images in the Reflection of a Text ”, in Alexander Hahn: Of Shadow & Light, 1994
  • Brückle, Wolfgang, “Viewers of Optics & The Bernoulli Itinerary”, in the Kunstmuseum Bern series, No.9, 2005
  • Chaperon, Danielle, “Les Specters Délectable de AH,” Exhibition catalog "Alexander Hahn - Mémoires Astrales d'un Homme Volant," Musée Jenisch, Vevey, 2002
  • Collins, Patricia and Milazzo, Richard, “The New Sleep”, Fri-Art catalog, New York, 1985
  • Viana Conti, "Alexander Hahn - Luminous Point, interactive DVD and Digital Prints", solo exhibition at the Museo d'Arte Contemporaneo di Villa Croce, Festival della Scienza, Genoa 2008
  • Viana Conti, “Paradigmi della nozione di viaggio”, in “Il viaggio dell'uomo immobile”, Genoa 200 3
  • Daniels, Dieter & Frieling, Rudolf, “Media Art Interaction”, Vienna, New York 1999
  • Fischer, Robert, “Rêveries d'un moine digital de l'ère post-industrial”, Gen Lock, Sept. 1987
  • Fischer, Robert and Hahn, Alexander, "Alexander Hahn: Electronic Media", Catalog Video Works, Zurich: Pro Helvetia, 1989
  • Gallo, Francesca, "L'artista è un nodo della rete - Alexander Hahn tra antico e moderno," online article on "La Signoria degli Astri," Alexander Hahn's first retrospective in Italy at the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea in Ferrara (16 Sept. . - Oct. 14, 2007), in http://www.lacritica.net/francesca_gallo.htm
  • Gfeller, Johannes, “Alexander Hahn”, in Dictionnaire biographique de l'art suisse, Zurich and Lausanne: Institut suisse pour l'étude de l'art, Zurich: Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 1998, ad vocem
  • Herzog, Samuel, Art Bulletin, June 1998
  • Minnis, James, “L'Itinéraire de Bernoulli”, in partitions, une exposition réalisée en vidéo, Vidéo indépendante suisse, (see left): 1990–91
  • Minnis, James, “Dirt Site”, catalog, Video Fest Berlin, 1992
  • Minnis, James, “Urbs Turrita - City of Towers. Some questions concerning fate and fragility ”et“ Fundamentals of Legerdemain ”, in Alexander Hahn: Of Shadow & Light, 1994
  • Perucchi, Ursula, “Alexander Hahn: Sleep - A Second's Glance”, Swiss Graphic Society, annual edition 1999
  • Perucchi, Ursula, "Les Premiers Travaux 'd' AH," cat. "Alexander Hahn - Mémoires Astrales d'un Homme Volant," expo Musée Jenisch, Vevey, 2002
  • Petridis Maiello, Lia, "Alexander Hahn's Digital Moments of Silence," in HUFFPOST Arts & Culture Sept 19, 2012 Article about Hahn's exhibition "Cao Chang di Road", Harvestworks, New York
  • Philipp, Caroline, Alexander Hahn: 'Dirt Site' (advanced seminar at Humboldt University Berlin, 1999)
  • Radrizzani, Dominique, “Un Art Péristaltique de la Lumière - A Peristaltique Art of Light”, cat. "Alexander Hahn - Mémoires Astrales d'un Homme Volant", expo Musée Jenisch, Vevey, 2002
  • Neither Arlitt, Sabine, "Magic of Light", Tages-Anzeiger, Aug 05, 1995
  • Whitesell, Stephen, “Cyborgs & Other New Machines by AH”, Radio WBAI, New York, 1984

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annelise Zwez: Alexander Hahn in the art museum . Art bulletin. 2007. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved on August 23, 2018.
  2. ↑ Lysianne Lechaut-Hirt: Alex Hahn . Musée Pompidou, Paris, France. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  3. ^ Room for Thought . San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on September 21, 2015. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 16, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sfmoma.org
  4. ↑ Christoph Vögele: Alexander Hahn :: Werke - Works 1976 - 2006 ( English, German ). Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany 2007, ISBN 978-3-939583-20-2 , p. 216 (accessed November 16, 2015).
  5. ↑ NYSCA: Past Grants . New York State Council on the Arts. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
  6. ↑ Awarding of the 2011 Culture Prize ( German ) City of Rapperswil-Jona. Retrieved November 16, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Hahn, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss computer and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Rapperswil SG