Gregor Hildebrandt makes great use of pre-recorded cassette tapes as material in his pictures and installations. The tapes are applied directly onto canvases and photographic prints and in room-sized installations. Although Hildebrandt’s work makes formal reference to Minimalism, the addition of a great number of subjective and autobiographical citations actually deliberately repudiates this strategy.

For Hildebrandt, the cassette tape as artistic medium, especially in its original function of storage medium, fulfils an important function: it enables the artist to add a further “invisible” dimension to his pictures. Playing with perception in this way is a major characteristic of his work; the picture is completed in the head of the viewer.
If the contemplation of his art incorporates the heterogeneous cosmos of Gregor Hildebrandt’s references to music, film, literature and, last but not least, art history, his works turn out to be complex montages, in which pictorial associations from different spheres combine and interpenetrate. Hildebrandt employs the material of his every-day environment without aesthetic
or theoretical inhibition and playfully links aspects of conceptual art and minimal art with his personal life and experience of pop culture.

(courtesy Almine Rech Gallery)

Gregor Hildebrandt has had numerous solo exhibitions at, among others, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken; and Bethanien, Berlin. Group exhibitions include the Biennale de Lyon; Centre Pompidou, Paris; ICA Boston; Zabludowicz Collection, London; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris.

Gregor Hildebrandt’s work is also part of quite some important public collections, such as Centre Pompidou, Paris; Rubell Family Collection, Miami; Sammlung Südhausbau, München; and Collection Rosenblum Projects, Paris.

Gregor Hildebrandt is represented by the following galleries;
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Almine Rech Gallery, Paris / Brussels / London / New York

Wentrup Gallery, Berlin

Galerie Perrotin, Paris / New York / Hong Kong / Seoul

Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam

Sommer Contemporary, Tel Aviv