Benedikt Hipp (DE)

Benedikt Hipp (DE)

Benedikt Hipp is a German artist living and working in Finning, Bavaria.

Entering new worlds, new ideas of being, or coexistence, Hipp’s work intertwines the viewer’s perspective of shapes that could be reminiscent of human form or of solid stone.

Utilising a variety of hand-sourced clays infused with gaseous powders, Hipp fires experimental batches of anthropomorphic contours over a three-day period in his home-built kiln in Bavaria. The decorative fate of each piece is then determined by the fiery fluctuations and unpredictable vagaries of the furnace. Hipp maximises the agency of material to probe the hybrid depths of nature and tech.

 Hipp’s work has been shown extensively, in galleries such as Museum Villa Rot, Monitor Gallery and Nicolas Krupp. Recent exhibitions include ‘Water from the Source’, (2022) at Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf, and ‘Songs from the Cave’ at Galleria Poggiali, Milan. He is 2020-2021 Fellow of the German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome. Hipp has also been a guest lecturer at Zurich University of the Arts since 2017.