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Katja Pilipenko (b. Moscow) is an artist based in Hamburg. Shaped by Russia’s shift from post-Soviet democracy to an authoritarian media regime, her practice investigates mediated truths, language and perception, and the formation of myths and ideologies within politics and society. Working across diverse media, she often addresses how power and control operate through technologies, narratives, and collective practices.



UPCOMING

Future Continuous
Kunsthaus Hamburg
06.12.2025 – 18.01.2026
Opening: 5 December, 2025

Neue Kunst in Hamburg e.V.
Kunstverein Hamburg
Opening: 23 January, 2026



EXHIBITIONS (selected)

2025
NORDWESTKUNST, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven

2024
Not Everyone Will Be Taken to a Bunker, Hajusom e.V., St. Pauli Bunker, Hamburg, (solo)
Talents Farewell, Fondation Fiminco, Paris
Unter die Erde – unter die Haut, Galerie Jena e.V. im Kulturbahnhof, Jena
The Myth of Home - A Questioning, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg
OBLIQUE. Navigations between Slanted Angles and Shadow Zones, 8. Salon, Hamburg 

2023
ENNUI. Schwebezustände – States of Suspension, MOM art space, Hamburg

2022
Selbst und Zweck, ICAT - Institute for Contemporary Art & Transfer, Hamburg
Protection Procedures, Studio Peragine, Hamburg
Lo(l) – Embodied Language, Kunsthaus Hamburg

2021
»TRANSITIONS«, Holzmarkt 25, Berlin
MFA Graduate Show, HFBK Hamburg

2020
Hiscox Kunstpreis 2020, Hamburg 

2019 
PAT PAT PAT. A Romance with (Im)material, Atelierhaus, Semperdepot, Wien

2018 
Academiae Youth Art Biennale, Fortezza Franzensfeste, Italy



CURATORIAL

2024
Boon or Bane?, MOM art space, Hamburg

2020
Against The Wall, screening intervention in public space, Bartelsstrasse, Hamburg



PERFORMANCES

2025
Culinary intervention Buffet 58, Kunsthaus Hamburg

2017 
Folgendes, Sighning session, HFBK Hamburg 



EDUCATION

2019–2021
University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, MFA

2017–2018 
Guest student at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart

2014–2019
University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, BFA



AWARDS & GRANTS (selected)

2025
Travel grant, Neue Kunst in Hamburg e.V.
Working Grant for Visual Art from the City of Hamburg

2024
dépARTS, Fondation Fiminco residency in Paris - Romainville
Kunststipendien der ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius
 
2022
stART.up scholarship Claussen-Simon-Stiftung
Scholarship of Stiftung Kunstfonds 'Kickstarter'

2021
INITIAL – Special Grant of the Akademie der Künste Berlin

2020 
Hiscox Kunstpreis



REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS

2024
Not Everyone Will Be Taken to a Bunker. Katja Pilipenko at Hajusom e. V. Text by 
Dr. Belinda Grace Gardner
Not Everyone Will Be Taken to a Bunker. Rundgang.io

2022
Den Finger in die Wunde, gallerytalk.net. Text by Katrin Krumm
Am Drahtseil, Lerchenfeld Nr. 65. Text by Raphael Dillhof
Zusammen fragil, gallerytalk.net. Text by Katrin Krumm
Auch ich ein Influenzer, szene-hambug.com. Text by Karin Schulze
LO(L) – Embodied Language. Kubaparis

2021
»TRANSITIONS«. Exhibition catalogue. Text by Daniel Laufer
Page, issue 393. “Wechselwörter: Begriffe wie Gänsewein und Wasser” page-online.de. Text by Lena Simonis

2020
Dangerous Puns. Katja Pilipenko and the crisis of truth. Text by Filipe Lippe for Hfbk Rhizome
Hiscox Prize 2020. Exhibition catalogue. Text by Ralf Schlüter

2019
Pat pat pat, finding comfort in materiality. Exhibition catalogue. Text by Tonia Andresen, Marlene Mannsfeld


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