ABOUT
Katrin Hahner is an interdisciplinary artist who builds bridges between the fields of music, visual arts and performance. She works with different materials, sometimes tangible like clay or wood, sometimes with words, space and sound.
Her education includes a 3 year diploma in stage acting and theatre, an MFA in Painting from Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart and 2 years of post graduate studies at Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee.
Her four releases of original music have been featured in The Guardian, Rolling Stone, BBC, Kulturspiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung and her projects and collaborations have been funded or co-funded by Pact Zollverein, Mondriaan Funds, Initiative Musik, Goethe Institut, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Berlin, Musikfonds, Tanzpakt and Musicboard Berlin. She frequently collaborates with visual artists, musicians and performers and has performed and exhibited at Akureyri Art Museum, Het Veem Amsterdam, Modern Dans Teater Stockholm, Sophiensäle Berlin, Volksbühne Berlin, Hafnarborg Museum Iceland, Extreme Chill Festival Reykjavik, People Festival Berlin, Reykjavik Art Festival and others.
In 2022 she joined the PRATT NY 18 month Mindfulness Collaboratory Cohort alongside 50 artists and art professionals researching the connection between mindfulness and innovation and is frequently updating her research in the fields of creativity and mental health. She holds a PG Cert in Higher Education and facilitates Performance and Lyricism classes as a senior lecturer at BIMM University Berlin.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a visual and sonic art-maker and most of my artistic and creative work is built on understanding a(n inner) landscape, since nature is in fact my biggest source of inspiration. I am interested in communication strategies that include the unseen and the wordless.
I am interested in the process of mythmaking and how objects attain sacred properties, what is the belief (and/or reality), behavioral structure and perception behind it?
In create time based rituals with people and/or objects in nature. Together we try to understand the connection of listening, time, sound and our communication with all of the natural world.
I draw from my research in theology, mysticism, ethnomusicology, sociology and auto-ethnography.
I utilize any material in any combination that works in the given context: painting, sound, space, video, ritual, song, textile, poetry.
To me, art-making is a process of revealing patterns and rearranging them in order to gain a fleeting understanding of the world that surrounds me and becoming a more integral part of it.
Portrait: Tabea Magdalena Martin