Hannah Rose Stewart

Hannah Rose Stewart (b. 1994, Newcastle, UK) is a Berlin-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, new media, and spatial installation. Rooted in hauntology, architecture, and postmodern cultural theory, Stewart’s work engages with symbolic constructions of society and the psychogeography of contemporary urban life. Her upbringing in Northern England during the 1990s and 2000s serves as a critical lens through which she explores themes of memory, identity, and decay.

Stewart's installations frequently reference anachronistic and self-referential architectures—structures that appear familiar yet unsettling. Drawing on thinkers such as Mark Fisher and Franco “Bifo” Berardi, her works operate as visual allegories: immersive environments that critique the residual spectres of late capitalism, urban nightlife, and the dissonance between public spectacle and private interiority. Through manipulated environments and live components, she examines the political and psychological undercurrents embedded in the social rituals of the everyday.

Her recent exhibition Atter explored Northern England’s nightlife as a ritualized zone of transformation, invoking the archetype of the magician to frame themes of intoxication, illusion, and haunting. In such works, Stewart presents nightlife as both escapist theater and socio-economic echo—where history loops and disorients rather than progresses.

Stewart’s work has been exhibited at leading institutions and experimental spaces including the Serpentine Pavilion (London), Turner Contemporary (Margate), and Haus N (Athens), among others.