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.

biography
1974 born in Bad Homburg
1999-2002 Academy of Arts, Berlin
since 2005 participation in numerous national and international exhibitions
2007 solo exhibitions in Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Galerie Jan Wentrup, Berlin and Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
lives and works in Berlin