Hannah O'Flynn is an artist, filmmaker, researcher and curator from Barcelona. She currently is the director of with the rubbles of old palaces, a cultural (research) space in Kreuzberg, Berlin. Her work examines human and non-human relationships to dominant structures of oppression, and the long histories of resistance against them. Her current work looks at food as life-sustaining, cultural ecosystem and political product, and investigates the intersections between food practices, culinary histories, food production and trade, and global politics; attempting, through these intersections, to map global networks of capitalist, colonial and imperialist relations. In 2022 O'Flynn produced SMASHED: Speaking Histories of Insurrection, a collage of interviews around the Irish pub as a political space for community building, oral history transmission and anti-colonial organising in the context of the long British occupation of Ireland. In 2023 she made the film Pain de Fantasie in collaboration with Kari Leigh Rosenfeld for the exhibition Supply Chain Indigestion with Tian Guoxin, where she examines the intersecting colonial histories of the global expansion of the baguette. She just finished the film Liquid Sands, where she examines the colonial discourse within the land reclamation projects of both Singapore and the Netherlands. Hannah O'Flynn 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
2023: No Backup for 601 Days at W139, Amsterdam
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
2023: THE HEIST: A Tour Guide with Tian Guoxin and Liu Chao at BPA//Room, Berlin
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
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 ot 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
AWARDS & FUNDING
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: funded by Neustart Kultur Prozessförderung (Fonds Darstellende Künste) for Her Face: Cloud Tongues
2022: selected and funded for the Project Space Festival 22 for SMASHED: Speaking Histories of Insurrection
RESIDENCIES
2025: A4 Art Museum International Residency Program, Chengdu
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 (2013-2017)
Foundation Program at University of the Creative Arts, Epsom (2013)