Binha Haase 하제빛나 (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and violinist working across film, music and live performance. Central to their work is the human voice—particularly that of queer and female-read bodies—as a sonic and political presence in relation to spatial, social and performative structures. Working from a musical background, they approach voice and music as carriers of cultural memory and political articulation across historical and contemporary contexts.
Binha’s work has been presented at venues and festivals including the Museum of Art Lucerne, Melina Mercouri Cultural Centre Athens, Sonic Matters Zurich, paradoks – Festival for Video Art Leipzig, Oper Halle, the European Media Art Festival Osnabrück and Vienna Shorts. They were awarded the soundzz.z.zzz...z Prize (Museum of Art Lucerne & Lucerne Festival, 2016) for the interdisciplinary video performance conductress (with Silke Strahl), and have received scholarships from Akademie der Künste Berlin and Kunstfonds Bonn.
The music theatre piece DRAG SPIRITS: The Poet and the Sun (co-created with composer Adrian Laugsch; direction, stage and video by Binha) won the NOperas! Competition 2026 and will be produced at Theater Münster and Staatstheater Saarbrücken in 2027.
They studied Time-Based Arts at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle and violin at the Lucerne School of Music. Binha took part in the Professional Media Masterclass Werkleitz (2022) and the Oberhausen Seminar (2023).
Alongside their artistic work, they perform as a violinist across classical, pop and contemporary contexts, working with ensembles, bands and orchestras, and appearing as a stage musician in opera.