During Berlin Art Week 2026, Hannah Hallermann presents ›Sewing‹, her solo exhibition at Miettinen Collection Berlin. The project also launches an initiative to raise 100,000 Euro for women’s shelters in Berlin: 200 arrows are transformed into editions and offered for sale.
Do you have a daily ritual that gives you structure or inspiration?
I shoot bow. I love the tension and the softness of release. I find both in archery.
What would you do if time, money, and other resources were no object?
I d’ probably hate it. Apparently, I love a good hustle—it keeps me vivid.
That’s one side. On the other, I could finally unleash my big ideas—for example, a gigantic Startblock in public space, its sheer physicality speaking of the wonder of beginning again and again, in Hannah Arendts sense, while and at the same time also shouting: Fck it’s not that easy to leap.
Has there been a book that fundamentally changed your perspective—and why would you recommend it?
Almost anything by Maggie Nelson. I am a big fan of her mind: poetic, brutally observant, punk and fiercely clever. She holds the personal, the political and the philosophical together without taming their contradictions.
What do you wish you had known earlier?
That uncertainty holds power.
Where do you recharge your batteries?
I’m a workhorse. My practice is my favourite trip beyond what I already know.
Is there a work of art you would love to have in your home?
Painting rarely catches me, but Miriam Cahn does. I would love to live with that fierce precision of observing.
Which exhibition venue in Berlin inspires you?
The Hamburger Bahnhof, the Neue Nationalgalerie, the chapel at the Dorotheenstadt Cemetery with its fantastic light installation by James Turrell—and the almost utopian MaHalla Halls.
What fascinates you about Berlin?
People.
What’s one item you couldn’t live without?
Hot sauce! My number one addiction. I keep thinking I should carry it in a hip flask.
What keeps you going?
At the moment? It’s finding more creative responses to the atmosphere of violence than spiraling into and reproducing it. We’re turning 200 arrows into needles. Together, they could raise €100,000 for women’s shelters in Berlin. They will first appear in ›Sewing‹ at the Miettinen Collection during Berlin Art Week.
Which personality would you like to have a conversation with—and what would you talk about?
Someone from a future generation. Deep diving into what they find challenging and inspiring about the unfinished project of being human and how they would look at our time.
What do you look forward to when your working day comes to an end?
Does it ever?