Daniel H.

Ein Lebenszeichen von mir... Social media somehow makes you feel like you no longer fully exist unless you've posted something. So, here's a cheeky sign of life from me. While working on an upcoming project and trying to navigate being "self employed", I've also occasionally gone through my archive of photography. I find this one quite fitting to post right now. Firstly, because it was taken during a very busy, wonderful artistic year in which I started experimenting outside of photography and into installation and moving images. It somehow represents looking forward into something new, while still grounded in my traditional medium. Even more fitting because at this juncture in my life, I'm evaluating in which direction my practice is/should/could be going. (Re-)anchor myself into photography? Branch further out into mixed media? Focus? Broaden? Is there a right answer? Secondly, and paradoxily, it stirs up nostalgia for the simplicity of taking analog photographs and working with just that medium. I sometimes feel like I've overly complicated and theorized my practice rather than experimenting and seeing what the outcome could be. Anyone else somehow feel paralized by their own thoughts and ideas? But it also reminds me that I used to be constantly flagged by IG for "inappropriate" content - this series included. Let's see if they're still as prude as they were two years ago. Anyway, if you made it this far in the caption: stay tuned for more (personal) archival posts and an upcoming exhibition on archives at the VBKÖ. Opening 14 March! Fenster zur Westbahn, 2023

[Teaser] On 14 March, I will present a new multi-channel video installation, “Nothing Is Connected to Everything,” in the VBKÖ group exhibition Polyphonic Archives, Entangled Voices, marking the reopening of the VBKÖ Archive. The work emerged from the VBKÖ Member’s Archive Residency, which took place during the renovation of the archive space. Within this framework, Vinko Nino Jaeger, Eszter Katalin, and I formed a research group asking a simple question: Where are the queer people in the archive? Working through archival gaps, fragments, and connections, the piece reflects on queer networks that persist beyond the limits of the record, and on how histories move through absence, relation, and institutional memory. Thank you to the VBKÖ members who participated in the filming, to Eszter and Nino for the exchange, and to the VBKÖ Archive Committee for their trust and support. 14 March, 18:00 — Opening 14 March, 14:00–18:00 — Guided Tour of the Archive @vbkoe_ @eszter_katalin @vinkoninojaeger @annateedot @tsj_ts @depalmieri

we are happy to announce further allied projects which joined synergies of solidarity the queer art and community festival vienna @mqwien with „mq pride night summer“ curated by @studio.danielhill @standupvienna with „@alokvmenon - a queer comedy show“ @queermuseumvienna__ with the pride moth program #queerart #queerculture #queerartspacevienna #synergiesofsolidarity

An alle Kunstsammler:innen, Kunstliebhaber:innen, Freund:innen und Kolleg:innen: Put down your phone & buy some art! Der Kombinage Art Flea Market findet am 23. April ab 17:00 Uhr statt und bietet Werke der Künstler:innen Selina de Beauclair, Anne Glassner, Hannes Gröblacher, Markus Guschelbauer und Daniel Hill. Es erwarten euch Fotodrucke, gerahmte Werke, Kunstobjekte und Skulpturen, Textildrucke, Zines, Bücher, Postkarten, Sondereditionen, Illustrationen und Skizzen, Unikate und vieles mehr – alles direkt aus den Ateliers der Künstler:innen. Bringt Freund:innen und eure Geldbörsen mit! Kunstverein Kombinage Johannagasse 29-35/15/r01, 1050 Drinks, Snacks & Kunst! @kombinage @selinadebeauclair @anneglassner @hannesgroeblacher @markusguschelbauer @studio.danielhill

Nothing Is Connected to Everything, 2026 5-channel video loop, ca. 12 min; archival boxes. Installation view during Polyphonic Archive, Entangled Voices at @vbkoe_ until 2 May 2026 Nothing Is Connected to Everything reflects on the archive as a system of fragile relations where connections appear, break, and reassemble. Queer histories often persist within such systems only as fragments or silences. Drawing on relational thinking associated with Donna Haraway and Saidiya Hartman’s engagement with archival absence, the work approaches these gaps not simply as losses but as charged spaces. What cannot be fully recorded or named may still move through the archive as relation and gesture. The work emerged from the VBKÖ Member’s Archive Residency, which took place during the renovation of the archive space. Within this framework, Vinko Nino Jaeger, Eszter Katalin, and I formed a research group asking a simple question: Where are the queer people in the archive?

🏓 Join us for an artist talk with Daniel Hill, Eszter Katalin, Vinko Nino Jaeger, and Christina Werner, moderated by Natascha Bobrowsky! 
Wir laden ein zum Artist Talk mit Daniel Hill, Eszter Katalin, Vinko Nino Jaeger und Christina Werner, moderiert von Natascha Bobrowsky! 📅 9. April 2026 🕕 18:00–19:00 
🚪Doors open | Einlass ab 17:30 📍 VBKÖ 📚English / Deutsche Drawing on their shared research in the VBKÖ archive, the artists explore the archive as a contradictory structure shaped by power, memory, and exclusion — engaging with queer visibility, historical entanglements, and the possibilities held within gaps, fragments, and uncertainty. Ausgehend von ihrer gemeinsamen Recherche im VBKÖ-Archiv setzen sich die Künstler*innen mit dem Archiv als widersprüchlichem Gefüge auseinander, in dem sich Macht, Erinnerung und Ausschluss einschreiben — mit Blick auf queere Sichtbarkeit, historische Verstrickungen und die Frage, was in Lücken, Fragmenten und Unsicherheiten steckt. @eszter_katalin @studio.danielhill @werner.christina @vinkoninojaeger 
 Part of the exhibition “Polyphonic Archives, Entangled Voices” and the VBKÖ Archive Residency Program. |
Im Rahmen der Ausstellung „Polyphonic Archives, Entangled Voices“ und des VBKÖ Archive Residency Programms. #ArtistTalk #VBKÖ #QueerHistory #Archiv

What are you doing on Friday the 13th? Listening to Ženergija. And what are you doing on Saturday the 14th? Coming to VBKÖ. Do we still have to ask in the 21st century: where are the queer people in the archive? Tonight on Ženergija, we return to this question through the conversation Working in the Gap: Where Are the Queer People in the Archive? —exploring how queer histories are often hidden, fragmented, or missing, and why it matters to keep searching for them. Our hope is simple: that future generations will find more knowledge, more traces, and more understanding of queer culture in the archives we build today. Guests: Eszter Katalin, Daniel Hill & Vinko Nino Jaeger Listen: https://cba.media/763229 Eszter Katalin is an artist and filmmaker working with experimental essay film, exploring ethical representation, LGBTQ+ visibility, and the politics of the camera. Daniel Hill is an artist, curator and photographer whose work engages queer-feminist spatial politics, memory culture, and artistic–curatorial practice. Vinko Nino Jaeger is a visual artist, lecturer and author based in Vienna. We also invite you to the opening of Polyphonic Archive, Entangled Voices at VBKÖ, presenting the archive as a living collection of more than a century of artistic work and queer-feminist organizing by women* artists. The exhibition brings together artists from the VBKÖ residency programme—including Pêdra Costa, Zoe Gudović, Daniel Hill, Vinko Nino Jaeger, Eszter Katalin, Tahereh Nourani, and Christina Werner—who have been working in dialogue with the archive. With this episode, Ženergija continues the radio series VBKÖ: When Archives Speak, a residency project that turns listening to archival work into a shared, living practice. More info: https://cba.fro.at/podcast/zenergija Follow: FB | IG @radiozenergija #WhenArchivesSpeak #VBKOE #Zenergija #QueerArchives #FeministArchives

PREPARE Yourself! Listen, learn.... Where are the queer people in the archive? And why are they so often absent? Archives tell us a lot about the past—but they also show us what is missing. Many queer lives and stories were never written down, or were pushed aside. In this episode we talk about those gaps and how artists and researchers try to find traces of queer histories today. Thursday, March 12 | 7–8 PM Ženergija live on Radio ORANGE 94.0 https://o94.at/en Guests: Eszter Katalin, Daniel Hill & Vinko Nino Jaeger Eszter Katalin is an artist and filmmaker working primarily in the medium of experimental essay film. Her practice evolves around questions of ethical representation in documentary filmmaking, LGBTQ+ representation, the camera as an apparatus of power and the materiality of analogue film. She has exhibited at international venues, galleries and film festivals. In 2024 Eszter Katalin co-founded with Camil Téllez the duo “Drága Cardo”, which, among others, is dedicated to creating ecologically more sustainable ways to develop Super8 film. (Photo credit: Zoe Opratko) Daniel Hill is an artist, curator and photographer. Working across photography, moving images, performance, installation and curatorial formats, their work addresses queer-feminist questions of spatial and body politics, memory culture, institutional frameworks as well as the connection between artistic and curatorial practice. Daniel has exhibited in Austria and internationally, including at MuseumsQuartier Wien, the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin, Stadtgalerie Klagenfurt, and Fotogalerie Wien, and has curated projects for the Landesmuseum Kärnten, MuseumsQuartier Wien, and Kunstverein Kombinage. Originally from the US, they live and work between Vienna and Klagenfurt. (Photo credit: David Cuka) VINKO NINO JAEGER is a visual artist, lecturer and author. He runs a studio shop in Vienna. (Photo credit: Nico Pistec, 2024) With this episode, Ženergija continues the radio series VBKÖ: When Archives Speak—a residency project that turns listening to archival work into a shared, living practice. #QueerArchives #WhenArchivesSpeak #Ženergija #vbkö

Studien der Übungen (Nr. 3), 2025 The series examines how physical culture shapes and constrains the body, from nationalist gymnastics and modern fitness rituals to the subtle regimes of self-optimization. Yet repetition also becomes a site of refusal: gestures slip, slow, exaggerate, falter, become absurd. The body resists its own choreography, queering ideals of strength, purity and control. Camera: Philipp Hoelzgen

Behind the Scenes of Morphologies of Becoming, 15.–18. October 2025 During the first 3 days of the exhibition, we invited visitors to become part of the creation process. Testing and modelling the wearable objects, posing for our Lookbook, creating cyanotypes while dressed in laboratory uniforms and engaging in discussions with us. This interactive and performative aspect of the exhibition transformed the traditional white cube into a space for engagement and immersion, allowing visitors to become part of and contribute to the final work. Our goal was to question the traditional idea that an exhibition is only visited to view final works. Thank you to everyone who visited during those days and engaged with us! Original Edit: @philipp_hoelzgen Edit for IG: Daniel Hill Part of @foto_wien

Some impressions of the final performance during Morphologies of Becoming, in collaboration with @philipp_hoelzgen . The first part of our finale was a kind of reimagined runway as a site of critique and transformation. Wearing a series of photographically charged objects, I moved through the space as if on a catwalk, queering the codes of fashion, beauty, photography and labor. Each object referenced aspects of photographic and artistic labor. An umbrella with a flash attachment evoked the mechanics of image-making; an apron and pair of shoes assembled from exhibition catalogues confronted the idea of art as work; a breathing apparatus made of dia carriages hinted at futuristic survival; and a mask with projected images reflected new forms of digital communication and censorship. The performance turned the runway into a space of reflection, where tools of production became extensions of the body and gestures of resistance intertwined with acts of care and self-presentation. Thank you to @foto_wien for having us part of the program. Thank you to @selinadebeauclair (photos) and @carlo.zappella (video) for the documentation. Thank you to @bildrecht_bildraum , @bezirksvorstehung.margareten and @kunstkulturministerium for the support. Most of all, thank you to Philipp Hoelzgen for the wonderful and insightful collaboration.

For everyone who couldn’t join our collaborative performative show Morphologies of Becoming, here’s a short video capturing moments from the evening. Heartfelt thanks to the wonderful @kombinage team, @foto_wien , Kevin, @christinefischler , @elianadecamargo , @selinadebeauclair , and @carlo.zappella – and to our supporters Bezirk Margareten, BMWKMS, and Bildrecht for making it all possible. Video: @carlo.zappella