Dehlia Hannah

Dehlia Hannah is Associate Professor of Environmental Aesthetics at the University of Copenhagen. Her current monograph and curatorial research project Rewilding the Museum (Hatje Cantz, forthcoming 2025), co-hosted by ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art and supported by the Ny Carlsberg Foundation, explores the permeability of contemporary art and its institutions to environmental crises. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Certificate in Feminist Inquiry from Columbia University, with specializations in aesthetics, philosophy of science and philosophy of technology. Her first book, A Year Without a Winter (Columbia University Press, 2019), reframed contemporary imaginaries of climate change through a transdisciplinary thought experiment revisiting the environmental conditions under which the novel Frankenstein was written in the global aftermath of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora.

Dehlia Hannah’s exhibitions and artistic collaborations explore how emerging science and technology inform the aesthetic contestation of ideas of nature. Past exhibitions include Placing the Golden Spike: Landscapes of the Anthropocene (Milwaukee, 2015), and Control: Experiment (Stockholm, 2016), Dressing in a World of Endless Rainfall (Copenhagen, 2016), Emerge: A Festival of Futures (Phoenix, 2017), and the site-specific installation Fabian Knecht—Isolation (52°33’44.1”N 14°03’12.8”E) (Buchow, 2019). Edited books include Julius von Bismarck —Talking to Thunder (Hatje Cantz, 2019) and Julian Charrière—Toward No Earthly Pole (Mousse, 2020), and the Routledge Handbook of Art and Science and Technology Studies (Routledge, 2021). She is an affiliate of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and maintains an active dialogue with scientific colleagues. Her next exhibition, Pink Noise, by the collective Troika, opens September 1, 2024 at the Langen Foundation near Dusseldorf, Germany.