Mariana Hahn is a multimedia artist whose practice spans performance, video, painting, and installation. Her work explores the relationship between the body and the transmission of memory and knowledge, investigating how materials—particularly salt and copper—function as carriers and mediators of memory across time. She examines their shifting roles, meanings, and transformations across different civilisations, considering how material traces can preserve, transmit, and transform experience. Building on this exploration, Hahn navigates an ambiguous space between performance and materiality, where body and environment converge. She generates poetic resonances from residues and quotidian elements—human sweat, salt, and copper—that are conventionally perceived as ephemeral or disposable. Through these materials, her practice becomes a performative discourse on the liberatory potential of art—mental, corporeal, and intimate—placing the body at the center of an ongoing dialogue with space, time, and material transformation.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at MACCO Museum of Contemporary Art (Oaxaca), Galerist (Istanbul), Jezca Gallery (Romania), the Franco-German Pavilion at the Malta Biennale, HDM Gallery and PS120 (Paris), Haus am Lützowplatz and Diskurs (Berlin), as well as institutions in China such as Mountain View Museum (Shenzhen), Pan Meigu Female Art Museum (Fujian), and Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art (Guangzhou). Additional exhibitions include the Belgrade Art Biennale, Galleria Mario Iannelli (Rome), Trafó Museum of Contemporary Art (Szczecin), the Biennale for Young Art (Moscow), and Chat Mill 6 Foundation (Hong Kong)as Mountain View Museum (Shenzhen), Pan Meigu Female Art Museum (Fujian), and Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art (Guangzhou). Additional exhibitions include the Belgrade Art Biennale, Galleria Mario Iannelli (Rome), Trafó Museum of Contemporary Art (Szczecin), the Biennale for Young Art (Moscow), and Chat Mill 6 Foundation (Hong Kong).