Hannah O'Flynn is an artist, filmmaker, researcher and curator from Barcelona. Her work investigates the processes of normalisation of structures of oppression and the banalisation of structural violence. In her practice she focuses her research on single everyday objects or practices and attempts to situate them as a way of mapping histories of extraction, cultural norms of oppression, global networks of capitalist and imperialist relations, and the continued practices of resistance against such systems. She is an associated artist and curator at with the rubbles of old palaces (Berlin), is a graduate of the Kingston School of Art and holds an MA from the Dutch Art Institute.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024: Liquid Sands at with the rubbles of old palaces, Berlin
2022: SMASHED: Speaking Histories of Insurrection for the Project Space Festival 22 at with the rubbles of old palaces, Berlin
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025: Noorderlicht Biennale: Machine Entanglements, Groeningen
2023: No Backup for 601 Days at W139, Amsterdam
2023: THE HEIST: A Tour Guide with 皮包公司 at BPA//Room, Berlin
2023: The Critical Drinking Curriculum at Juxtapose Art Fair, Aarhus
2023: Supply Chain Indigestion at with the rubbles of old palaces, Berlin
2019: Holding Hands from Afar, at Bebe Books, DOK, Gent
2019: LEAVE A MESSAGE AFTER THE.. / I want to be in a room with some wifi, at Pleasure Zone, Basel
2018: Performing // Ritual // Object, Kingston upon Thames
2017: The Toilet Show, Beiluoguxiang Public Toilet, Beijing
2015: No Working Project at the Tate Modern, London
2015: Marginalised at the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing
2014: Time at the Picker Gallery, Kingston upon Thames
2014: Portable Exhibition - A Mobile Utopia, Kingston upon Thames
PERFORMANCES
2022: Cloud Tongues for the Her Face theatre series with Paper Tiger Theatre and Kunstbetrieb Birach, Berlin
2020: The Cooking Show Seminar: Politics of Food, Amsterdam
2019: Dust Floating in the Dark — A Disenlightened Dream in What’s with Privacy when it’s too Loud Outside? at the WAS Biennale, Berlin
2018: Waiting (part II) in Razzmatazz V, London
2018: Waiting (part I) in Harvesting Mind, Braunschweig
2017: Imperial Lunch, the Forbidden City, Beijing
2017: Water in Razzmatazz 3: Performing Borders at Museum of Futures, Surbiton
2016: A Night of Perpetual Performances, Goethe Institut, Beijing
2016: Sayingzheng III, Tuanjiehu Park, Beijing
FILMS
[In the works]: Tall Red, Deep Green
2024: Liquid Sands (25:11 min)
2023: Pain de Fantasie (29:25 min)
CURATION
2025: Where the Landscape Ends film festival at with the rubbles of old palaces, Berlin
2024: IMBISS: A Working Group workshop series at with the rubbles of old palaces, Berlin
2024: Becoming Stones exhibition at with the rubbles of old palaces, Berlin
2023: Portrait or Landscape, Anahita? exhibition at with the rubbles of old palaces, Berlin
2023: Supply Chain Indigestion at with the rubbles of old palaces, Berlin
2022: Promises of Ever-coming Prosperity series at with the rubbles of old palaces, Berlin
2022 - present: Critical Drinking Curriculum at with the rubbles of old palaces, Berlin
2020 - present: IMBISS: a Politics of Food Research Group, Berlin & Amsterdam
2017: The Toilet Show, Beiluoguxiang Public Toilet, Beijing
WRITING & PUBLISHING
2023: sunshine gold, oriental red, hayward green for BPA// Exhibition 2023 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2023: Un buque frigorífico llano de plátanos article series for the online magazine HAMBRE
2020: Chimeras of Infinite Expansion: Thinking Capital Accumulation with Fruit Chan’s Dumplings
2019: Russian Literature Better than Sex: Singular You or Plural I? in Not a Neutral Conduit: Fictocritical Approaches in Artistic Research — Reader on Stage
2018: In Search of the Miraculous: Bas Jan Ader on the Absurd and the Longing for Transcendence
2017: Little Eating Emperors zine with Nornir
2017: Weishan artist book
TEACHING
2024: IMBISS: A Working Group - Episode 2: Butter/Im at with the rubbles of old palaces, Berlin
2024: IMBISS: A Working Group - Episode 5: al-Andalus at with the rubbles of old palaces, Berlin
2024: Saoirse online study group series at with the rubbles of old palaces
2023: میزبانی Hosting workshop with 皮包公司 Pibao Gongsi at S27, Berlin
2020-2021: Vladmail online study group series
RESIDENCIES
2026: Situated Residencies with Idensitat, Barcelona
2025: A4 Residency Art Centre, Chengdu
AWARDS & FUNDING
2025: funded by the Goethe Institut for the resdidency at the A4 Residency Art Centre, Chengdu
2025: funded by Bezirkskulturfonds Friederichhein-Kreuzberg for Where the Landscape Ends
2025: selected for the film festival SmallRigs Awards with Liquid Sands
2024: funded by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung for IMBISS: A Working Group
2024: funded by Bezirkskulturfonds Friederichhein-Kreuzberg for Liquid Sands
2023: funded by Hauptsadtkulturfonds for Anahita
2023: funded by Culture Moves Europe (Goethe Institut) for The Critical Drinking Curriculum, Juxtapose Art Fair
2023: funded by Präsentationen Zeitgenössischer Bildender Kunst (Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa) for Supply Chain Indigestion
2023: funded by Bezirkskulturfonds in Friederichhein-Kreuzberg for Supply Chain Indigestion
2022: selected and funded for the Project Space Festival 22 for SMASHED: Speaking Histories of Insurrection
EDUCATION
MA Art Praxis, Dutch Art Institute (2018-2020)
Exchange Program at the Experimental Arts Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (2014)
BA Fine Arts, Kingston University, London (2013-2018)
Foundation Program at University of the Creative Arts, Epsom (2013)