Artist statement
Hannah Zenger (*1988) is a visual artist who engages with artistic research as an aesthetic practice. In interdisciplinary collaboration with laboratories and researchers, she develops installations and sculptural works that make scientific processes, atmospheric phenomena and hidden layers of places tangible to the senses.
At the centre of her work is a growing archive of historical and contemporary voices – including texts, drawings, theories, and research findings – which she integrates with material studies on light, glass, earth, and natural substances. Her approach combines precise research with an open aesthetic practice of collecting, transforming and visualising.
Hannah Zenger studied architecture and fine arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, where she is currently Meisterschülerin of Ricarda Roggan. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions as well as public commissions, most recently in 2024 for the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Munich. Since 2025 she has been teaching at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart in an interdisciplinary exchange between art, architecture and science.
* 1988, lives and works in Stuttgart, Germany
Vita
2024 – current Meisterschülerin in the postgraduate Weißenhof-Programme, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
2019 Diploma Fine Arts, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
2015 – 2019 Teaching at Institut für Darstellen und Gestalten, Architetcture faculty, University of Stuttgart
2015 – 2019 Fine Arts, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
2009 – 2015 B.A. in Architecture, University of Stuttgart & State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
Scholarships and prizes
2025 Mathilde–Planck–Lehrauftrags–Programm
2023 Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, Artist in Residence, Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg
2023 1st prize Kunst am Bau, SPiN Bau Stuttgart Vaihingen, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Munich
2022 1st prize Kunst am Bau, DHBW Heidenheim, Vermögen und Bau Baden-Württemberg
2022 Neustart-Kultur Scholarship, Kunstfonds Bonn
2022 Publication Grant, Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg
2021 1st prize, Art Award Böblingen, Landratsamt Böblingen
2021 Scholarship, Bürgerstiftung Stuttgart
2019 Atelier–Scholarship, Landratsamt Esslingen
2018 State Prize Baden-Württemberg, 1st Prize emerging artists
2018 Southwest German Ceramic Prize, Nomination
Kunst am Bau
2024 Kunst am Bau, SPiN Bau Stuttgart Vaihingen, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft München
2023 Kunst am Bau, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, WCM-Areal Heidenheim, Vermögen und Bau Baden-Württemberg
Public Collections
2024 Sculptoura, Public Art, Landkreis Böblingen
2023 Art Collection of the State Baden-Württemberg
2022 Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
2021 Landkreis Calw
2020 Landkreis Böblingen
2019 Württembergisches Landesmuseum Stuttgart
2018 Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe
Exhibitions
2024 Schall und Rau(s)ch, Städtische Galerie Böblingen
2023 Open Studio, Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2023 Digging Depper, Permanente Sammlung Städtische Galerie Böblingen
2023 Academy Selection, Galerie Kellermann, Düsseldorf
2022 Frischzelle_28: Hannah Zenger, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart (solo)
2022 ON EARTH Kulturpark Dettinger, Plochingen (solo)
2022 Vierzig Tage – Eine Ausstellung am Rand der Zeit Galerie Kernweine, Stuttgart
2022 Vierzig Tage – Eine Ausstellung am Rand der Zeit ITO, Stuttgart
2021 From the Field Kulturpark Dettinger, Plochingen
2021 Vierzig Tage – Eine Ausstellung am Rand der Zeit Langenbachhof, Schonach
2021 Kunstpreis Landkreis Böblingen, Landratsamt Böblingen
2020 Landesausstellung Staatspreis Baden-Württemberg Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe
2018 Diplomausstellung Bildende Kunst Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart
2017 Südwestdeutscher Keramikpreis Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen
Hannah Zenger
Senefelderstraße 31A
70176 Stuttgart
Germany
hz@hannahzenger.de
© 2025 Hannah Zenger