danceWEB 2027 will take place under the artistic mentorship of artist and choreographer Maria Hassabi in dialogue with dancer and choreographer Adam Linder.

Maria Hassabi is a choreographer, performer, and visual artist. Since the early 2000s, she has developed a distinct practice based on the relationship between the live body, the still image, and the sculptural object. Centered on stillness, deceleration, and aesthetic precision, her work spans performance, installation, photography, sculpture, sound, and moving image, treating time as material and the human figure as a physical and representational presence. Her static works often take her live performances as a point of departure, extending choreography into material and spatial relationships through different media and processes.

Solo exhibitions and presentations include Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2023); LUMA Arles (2022); OGR, Turin (2022); Secession, Vienna (2021); Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis (2019); MUDAM, Luxembourg (2019); K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2017-18); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2017); Museum of Modern Art, New York (2016); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015); The Kitchen, New York (2019, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2006); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2015); Performance Space 122, New York (2007, 2009).

Her works have also been featured in group exhibitions and festivals such as Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2025); Festival d’Autumn, Paris in collaboration with Chaillot National Theater, Paris (2025); The Story of Public Art – Dancing in the Streets (On Power) at MAPS, Denmark (2025); ENNOVA Biennale, Langfang City (2024); IMMA, Dublin (2024); Art Unlimited, Basel (2024); Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (2024, 2017, 2016, 2014); Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai (2023); FRONT Triennial, Cleveland (2022); Festwochen, Wien (2021); Performa, NY (2019, 2013, 2009); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2018); documeta14, Kassel (2017); Crossing the Line Festival, NY (2016, 2011, 2009); the 55th Venice Biennale (2013); ArtSonje, Seoul (2015); Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2014); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (2012), amongst others.

Hassabi was an Onassis Resident 2019-2022 and has received the 2019 Performa Malcolm Mclaren Award along with artist Nairy Baghramian; 2016 “Bessie” Award; 2015 Herb Alpert Award; 2012 President’s Award from LMCC; 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship; 2009 Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She holds a BFA from Calarts and currently lives and works in Paris.

Adam Linder’s work is devoted to the specifics of dance and often holds a mirror up to the art form itself. He works across multiple formats, in both theatre and exhibition spaces. The classical, the technological, the animal, the expressive, and the absurd all play a role in a politics of shapeshifting that underpins his artistic practice. Linder’s choreographies stem from a desire to simultaneously embody the unsettling yet revelatory aspects of dance and reveal something about the cultural value we place on this form.

He has presented solo and two-person exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2023); Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York (2020); South London Gallery (2018); Kunsthalle Basel (2017); Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin (2016); and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2015). Stage works have been co-produced and presented by theatres such as HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin; Kampnagel, Hamburg; deSingel, Antwerp; Sadler’s Wells, London; Dampfzentrale, Bern; and UCLA CAP / REDCAT, Los Angeles. In 2018, CCA Wattis, San Francisco presented the survey FULL SERVICE, which subsequently travelled to MUDAM, Luxembourg (2019). Linder has had commissions from Sydney Dance Company (2010); Ballet de Lorraine, Nancy (2023); and Danish Dance Theatre, Copenhagen (2024).

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