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