Gregor Hildebrandt’s starting material consists of analog data carriers such as audio and video tapes, their cases or sleeves, and vinyl records. His works inherently encompass a profound reflection on time, material, gesture, and form.

From deformed vinyl, cassette cases, or audio tapes directly adhered to canvas, minimalist artworks are created, to which the history of music adds an additional, invisible dimension.

Hildebrandt engages with the question of how music, film, and poetry stored on analog data carriers can be transferred to a second, soundless, and timeless level through artistic manipulation. Since 2015, Hildebrandt has been a professor of painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. In 2016, he was awarded the Falkenrot Prize by the Künstlerhaus Bethanien. He has been living and working in Berlin since 1998.

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