Draft:Hanne Lippard
British - Norwegian Contemporary Artist and Poet Hanne Lippard
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Hanne Lippard (born 1984, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom) is a Norwegian artist, poet, and writer based in Berlin, Germany. [1][2]Her practice centers on the voice as a primary artistic medium, exploring the relationship between spoken and written language in the context of contemporary communication.[3][4]
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Early life and education
Lippard was born in Milton Keynes, England, and holds Norwegian nationality.[1][2] She studied graphic design at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, a background that informs her treatment of language as both a visual and sonic material.[3][5]
Artistic practice
Lippard's work investigates the discrepancy between spoken and written words.[3] She composes texts from a mix of personal writing and appropriated material — advertising copy, corporate FAQs, spam emails — which she manipulates through repetition, shifting intonation, and exploitation of homonyms.[4][6][7] In performance, her measured vocal delivery — variously described as hypnotic, phlegmatic, and robotic — serves as the primary instrument through which these texts are activated.[4] Her practice has been situated within a lineage of sound poetry and linked to the Dada movement's experiments with language.[8]
Beyond sound and performance, Lippard has produced sculptural works including her ongoing "Curse Tablets" series (2018–), which reinterpret ancient Roman curse tablets — objects historically made by marginalised and voiceless people on the peripheries of the empire.[9]
Selected exhibitions
Solo exhibitions include All the same bright, Kunsthall Trondheim, Norway (2025–26);[10] Look for Words, Preis der Nationalgalerie 2024, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2024);[11] Language is a skin, FRAC Lorraine, Metz (2021);[12] MuHKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp);[3] and Flesh, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2017).[13]
Selected group exhibitions include RIBOCA 2 (Riga Biennial, 2020), Antarctica. An Exhibition on Alienation at Kunsthalle Wien (2018), the Nam June Paik Award exhibition at Westfälischer Kunstverein (2018), and the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015).[3]
Awards
Preis der Nationalgalerie (2024) — Jointly awarded with Pan Daijing, Dan Lie, and James Richards; the first time the prize was given to four artists. The accompanying exhibition ran at Hamburger Bahnhof from June 2024 to January 2025.[11][14]
ars viva Prize for Fine Arts (2016) — Awarded by the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft alongside Flaka Haliti and Calla Henkel & Max Pitegoff, with exhibitions at Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, GfZK Leipzig, and Index, Stockholm.[15][16]
Discography
Lippard has released three audio works: Work (Collapsing Market, 2020), PigeonPostParis (Boomkat Editions, 2021), and Talk Shop (Dischi Fantom, 2024).[6][7][17]
Gallery representation
She is represented by LambdaLambdaLambda, Prishtina/Brussels.[4][18]