Hannah Weinberger composes soundtracks for specific locations, using resources available online or mixing soundtracks with video clips. She constructs installations around the physical presence of loudspeakers. Viewers/listeners discover an ever-changing environment as they move around.

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Hannah Weinberger (born in Filderstadt, lives and works in Basel) studied at the Zürich University of the Arts, where she graduated in 2013 with a Master of Fine Arts (specialisation in Medial Arts). Collaboration and participation are hallmarks of Hannah Weinberger’s artistic practice. Her work draws on the potential of sound and the properties of spaces that serve to foster collective gatherings or assign a performative role to spectators. The background noises caught in the act, the atmospheric hum of social life and the synthetic percussive rhythms generated by the moving crowds often form the preface to Weinberger’s pieces. Her often discrete interventions transform the exhibition space into a veritable platform for experimentation, allowing the audience to shape their own environment: a bespoke experience within a work in constant evolution.

From 2011-2013, she co-directed the Elaine project space in the courtyard of the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel with Tenzing Barshee, Nikola Dietrich and Scott Cameron Weaver. She has had solo exhibitions at the Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg, Kunsthaus Bregenz, MIT List Center for Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA, FriArt, Fribourg, Swiss Institute, New York and Kunsthalle Basel, among others. Her work has also been presented internationally: Vleeshal Middleburg; Musée Espace Arlaud, Lausanne; Copenhagen Contemporary; Okayama Art Summit; Manifesta 11; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; the Lyon Biennale; the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Kunstverein München, Munich; and Kunsthaus Glarus.

Since 2016 she has taught at the Institute of Art at the Basel School of Art and Design, and since 2013 she has been on the board of Kunsthalle Basel.