photo by Ian Byers-Gamber
Hans Baumann
Hans Baumann is a Swiss-American filmmaker, artist, and landscape architect based in Los Angeles. He is the founder of Studio HBLA.Working across film, writing, and design, his projects examine ecological collapse, energy infrastructure, and the material systems through which climate futures are imagined, managed, and deferred.
His films, artworks, and essays have been presented internationally across museums, universities, and festivals, and his writing has appeared in publications including e-flux architecture, The Invention of the American Desert: Art, Land and the Politics of Environment (University of California Press), and Accumulation: The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change (University of Minnesota Press).
Baumann is a 2024–25 Howard Foundation Fellow at Brown University and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar. His work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Getty Foundation, Sandbox Films, and the American-Scandinavian Foundation.
He holds a degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is currently directing Carbon Permanence, a feature documentary on the emerging global infrastructure of carbon capture and storage.
contact: hans@hbaumann.com