Benedikt Hipp

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In his paintings and three-dimensional pieces, Benedikt Hipp engages with the weighing of body and mind, aesthetics and ethics, as well as the political dimension of the individual. He questions concepts and notions of individuality and identity that are increasingly turning into controllable and interchangeable parameters in the age of self-design. The relation to the iconographic power of objects, philosophical approaches and phenomena of the times play a central role alongside the individual in Benedikt Hipp’s work.

Benedikt Hipp’s (DE 1977) works are currently on view at "Sammlung Heiner Hoerni" at Kunstmuseum Thurgau / Ittinger Museum, CH, Fellbach Triennale "Habitate. Über_Lebensräume" curated by Dr. Claudia Emmert & Ina Neddermeyer, Fellbach, DE and "Sore Spot" (solo) at Monitor Lisabon, PRT. His works are part of several international collections like The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, US, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE or Departmental Domain Chamarande, FR. His work is known through numerous internationally noted exhibitions. During the last years he was shown in institutional solo exhibitions at Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen (2015), Kunstverein Bielefeld (2010), Kunstpalais Erlangen (2012) or Art Basel Statements (2009) as well as much regarded group exhibitions at Fondazione Memmo Rome (2021) Haus der Kunst Munich (2018), Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (2011), CAPC – Musée d’Art Contemporain Bordeaux (2012) or Kunstverein Hannover (2012). Benedikt Hipp was incorporated into the “Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst” in 2010. Comprehensive monographical catalogues were released on the occasion of his 2015 solo exhibition at Wilhelm-Hack-Museum at Kerber, in 2013 at DISTANZ for his solo exhibition at Kunstpalais Erlangen and 2009 at argosbooks. In 2020/21 he was honored with the Rome Prize Fellowship at the German Accademy Villa Massimo, Germany's most renowned Award for artists.