Dr. Hanna Barbara Hölling

• Principal Investigator and Project Lead • Critical Conservation • Swiss National Science Foundation • 2026-30

• Project Lead • Natureculture Lab • Swiss National Science Foundation • BFH Network Grant Strategic Themes • 2024-25

• Principal Investigator and Project Lead • Activating Fluxus • Swiss National Science Foundation • 2022-26

• Principal Investigator and Project Lead • Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge • Swiss National Science Foundation • 2020-25

• Coordinator • Contemporary Art and Media Research Field • Institute Materiality in Art and Culture

• Studies in the Arts SINTA | Bern University of the Arts | Bern University

• Y Module | Bern University of the Arts

• Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art (SITSA) Harvard Art Museum | Havard University

• PhD Program University College London | Department of History of Art

• PhD external examiner at EU, US, UK and Latin American Universities

• West Dean | College of Arts, Design, Craft & Conservation

• MA & BA History of Art, University College London, 2016-2022

• BA History of Art, Materials and Technology, University College London, 2016-2022

• MA & PhD Cultures of Conservation, Bard Graduate Center New York, 2013-15

• MA Preservation of the Moving Image University of Amsterdam, guest lecturer, 2009-13

• MA Material Art History, University of Amsterdam, guest lecturer, 2009-13

• MA Conservation of New Media and Digital Information, Stuttgart Academy of the Arts, guest lecturer and mentor, 2006-09

• Theory, philosophy and history of conservation

• Museums, collections and archives

• Subjects in art history and theory and in American and European Art created since the 1960s

• Media and technologies of the moving image

• Subjects in critical heritage studies and museology

• Critical conservation, transversal practices and experimental preservation

• Art, culture and materiality since the 1960s

• Conservation, care and practices of preservation

• Critical conservation and conservation theory

• Museums, collections, and cultures of collecting

• Institutionalisation and infrastructures of art and culture

• Performance, performativity, and live practices

• Time-based, media, and electronic art

• Film, video, installation, and expanded media

• Material culture, objects, and their changing lives

• Heritage, memory, and processes of transmission

• Naturecultures, landscape, and environmental humanities

• Environmental politics and practices of care

• Decolonial and transcultural approaches to conservation and heritage

• Artistic knowledge, practice-based research, and interdisciplinary methodologies

• - Art, materiality, and cultural practices since the 1960s, with particular attention to performance, film, video, installation, and time-based media
  - Conservation as a critical, epistemic, and transformative practice shaping objects, knowledge, institutions, and communities
  - Material culture approaches that move beyond ocularcentric understandings of art and cultural heritage
  - Museums, collections, and the institutional frameworks through which art and culture are preserved, transmitted, and valued
  - Care, naturecultures, and environmental humanities, addressing contemporary ecological and cultural challenges through expanded approaches to conservation.

• Hanna B. Hölling is Research Professor and Principal Investigator at HKB Bern University of the Arts, where she leads research projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Her research and teaching span art history and theory, material culture studies, museology and conservation, with a particular focus on art since the 1960s, time-based and performative practices, and the changing material and ecological conditions of cultural objects and heritage.
  
  A central strand of her work reconceptualizes conservation as a critical and epistemic practice concerned not only with the preservation of objects, but with questions of time, change, identity, materiality and care. More recently, her research has expanded towards naturecultures and the environmental humanities, investigating conservation in relation to interconnected cultural and ecological challenges.
  
  Hölling is also Senior Fellow at the Collegium Helveticum/ETH Zürich and Honorary Fellow in the Department of History of Art at University College London (UCL). Previously, she was Associate Professor of History of Art, Materials, and Technology at UCL, Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor at Bard Graduate Center in New York, and Head of Conservation at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. She received her PhD in Art History and Cultural Studies from the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis.
  
  Her books include Paik’s Virtual Archive: Time, Change, and Materiality in Media Art (University of California Press, 2017) and Revisions—Zen for Film (Bard Graduate Center, 2015). She has also co-edited and edited numerous volumes, including Activating Fluxus, Expanding Conservation (Routledge, 2026), Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care (Routledge, Vol. 1 2023 / Vol.2 2025), Object—Event—Performance: Art and Materiality since the 1960s (Bard Graduate Center, 2022), Landscape (Vexer, 2019), and The Explicit Material: Inquiries on the Intersection of Curatorial and Conservation Cultures (Brill, 2017).

• 2025-26 Collegium Helveticum | ETH Zurich: Caring for Naturecultures, senior fellowship project

• 2025 SNSF Scientific Exchanges, Natureculture Lab International Think Tank, HKB Bern Academy of the Arts

• 2024 BFH Bern University of Applied Sciences, Network Grant, Strategic Fields

• 2023 Visiting Professorship, University of Rio de Janeiro, University of Brasilia

• 2019-23 Global Engagement Fund, University College London

• 2019-2020 Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum: Fluxus and the Material Legacy of Intermediality

• 2019 Dean’s Strategic Fund Grant for Education and Research Activities, University College London

• 2016-2017 Getty Conservation Scholarship, Getty Conservation Center / Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

• 2013-2015 Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professorship, Cultures of Conservation, Bard Graduate Center, New York

• 2010-2011 The Courtauld Institute of Art, London: The Material Life of Things Research Forum Fellowship

• 2009-2013 Dutch Scientific Research Foundation NWO PhD Research Fellowship, University of Amsterdam

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara, Aga Wielocha, and Josephine Ellis (Eds.). (2026) Activating Fluxus, Expanding Conservation. London and New York: Routledge, 2026. Open Access via Taylor & Francis and hard cover.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara, Jules Pelta Feldman, and Emilei Magnin (Eds.). (2024). Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care, Volume II. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003467809.

• Hölling, H. B., Feldman, J. P., & Magnin, E. (Eds.). (2023). Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care, Volume I. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19823

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (ed.) (2022). Object, Event, Performance: Art, Materiality, and Continuity Since The 1960s. Cultural Histories of the Material World Series. New York: Bard Graduate Center.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara, Hedinger, Johannes M. (eds.), (2020). Landscape: Institute for Land and Environmental Art. Berlin: Vexer Verlag.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara, Bewer, Francesca, Ammann, Katharina (eds.). (2019). The Explicit Material: Inquiries on the Intersection of Curatorial and Conservation Cultures. Boston and Leiden: Brill.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2017). Paik's Virtual Archive: Time, Change, and Materiality in Media Art. Oakland: University of California Press.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2015). Revisions - Zen for Film. New York: Bard Graduate Center, distr. by University of Chicago Press.

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• Schneider R. et Hölling, H.B. (2025) “Pas, encore. Quand notre art se trouve entre nos mains.” Traduit de l’anglais par Gauthier Lesturgie. In Les archives en performance, la performance en archive: Action, méthode, recherche, edited by Ross Luis and Anolga Rodionoff, 301-321. Paris, Éditions Hermann.

• Hölling, H. B. (2024). “Once upon a time” Performative ultra-conceptualism and storytelling as conservation—Florence Jung (H. B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, & Emilie Magnin, Eds.; Issue 2). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11490

• Hölling, H. B., Feldman, J. P., & Magnin, E. (2024). Introduction: Sustaining care for performance (H. B. Hölling, J. P. Feldman, & E. Magnin, Eds.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11485

• Hölling, H. B., Feldman, J. P., Magnin, E., Caroll, V., Henry-Griffin, K., Byrd, N., & Makau, A. (2024). Valinda Carroll, Kayla Henry-Griffin, Nylah Byrd, and Ariana Makau of Black Art Conservators on Black objects, performance, and the future of conservation - A conversation with Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, and Emilie Magnin. In H. B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, & Emilie Magnin (Eds.), Performance (Issue 2). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11489

• Munsi, U. S., Hölling, H. B., Feldman, J. P., & Magnin, E. (2024). Urmimala Sarkar Munsi: Dance, embodied preservation, and unlearning in India - A conversation with Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman and Emilie Magnin (H. B. Hölling, J. P. Feldman, & E. Magnin, Eds.; Issue 2). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11488

• Raymond, R., Hölling, H. B., Fledman, J. P., & Magnin, E. (2024). Rosanna Raymond on Conser.Vā.Tion: A conversation with Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, and Emilie Magnin (H. B. Hölling, J. P. Feldman, & E. Magnin, Eds.; Issue 2). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11487

• Hölling, H. B., & Joanna Lesnierowska. (2024). Joanna Leśnierowska: Performance conservation as a political act - A conversation with Hanna B. Hölling (H. B. Hölling, J. P. Feldman, & E. Magnin, Eds.; Issue 2). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11486

• Hochuli, G., Hölling, H. B., Feldman, J. P., & Magnin, E. (2024). Gisela Hochuli: In Strange Hands - A conversation with Hanna B. Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman and Emilie Magnin (H. B. Hölling, J. P. Feldman, & E. Magnin, Eds.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11484

• Hölling, H. B. (2024). Fluxus Mystery Food : Konservendosen, die durch Ben Vautiers performativen Akt und George Maciunas Label-Design populär wurden (Ina Jessen & Fabiana Senkpiel, Eds.). Hatje Cantz. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11454

• Hölling, H. B. (2024). Curating et conservation de la variabilité (Simona Ciuccio, Katrin Weilenmann, & Katharina Ammann, Eds.). Scheidegger and Spiess. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11506

• Hölling, H. B. (2024). Veränderlichkeit kuratieren und konservieren (S. Ciuccio, K. Weilenmann, & K. Ammann, Eds.). Scheidegger & Spiess. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.21252

• Hölling, H. B., & Felipe Ribeiro. (2024). Pode a Performance ser Conservada? Introdução a um Campo Contestado (M. I. Galvão & M. A. da C. Souza, Eds.). Associação Nacional de Pesquisadores em Dança – ANDA. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11514

• Hölling, H. B., Feldman, J. P., & Magnin, E. (2024). Performance Conservation: A Condition Report, or a Para-Ethnography in Three Acts (S. Gebhardt Fink & A. Mirčev, Eds.). Diaphanes. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.21747

• Shadreck, C., & Hölling, H. B. (2023). Innovation and Preservation: Shadreck Chirikure on the Performance of Heritage (H. B. Hölling, J. P. Feldman, & E. Magnin, Eds.). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19831

• Morgan, K., Hölling, H. B., Feldman, J. P., & Magnin, E. (2023). Peeling the Paint off the Walls: Kelli Morgan on Black Performance and Racial Justice in Western Institutions (H. B. Hölling, J. P. Feldman, & E. Magnin, Eds.). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19830

• Hölling, H. B. (2023). Notation und Ewigkeit in Symphonie No. 5 and Liberation Sonata for Fish ( im D. U. Museum Ostwall & R. Frieling, Eds.). Spector Books. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19826

• Schneider, R., & Hölling, H. B. (2023). Not, Yet: When Our Art is in our Hands: Rebecca Schneider, with Antiphonal Interludes by Hanna B. Hölling (H. B. Hölling, J. P. Feldman, & E. Magnin, Eds.). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19832

• Helio, E., Ekeba, Mi., Hölling, H. B., Magnin, E., Badcock, J., & Maly, V. (2023). Performing the ‘Mask:’ Kongo Astronauts (Eléonore Hellio and Michel Ekeba) on Postcolonial Entanglements (H. B. Hölling, J. P. Feldman, & E. Magnin, Eds.). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19828

• Smith, C., Hölling, H. B., & Feldman, J. P. (2023). Potential Afterlives: Cauleen Smith on the Relation of Film and Performance (H. B. Hölling, J. P. Feldman, & E. Magnin, Eds.). Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19827

• Hölling, H. B. (2023). Notation and Eternity in Symphonie No. 5 and Liberation Sonata for Fish ( im D. U. Museum Ostwall & R. Frieling, Eds.). Spector Books. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19825

• Hölling, H. B., Feldman, J. P., & Magnin, E. (2023). Introduction: Caring for Performance. Taylor & Francis. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19833

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2022). Exhausting Conservation: Object, Event, Performance in Franz Erhard Walther’s Werkstücke. In Holling, Hanna B. (Ed.), Object—Event—Performance: Art, Materiality and Continuity since the 1960s. (pp. 62-84). New York: Bard Graduate Center.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2022). Introduction: Object—Event—Performance. In Holling, H.B. (Ed.), Object—Event—Performance: Art, Materiality and Continuity since the 1960s. (pp. 1-39). New York: Bard Graduate Center.

• Hölling, H. B. (2022). Can We Talk Post-Preservation? A letter to Nam June Paik - Invited lecture at the National Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art in Soul, South Korea. My Paik Nam June Conference. National Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/34396

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2022). Can We Talk Post-Preservation? A letter to Nam June Paik. Preprint from invited lecture at the National Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art in Soul, South Korea.

• Hölling, Hanna B., Hedinger, Johannes M. (2022). The Propensity to Openness: Bloch as Object, Event, Performance—Hanna B. Hölling in Conversation with Johannes M. Hedinger. In Holling, Hanna B. (Ed.), Object—Event—Performance: Art, Materiality and Continuity since the 1960s. (pp. 261-283). New York: Bard Graduate Center.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2021). Kunsthaus Zofingen: Baumfänger - Auszüge aus der Eröffnungsrede. In Waldner, C. (Ed.), Von Würzlen zu Wolken. (pp. 10-21). Kunsthaus Zofingen CH.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2021). Über das Nichts, die Leere und die Langeweile. In Krüsi, A. (Ed.), Leere. (pp. 60-61). VGS St Gallen.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2021). Zeit, Materialität, Authentizität in Paiks Medienkunst / Time, Materiality and Authenticity in Paik's Media Art. In Engel, C. (Ed.), Nam June Paik: Pre Bell Man - Eine Ikone der Medienkunst /An Icon of Media Art (German, English). (pp. 70-73). Frankfurt: Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt.

• Hölling, Hanna B., Hedinger, Johannes M. (2020). Introduction to Landscape/Einführung zu Landscape. In Holling, Hanna B., Hedinger, Johannes M. (Eds.), Landscape: Institute for Land and Environmental Art. (pp. 2-7). Berlin: Vexer Verlag.

• Hölling, Hanna B, 한나 B., 횔.링. (2020). Paik, Musically: Fluxus—Stockhausen—Cage. In Eunji, P.a.r.k. (Ed.), National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art: The Legacy of Nam June Paik / 백남준, 음악적으로: 플럭서스—슈톡하우젠—케이지. Seoul: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2020). The Lands of Art: On the Shifting Grounds of Land Art (2016). In Holling, Hanna B., Hedinger, Johnanes M. (Eds.), Landscape: Institute for Land and Environmental Art. (pp. 52-69). Berlin: Vexer Verlag.

• Hölling, Hanna B., Bewer, Franscesca, Ammann, Katharina. (2019). Introduction: Material Encounters. In Hölling, Hanna B., Bewer, Francesca, Ammann, Katharina (Eds.), The Explicit Material: Inquiries on the Intersection of Curatorial and Conservation Cultures. (pp. 1-16). Boston and Leiden: Brill.

• Hölling, Hanna B., Otero-Pailos, Jorge (2019). Materials, Objects, Transitions: Jorge Otero-Pailos in Conversation with Hölling, Hanna B., Bewer, Francesca, Ammann, Katharina (Eds.), The Explicit Material: Inquiries on the Intersection of Curatorial and Conservation Cultures. (pp. 255-272). Boston and Leiden: Brill.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2019). Mídia transicional: permanência, recursividade e o paradigma da conservação. In Gobira, Pablo (Ed.), A memória do digital e outras questões das artes e museologia. (pp. 37-49). Belo Horizonte: Editora da Universidade do Estado De Minas Gerais, Brasil.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2017). Sztuka i proces: kontynuacja, względny czas trwania i archiwum Fluxus. In Szmelter, Iwona (Ed.), Sztuka w procesie - proces w sztuce: Ku nowej filozofii ochrony dziedzictwa kultury. (pp. 50-61). Warszawa: Akademia Sztuk Pieknych w Warszawie.

• Holling, Hanna B. (2017). 汉娜·霍玲, 白南准《禅之电影》的美学变化, 2016 (The Aesthetics of Change in Paik's Zen for Film, 2016). In Zhenhua, Lee (Ed.), Time-based, Non-places. (pp. 72-97). Shenzhen: 3rd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale & Alte Brücke Verlag.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2015). The Archival Turn. In Manovich, Lev, Smite, Rasa, Smits, R. (Eds.), Data Drift: Archiving Media And Data Art In The 21st Century. (pp. 73-81). Riga: RIXC and Liepaja’s University Art Research Lab.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2015). Die Wandelbarkeit von Objekten und Konzepten: Zur Erhaltung von computerbasierten Medien am Beispiel von I/Eye. In Heuken, Stephanie (Ed.), Die Vergänglichkeit des Materials. (pp. 135-155). Cologne: Verband Deutscher Restauratoren VDR.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2015). The Aesthetics of Change: On the Relative Durations of the Impermanent. In Hermens, E., Robertson, F. (Eds.), Authenticity in Transition. London: Archetype Publications.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2014). Dal recupero alla ri-medizione; pratiche di restauro per l’arte basate sull’utilizzo del computer nel caso di I/Eye (1993) di Bill Spinhoven van Oosten. (P. Martore Trans.). In Tra memoria e oblio: percosi nella conservazione dell’arte contemporanea. (pp. 229-250). Rome: Castelvecchi Publishers.

• Holling, Hanna B. (2014). From Social to Technological Interactivity: Delegating the Act, Translating the Object. In Imesch-Ochslin, K. (Ed.), Hannes Schmid: Momentous II. (pp. 52-58). Beijing: Today Art Museum Beijing.

• Hölling, Hanna B. Serexhe, B., Wharton, G. (2013). Interview: Hanna Hölling, Bernhard Serexhe, Glenn Wharton. In Park, M., Seong, E.K., Sang, A.P. (Eds.), Nam June Paik Art Center Interviews. (pp. 90-118). Seoul: Nam June Paik Arts Center.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2013). On the Identity of Nam June Paik’s Changeable Multimedia Installations in the Context of Their Conservation. In Park, M., Seong, E.K., Sang, A.P. (Eds.), Hanna Hoelling, Bernhard Serexhe, Glenn Wharton, Nam June Paik Art Center Interviews. (pp. 119-134). Seoul: Nam June Paik Art Center.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2013). What’s Next? Translating Time, Transforming Objects in the Conservation of Multimedia. In Hedinger, J.M., Meyer, T. (Eds.), What's Next: Kunst Nach der Krise. (pp. 251-258). Berlin: Kulturverlag Kadmos.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2012). Monitor’s Matters. In Proctor, J. (Ed.), Simon Denny: Full Participation. (pp. 185-187). Aspen: Aspen Art Press.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2010). Konservierung. In Hedinger, J.M., Gossolt, M. (Eds.), Lexikon zur zeitgenössischen Kunst von Com&Com. (pp. 83-84). Zürich: Niggli Publishers.

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• Hölling, H. B. and Auslander, P. (2025) "Acts and Artefacts: Performance Beyond Ephemerality.” Arabeschi Rivista di studi su letteratura e visualità, no. 2.

• Hölling, H.B. (2025). Patina as Aesthetic, Epistemic and Political Agent in Contemporary Art.” Review of Patina: Spuren der Vergangenheit in der Kunst der Gegenwart, eds. Irene Glanzer and Angela Matyssek, München: edition metzel, 2023. 21: Inquiries Into Art, History, And The Visual, Vol. 6 nr. 3; 1–6.

• Hölling, H. B. and Dupre, S. (2025) Natureculture Lab: A Reflection. News in Conservation, International Institute for the Conservation of Artistic and Historical Works, No. 108 (June-July 2025): 54-59.

• Hölling, H. B. (2023). Conserving Active Matter: Activating Conservation? Review of Conserving Active Matter, edited by Peter N. Miller and Soon Kai Poh (Bard Graduate Centre, 2022, distributed by the University of Chicago Press). In Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte (Vol. 86, Issue 3). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.19824

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2022). Matter Minding, or What the Work Wants: Aldo Tambellini’s Intermedia. Afterall, (52), doi:10.1086/719773

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2021). Assembling a Work of Art: An Annotated History of Fluxfilm No. 1. MAP - Media | Archive | Performance, 1 (11).

• Hölling, H. B. (2021). Unpacking the Score: Notes on the Material Legacy of Intermediality. In On Curating: Fluxus Special Issue (Issue 51). University of the Arts Zurich. https://doi.org/10.24451/arbor.15164

• Hölling, Hanna B.(2021). Caring For Performance: Recent Debates. CeROArt : Conservation, Exposition, Restauration d'Objets d'Art, doi:10.4000/ceroart.8119

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2021). Keeping Time: On Museum, Temporality and Heterotopia. ArtMatters: International Journal for Technical Art History, 47-54.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2020). Archiefactiveringen. Metropolis M, 41 (1), 42-45.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2020). Archival Activations: Writings by Nam June Paik. Metropolis M online.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2018). Archive and Documentation. Art and Documentation Journal, 1 (17), 19-28.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2017). Reflections on the Impossibility of Material Continuation. The Moving Image: The Journal of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, 17 (1), 163-166. doi:10.5749/movingimage.17.1.0163

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2017). The technique of conservation: on realms of theory and cultures of practice. Journal of the Institute of Conservation, 40 (2), 87-96. doi:10.1080/19455224.2017.1322114

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2017). Time and Conservation. International Council of Museums ICOM-CC, Copenhagen, 18th Triennial Conference Preprints

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2016). Lost to Museums? Changing Media, Their Worlds, and Performance. Museum History Journal (special issue: Lost Museums edited by S. Lubar), doi:10.1080/19369816.2017.1257873

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2016). The ‘Virtual Body of Art’: Reflections on the Impossibility of Material Continuation. Beiträge zur Erhaltung von Kunst- und Kulturgut, 2016 (1), 126-128.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2016). Transitional media: duration, recursion, and the paradigm of conservation. Studies in Conservation, 61 79-83. doi:10.1080/00393630.2016.1181929

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2014). Seeking the Authentic Moment: De- and Re-Materializations in Paik’s Video and Multimedia Installations. Journal of the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Materials, 34 (1), 85-92.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2014). The Explicit Material: On the Intersections of Conservation, Art History and Human Sciences. Simulacrum - Tijdschrift voor kunst en cultuur, Kunsthistorisch Instituut University of Amsterdam, 23 (1), 20-27.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2013). Transcending Obsolescence in Technological Ruins? Questions of Conservation and Presentation in Nam June Paik’s Multimedia Installations. Necsus European Journal of Media Studies (Special Issue: Waste), (4), no pagination.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2013). Versions, Variations, and Variability: Ethical Considerations and Conservation Options for Computer-Based Art. Electronic Media Review of the American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works, Washington DC., (2), 33-45.

• Hölling, Hanna B. Scholte, Tatja, Stigter, Sanneke, van de Vall, Renee (2011). Reflections on a Biographical Approach to Contemporary Art Conservation. International Council of Museums, Conservation Committee ICOM CC, 1.

• Hölling, Hanna B. (2005). Zur Konservierung des Environments The Portable War Memorial von Edward Kienholz. Kölner Museums-Bulletin, 39-48.

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• Hölling, H.B. (2017). What is the future of media art? (University of California Blog Post). [Digital scholarly resource]. Retrieved from: https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/tag/hanna-holling/

• Hölling, H.B. (2016). La substance explicite: à propos des croisements de la conservation-restauration avec l’histoire de l’art et les sciences humaines. [Digital scholarly resource]. Retrieved from: https://seminesaa.hypotheses.org/7318

• Hölling, H.B. (2015). Digital Interactive Catalogue: Revisions (No of pieces: 38). Realized as a part of the exhibition Revisions - Zen for Film at Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York, and made available in a virtual form online.

• Hölling, H.B. (2009). On the Afterlife of Performance–The Manifold Afterlife of Performance. [Digital scholarly resource]. Retrieved from: http://www.deappel.nl/exhibitions/e/678

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• Hölling, H.B. (2025). Reassembling Conservation. Invited lecture at IIC/ICOM-CC Routes to Resilience International Conference, December 5, 2025.

• Hölling, H.B. (2025). Event, Object, Archive: Critical Approaches to the Conservation of Performance-based Works, invited lecture in “Now Recording: Performance—A Symposium by the Skulptur Projekte Archives,” LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur Münster, Germany, December 4-5, 2025.

• Hölling, H.B. (2025). Critical Issues in the Conservation of the Moving Image. Invited lecture at the MAXXI Museum of Contemporary Art Rome, November 18-19, 2025.

• Hölling, H. B. (2024). “Once Upon a Time:” Storytelling as Experience in Florence Jung’s Performative Conceptualism. Art as Experience. Swiss Institute for Art Research SIK ISEA. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11560

• Hölling, H. B. (2023). Keynote: Can Performance Be Conserved? An Introduction to a Contested Field. VII CONGRESSO ANDA # 2023. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/35974

• Hölling, H. B., & Magnin, E. (2023). Writing Performance: On Preservation through Documentation in Performance-based Works. Workshop an der University Rio de Janeiro, Center for Heritage Management and Documentation in Museums. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/35978

• Hölling, H. B. (2023). What Does it Mean to Conserve Performance? Two Day Workshop. Musealização da Arte: Poéticas Em Narrativas. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/35975

• Hölling, H. B. (2023). Invited lecture: Curating and Conserving Changeability. Federal University of Brasilia Lecture Series. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/35976

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (24 May 2022). Keyonote: The Afterlives of Performance. With response by Jules Pelta Feldman, followed by a panel discussion with Mariama Diagne, Shelley Lasica and Felipe Ribeiro. New School, Something Great, Berlin.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (12 June 2022). Transformations and Mediations in Fluxfilm Nr.1 and Fluxus Events. Symposium of the Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara. (10 June 2022). Introduction to Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge. In Four Perspectives, a panel organized by Hanna Hölling, Jules Pelta Feldman, Emilie Magnin and Valerian Valy within Revolving Documents #1: Narrations of the Beginnings of Performance Art, BANG BANG translocal hi:stories of performance art. Museum Tinguely Basel, Switzerland.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (18 November 2022). Can We Talk Post-Preservation? A letter to Nam June Paik. Invited lecture at the National Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art in Soul, South Korea.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (31 March 2021). The Contingencies of Care: On the Conservation of Video and Media Installations. Lecture delivered on the occasion of the internation symposium Video Festival Locarno 1980-2001, Lausanne University.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (30 April 2021). Response paper to Salvador Muñoz-Viñas: “The Role of Science in the Conservation World: A Naïve Exploration" delivered on the occasion of Brill-Nuncius Seminar, The Making of Conservation Science at Utrecht University.

• Schneider, Rebecca; Hölling, Hanna Barbara (30 May 2021). Keynote: Not, Yet: When Our Art is in our Hands. With Antiphonal Interludes by Hanna Hölling. Keynote address and response delivered on the occasion of the international colloquium Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care. Bern University of the Arts, Bern.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (10 June 2021). Performance: Vom Weiterleben Flüchtiger Kunst. Lectured delivered on the occasion of the lecture Series Still Alive. Albertinum Dresden, Germany.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (12 November 2021). Beyond Conservation: Object, Event, Performance in Franz Erhard Walther's Werkstücke. Lecture delivered on the occasion of the international symposium Rethinking German Minimalism. Dia Art Foundation, New York City.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Bodor, Judit; Sitt, Andree; ]performance s p a c e[ (18 November 2021). Curating as Expanded Conservation. Lecture and session co-chair delivered on the occasion of Living Archives: A Scottish Research Council Project. Dundee: University of Dundee, Scotland.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (29 November 2021). Post-Preservation: Paik's Virtual Archive, Potentially. Lecture delivered on the occasion of the international symposium The Gift of Nam June Paik at the Nam June Paik Arts Center, Giheung-gu, Yongin, South Korea.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (15 February 2020). Feedback and Feedforth: New Approaches to Nam June Paik – a response paper and discussion within a session organized by Gregory Zinman on the occasion of College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (21 February 2020). Presentation on film and media conservation delivered on the occasion of the workshop Conservation and Philosophy organized by Tate Modern and Institute of Philosophy, University of London. University of London Institute in Paris.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (26 September 2020). Critical Grounds: Institute for Land and Environmental Art--Introduction to an international conference Critical Grounds: Art and Politics of Landscape. Tenna, Grisons, Switzerland.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (1 October 2020). Ceci n’est pas une Paik: Materiality and Knowledge in the Conservation of Media Art. Lecture delivered on the occasion of Paik Soiree, Free University of Amsterdam and Stedelijk Museum (online). Amsterdam.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (1 October 2020). What is Landscape? An introductory seminar to Alps Art Academy International Summer School. Tenna, Grisons, Switzerland.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (12 December 2019). Unpacking the Score: Fluxus and the Material Legacy of Intermediality. Invited seminar delivered within the Smithsonian American Art Museum Lunch Bag Seminar Series. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (14 March 2019). Über die Begriffe der Zeit, Materialität, und Authentizität in Paiks Medienkunst. Lecture delivered on the occasion of the International Symposium addressing the aspects of conservation and restoration of media art (Ger: Internationale Tagung zu Fragen und Aspekten der Bewahrung und Restaurierung von Medienkunst). Museum of Communication Franfurt, Germany.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (23 April 2019). Keynote: Time and Memory in Fluxus Films, delivered on the occassion of the 5º Seminário de Artes Digitais (SAD) | 5th Seminar for Digital Arts, State University of Minas Gerais/Universidade do Estado de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (15 April 2019). On Performance, Archive and Conservation. Presentation delivered at the think tank on performance, media and archives at VALIE EXPORT Center, Linz, Austria.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (10 May 2019). Unity and Diversity: Discipline Formation & Cultures of Expertise - Session chair and concluding remarks delivered on the occasion of The Making of Art Experience: Discipline Formation & Cultures of Expertise--Artechne international conference. Organized by University of Utrecht, University of Amsterdam, NICAS and Rijksmuseum at the University of Utrecht.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Greyson, Saisha (22 November 2019). Art Bites Gallery Talk: Hanna Hölling and Saisha Grayson on Nam June Paik Global Grove. Presentation delivered within the public event series Art Bites Gallery Talk. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (7 November 2018). Die Digitalisierung und Konservierung von Kunst und Kulturgut, seminar delivered in collaboration with Thomas Gartmann, Bern University of the Applied Sciences.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (1 November 2018). Object, Event, Performance: Rethinking Materiality in Fluxus Intermedia. Lecture delivered at the symposium Kunst und Material: Repräsentation, Stofflichkeit, Prozesse | Art and Material: Representation, Materiality, Processes. SIK-ISEA | Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft | Swiss Institute for Art Research Zürich.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (October 2018). Perpetuating Change, Invited master class on media art and performance, Instituto Moreira Sales, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (June 2018), invited seminar on replication delivered on the occasion of Doctoral Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art, Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (April 2018). The Medium of Time and Transition, invited master class for MA and PhD students in Technical Art History, Utrecht University.

• Hölling, H. B., Joanna Lesnierowska, Andrej Mircev, Emilie Magnin, & Charles Wrapner. (2024). Conserving Performance, Performing Conservation: Research Festival and Exhibition, September 14-29, 2024, Tanzhaus Zurich, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Association pour la Danse Contemporaine Geneva, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts Lausanne, Dampfzentrale Bern, HKB Bern. Closing Research Festival and Exhibition for the research project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge. HKB Bern. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11588

• Hölling, H.B., Wielocha A., Ellis, J. (2026) Fluxus Fete: Final events concluding the Activating Fluxus project. HKB Bern and Cabaret Voltaire Zurich, February 25-27, 2025.

• Tim Ingold (2026). A Return to Nature and Culture. A lecture organized with the project Caring for Naturecultures, February 25, 2026, Collegium Helveticum Zurich.

• Hölling, H. B., & Sven Dupre. (2025). Natureculture Lab: An International Think Tank. Natureculture Lab. https://www.hkb.bfh.ch/de/aktuell/fachveranstaltungen/natureculture-lab/. https://doi.org/10.24451/dspace/11589

• Hölling, H. B., Mirčev, A., Feldman, J. P., Magnin, E., Ademakinwa, A., Marincola, M., Kroll Hassebroek, N., Zycherman, L., Cohen, L., Andathodiyil, G., Wookey, S., Da Silva, A. P., Werneck Côrtes, F., Valageas, C., Barbut, C., Peabody, R., Krausová, M., & Snijders, E. (2024). Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge: two sessions and a book presentation at the 36e Congrès du Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art 2024, Lyon. CIHA 36e Congrès du Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art Lyon. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/44832

• Hölling, H. B., Wielocha, A., Josiephine Ellis, Inbal Strauss, Magdalena Holdar, Kate Lewis, Hannah Mandel, Peter Oleksik, & Danielle Johnson. (2024). Activating Fluxus, Expanding Conservation. the 112th College Art Association Annual Conference. CAA Collegage Art Association. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/44817

• Hölling, H. B., Wielocha, A., Ellis, J. L., Allgaier, E., Bovier, L., Gruhn, E., Montanari, L., Gazotti, A., Peterlini, P., & von Ameluxen, H. (2023). Activating Fluxus: In and Out of the Archive. Two-Day Symposium and Fluxus Study Day at Foundation Bonotto. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/35982

• Hölling, H. B., Feldman, J. P., Magnin, E., Falsnaes, C., Feder, I., Gaweda, D., Grau, P., Raymond, R., & Sanvy, D.-C. (2023). Conserving Performance: Artists Speak - Third Annual Colloquium. Third Annual Colloquium. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/35980

• Robinson, J., Hölling, H. B., Wielocha, A., & Ellis, J. L. (2023). Julia Robinson: Working In the Spirit of Fluxus. Thursday Lecture seminar series. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/36404

• von Amelunxen, H., Maceli, M., Bredekamp, H., Deliss, C., Fuentes, A., Peterlini, P., Hölling, H. B., Wielocha, A., & Ellis, J. L. (2023). Fluxus Fetish: Fluxus Study Day and public panel. Fluxus Fetish. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/36748

• Hölling, H. B., Higgins, H., Zinman, G., Gyorody, A., Metcalf, M., & Feldman, J. P. (2023). Book Presentation: Object—Event—Performance: Art, Materiality and Continuity since the 1960s. Research Wednesday Seminar Series. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/35977

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Feldman, Jules Pelta (3 March 2022). Conserving Performance, Performing Conservation. College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago. With Denise Petzold, Ian Wallace, Paul Couillard, Megan Metcalf, Lauren Rosati, and Limor Tomer.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Feldman, Jules Pelta; Magnin, Emilie (30 September 2022). Conserving Performance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Second Annual Colloquium organized by SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, Bern University of the Arts. With Philip Auslander, Thomas Gartmann, Amelia Jones, Michaela Schäuble, Dread Scott and featuring a performance by Gisela Hochuli.

• Macdonald, Brandie; Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Magnin, Emilie (12 May 2022). "Conserving 'Us:' Caring for Living Heritage and Indigenous Knowledge." Invited lecture and a panel discussion organized by SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knwoldge within the Research Wednesday seminar series, Bern University of the Arts.

• Hölling, Hanna; Hedinger, Johannes (26-28 August 2022). Learning from the Earth: Three-day International Conference at the Institute for Land and Environmental Art, organized on the occasion of the fourth iteration of the summer school Alps Art Academy and the environmental Biennale Art Safiental. Tenna, Grisons, CH. Keynotes: Ursula Biemann, T.J. Demos and Fernando Garcia-Dory.

• Hölling, Hanna; Feldman, Jules Pelta; Magnin, Emilie; Wielocha, Aga (21 December 2022). "Anna Schäffler: The Art of Preservation." An invited lecture and a panel discussion jointly organized by SNSF Activating Fluxus and SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge within the Research Wednesday seminar series, Bern University of the Arts.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Wielocha, Aga (16 November 2022). "Natilee Harren: Fluxus Forms of Activation." An invited lecture and a panel discussion organized by SNSF Activating Fluxus within the Research Wednesday seminar series, Bern University of the Arts.

• Hölling, Hanna; Feldman, Jules Pelta; Magnin, Emilie; Maly, Valerian (10 June 2022). Performance: Four Perspectives. In Revolving Documents #1: Narrations of the Beginnings of Performance Art (org. Sabine Gebhardt Fink) within the exhibition BANG BANG translocal hi:stories of performance art. Museum Tinguely Basel, Switzerland.

• Claire, Bishop; Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Feldman, Julia Pelta; Magnin, Emilie (21 September 2021). Can Performance Art be Conserved? Claire Bishop in Conversation. Invited lecture and a panel discussion organized by SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knwoldge within the Research Wednesday seminar series, Bern University of the Arts.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Feldman, Jules Pelta; Magnin, Emilie; Maly, Valerian (30 May 2021). Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care. First Annual Colloquium organized by SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge, Bern University of the Arts.

• Metcalf, Megan; Olinghaus, Cori; Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Feldman, Feldman, Jules Pelta; Magnin, Emilie; Maly, Valerian (10 June 2021). Living Materials: Ethics and Principles For Embodied Stewardship - A Panel and a Conversation between Cori Olinghaus and Megan Metcalf organized by SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge Invited lecture and a panel discussion organized by SNSF Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowldge within the Research Wednesday seminar series, Bern University of the Arts.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara; Hedinger, Johannes M. September (26-27 September 2020). Critical Grounds: Art and Politics of Landscape.” Two-day conference Institute for Land and Environmental Art, Tenna, Grissons, Switzerland.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (23 February 23, 2018). Object—Event—Performance Art, Materiality, and Continuity since the 1960s. Session organized at the College Art Association 106th Annual Conference in Los Angeles, CA.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara and Salvador Muñoz-Viñas (26 June 2018). Musealization, panel and discussion co-convened on the occasion of the conference New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art, University of Applied Science, Cologne Institute for Conservation Science.

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (4 June 2018). “Born Digital,” panel convened on the occasion of MAPS Media Art preservation, Museum Ludwig, Budapest.

• Hölling, H.B, Dupre, S., Witlox-Stols, M. (2025) Natureculure Lab: Learning from Each Other Green Tea Podcast, American Institute for Conservation.

• Hölling, H. B., & Tess Taylor. (2024). Recording Artists: Paik and Tudor—A Podcast from the Getty. The Getty. https://arbor.bfh.ch/handle/arbor/44824

• Hölling, H.B. (2021-2024). "Can Performnce be Conserved? Two Questions." With Philip Auslander, Laura Anderson Barbata (with A. Mircev), Judit Bodor, Sven Dupré, Ido Feder, Rebecca Gordon, Gruppo EmpreZa (with Bianca Tinoco), Tancredi Gusman, Hannah Higgins, Sherri Irvin, Pip Laurenson, Joanna Leśnierowska, Rachel Rivenc, Sarah Cameron Sunde, Kay Turner, Glenn Wharton. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFb8HOb73L6CP9rdW3ZHTyA.

• Hölling, H.B., Miller, P. (2020). Three Questions with Hanna Hölling. [Digital scholarly resource]. Retrieved from: https://www.bgc.bard.edu/research-forum/articles/519/three-questions-with-hanna-holling

• Hölling, H.B., Landwehr, D. (2020). Zur Theorie der Landschaft. [Digital scholarly resource]. Retrieved from: https://soundcloud.com/ilea_tenna/hanna-holling-bilanz-der-alp-art-academy-der-art-safiental-2020. Retrieved from https://soundcloud.com/ilea_tenna/hanna-holling-bilanz-der-alp-art-academy-der-art-safiental-2020.

• Hölling, H.B., Hock, R. (2017). Paik's Virtual Archive: Interview with Hanna Hölling - ZKM Institut für Bildmedien. [Digital scholarly resource]. Retrieved from: http://zkm.de/media/video/paiks-virtual-archive-interview-mit-hanna-hoelling

• Hölling, Hanna Barbara (2026). Caring for Naturecultures - Glaciers - Collegium Helveticum, June 12 - July 10, 2026

• Hölling, H.B., Mircev, A., Lesnierowska, J., Magnin, E., Wrapner, C. (2024). Yet to Come: Experiments in Reverse-Engineering and Conseraving Performance. (No of pieces: 20) [Exhibition]. HKB Bern Academy of Arts.

• Hölling, H.B. (2015-16). Revisions - Zen for Film. (No of pieces: 38). [Exhibition]. Bard Graduate Center Gallery, New York.

• Hölling, H.B. and Hedinger J.M. (2015). Videosalon (No of pieces: 8). [Exhibition]. Bard Graduate Center Residency, New York.

• Critical Conservation - Swiss National Science Foundation (2026-30), https://centerforcriticalconservation.com/

• Activating Fluxus - Swiss National Science Foundation (2022-26), https://activatingfluxus.com/

• Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge - Swiss National Science Foundation (2020-25), https://performanceconservationmaterialityknowledge.com/

• Dept. Committee, Institute Materiality in Art and Culture

• College Art Association • CAA

• Swiss Association of Art Historians • Vereinigung der Kunsthistorikerinnen und Kunsthistoriker in der Schweiz • VKKS

• International Council of Museums Conservation Committee • ICOM CC

• Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art • INCCA

Affiliated with ETH | The Institute for the Theory and History of Architecture (gta)

in recognition of attainment against the United Kingdom Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education

• PhD Thesis, Jacob Isaac Badcock ‘A Place Called Away?’ Photography and the Limits of Environmental Justice at Agbogbloshie, 2008-2022

• PhD Thesis, Emilie Magnin Institutionalisation and Conservation of Performance

• PhD Thesis, Josephine Lucy Ellis Rethinking the Conservation Object

• PhD Thesis, Françoise Delavy Colour Production in Indigenous Colombian Communities: Identity, Partnership, Territory

• PhD Thesis, Juha Lee Nam June Paik and Robotism

• PhD Thesis, Claudio Hernandez Digital Art Collections, Digital Cultural Heritage and Collective Memory

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