Curatorial, exhibitions and audience development

Hannah Redler-Hawes Consulting was established in 2026, in response to growing client demand for outstanding curatorial, exhibitions and audience development services that meet contemporary requirements for hybrid, physical, networked and immersive experiences.

The consultancy is built on Hannah’s decades of pioneering curatorial leadership in art, science and technology. It brings world-class, museum-standard expertise in curation, audience research, exhibition development, delivery and interactivity to organisations, exploring the questions shaping our time through contemporary and digital arts and material cultures. 

Approach

Leading each project personally, Hannah brings together a hand-picked team from her extensive network of specialists, shaped around the specific needs of each client. Organisations receive Hannah’s vision, leadership and judgement, alongside those of other world-leading experts in audiences, interpretation, interactives and contemporary art, photography and digital culture. Working with existing teams in client organisations, or bringing in expertise for organisations new to exhibitions, Hannah and her teams turn complex, urgent ideas into audience-facing exhibitions, events and projects that visitors love to get involved in.

Projects

Hannah Redler-Hawes Consulting’s first major project has been to support the curatorial development of ‘Intelligences’, the inaugural exhibition for the AI.Exchange, supported by Google DeepMind, launching in 2026. Forthcoming projects include curation of the Spring 2027 exhibition for the Schwarzman Centre at the University of Oxford. Hannah also continues her role as Director of the Data as Culture art programme at the Open Data Institute.

About Hannah Redler-Hawes

Hannah is a pioneering UK-based curator and producer of international arts-led projects specialising in digital, immersive art and technology and interdisciplinary collaborations across the arts, sciences and humanities. 

Hannah is recognised for her strong understanding of audiences. She convenes outstanding artists, scientists and organisations to curate award-winning new artworks, exhibitions, programmes, research projects and events with and for diverse publics. She has commissioned and curated hundreds of digital, participatory and interdisciplinary works from emerging, mid-career and world renowned artists including Blast Theory, Mark Wallinger, Marlene Dumas, Phoebe Boswell, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Suzanne Treister, Liliane Lijn, Superflex, Anna Ridler and Universal Everything. 

Major exhibitions

Hannah has worked on or led 16+ major institutional exhibitions within a portfolio of over 60 exhibition projects, commissioned and curated hundreds of artworks, and reached audiences in the tens of millions. She manages small to multi-million pound budgets on projects ranging from interdisciplinary research to major cultural capital projects. Her decades’ experience as a senior manager and project director in museums and over a decade of independent curatorial practice informs her rigorous approach, which combines experimental flair with the practical ability to deliver across contexts.

Cultural and academic client base 

Hannah has worked with many of the world’s most respected cultural and academic institutions nationally and internationally including Tate Modern, Tate Britain, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, Science Museum Group, Serpentine Gallery, BBC Worldwide, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Michigan State University Museum, King’s College London, Science Gallery Atlanta, FACT Liverpool, Royal Astronomical Society, Alan Turing Institute, British Library, the Natural History Museum, Kunst Leuven and KU Leuven. Since 2014 Hannah has been a part-time Director for the Open Data Institute Data as Culture art programme.

Recognition

Hannah has curated and led projects that have received multiple awards, including: the Belgium Academy award for the art and science narrative in To the Edge of Time at KU Leuven; the UK AI Research Symposium Impact Award 2025 for Blast Theory’s Constant Washing Machine; an Interactive Design BAFTA; the Design Week Award for Museums, Galleries and Visitor Attractions; the IVCA award for best website; the Museums + Heritage Award for Excellence (Best Permanent Exhibition); and a D&AD Silver nomination within the Environmental Design & Architecture Interactive category.

Practice

Hannah’s practice encompasses an ongoing exploration of bold new ideas in art, science and technology contexts, including in emerging fields of data and AI. She is passionate about every aspect of making exhibitions, from small experimental projects to major institutional offers. Central to her work is a recognition of the essential thinking artists, researchers, educators and activists bring to imagining alternative modes or spaces; to explore new ideas; and to interrogate old assumptions in ways that allow culturally meaningful connecting experiences to emerge.

Contact

Contact Hannah directly about any cultural sector curatorial or consultancy projects, from micro to major scale, including: curating exhibitions and programmes, commissioning new work, digital and hybrid strategies, production, consultancy, arts-led research, event development and audience research and development, led in collaboration with renowned audience expert Dr Ben Gammon.

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