Gabriel Hensche

Since 2022, Gabriel has been part of the leadership team at the School of Commons, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK), and oversees the Peer Learning Program.

Gabriel is a visual artist and educator. He works with moving image, performance, and constructed situations that explore possibilities for community and co-existence in the face of current technological developments. He creates exercises, rituals and games collectively with other artists sharing the belief that ‘play’ can be a destabilizing action that loosens the social code and potentially revivifies habituated, reflex-tending forms of life.

Having served as Managing Director, he helped establish and grow Campus Gegenwart (DE) from 2017 to 2022. This transdisciplinary center promoted networking in practice and reflection at the State University of Music and Performing Arts, Stuttgart.

His work has been presented offline and online in museums, biennials, galleries, film festivals, residencies and public spaces including: Kunst-Werke Berlin (DE), Project Anywhere (NY), B-Tour Festival (DE, SRB), Nida Art Colony (LT), Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris (FR) Art Cube Jerusalem (IL), Viafarini, Milan (IT), Akademie Schloss Solitude (DE), Württembergischer Kunstverein (DE), Sinopale (TR), Brooklyn Film Festival (US), Slamdance Film Festival (US), Manifesta 11, Cabaret der Künstler (CH).