Hannah Mevis is a visual artist and researcher.
Her process-oriented practice challenges her to act as an artist,
performer, organizer,
writer, chef, lecturer, teacher, student or whatever role is needed within the context.
Central to her work is the curiosity for the human body in juxtaposition to itself along
with its social constructs. Her work takes a variety of shapes which are influenced by
context and concept, and incorporates her own sensory physicality as well as that of
the viewer. Sometimes, the spectator can
participate in an action to the outcome of an artwork
taste foods while hearing about their stories
create images with their minds while reading the words that she wrote.
Currently, Hannah is navigating between states of exhaustion and the activity of catching cumulus.
Tique asked me six questions about my work. You can find the answers here:
https://tique.art/interviews/six-questions/hannah-mevis/
Exhibitions, Performances, Talks, Residencies:
2024
In the Face of Exhaustion, participatory lecture performance, School of Survival, Deichtorhallen Hambug, DE
FBZ art award 2024 - Forschung und Behandlungszentrum für psychische Gesundheit, Bochum, DE
GOSSIP matters hard to grasp - twin exhibition at Cercle Cité Luxembourg LUX and Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken DE
Prototyping meets Health - co:hub 66, Saarbrücken, DE
2023
Erschöpfung - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, DE
Première Rencontre annuelle de la Guilde des artistes, The Distillery, Brno, CZE
Die Neuen, BBK Saar, Bosener Mühle, DE
Frans Masereel Centum - Residency, BE
2022
bOdy - Freund*innen der Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Präsentation innovative Kunstprojekte - Neustart Kultur, Saarbrücken, DE
Beats Soup in the framework of PRIMA – 250 jaar Academie Mechelen, Cultural Centre Mechelen, BE
Pale Burnt Lake, at Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp, BE
Where are you from? Gustatory lecture, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, DE
In the presence of Exhaustion, lecture-performance, Waldbühne
Deutsch-Französischer-Garten, Saarbrücken, DE
Night Air : Breathing with Clouds, Sonic Acts, OT301, Amsterdam, NL
2021
Haus für Musiker - Raketenstation,
Museumsinsel Hombroich - Residency, Neuss, Germany
JulyAugustSeptember, July-September, St.Apernstrasse 13, Cologne, Germany
Point of No Return. Attunement of
Attention, April 24th - June 20th, NART – Narva Art Residency, Narva, Estonia
DR. Eva Kahn Foundation -
Residency, Tuscany, Italy
2020
A Brief Inquiry into Empty Space, Toni-Areal, Zurich, Switzerland
objects truvés - verloren voorwerpen, Bruges, Belgium
Wanderschinken, brussels midi spoor 7, Brussels, Belgium
2019
An Island of Multiple Bridges, HISK laureates 2019 exhibition, Gent (BE)
HAPPENING 20 years S.M.A.K, SMAK, Gent (BE)
Full Moon Phase as member of Transnational Alliance, Contour Biennale 9, Mechelen (BE)
Failures of Cohabitation, M HKA, Antwerp (BE)
2018
beats soup, cooking and sound event in relation to mucosa, within the HISK exhibition show me tomorrow, we will go there, Gent (BE)
Rites of exchange, ISELP, Brussels (BE)
Bauchen, performative lecture in coperation with Martina Wegener, Museum of Modern Art, Freiburg (DE)
2017
safety first, graduation show, KuBa, Saarbrücken (DE)
you are my shadow - 48h Neukölln, oMo artspace, Berlin (DE)
Ein Abend für Speckliebhaber, IFKIK-Container, UdK Berlin (DE)
Move your homeland - you leave we welcome you! II, initiated by Julia Rabusai, HBK Galerie, Saarbrücken (DE)
État d'ésprit, Saarart 11, Pingusson Park, Saarbrücken (DE)
Move your homeland - you leave we welcome you! I, initiated by Julia Rabusai, Dove Street Studios, Norwich Market, Galleries at St.Austine's street, Norwich (GB)
2016
Table of things, Design Bazaar HBK Saar, Saarbrücken (DE)
Aura undercover, Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien (AT)
2015
PHOENIX, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL)
VvsV, Querulanten/Hylobaten, Städtische Galerie, Villingen Schwenningen (DE)
Publications and Texts:
2022
matières vibrantes, Christiane Wien, Gesellschaft der Freunde junger Kunst e.V., Baden-Baden
2021
Linda Nochlin Fanzine's 4th issue by KIOSK Ghent
TIM #1 - Artistic relationships, TIM magazine
2020
#05 if found, please return to, nowhere collective
Sound Mirrors, Christiane Wien, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus
2019
Das Wort, Wilfried Huet and HISK
Burgfestspiele I-IV, Neuer Saarbrücker Kunstverein
2018
MS DISSOZIAL, Frédéric Ehlers, Museum of Modern Art Freiburg
2017
Knick- Senk- Spreizfuß, Angewandte Spaziergangswissenschaften, S_A_R Projektbüro, HBK Saar, Bauhausuniversität Weimar
2016
Das kulinarische Hörbuch für Speckliebhaber, Hannah Mevis
meanwhile..., Kunstraum Niederösterreich
2015
VvsV, Städtische Galerie Villingen Schwenningen and HBK Saar
