Hanna B. Hölling is Research Professor and Principal Investigator at HKB Bern University of the Arts, where she leads research teams funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is a 2025-26 Senior Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum/ETH Zürich and an Honorary Fellow in the Department of History of Art at University College London (UCL).
Hanna’s research, teaching and advising address subjects in art history and theory, media and material (culture) studies, museology, heritage, conservation, and American and European art created since the 1960s.
Hanna’s work has been supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art, The Getty Foundation, The Mellon Foundation, Dutch Research Council, Bern University of the Arts, UCL London, and more recently, the by Swiss National Science Foundation and The Institute of Advanced Studies Collegium Helveticum.
Amongst the books she has published are: Paik’s Virtual Archive: On Time, Change and Materiality in Media Art (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017) and Revisions-Zen for Film (New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2015). Revisions accompanied an eponymous exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York (17 September 2015–22 February 2016).
She has also edited anthologies, Activating Fluxus, Expanding Conservation (Routledge 2026), Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care Vol. 1 (2023) and Vol. 2 (2025), Object—Event—Performance: Art, Materiality and Continuity since the 1960s (New York: Bard Graduate Center, Cultural Histories of the Material World, 2022), Landscape: Institute for Land and Environmental Art (co-edited with J. M. Hedinger; Vexer Verlag, 2020) and The Explicit Material: Inquiries on the Intersection of Curatorial and Conservation Cultures (London and Leiden: Brill 2019).
Hanna is a frequent contributor to research seminars, conferences, and symposia. Her writings appeared in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, and exhibition catalogs. She advises heritage institutions and museums, contributes to and advises international research projects and academic programs, and serves as a reviewer for funding bodies, scholarly journals and book series.
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