About — Hannah Todt

Hannah Todt is a multidisciplinary artist interested in the entanglements among performance, sound and sculpture.
In her performances, she explores the acoustic potential of objects and materials by reinterpreting them as musical instruments. Conversely, her sculptures reflect the aesthetic and physical quality of sound bodies. She draws inspiration from found materials, traditional notions of value, organology and contemporary insights from cultural anthropology and socio-economics. Her playful approach is based on a critical reflection on the attribution of value and artistic creation as a commodity; she gathers, fragments and reinterprets the narratives on which realities are built in order to question their validity and mutability. As an important part of her practice, Todt collaborates with artists’ collectives such as Conte Potuto and is associated with musical projects such as AUTOR, Franca Sol, and Gomme.

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Hannah studied Fine Arts in Brussels, Vienna and Paris and graduated from ENSAV La Cambre (BE) in 2023 and the University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT) in 2018. She performed with various musical projects in the U.S. and Europe and released on labels such as Digital Regress (US), Black Totem Records (FR) and Adagio830 (DE). In 2023, she was awarded a research residency at Q-O2 in Brussels, the development residency at MORPHO in Antwerp, a residency et Est-Nord-Est (CAN) and the Prix des Amis de La Cambre.

Scholarships and residencies

2025 MORPHO, Antwerp (BE), development residency (upcoming)
2024 Est-Nord-Est résidence d'artistes (CAN), residency
2024 Verein Symposion Lindabrunn (AT), residency
2024 Q-O2, Brussels (BE), research residency
2023 SAFFCA, Southern African Foundation For Contemporary Art, residency
2023 Prix des Amis de La Cambre, Brussels (BE)
2023 Culture Moves Europe, international mobility grant
2023 Les Ateliers Claus, Brussels (BE), in collaboration with Geier aus Stahl, music development residency
2020 Work grant by the city of Vienna (AT)
2016 These Associations, Tino Sehgal, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR), situationist/performer
2016 Urkultfestival, Ritten (IT), project residency
2015 Erasmus scholarship at ENSAPC, Paris (FR)
2012 Merit scholarship of the University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT)

Education

2021 – 23 Master Fine Arts - Espace Urbain/Site-specific art, ENSAV La Cambre (BE)
2011 – 18 Magistra Artium - Fine arts/Photography, University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT)
2015 – 16 École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy (FR)

Performances and screenings

2024 Friendly Ghost Union Information Center, New Salt Festival, Bad Ischl (AT), performative installation with conte potuto
2024 Farewell, Kunsthalle Karlsplatz (AT), as part of the exhibition „Come as You Are. Preis der Kunsthalle Wien 2023“, performance with conte potuto,
2024 Impulse Theater Festival, Ruhrgebiet (DE), concept, development and performance for the city project Mülheim a.d. Ruhr with conte potuto
2024 I wonder why the flute has holes, Q-O2 Brussels (BE), post-residency performance
2024 SKINFOLD, with Abigail Aleksander and Mary Szydlowska, Jewish Museum Brussels (BE), performance and composition
2023 different kinds of ways to be all over the place pt. III, Manchester, Brussels (BE), soloperformance
2023 different kinds of ways to be all over the place pt. II, LaVallée (BE), soloperformance
2023 Whistling as a bigger language, Par Chemins, Brussels (BE), soloperformance
2022 La Bassine, Galerie Ravenstein (BE), initiation of group performance
2022 RESTWäRME, Performance event in collaboration with Francesca Hawker, Johanne Mortgat Shan and Anna Lugmeier, Rue Lebeau, Brussels (BE), initiation, organization, and duo performance
2022 Maybe that‘s the solution!, Oscillation Festival (BE), soloperformance, invitated by Francesca Hawker
2021 Unfinished Business, ENSAV La Cambre (BE), soloperformance
2020 Ballade, in collaboration with maria mercedes, WUK, Vienna (AUT), performance
2020 Zeremonielle skulpturale Einweihung, in collaboration with Christoph Voglbauer, Verein 2019 Fortuna, Vienna (AUT), duo performance
2020 SCANS, in collaborationwith Albert Mayr and Robert Pawliczek, Alte Schmiede, Vienna (AUT), performance
2016 Zwickl, documentary film festival Schwandorf (DE), screening
2016 Fantômes du cinéma, Forum des Images, Paris (FR), screening
2016 These Associations by Tino Sehgal, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR), performance
2016 Better Than Brunch, in collaboration with Kathryn Marshall, Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR), duo performance
2016 C‘est facile!, in collaboration with Kathryn Marshall, ENSAPC, Paris Cergy (FR), duo performance

Exhibitions (selection)

2023 GRADUATION SHOW, L‘Artesio, Brussels (BE)
2023 different kinds of ways to be all over the place, diploma exhibition, LaVallée, Brussels (BE)
2022 Bildende Künstlerinnen versuchen Musik zu machen, Berlin (DE)
2022 Je n‘ai plus de sentiment dans le doigt, Rue Lebeau (BE)
2022 Métamorphoses, La Cambre (BE)
2020 JapanRevisited 202x, Austrian Cultural Forum Tokyo, ArsElectronica (AT)
2020 VEILLE, In Extenso, Clermont-Ferrand (FR)
2018 The essence 2018, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 3, Vienna (AT)
2018 a whole lotta nothing in the air tonight, Verein Fortuna, Vienna (AT)
2018 Reload the Apparatus, AIL, Vienna (AT)
2018 nichts für ungut, Galerie Lumina, Vienna (AT)
2018 Horizon, diploma exhibition, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 3, Vienna (AT)
2017 Attentive practices of thought, love, rage and care, Die Schöne, Vienna (AT)
2017 TRANSPΩT, ASFA, project room documenta14, Athens (GR)
2017 TRANSPØT, Galerie 52, Essen (DE)
2017 SURFACES 2.0, Orlando (USA), screening
2016 GLANCE, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna (AT)
2016 Luxury War, Galerie Fuenf vor Zwoelf, Vienna (AT)
2016 Urkultfestival, Ritten (IT)
2016 MILLE FEUILETS VI, Galerie YGREC, Paris (FR)
2015 GERÄUSCHFUNKENUPDATE, Galerie Z, Hard (AT)
2015 Vienna Photobookfestival, Galerie Ostlicht, Vienna (AT)
2015 KONVOLUT 21, Ho Gallery, Vienna (AT)
2014 Pretty Raw, Vordere Zollamtsstraße 3, Vienna (AT)
2014 Zwischenspiel, Vertikale Galerie, Vienna (AT)
2014 Unter Strom, Semper Depot, Vienna (AT)
2013 Etwas mit Geste, Galerie Z, Hard (AT)
2013 Je cherche une chambre, Zeitraum, Vienna (AT)
2012 REALM, Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna (AT)
2012 The Essence 2012, Künstlerhaus, Vienna (AT)
2011 KOLLEKTIV AKT II, mo.ë, Vienna (AT)

Musical activity

since 2023 Geier aus Stahl / Supporting live musician
since 2020 Franca Sol (solo)
since 2019 AUTOR / Post Punk, Post Hardcore
2019 Bobby Would / Supporting live musician
2017-19 Bitten By / Supporting live musician
since 2015 Gomme / Goth, Post Punk, Post Hardcore

Publications (selection)

2023 different kinds of ways to be all over the place, artist book
2020 #JapanRevisited202x: then—now—after, exhibition catalogue
2018 HORIZON, artist book
2017 NO TITLE, artist book
2016 Bilding, publication of the photography department, Gabriele Rothemann
2015 à sloð - traces and transcendence, artist book
2014 Unter Strom, exhibition catalogue