Dehlia
Hannah

Dehlia Hannah is a curator and philosopher of nature. She is Associate Professor of Environmental Aesthetics at the University of Copenhagen in the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies. Her current research and curatorial project Rewilding the Museum is hosted by ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art and supported by the Ny Carlsberg Foundation. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy and Certificate in Feminist Inquiry from Columbia University, with specializations in aesthetics, philosophy of science and philosophy of nature. Her book A Year Without a Winter (Columbia University Press, 2019) reframes contemporary imaginaries of climate change by revisiting the environmental conditions under which Frankenstein was written and the global aftermath of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. As Mads Øvlisen Postdoctoral Fellow in Art and Natural Sciences at Aalborg University, her previous project An Imaginary Museum of Philosophical Monsters examined the role of thought experiments and imaginary creatures, places, and things in philosophical reasoning.

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).