Künstler Hannah Cooke

Hannah Cooke


Born in Munich in 1986, Hannah Cooke’s work deals with structures and social expectations. How can standards be broken down? Upon which power structures are our systems built? Who are its big players? Cooke observes, researches, analyses and creates new associations. Her work often uses humour to encourage you to stop and think. She uses various forms, including performances, installations, photography and video art. Hannah Cooke lives and works in Paris, where she is currently participating in the Cité internationale des arts residency programme. 

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Artworks

Vita

2016

Diploma in Media Art | Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (GER)

2011/2012

Study of Artistic Research | University of Amsterdam (NLD)

1986

born in Munich (GER)

Awards & Scholarships

2024

Scholarship / Art Fund Foundation

2022

MO_Kunstpreis | Museum Ostwall | Dortmund (GER)

Scholarship | Neustart Kultur Stiftung | Kunstfonds

Art Award of the 25th Karlsruhe Artists' Fair (GER)

2021

Project funding | Neustart Kultur | Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media

Scholarship for the Promotion of Artistic Practice | Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg

2020

Project funding | Interdisciplinary funding pot between art and science from the City of Karlsruhe (GER)

Residency, SOLO Quarantine | ato | Karlsruhe (GER)

2019
Residency Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (FRA)
2018

Mother Art Prize 2018 (Shortlist)

Artist Residency in Motherhood

2015

Prize from the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Kunst und Medientechnologie e.V./ZKM for the feminist collective FAK

Exhibitions (selection)

2025

Rebellion des gemeinen Mannes  500 Jahre Bauernaufstand | Kunsthalle Vogelmann | Heilbronn (GER)

2024

It´s time. To see. To be seen. | Chennai Photo Biennale - Lalit Kala Academy | Chennai (IND)

On the Horizon Care | Mothers*, Warrior, Poets | Gedok Stuttgart (GER)

Motherother | The NewBridge Project | Newcastle (GBR)

2023

How to face Picasso | Kunstmuseum Heidenheim (GER) (Solo show)

Julia Armutt (Régionale 24 ) | Kunsthalle Mulhouse (FRA)

ON/OFF – Questions of Timing | Schau Fenster | Berlin (GER)

Update! Die Sammlung neu sichten | Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (GER)

Sleepy politics | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AUT)

2022

25. Karlsruher Künstler*innenmesse | Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe (GER)

MO_Kunstpreis 2022 | Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U (GER) (Solo show)

Motherhood | Syker Vorwerk | Syke (GER)

Middlesbrough Art Weekend | Middlesbrough (GBR)

2021

Da werden Weiber zu Hyänen | CC99 | Karlsruhe (GER) (Solo show)

Artist must be beautiful | Regionale 22 | Accélérateur de particules | Strasbourg (FRA)

Mothers, Warriors and Poets* | Kunstverein Wagenhalle | Stuttgart (GER)

Reflecting The Sharing Moment | CAFA (CHN)

Uncurtain | Institut français | Stuttgart (GER) (Solo show) (catalog)

2020

#YaratOnline: Virtual Exhibition | Yarat Contemporary Art Space | Baku (AZE)

60 Days Lockdown Life | LuxelakesA4 Art Museum | Chengdu (CHN) (c)

Ada vs. | Playground London (GBR) (Solo show)

Waving with my phantom limb | Cité internationale des arts Paris (FRA) (Double exhibition)

2019

Mother Art Prize | Mimosa House | London (GBR)

2018

Mitgliederausstellung | Badischer Kunstverein | Karlsruhe (GER)

2017

Perceiving the non human I | Parkhaus im Malkasten Park | Düsseldorf (GER)

Perceiving the non human II | V8 | Karlsruhe (GER)

2016

Beyond | ZKM & HfG | Karlsruhe (GER)

In the Open | Kleine Humboldt Galerie | Berlin (GER)

2015

22. Bundeswettbewerb | Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (GER)

31.2 laufende Meter | Badischer Kunstverein (GER)

Hängung #1 | GersonHöger Galerie | Hamburg (GER)

International Bed-in | Zwischenraum | Karlsruhe (GER)

2014

Olohuonenäyttely | Pengerkatu 19 | Helsinki (FIN)

Regionale 15 | Künstlerwerkstatt L6 | Freiburg (GER)

2013

Means To An End | Cité, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (GER)

Means To An End | D21 | Leipzig (GER)

Means To An End | Kreuzbergpavillon | Berlin (GER)

2012

Regionale 13 | Kunstverein Freiburg (GER)

Déjà-vu? Die Kunst der Wiederholung von Dürer bis YouTube | Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (GER)

2011

Confess giddiness | Galerie Anna Klinkhammer | Düsseldorf (GER)

Carte blanche Artforum – Künstlerkreis Ortenau | Offenburg (GER)

Publications & Catalogs

2024

Caring Infrastructures – Transforming the Arts through Feminist Curating | Hg. Dr Sascia Bailer (P)

Who is afraid of mothers? | Dr. Larissa Kikol | Kunstforum International

2023

Motherhood Hg.: Nicole Giese-Kroner, Syker Vorwerk – Center for Arts and Media

2015

Body of Work, Hg.: FAK | Karlsruhe (GER) (P)

Kunststudentinnen und Kunststudenten stellen aus | Bundeskunsthalle Bonn (GER) (C)

2013

K., Haid-und-Neu-str.6, Hg: Angela Stiegler | Berlin (GER)

2012

Versal 10 | Hg.: Megan M. Garr | Amsterdam (NDL) (P)

Welch schöne Utopie | Wilhelmspalais | Stuttgart (GER) (C)

dOCUMENTA (13) Kritik | Art Studies & Media Theory HfG Edition | Hg.:University of Arts and Design | Karlsruhe (GER) (P)

Artist Talks, Lectures & Panels

2025

Artist Talk | with Mascha Salgado de Matos M. A. | Kunstakademie München (GER)

2024

Panel Discussion "Mothers in and outside of art" | with Anita Singh and Dr. Katharina Görgen | Chennai Photo Biennale | Goethe Institut Chennai (IND)

Artist Talk | Invited by Dr. Yana Prinsloo | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (GER)

2023

Panel discussion | Göttinnen und Fußabstreifer | Kunstmuseum Heidenheim (GER)

2022

Artist Talk | Museum Ostwall (GER)

Podiumsdiskussion | Der Pfad der Künstler*innen — Bedeutung und Aufgabe der Künstler*innen | Nordbecken Atelier | Karlsruhe (GER)

Workshop | Vom Empören zum Empowern | Kunstmuseum Basel (CH)

Artist Talk | PH in der Majolika | Karlsruhe (GER)

Artist Talk & Panel | Elternschaft und Kunstbetrieb Digitale conference | Dresden  (GER)

2016

Challenging Collectivity Lecture | Postgraduate Congress of the University of Frankfurt (GER)

Stadt Gestalten/ Creating Cities Lecture | die Anstoß | Karlsruhe (GER)

2021

Panel discussion | Berlinische Galerie (GER)

Artist Talk | Accélérateur de particules | Strasbourg (FRA)

Panel discussion | Kunsthalle Mannheim (GER)

Artist Talk | Vika | Halle (GER)

Artist Talk | Wunder der Prärie | Mannheim (GER)

Artist Talk | Kunstverein Wagenhalle | Stuttgart (GER)

Artist Talk | Institut français | Stuttgart (GER)

2015

Body of Work Lecture | V8 | Karlsruhe (GER)

Body of Work Lecture | Lothringer 13_Florida | Munich (GER)

Press & Interviews

2025

TV Portrait I “Aufstand gegen die Mächtigen – 500 Jahre Bauernkriege” by Kristine Harthauer I SWR Kultur 02/2025 (GER)

2024

Radio Interview | Zeitgenossen with Dietrich Brants | SWR2 02/2024 (GER)

2023

Interview | Picasso is a red flag | Crisp Magazin

TV Interview | “Motherhood”: Muttersein in der zeitgenössischen Kunst | NDR Kultur Journal (GER)

2022

Article | “Das letzte Tabu” | by Larissa Kikol | DIE ZEIT & Courrier International (FRA) 

Text „Aggressive Energie umlenken“ | FR7/Frankfurter Rundschau  (GER)

Radio Interview | “Frauen in der Kunst – ohne Kind?” | WDR (GER)

2021

Interview | Der Kunstbetrieb muss elternfreundlicher werden!" | with Ferial Karrasch | Monopol Magazin 04/2021

Interview | Motherhood and art. Where is the solidarity?| with Natalie Wichmann | Schirn Kunsthalle 11/2021

Artikel | “Das Kinderlos” | by Antje Stahl | Republik Magazine 11/2021

„Gekommen, um zu bleiben“ | by Hannah Klein | Kunststadt Stadtkunst Zeitschrift 12/2021

2020

Podcast Interview | Irgendwas mit Kunst

Studio visit by Michael Hübl | Badische Neueste Nachrichten (GER)

Teaching & Workshops

2024

Workshop "Who is afraid of mothers?" | Chennai Photo Biennale Goethe Insitut | Chennai (IND)

2020-2022

Lectureship | Macromedia Hochschule Stuttgart

2016

"Caring Resistance" Workshop with Seraphine Meya | Kunstakademie Kassel

"Sleeping Resistance" Seminar by Seraphine Meya and Hannah Cooke | University of Arts and Design | Karlsruhe